Every day, the United States has fewer and fewer babies, and so it is no small matter that Vice President JD Vance, in his first week in office, said he wants more babies.

“I want more babies in the United States of America,” Vance said at the March for Life on Jan. 24. “I want more happy children in our country, and I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them.”