Vice President J.D. Vance has spent years urging people in the United States to have more babies. With the announcement that he and his wife, Usha, are expecting their fourth child in July, Vance has himself assumed the mantle of boosting the U.S. population. “Let the record show you have a vice president who practices what he preaches,” he said in a speech at the 2026 March for Life rally in Washington, D.C.
Vance’s views align with pronatalism, a political movement aimed at increasing birth rates. As fertility rates plummet worldwide, that movement has become increasingly popular, with beliefs and policies spanning the political spectrum. Some countries have adopted