When the destroying angel was to pass through Egypt, to destroy the first-born of man and beast, Israel was commanded to gather their children and families into their houses with them, and then mark their door-posts with blood, that the destroying angel might pass by their dwellings, and if they failed to go through with this process, there was no difference made between them and the Egyptians. RH September 19, 1854, par. 12
John Casey
Tue, April 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM GMT+36 min read
It was only a matter of time.
The news this week in The New York Times that the Trump White House is searching for ways to “persuade” women to have more children is not some quirky cultural proposal or a benign baby boom fantasy — it’s another attack on bodily autonomy after restricting reproductive rights and limiting types of gender-affirming care.
If you were shocked to hear this news, just wait until you see how far it emboldens conservative Christians to go even further. Their assault on sex has only just begun.
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Chaplain of the United Nations, Sunday Laws and Mass With Families! the federal government is coming!
It’s a dystopian unveiling of a pro-natalist agenda that social conservatives have been carefully constructing brick by brick, headline by headline led by Elon Musk, until now, when the facade has finally fallen and the truth stands exposed. And that truth is that the federal government is coming for your bedroom, your uterus, and your right to choose if, when, and how to have children — and sex.
Let’s be clear. Telling women to have more children is not “encouragement.” It is coercion wrapped in a phony flag and sealed with a sanctimonious cross. It’s a policy designed not for liberty but for control. The same extremists who cheer when a woman is forced to carry her rapist’s child are now crafting federal proposals to “incentivize” women into becoming baby-making machines.
The destroying angel is soon to go forth again, not to destroy the first-born alone, but “to slay utterly old and young, both men, women and little children” who have not the mark. Parents, if you wish to save your children, separate them from the world, keep them from the company of wicked children; for if you suffer them to go with wicked children, you cannot prevent them from partaking of their wickedness and being corrupted. It is your solemn duty to watch over your children, to choose the society at all times for them. Learn your children to obey you, then can they more easily obey the commandments of God, and yield to his requirements. Don’t let us neglect to pray with, and for our children. He that said, “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not,” will listen to our prayers for them, and the seal, or mark, of believing parents will cover their children, if they are trained up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
E. G. White. RH September 19, 1854, par. 13 – rh null.null.1854
What’s next? A government birthing schedule? A state-sanctioned pregnancy quota? Or a ban on sex between two men or two women? Because the Christian right believes that sex should be only about having babies. Sex for love or pleasure is a damnable sin.
A day of great intellectual darkness has been shown to be favorable to the success of the papacy. It will yet be demonstrated that a day of great intellectual light is equally favorable for its success. In past ages, when men were without God’s word and without the knowledge of the truth, their eyes were blindfolded, and thousands were ensnared, not seeing the net spread for their feet. In this generation there are many whose eyes become dazzled by the glare of human speculations, “science falsely so called;” they discern not the net, and walk into it as readily as if blindfolded. GC 572.3
Does all this sound familiar? It should. Margaret Atwood wrote the warning decades ago. In The Handmaid’s Tale, fertile women were forced to bear children for powerful men and shuffled between households like property. You had three chances, three homes, three assignments. Refuse? Resist? You’d end up in the Colonies, discarded, punished, or worse. It was fiction once. But now it’s a blueprint for Trump, Musk, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and Sen. Ted Cruz, among others.
I stopped watching the miniseries of The Handmaid’s Tale after the first season in 2017, and that is because I long felt that Donald Trump and the extreme right would someday try to mimic the plot of the show. That series scared the hell out of me. It didn’t come to fruition in the first term, but here we are, and I’m astounded and horrified to say I told you so.
I was pointed back to faithful Noah. The rain descended, the floods came, Noah, and his family had entered the ark, and God shut them in. Noah had faithfully warned the inhabitants of the old world, while they had mocked and derided him. And as the waters descended upon the earth, and as one after another were being drowned, they beheld that ark that they had made so much sport of, riding safely upon the waters, preserving the faithful Noah and his family. So I saw that the people of God, who had warned the world of his coming wrath, would be delivered. They had faithfully warned the inhabitants of the earth, and God would not suffer the wicked to destroy those who were expecting translation, and who would not bow to the decree of the beast, or receive his mark. I saw that if the wicked were permitted to slay the saints, Satan and all his evil host, and all who hate God, would be gratified. And O, what a time of triumph it would be for his Satanic majesty, to have power, in the last closing struggle, over those who had so long waited to behold Him whom they loved. Those who have mocked at the idea of the saints going up, will witness the care of God for his people, and their glorious deliverance.
As the saints left the cities and villages, they were pursued by the wicked. They raised their swords to kill the saints, but they broke, and fell as powerless as a straw. Angels of God shielded the saints. As they cried day and night for deliverance, their cry came up before God. 1SG 203.1 – 1SG 204.1
Today In China 🇨🇳, Tomorrow in the USA 🇺🇸
As reported in the Times, officials are exploring how to “support” women in having more children, complete with cash payments, policy shifts, and a looming sense that your worth to the state may soon be measured in diapers and delivery dates.
Thus the false science of the present day, which undermines faith in the Bible, will prove as successful in preparing the way for the acceptance of the papacy, with its pleasing forms, as did the withholding of knowledge in opening the way for its aggrandizement in the Dark Ages.
In the movements now in progress in the United States to secure for the institutions and usages of the church the support of the state, Protestants are following in the steps of papists. Nay, more, they are opening the door for the papacy to regain in Protestant America the supremacy which she has lost in the Old World. And that which gives greater significance to this movement is the fact that the principal object contemplated is the enforcement of Sunday observance—a custom which originated with Rome, and which she claims as the sign of her authority. It is the spirit of the papacy—the spirit of conformity to worldly customs, the veneration for human traditions above the commandments of God—that is permeating the Protestant churches and leading them on to do the same work of Sunday exaltation which the papacy has done before them. GC 572.3 – GC 573.1
It eerily echoes China’s recent expansion of its family planning allowance from two children to three, under the watchful eye of the Chinese Communist Party. We used to criticize authoritarian regimes for such population engineering. Now we imitate them. And we might be at war with China on tariffs, it seems we also want to compete with them on how many children our citizens have.
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But make no mistake, this isn’t about economic growth, declining birth rates, or family values. This is about a radical right-wing movement, fueled by white nationalism, Christian domination, and toxic masculinity.
Trump and his ilk seek to rebuild America in their own image: white, straight, and male-dominated like a UFC championship fight, where men are men, and women are … well, just subservient women.
[9] The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. [10] Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. [11] If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.Micah 2 : 9-11
Pronatalism, as chillingly outlined in The Guardian, is the ideological backbone of this movement. It’s not just pro-birth, it’s anti-choice. Anti-freedom. Anti-you. And virulently anti-LGBTQ+.
In the pronatalist worldview, the womb is a tool for the state
In the pronatalist worldview, the womb is a tool for the state. Your sexual autonomy is negotiable. Your career, your goals, and your body are all secondary to your duty to reproduce. If that doesn’t scare you, you’re not paying attention, because you’re about to see The Handmaid’s Tale become reality.
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And where this is heading is even darker. The same extremists behind this push to increase birth rates are the ones who celebrated the fall of Roe v. Wade. They’re the ones who now target IVF and contraception.
[9] The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. [10] Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. [11] If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people. [12] I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
Micah 2 : 9-12
They want to outlaw your family
They’re also the ones like Cruz, who are openly calling for a reversal of Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 Supreme Court decision that found it unconstitutional to criminalize sex between two consenting adults of the same gender. They want to outlaw your family, your love, your very existence, and most especially “deviant homosexuals.”
Because if sex isn’t for procreation, it’s sinful in their eyes. That’s the logic. That’s the theology masquerading as law. Christian fundamentalists believe that the only righteous form of sex is between a married cisgender man and cisgender woman with the intent to conceive.
Everything else, including gay sex and even straight pleasure without pregnancy, is perverse. So if the government can tell a woman she should have more children, it can also tell two men or two women they must not have sex. It’s all part of the same crusade.
They want to reshape American bedrooms into sterile procreation chambers.
They want to reshape American bedrooms into sterile procreation chambers. They want to replace intimacy with obligation, consent with command, desire with duty. It’s not “family values.” It’s state-imposed M-F breeding. And when they’ve finished controlling women’s bodies and trans bodies, they will come for other queer bodies next. Count on it.
If this administration truly cared about families, it would be investing in child care, paid family leave, affordable health care, and maternal mortality prevention. It would stop criminalizing abortion, banning books, and attacking LGBTQ+ parents. But they’re not doing any of that. Instead, they’re offering cash bounties for babies while stripping away every freedom that lets a woman choose her own life.
A future where choice is eradicated, where privacy is policed, and where the personal becomes punishable.
And eventually, freedom for two women or two men to have sex.
So when Trump’s advisers talk about “persuading” women to have more children, understand the code. This isn’t persuasion — it’s preparation for something much larger. For a future where choice is eradicated, where privacy is policed, and where the personal becomes punishable.
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If you’re not terrified yet, you should be. Because this isn’t fiction like The Handmaid’s Tale anymore. It’s federal policy in the making. And it’s coming for all of us.
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