We're so hungry for purpose and meaning and identity that when the things that used to fill that void

from faith to patriotism to hard work to family, when those things disappear,

that leaves a moral vacuum in its wake.

I think like you, Lila, believe that abortion is a form of murder.

I think that we need to treat it accordingly.

Vivek Ramaswamy, entrepreneur and now presidential candidate for the 2024 election.

Thanks so much for coming on the podcast.

It's good to be on Lila. How are you doing?

I'm good. I'm good. I'm sure you're super busy. You're running a presidential campaign.

Running around. That's for sure. Yeah. We're having fun.

Awesome. Well, I'm excited to talk about life and family because a lot of our listeners and a lot

of folks in general are interested in the culture battle, but it's also obviously has huge

political ramifications, how we treat children, how we treat family, what does the future of

America look like? So I wanted just to start with something that's been in the news a lot lately.

As of 2020, the replacement rate is we're below replacement rate as a population.

So your average woman is having, I think it's 1.6 something children, which is below the 2.1

replacement rate and they call this demographic decline could be a crisis. We're not replacing

ourselves as a population. What's your take on why this is happening to kick us off the

vague and what is the solution, especially the government's role in confronting this?

So I think the replacement rate issue is probably the greatest underappreciated issue of our time,

actually. I think there are other issues that we appreciate as big issues that we have to address.

This is a big issue that we have not yet taken seriously. Both on just the demographics of it,

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