Is the concern about birth rate decline becoming a progressive issue?

How on earth is there a syphilis epidemic in 2024?

And the New Jersey Attorney General launches a crusade to harass and try to shut down

pregnancy resource centers in his state.

These are the stories we'll discuss today and we will address some of your questions.

I'm your host Sean McDow.

I'm your co-host Scott Ray.

This is the ThinkBiblically weekly cultural update brought to you by Talbot School Theology, Biola University.

Scott, this first story has been all over the news, in a sense, since the time that

J.D. Vance was elected or chosen to be the Republican Vice Presidential

candidate and his phrase referring to kind of childless cat ladies,

everybody's been talking about population growth and decline and the concern about it.

Now it's traditionally been a conservative issue for reasons we'll get into, but this week an article

popped up in the New York Times that totally got my attention

because the title was, population growth isn't a progressive issue, it should be.

Now this philosophy professor talks about how because

population decline is widely seen as a conservative issue, many progressive

don't seem to worry about it, but they should.

If left unchecked, population decline could worsen many of the problems that progressives care

about, including economic inequality and vulnerability of marginalized social groups.

But, as you and I would expect or anybody reading this, they say next,

this doesn't mean adopting the conservative case wholesale.

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