Please note for the record that the last time Chuck Schumer attempted to legislate on fertility, he attempted to force states to allow women to abort babies up to the moment of birth. Schumer would have even used federal law to eliminate conscience protection for medical providers so as to maximize the number of pregnancies aborted in the US.

Today, however, Schumer spent his time lamenting that our population is somehow “not reproducing on its own with the same level it used to.” Maybe that’s because we have aborted over 60 million babies in the past fifty years after Roe? Or perhaps that’s because we’re busy surgically neutering an entire generation of teens and younger adults with the social contagion of transgenderism?

Schumer’s not interested in causes, however. He’s interested in solutions. And what America needs isn’t pregnancies carried to term, or reproduction-age Americans preserving their fertility. No, what we need is massive illegal immigration followed up by a comprehensive amnesty program.

Say what?

Schumer: "We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to. The only way we’re going to have a great future is if we welcome immigrants… get a path to citizenship for all 11 million [illegal immigrants].”
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— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 16, 2022

SCHUMER: Now more than ever — we’re short of workers. We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to. The only way we’re going to have a great future is if we welcome and embrace immigrants — the dreamers, and all of them. Because our ultimate goal is to help dreamers get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many of the undocumented there are here.

Even before we get to the shrieking hypocrisy of lamenting fertility rates while pushing for unrestricted abortions, let’s parse the logic of this argument. What would amnesty for the “11 million … undocumented there are here” impact their ability to reproduce? By law, any children they produce would be Americans already, so amnesty wouldn’t actually change the fertility or worker situation.

That’s not what Schumer really wants, however. He wants to set up incentives for an even larger border crisis by signaling amnesty for new workers that cross the border. A focus on the need for more workers (as well as more fertility) doesn’t get addressed by addressing existing populations, after all.

But even more, this attempt to link fertility to immigration demonstrates not just an enormous hypocrisy on Schumer’s extreme activism on abortion, it shows a lot of chutzpah as well. Had the Roe court stuck to the Constitution rather than attempting to legislate policy, abortions still would have taken place, but not nearly on the industrial scale it did after 1973. Tens of millions of children would have survived over those fifty years, which would have had salutary effects on the fertility rates that Schumer laments today. If Schumer really wanted to have a positive impact on fertility, he would have spent his time promoting pregnancy and pro-life options, and perhaps we wouldn’t need to import labor as well as fertility at this stage at all.

Instead, as Matt Walsh remarked on Twitter, Schumer’s pose inadvertently echoes the so-called “Great Replacement” theory. Schumer himself appears entirely ignorant of becoming a reductio ad absurdum for what most people would consider a nativist conspiracy theory, if not for the fact that Schumer’s all but endorsing it here. It seems Schumer has fertilitied himself up, so to speak.

If we want to fix the fertility crisis, then let’s end government support for abortion, create social and economic incentives for nuclear families, and quit sterilizing adolescents and younger adults in the throes of social-contagion gender dysphoria. And let’s fix our immigration system so that we can rationally admit people who want to assimilate into the US legally while ensuring that our borders remain secure.