"...in large part because of a plunge among teenagers," which is a Good thing!

It’s National Poetry Month : ) Check out these about our relationship to nature : ) Image is of one on the list: therevelator.org/environmenta...

Both @nytimes.com and @wsj.com have pieces on falling fertility rates. Here are gift links. Re due to "plunge among teenagers," I say Great. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u... www.wsj.com/us-news/why-... 1/2

"...despite these partial or total bans, new data from the @guttmacher.org found that the number of abortions has remained relatively unchanged from 2024 to 2025." the1a.org/segments/the...

This reality must change. "...a fearful doctor told a nurse that 'offering a helping hand to a patient getting onto the gurney while in the throes of a miscarriage could be construed as 'aiding and abetting an abortion.’ Best not to so much as touch the patient who is miscarrying…”

Spot-on: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... #overpopulation #overshoot

Very informative report making "a compelling, urgent case for a nationwide moratorium on the construction of new AI-driven data centers." ~ Food and Water Watch www.foodandwaterwatch.org/wp-content/u...

Hideous #pronatalist policy, including "the new law also expands the definition of 'LGBT propaganda' to include the promotion of the #childfree lifestyle" united24media.com/latest-news/...

‪Cool trivia about her: She was elected to Congress before the US Constitution’s 19th Amendment, the Women’s Right to Vote, was made official! In her late 50s, she ran again and won. During her separate terms, she helped pass 19th Amendment : ) Learn more about her in my book, #ASpecialSisterhood!

It's saying something when @wsj.com has an opinion piece by Bernie Sanders: www.wsj.com/opinion/ai-i...

Cool trivia about her: She was elected to Congress before the US Constitution’s 19th Amendment, the Women’s Right to Vote, was made official! In her late 50s, she ran again and won. During her separate terms, she helped pass 19th Amendment : ) Learn more about her in my book, #ASpecialSisterhood!

Yet another #pronatalist strategy that will not work: "The health ministry approved new guidelines in February recommending that health professionals send women who do not want children to a psychotherapist..." www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04... #pronatalism

Yes ~ "Partners" in the fight for bodily autonomy and reproductive rights.

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Yes! "...Trump's Endangered Species Act rollbacks have just been overturned...a fed court ruled that 4 key provisions that implement the Act...are unlawful...The lawsuit was brought by the Center, Sierra Club, and WildEarth Guardians, who were all rep'd by Earthjustice." ~Center for Biodiversity

Some photos that capture it: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Watson is one of my heroes :) rewilding.org/paul-watson-...

Sad we have to have this 'day' ...

‪While one reason not to want children can be having a 'higher openness to experience' but it's certainly not the most common. Right up there is not being drawn to the process of parenting, particularly as the central focus of their lives. www.upworthy.com/psychologist... #childfree

"The amendment makes Luxembourg only the second country in the world to protect women’s reproductive rights in its highest laws in response to the US Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022...France had led the way in 2024." www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/l...

Height is one of the Social Changers I highlight in my book #ASpecialSisterhood! Additional trivia on her: Rec'd Congressional Gold Medal and an estimated 24 honorary degrees. Read more about her and 99 more fascinating women from history whose lives did not include motherhood: amzn.to/4lR6os2

Interesting intro to depth psychology as it relates to #overpopulation denial: overpopulation-project.com/the-psycholo...

Totally agree with the commenter: "..this is the best presentation I’ve seen on why US MAiD [medical aid in dying] laws need to be less restrictive." www.thegooddeathsocietyblog.net/2026/03/22/m...

Having communicated w/many #childfree female docs over the yrs, ob/gyn's often feel they have to keep this to themselves due to #pronatalist assumption that somehow because they don't want to raise children they can't provide the best ob/gyn care--? Total myth. www.huffpost.com/entry/pediat... 1/2

Check out this great profile piece on @popnbalance.bsky.social Executive Director, Nandita Bajaj: countercurrents.org/2026/03/nand... #overpopulation #pronatalism

"Whether in court briefings or before state policymakers, plenty of talking points about abortion medication are repeated that are not based on scientific fact or evidence, according to experts. Here are some of the most common:" www.newsfromthestates.com/article/rhet...

Artful commentary indeed. In addition to changes in our own lives, "We need our leaders to require corporations to stop making so much plastic...replacing...w/reusable, refillable...and demand that manufacturers and retailers reduce their wasteful packaging." therevelator.org/art-micropla...

Very informative episode with Terry Gross interviewing policy expert Karim Sadjadpour: www.npr.org/2026/03/17/n...

Check out this magazine, Anthropocene, which "convenes, across multiple media outlets, the world’s most creative writers, designers, scientists, and entrepreneurs to explore how we can create a sustainable Human Age we actually want to live in." www.anthropocenemagazine.org

Fun fact about her: In high school, she changed her name to ‘Kalpana’ because it meant ‘imagination.’ In honor of this shining star we lost too son, an asteroid and crater are named after her, as are scholarship funds to promote & support women in space. She too is part of #ASpecialSisterhood : )

As 1 of the 100 I feature in my book, #ASpecialSisterhood, as a pioneer in her time in astronomy, several of the comets she discovered have her name, and her tombstone reads, “The eyes of her who is glorified here below turned to the starry heavens.” : )

Seeing through #TheBabyMatrix in Pakistan: www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #childfree #pronatalism

Want the real scoop on Paul Ehrlich beyond the common rant that his #overpopulation predictions were wrong? Read this. He was truly one of the "most influential environmental thinkers of the past half century." overpopulation-project.com/goodbye-paul...

A must see!

Part of #ASpecialSisterhood, Abbot is one of the many women inventors who never had children. Like many #childfree women, her life (and in her case, her greatest creation) involved children! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

This is fantastic. Wildlife corridors are critical! www.wildlandsnetwork.org/newsroom/vir...

Continued thanks to followers/friends who send on more fascinating women from history in #ASpecialSisterhood (amzn.to/4dnv1u3) who never had children. The latest: meet Mary Papanicolaou, the woman behind the pap smear, but who was only recognized for this later in life: www.utmb.edu/mdnews/podca...

And the #USOvershootDay comes earlier and earlier every year...

Such an example of #pronatalist reproductive control ~ "The Japanese gov't’s'maternity protection' law is one of the world’s most restrictive barriers to sterilization. It requires women to have... www.chennaionline.com/news/japanes... 1/2

I also drilled into the 2024 Pew study: lauracarroll.com/pew-research...

This mostly lines up with data I gathered from 5000 #childfree couples (see Ch 9 amzn.to/3PzlRRe). I would not combine... 1/2 familyinequality.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/m...

I would argue that the 'to have or not have children' decision is not be something to see as "time might be making for me." Prolonged inaction and/or doing the work to the root of ambivalence may very well mean the level of desire to have children is just not there. siliconcanals.com/s-t-nobody-t...

This is awesome! 👇

Yes 👉" the decision to have children can be just as 'selfish' as the decision not to have them. It’s just a matter of diff kinds of selfishness." overpopulation-project.com/is-it-selfis... Another def of selfish=doing what you want to do despite how it impacts others (and our world). #pronatalism

Captures so much about the realities of #overpopulation.

While I love seeing young people find ways to lessen their digital time by doing creative things from times past, to call it "grandma hobbies" reflects the assumption that all elder women are grandmas. One of so many pronatalist assumptions...#pronatalism #TheBabyMatrix www.kpbs.org/news/arts-cu...

Too often today #pronatalism is merely seen as pro-baby policy pushes, and fear mongering about birth declines. But pronatalism is so much more. It is a behemoth of beliefs pushed on societies for gens with Many negative impacts, including the subject of this podcast: www.npr.org/2026/03/08/n... 1/2

Sooo many women who changed history also had lives that did not include motherhood. Here are 100 in my book, #ASpecialSisterhood: 100 Fascinating Women From History Who Never Had Children: amzn.to/4aYXDbx www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Better is not the question, or even the point. Reader 3steps' comment is right on: "I am morally opposed to the tech world literally stealing the sum of human knowledge and then charging me to regurgitate it..." 1/2 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...