No sex, no babies: 4B Movement goes viral after Donald Trump US election win

Searches for this term you’ve probably never heard of have spiked in the wake of Donald Trump winning the US election.

Interest in a radical feminist movement where women refuse to date, get married, have sex with men or have children appears to have skyrocketed since Donald Trump won the 2024 US election.

Google Trends shows searches for “4B Movement” in the country shot up after the Republican’s victory.

“This finally flipped a switch in me, I’m going full 4B Movement and I mean it” and “4B Movement is my answer” are among comments garnering thousands of likes on TikTok videos reacting to the election result.

Google Trends data shows searches for ‘4B Movement’ shot up after the election.

One video of a young American woman crying, which encourages women to join the movement has been liked by more than 200,000 people and viewed 1.4 million times.

“Me and my girlies are participating in the 4B movement, that’s my next plan,” said another woman in a clip with more than 170,000 likes and 1.2 million views.

“If you thought you were involuntarily celibate before, wait until see you what women are like when they realise that having one of your babies could cost them their life,” one creator with more than 600,000 followers said in a video under the hashtag #4bmovement.

“Doing my part as an American woman by breaking up with my Republican boyfriend last night and officially joining the 4B movement this morning,” said one on TikTok with a whopping 1.7 million likes and more than 9 million views.

The 4B Movement originated in South Korea and protests misogyny and gender-based violence.

Abortion rights is one of the main issues Americans highlight when suggesting they will join the 4B Movement.

Roe v. Wade, a landmark decision that ruled the constitutional right to abortion in the US in 1973, was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022, paving the way for states to ban abortions.

Three of the Supreme Court justices that voted to overturn Roe were appointed by Mr Trump.

In a post on his social media network last year, the president-elect took credit, writing: “After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade.”

He added: “Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing.”

Donald Trump has won the 2024 US election. Picture: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP

The president can have a major impact on abortion policy in the US.

It is unclear what Mr Trump may do in the next four years.

Some advocates of abortion rights fear a Republican-controlled Congress could enact a nationwide ban. The Republicans won control of the Senate but control over the House hangs in the balance (both chambers make up Congress).

Some fear a ban on shipping abortion pills, which account for about two-thirds of abortions in the country.

The National Women's March in Washington, DC, just days before the election on November 2, 2024. Picture: Allison Robbert / AFP

Reproductive rights supporters during the march in Arizona, which would go on to pass a ballot referendum to establish a fundamental right to the procedure on election day. Picture: Rebecca Noble / AFP

Kamala Harris campaigned on the key message that women should make decisions about their own bodies.

She vowed to never allow a national abortion ban become law and promised to support a bill restoring Roe’s protections.

Voters in 10 states – a record number – had to decide on amending their state constitutions with abortion protections this election. Seven states passed an amendment, lifting abortion bans in two states (Missouri and Arizona) and expanding access in others.

Mr Trump’s home state of Florida was one of the three states where the ballot referendum failed. If it was to have been successful, it would have provided a constitutional right to abortion before foetal viability or when “necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider”. The other two states were Nebraska and South Dakota.

Women react as Kamala Harris speaks for the first time after Donald Trump’s victory. Picture: Angela Weiss / AFP

Exit polls showed female voters leaned toward Ms Harris but not enough. Picture: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP

In addition to abortion rights, those furious with Mr Trump’s victory and now sharing the 4B Movement have been vocal about his infamous history with women.

Mr Trump became the first former US president with a criminal conviction in May after a jury found him guilty on all 34 counts of fraud by falsifying business records to cover up payments of $200,000 ($US130,000) to porn star Stormy Daniels.

It was alleged Mr Trump wanted to buy her silence about an alleged extramarital sexual encounter, which was in danger of becoming public knowledge in the run up to the 2016 presidential election. Paying to keep stories quiet isn’t illegal but falsifying business records is.

Last year, a jury in New York found Mr Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store in the 1990s. The verdict in the civil trial is the first time Mr Trump has been found legally responsible for a sexual assault.

Less than two weeks before the election, former swimsuit model Stacey Williams did an interview with The Washington Post about allegations that Mr Trump groped her in the early 1990s in front of Jeffrey Epstein.

Mr Trump’s national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the allegation was “unequivocally false”. Mr Trump has denied numerous allegations of sexual misconduct from other women.

CNN exit polls showed female voters leaned toward Ms Harris, and male voters leaned toward Mr Trump, but as the outlet reported, Ms Harris’ edge among women this year did not exceed either Joe Biden’s in 2020 or Hillary Clinton’s in 2016.

Originally published as No sex, no babies: 4B Movement goes viral after Donald Trump US election win