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Media have treated Vice Presidential hopeful JD Vance’s fixation on birth rates and “childless cat ladies” as a weird obsession. In fact, Donna Ladd writes, America’s history is riddled with efforts to tell women whether or not they should have children for the good of the country and betterment of the human race.   AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster

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Donna Ladd writes about the ugly history behind JD Vance’s obsessions with birth rates and replacement theory.

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