'Make Motherhood Great Again': Pronatalism Finds a Comfortable Home in the Trump Administration

'Make Motherhood Great Again': Pronatalism Finds a Comfortable Home in the Trump Administration

Once dismissed as fringe, pronatalism has moved into the mainstream—finding powerful champions in Trump, Vance and Musk, and gaining policy traction within the administration. Rooted in eugenics, antifeminism, and anti-immigrant sentiment, this ideology casts high birthrates as a patriotic duty and low fertility as a national threat. Now, federal policies are beginning to reflect this dangerous worldview—one that sees women’s bodies as tools of …