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In 1808, when the international slave trade was banned, plantation owners turned to forced reproduction to sustain their labor supply. The womb became a line item. A capital asset.

Today, the administration is screaming about sperm counts, banning abortion without exceptions for rape, shaming childless women, and deporting millions of Black and brown workers. The logic is identical. The beneficiaries are the same. This is not a coincidence.

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In 1808, the United States banned the international slave trade.

Not because slavery was wrong. Because the money was already here. The enslaved population - roughly one million people - was already on American soil, and the men who owned them had done the math.

They didn't need the ships anymore.

They had something better.

They had women.