"We need to also explain to young girls and women the biological reality of this crisis. Many women in Britain are having children much too late in life and they would prefer to have children much earlier on."
"For anyone with fertility issues, like me who struggled with miscarriage after miscarriage, to say [to them] we should be paying more tax for not having children or that it is our fault is deeply offensive, as it is for LGBT+ people or women who can't afford to have kids, she said."
"Is this the kind of thing you'll be wanting to see in our Handmaid's"
Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s Gorton and Denton by-election candidate, said many women in Britain are having children too late and that young girls and women must be told the biological reality of the crisis. He previously suggested extra taxes for people who do not have children. The comments provoked furious backlash from MPs and equality campaigners who described the remarks as offensive, alt-right fantasy, and truly troubling. A parliamentarian with fertility struggles called the proposals deeply offensive for blaming women; another MP invoked traumatic personal experience and compared the rhetoric to Handmaid’s imagery.
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