POLITICO Magazine published an article at the end of April framing efforts to encourage marriage and raising children as a right-wing conspiracy.
Author Gaby De Valle shared stories from “behind the scenes” of the Natal Conference — which, according to the website, would connect people who were concerned about the growing number of countries and cultures where birth rates were rapidly dropping below “replacement levels.”
“We are living through the greatest population bust in human history. The future belongs to those who show up,” the conference website states — and De Valle wrote, “The threat, we are told here this weekend, is existential, biological, epoch-defining. Economies will fail, civilizations will fall, and it will all happen because people aren’t having enough babies.”
De Valle went on to suggest that the motives behind natalism seemed more political…
