Earlier this month, after the Heritage Foundation released a 168-page report detailing a comprehensive plan to reverse our nation’s declining birth rate, National Public Radio aired a story on the matter, framed around two lesbians, of course. It found that “progressive leaders have largely opted out of the growing public discussion over birthrates and shrinking families, ceding the policy space to right-wing voices.”

After quoting some left-wing voices that were concerned about “silence from many progressives” on the matter, NPR went on to report that it “could find no broad policy document addressing this population shift from think tanks or activist groups on the left, comparable to the one put forward by The Heritage Foundation.”

And it is true that no left-wing think tanks have issued policy papers on how to address falling fertility, but the Biden administration, which was populated with left-wing academics and economists, did. 

In May 2024, after the National Center for Health Statistics released its annual report finding that the percentage of women who gave birth in the United States had dropped to........

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