Making families cool again
Last week the Democrats showed us the past and the future of population policy.
Even as they cheered news that a Planned Parenthood mobile van would park right outside their national convention to choke off pregnancies with free abortions and vasectomies, nominee Kamala Harris announced a half-baked proposal to encourage childbearing via tax credits for new parents.
The party’s old, negative attitude toward parenthood and family formation was spurred by (false) 1960s fears of a population explosion that still drive Boomer-era perceptions.
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Choose life.