Anna Louie Sussman, a liberal writer at the New York Times, agrees it would be good to help women have more kids, because women want more kids than they’re having. She is also understandably creeped out by some efforts to push up the birth rate.

“The mayor of a city in southwest Russia encouraged men to ‘sneak up on their women so that 10,000 children will be born in exactly nine months,'” Sussman reported.