A Blueprint for Combatting Declining Birth Rates with Project 2025's Roger Severino

In this episode of Body & State, Sarah sits down with Roger Severino, vice president of domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation and a key author of Project 2025, the right-wing plan that has become a blueprint for the Trump administration’s policies. A conservative Catholic and long-time opponent of abortion rights, Severino wants the government to promote policies that favor heterosexual marriage and parenting. He says these “pro-family” policies are key to stemming what he believes is a catastrophic decline in births. He also predicts these falling birth rates in the United States will lead to a fight for resources between the young and old, and a breakdown in the social safety net. Watch our PBS NewsHour segment about the pronatalism movement and its ties to anti-abortion activism  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-look-inside-the-pronatalism-movement-encouraging-americans-to-have-more-children   Read: "Project 2025” Mandate for Leadership The Conservative Promise Chapter 14 Pg. 449  Written by Roger Severino https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf   Read: How Project 2025 Seeks to Obliterate Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/how-project-2025-seeks-obliterate-srhr