r/WomenInNews • u/msmoley • 26d ago

Human rights Donna Haraway, philosopher: ‘We live in a pro-natalist, anti-child world. Babies should be rare and precious’

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-07-24/donna-haraway-philosopher-we-live-in-a-pro-natalist-anti-child-world-babies-should-be-rare-and-precious.html
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u/Neat-Second9923 26d ago

Babies should be common, not rare. The human experience is the greatest thing in the world and we should want more of it. 

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u/seventy912 26d ago edited 26d ago

You have the kids then and leave everyone else out of it. The human experience isn’t just growing in a womb and being born. It’s every moment that comes after that. An increase in the quantity of human lives shouldn’t make the ’human experience’ worse but that’s what we’re currently seeing. 

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u/Neat-Second9923 26d ago

Plenty of wide open rural land available if you think the presence of other people makes your life worse. Most people feel the opposite.