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Pregnancy Is SELF HARM? Reacting To Anti-Motherhood TikToks

Amala Ekpunobi

Amala Ekpunobi

Education

4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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An “anti-motherhood” trend has emerged on TikTok where women are claiming pregnancy is “self harm” and having kids is a form of oppression. Let’s discuss.


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0:00.0

Is pregnancy self-harm? Well, one leftist says it is, and I found myself going down a rabbit hole of anti-motherhood TikToks online.

0:07.0

So today, I'm going to show you some. Let's talk about it.

0:09.0

Yeah, you better.

0:14.0

Yeah, you better.

0:15.0

Guys, before we get into today's video, please like and subscribe.

0:19.0

We're reacting to anti-motherhood TikToks. Hey, Amla, the left says there is no anti-motherhood sentiment. They're fine because feminism says you can just have whatever choice you want. And if you want to be a mother, be a mother. If you want to be a working person, be a working person. No, we're going to see some videos today that tell a different narrative. And we're going to start off with the real hitter of all three of these.

0:39.3

Pregnancy is self-harm.

0:40.3

I'm a little scared to say this, but every time I see a pregnancy announcement,

0:44.3

I see pregnancy in this current political climate that we're in,

0:47.3

I straight up see pregnancy as an act of like self-harm.

0:53.3

Like if you're posting that you're pregnant, I pretty much think that you hate yourself.

0:59.0

And I'm like not even joking.

1:00.6

And I understand that that's like really like, is it alarming for me to think that?

1:07.2

Yes.

1:08.9

Let's go ahead and pause the video.

1:10.7

Yes, that is a very alarming thing to think.

1:12.4

And I feel like this view is going to change for her. And I know people hate to hear this as she ages.

1:18.0

I think she looks like she's in her maybe early 20s right now, maybe mid 20s as she gets a little

1:23.3

older, maybe meet somebody she's interested in. Her view on pregnancy being self-harm would hopefully take a shift, if not for her in her own life, for the lives of others. It's one thing to say I don't want to be pregnant. It's one thing to say I don't want kids. It's another to look at other people who are making that choice for themselves and to say they're engaging in an act of self-harm, like they're cutting themselves or something

1:44.6

or that they hate themselves and have self-loathing.

1:47.9

I think if you have such strong views about other people and the choices that they're making

1:51.3

in life, especially choices that by and large are viewed as healthy, normal choices,

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