The Trump-approved policy that’s actually good for kids
The pronatalists have entered the White House.
GOP Lays Groundwork To Restrict Abortion Pill With New Junk Science Report
The Ethics and Public Policy Center published the report just days after FDA Commissioner Martin Makary said he has “no plans” to restrict mifepristone, which has been at the center of the abortion wars since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022. Makary made several headlines for his comments, seemingly assuring pro-choice Americans that he would not pull FDA approval of the drug. But in that same interview, Makary also said: “As you may know, there is an ongoing set of data that is coming into FDA on mifepristone....
It's Not Just a Population Crisis
As people talk about the issues of depopulation, they look to government programs to solve the issue. This is something I don't like just on principle, but I'll admit that there are times such programs might be beneficial.
But there's one issue every suggestion I've seen makes, and that's how it misses the real problem.
Yes, people aren't having as many children, but that's not really the issue. It's a symptom of the issue.
White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children
The White House has been hearing out a chorus of ideas in recent weeks for persuading Americans to get married and have more children, an early sign that the Trump administration will embrace a new cultural agenda pushed by many of its allies on the right to reverse declining birthrates and push conservative family values.
Trump: Baby Bonus 'Sounds Like Good Idea'
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the idea of a "baby bonus" as a means to jump-start birth rates in the United States "sounds like a good idea to me."
Trump's answer to a question posed in the Oval Office came amid a New York Times report Monday that said the White House has been brainstorming ideas to reverse the country's declining birth rate.
Would $5K ‘baby bonus’ be enough to boost US birth rate?
President Donald Trump has backed what a published report said was a $5,000 “baby bonus” for women who give birth to help reverse a decline in the U.S. birth rate.
When asked Tuesday in the Oval Office about the possibility of providing a financial reward to women who give birth, Trump responded, “Sounds like a good idea to me.”
In Colorado, “Misgendering” Your Kid Could Lose You Custody
Earlier this year, I testified before the Colorado legislature in opposition to House Bill 25-1109, which would have required death certificates to reflect decedents’ “gender identity,” rather than their sex. The proposal was self-evidently absurd—death certificates are legal documents, not tributes to decedents’ subjective sense of self. Nevertheless, the legislature passed the bill, which awaits Governor Jared Polis’s signature.
US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens
The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens, The Associated Press has learned.
Four people with direct knowledge of the matter told the AP about the policy, which was put into effect by departing U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns in January shortly before he left China. The people would speak only on condition of anonymity to discuss details of a confidential new directive.
Elon Musk claims he’s ‘given’ alleged baby mama Ashley St. Clair $2.5M, $500K per year — despite not knowing ‘if the child is mine or not’
Elon Musk fired back at Ashley St. Clair — the conservative influencer claiming to have given birth to the Tesla and SpaceX boss’ 13th child — on Monday after she accused the world’s richest man of cutting back on child support payments.
“I don’t know if the child is mine or not, but am not against finding out,” Musk wrote on X. “ No court order is needed.”
“Despite not knowing for sure, I have given Ashley $2.5M and am sending her $500k/year,” the Department of Government Efficiency chief claimed.
Italy’s births hit record low as Giorgia Meloni struggles to halt population decline
The number of babies born in Italy dropped 2.6 per cent last year, while the number of Italians leaving the country surged, reflecting the uphill battle that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni faces to reverse the country’s long-running demographic decline. Just 370,000 babies were born in Italy in 2024, about 10,000 fewer than last year and well below the half a million born a decade ago, according to figures published by Italy’s national statistics agency Istat on Monday. It was the 16th consecutive year of falling births.