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There is no doubt that there is a fertility crisis in the United States.

In fact, it's almost global.

There are some countries that are bucking the trend.

We are simply having fewer children than ever before.

There's a sub-crisis that's been noticed by the Atlantic. The coming Democratic baby bus birth rates on the left fell in the last Trump presidency. That seems likely to happen

again. Welcome back to Issues Cedar. I'm Todd Wilkin. Joining us to talk about this story in

the Atlantic, Terry Mattingly, he's Senior Fellow on Communications and Culture

at St. Constantine College in Houston, Texas. He writes Rational Sheep, a substack newsletter, a faith, family, and mass media.

He's author of the National On Religion column for the Andrews McMill Universal Syndicate, and for two decades, he led the getreligion.org website.

Terry, welcome back.

Glad to be here. Is this fertility story in the Atlantic just about politics or even demographics

or are journalists missing religion again? Well, you mean that like they don't get religion

or something? This was a laugh out loud moment for me.

Of all the things I've read,

where we're supposed to be looking at massive demographic trends

that have been developing for years and years, decades even.

And the lead on this is, are Democrats too depressed during the second Trump presidency to have babies?

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