In recent weeks, White House officials have quietly met with policy advocates and conservative thinkers to solicit ideas on how to incentivize marriage and childbirth, signaling a shift toward a more explicitly pronatalist agenda that reflects the views of some of President Trump’s closest allies.
From the NY Times
One proposal shared with aides would reserve 30 percent of scholarships for the Fulbright program, the prestigious, government-backed international fellowship, for applicants who are married or have children.
Another would give a $5,000 cash “baby bonus” to every American mother after delivery.
A third calls on the government to fund programs that educate women on their menstrual cycles — in part so they can better understand when they are ovulating and able to conceive.
“I just think this administration is inherently pronatalist,” said the activist Simone Collins, referring to the movement to reverse declining birthrates.
Ms. Collins, along with her husband, Malcolm Collins, sent the White House several draft executive orders, including one that would bestow a “National Medal of Motherhood” to mothers with six or more children.
Speaking to a crowd in January at the March for Life, an anti-abortion rally, Mr. Vance said he wanted “more babies in the United States of America” and more “beautiful young men and women” to raise them.
And at the same time, from the Guardian: A rightwing US group backing an anti-abortion campaigner whose case has become a new source of UK tensions with the Trump administration is significantly expanding activities and spending in Britain.
The UK branch of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which is funding the case of Livia Tossici-Bolt – who is being prosecuted for an alleged breach of a “buffer zone” outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic – increased spending on campaigning and other activities in the UK to more than £1m last year.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/02/us-anti-abortion-group-expands-campaign-in-uk