Bringing up Baby

Alright, this time I’ll bite (smear me once, shame on you; smear me twice…). In her recent Guardian column “What is America’s pro-natalism movement really about?”, Moira Donegan, having dutifully lambasted right-wing pronatalists—for the eugenics, for their uninventive and ineffectual proposals, for cruelly burdening their children with silly names—sets her sights on mealy-mouthed col-LIB-erators (reckon it’ll catch on?) who have “chosen to join in the pro-natalist chorus,” “call for the left to join in the pro-breeding cause” and argue that “American women want babies (as, it is assumed, they should) but cannot afford them.”