Originally published at crisis magazine
Now that our long national nightmare is over and the fury and fear about the end of democracy and the rise of fascism with its apparatus of terror and internment camps are finally behind us, might it be possible to start thinking about children again? I mean, now that it’s safe to have babies, why don’t we just go ahead and unleash the power of young women, and the men whom they marry, to say yes to life?
I mean, do we want to have a future or not? Because if we do, then we’re going to have to fill it with something. Why not children? Who else is going to show up? More than half the country having refused to vote for the Kamala Harris version, what other alternative have we got besides life? Why not celebrate Morning in America by putting an end to the birth dearth?
Besides, a nation unwilling to augment its own population with generous allotments of children will not survive. Nor does it deserve to. Our greatest resource is life, which does not come from couples unwilling to step out of their comfort zones in order to risk welcoming them into their homes. The
