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A bunch of “perfectly educated” women are sending photos of their big families to Emmanuel Macron

Whenever French president Emmanuel Macron wades into issues involving women’s reproduction, he tends to get into trouble. That was the case during a press conference at the G20 summit in Hamburg in July, when he said that the African continent had a “civilizational” challenge, including with population growth, adding that where there are “seven or eight children per woman,” spending billions in aid is pointless.

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