Meghan McCain slammed MAGA’s pressure for conservative women to have kids and their idea of womanhood, telling followers on X on Monday: “We should be welcoming of all kinds of women and voters.”
“I am obviously a huge proponent of having children but one thing that really bothers me about conservative messaging on this is there are so many women who want to become mothers and can’t or - just haven’t found the right person. Also some women don’t want children and it’s ok,” McCain wrote.
McCain’s remarks come amid the conservative push for more women, especially younger women, to focus on motherhood. This rhetoric had initially become popularized online by “tradwife” influencers and the pro-natalist movement, but now those within the MAGA movement are being more vocal.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller’s wife Katie Miller, and second lady Usha Vance, have all come out publicly about their pregnancy.
Leavitt told followers “there is no greater joy in life than the joy that comes from being a mother. All young women should be told this!”
