The birth rate is declining globally. If Republicans want American women to have more babies, they should make parenthood easier, says the writer. — Dreamstime/TNS
HAVING grown up in a world where overpopulation was touted as an existential threat, I have trouble wrapping my brain around the idea that humanity is now doomed to extinction because people – well, the right kind of people – are failing to procreate.
But that is precisely the message emanating from a White House in thrall to the Heritage Foundation’s “pro-family” Project 2025, and from quirky billionaire Elon Musk, who spreads his seed in a compulsive quest to reverse the world’s declining birth rate.
