Blythe Terrell

And a lot of people who study this do worry about the part of this movement that wants to keep women at home, out of the workforce, or come up with policies that end up being coercive, like Handmaid's Tale-y stuff, or really limiting contraception, really limiting abortion.

Yeah.

And there is like a lot of that going on in this whole conversation, right?

And, you know, and that is tied to another thing that I want to mention here, actually, because interestingly, if you are worried about your population going down, you know, worried about lack of babies, worried about having not enough workers, there's one thing that you could do, which is

Let more people in.

Of course.

Have more immigration.

Yeah.

And there's actually some evidence that, you know, historically, immigration is one of the things that has, like, buoyed the U.S., that has sort of kept its fertility rates a little higher, that's kept its population more stable and growing.

And actually, so the Congressional Budget Office calculates that if immigration goes away, like, if immigration stops in the U.S., right, that the U.S.

population would start to shrink, like,

actually get smaller in 2033, like just eight years from now.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

So, I mean, the fact that the administration is like deporting so many people, starting to really limit immigration, could end up making this problem worse.

Right, right.

Exactly.

No, that is totally true.

Like, it's not going to fix the global problem if your global population is going down eventually.

Yeah.