Why are so many Americans worried about falling birth rates?
In a recent report,“Baby Bonuses and Motherhood Medals,” the National Women’s Law Center expressed caution about policies like $1,000 baby bonds and new insurance regulations on IVF that are coming from the administration. (The IVF proposal falls short of Trump campaign-trail promise to make insurance companies cover the procedure.)
Amy K. Matsui, the vice president for child care & income security at the center, said there’s strong evidence that these policies are meant to benefit certain people, particularly the White and more affluent.
“We’re seeing the confluence of a purported concern about birth rates being used to advance an agenda, which is really about exercising control over women’s bodies, over gender roles, over women’s role in public life,” Matsui said.