Margaret Atwood another feminist letting the father of the baby completely off the hook
Whatever her motivation, government should promote procreation. Singapore does it. Russia is starting to do it.
Without more kids, we need more immigrants. In fact, the open-borders crowd makes precisely that argument - low birth rates require high Third World immigration.
“government should promote procreation”
And how would that go constitutionally?
You’re one of those people that think the government is superior to us the people for whom the government works
Singapore and Russia? What?
Here’s how it works, and for millennia:
Girl is raised to be a civilized person - a lady
She marries a guy who can and will support their family. Their extended family and friends promote procreation. They make it socially unacceptable for anyone within that family to abandon that family.
The government has already stepped in and messed things up.