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Oh, I get it now. We are moving toward a future without immigration and without birthright citizenship. To maintain our population and workforce, this means that fertile American women will need to go from having an average of two children to thirteen children each. That’s not just an ambitious goal—it’s an unprecedented and staggering demand on women, families, and society. But let’s talk about what that actually means. The Cost in Women’s Lives Currently, a woman with two children faces a maternal mortality risk of about 6.7 deaths per 100,000 births. If she has thirteen children, that number skyrockets to over 1,736 deaths per 100,000 births. That means we are not only asking women to birth an army, but we are also dramatically increasing their risk of death with each pregnancy. This does not even take into consideration the additional risks caused by abortion bans, where women are forced to carry dangerous pregnancies to term. Are we prepared for the massive expansion in medical care needed to keep these women alive? Are we ready to answer for thousands of preventable deaths of mothers? Because that is exactly what this policy would lead to. The Cost to Families and Society Let’s say, miraculously, these women survive childbirth thirteen times over. How do we expect them to feed, clothe, and educate all of these children? If we are eliminating SNAP, WIC, public housing, and other assistance programs, what happens when a husband dies, leaves, or simply cannot support his household? A single mother with thirteen children, in a world without government support, would face: • No safety net. We would be creating millions of women with no education, no job skills, and no ability to provide for themselves. • Children going hungry. Are churches going to step in to provide food for millions of families? If that were the case, why are families going hungry now? • Uneducated children. If public schooling is weakened and private education remains out of reach, where do these kids get an education? If we are going to ask women to become nothing more than baby-producing machines, we should at least have the moral clarity to explain how we expect those families to survive. A Christian Perspective This is not biblical stewardship. This is not wisdom. This is a death sentence for the mothers of America and a guarantee of suffering for their children. So I ask you: • How do you intend to address the deadly increase in maternal mortality that will result from this plan? • How will the government feed and educate these children when assistance programs are removed? • How do you expect widows with no job skills to survive in a country where they are forced into childbearing but given no ability to provide for themselves? If we are to call ourselves a Christian nation, then we must govern with wisdom, with foresight, and with the compassion that Christ Himself demonstrated. This policy, as it stands, offers neither.