What Did She Expect?

On Radio Four on Saturday morning, I finally heard someone admit that the war against fertility was in fact a war against the electoral base of the Left. It always has been: read my friend Ann Farmer’s superb Prophets and Priests: The Hidden Face of The Birth Control Movement (London: The Saint Austin Press, 2002, ISBN 1 901157 62 8).

However, the speaker seemed genuinely astonished that, in the example she cited, Republicans' having far more babies than Democrats was securing a permanent Republican majority in the United States. What did she expect?