American women have never been healthier, wealthier, or better educated than they are today. Young women outnumber men at universities by a 60% to 40% margin, they get 66% of all higher education degrees, and young women are far more likely to own homes than their male counterparts.

But to hear former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tell it, there has never been a darker time for women in America. The evil Republican Party, which she describes as “handmaidens for the patriarchy,” has undertaken “a real purging of women in high positions.”

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Never mind that President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is a woman, as are Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. And these are all real women, not men pretending to be women like former President Joe Biden’s Assistant Secretary for Health, Rachel Levine.

Speaking to the 92nd Street Y in New York earlier this month, Clinton said, “There’s also this very blatant effort to basically send a message, most exemplified by [Vice President JD] Vance and [Elon] Musk, that what we really need from you women are more children and what that really means is you should go back to doing what you were born to do which is to produce more children.”

And it is true. Vance has said, “I want more babies in the United States of America.” If we need 2.1 births per woman to prevent disappearing as a nation, while we are only producing 1.62 births per woman, shouldn’t we all want more babies?

Clinton, apparently, does not. At least she does not want more babies from women who were born here.

Instead of helping young men and women born in the U.S. to get married and start a family, Clinton celebrates the claim that “the people who produce the most children in our country are immigrants” and claims that the reason we have a strong economy compared to the rest of the world “is because we actually had a replenishment of immigrants legally and undocumented.”

While it is true that our economy is strong compared to other developed countries like Europe,  immigration is not the reason. Immigration growth in Europe has far outpaced the rate in the U.S. since 2010, with the European Union’s foreign-born population surging by 42% between 2010 and 2024 compared to just a 29% increase in the U.S. 

If immigration growth causes economic growth, the EU should be an economic powerhouse compared to the U.S. But the exact opposite is true. Between 2010 and 2024, per capita GDP in Europe grew just 18% compared to 76% here. In fact, our best years of economic growth (1961-1969) were when the U.S. had the lowest foreign-born population in our nation’s history and our highest birth rates. 

The reality is that it is the married nuclear family that Hillary Clinton so fears that is actually the best engine for economic growth.

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Later in her presentation, Clinton argued that Republicans were trying to bring back “the lifestyles and the economic arrangements of the 1950s.” But actually, we do not even have to go back that far. Turns out that since married people have more children than single people, all we have to do to fix the fertility crisis is to help young men and women get and stay married. And we don’t have to move the needle that much. All we have to do to get back to replacement fertility is return the average marriage rates and ages of first marriage to where they were way back in the dark old days of… 1995. 

Who was president in 1995 again? Must have been a terrible time for women.