Maga wants more babies. But they don’t seem too worried about miscarriages in ICE detention

‘It’s very strange that ICE seems to have just stopped tracking miscarriage numbers; the agency, and the Trump administration, is normally very big on surveillance.’ Photograph: Alamy

Maga men have babies on the brain. They may not all be interested in changing diapers or hands-on parenting, but they’re very keen on population growth. “[W]e want more babies, to put it very nicely,” Donald Trump said last year.

Trump, who has called himself the “father of IVF” and joked that he will be known as the “fertilization president”, surrounds himself with people who profess a similar fondness for children. Only a few days after being sworn in as vice-president, JD Vance declared he wanted “more babies in the United States of America” and went on to make pronatalist policies a theme of his time in office.