[steve-b]

I think that Steyn is not so much advising his gentle reader to reward the woman for getting pregnant at 17

The "crank 'em out for the Fatherland" ideology of the preceding paragraphs indicates otherwise.

[Thorondir]

The "crank 'em out for the Fatherland" ideology of the preceding paragraphs indicates otherwise.

Now, there's the rub isn't it? It is exactly what I expected your, heretofore hidden, agenda was all about. It took a while, but you showed your color.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

I think that Steyn is not so much advising his gentle reader to reward the woman for getting pregnant at 17 ~~ The "crank 'em out for the Fatherland" ideology of the preceding paragraphs indicates otherwise.

I suppose that's one way to read Steyn's piece. A strangely Statist idea of Steyn's intent, but I suppose if that's the way you read it...

Personally, I read Steyn as saying that Western Civilization -- the font of individual liberty and the rule of law -- is killing itself off, and he thinks that's a bad thing. It would be "enough", demographically speaking, if we as a culture simply refused to Murder the infants whom we are already conceiving -- not that more conceptions in the aggregate "must" be encouraged.