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Wanted: More White Babies

A look at a cynical Christian Conservative effort to export the U.S. culture wars.

Kathryn JoyceThe Nation Video and Brett Story

February 18, 2008

 

 

Christian conservatives are predicting a looming catastrophe as birthrates fall in Europe. But writer Kathryn Joyce, author of Missing: The Right Babies in this week’s Nation Magazine, argues that the campaign to promote Europe’s "Demographic Winter" is really a xenophobic effort to confront rising Muslim populations, and to export the U.S. culture wars to a new battlefield.

Kathryn JoyceKathryn Joyce is the author of The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption and Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement.


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Brett StoryBrett Story is a freelance journalist and independent documentary filmmaker based out of Montreal, and a 2008 spring intern for The Nation.


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