What is America’s pro-natalism movement really about? | Moira Donegan

Malcolm and Simone Collins are reportedly consulting the Donald Trump administration on how to encourage American women to have more babies.

The couple espouse the pro-natalism that is sweeping the political right with an explicit eugenicist tilt.

They aim to fix this in part by breeding as many of their own children as possible.

Moira Donegan : Despite the extreme anti-woman bigotry and regressive gender politics of the pro-natalist movement, U.S. liberals have been hesitant to combat the right’s embrace of pro-natism on cultural grounds.

Even the most pointed of the mainstream liberal critics tend to concede cultural ground, arguing that American women want babies (as, it is assumed, they should) but cannot afford them.