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Family values conservatives have been obsessed with heterosexual marriages and babies for decades. They have fought to curtail women’s rights in an effort to keep them pregnant and out of civic life, decimated abortion access, attempted to limit access to birth control, and tried to define marriage and family in the narrowest terms possible.
Now, declining birth rates have the MAGA crowd pushing policies designed to increase the number of babies born in the United States every year. While this new desire to increase the population seems in line with the traditional family values Republicans have been espousing for years, there is a more sinister ideology at the heart of this new movement: pronatalism.
This used to be a fringe topic, but now pronatalism seems to be a cornerstone of the modern Republican agenda. In March President Donald Trump said he’ll be known as the “fertilization president,” Elon Musk — father to 14 children — recently told Fox News that “civilization will disappear” if the birthrate doesn’t increase, and Vice President JD Vance summed up the problem...
