#1216 Laura Carroll: Childfree Choices, and How Pronatalism Promotes Disinformation and Misogyny

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Dissenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopez, and today I'm joined by Laura Carroll. She's a nonfiction author, expert on the child-free choice and pronatalism, and an advocate for reproductive rights and ethics related to reproduction as well. She's the author of The Baby Matrix, wifeering our minds from outmoded thinking about parenthood. and reproduction will create a better world.

And today we're talking about mostly about child-free choices and pronatalism. So Laura, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one. Thanks for having me on. Okay, so let's start with a basic question here.

So what is it to be child-free? What does it mean? Well, you know, that word was termed in a textbook going as far back into the 70s and really it still means what it meant then is it's a a that a person who does not want to parent, they don't want to have children, you know, it's the desire not to have children. So, and it is the word child-free with no hyphen. No child space free online.

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