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Here's my colleague, Lucy Hawkins.

Today we're bringing you a conversation I have with a family called The Collinsers,

who joined me from their farmhouse in Pennsylvania.

By any measure, they already have a large family. We are a family of six

with a five-year-old, a three-year-old, a two-year-old, and an almost one-year-old, and another baby on the way.

But they want many more. That's because the Collinsers have a unique approach to family.

They're pro-natalists. I would love to have as many children as I can physically have.

So basically until my uterus is removed in a C-section that goes a little wrong.

For them, it's a solution for what they see as a demographic collapse facing countries like the US.

And whereas many people will see their approach as extreme,

there's increasing evidence that their ideas have traction

at the heart of the Trump administration.

We want more babies to be born in America.

We want more babies. We need them. We need them.

They say their aims are a pragmatic solution to a pending catastrophe, but is there a darker

side to their mission to make America procreate again? I'm Lucy Hawkins. From the BBC World

Service, this is The Global Story. I can speak to our Washington correspondent, Nomia

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