Published May 4, 2025
In his op-ed “How to Make American Babies Again” (April 30), Leonard Lopoo argues that the Trump administration should focus on an expensive and ethically complicated approach to fertility policy (in vitro fertilization) rather than a more egalitarian approach (a $5,000 baby bonus). While it is true that cash incentives have had only a modest effect in most first-world countries that have tried them, nearly every country that has publicly subsidized IVF has also seen their birth rates continue to fall off a cliff in recent years.
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Natalie Dodson is a former Policy Analyst at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she worked on a range of initiatives focusing on sexuality, gender ideology, religious liberty, healthcare rights of conscience, abortion, and nondiscrimination in EPPC’s Administrative State Accountability Project (ASAP).
