Lebensborn e.V. (literally: "Fount of Life") was a secret, SS-initiated, state-registered association in Nazi Germany with the stated goal of increasing the number of children born who met the Nazi standards of "racially pure" and "healthy" Aryans, based on Nazi eugenics (also called "racial hygiene" by some eugenicists). Lebensborn was established by Heinrich Himmler, and provided welfare to its mostly unmarried mothers, encouraged anonymous births by unmarried women at their maternity homes, and mediated adoption of children by likewise "racially pure" and "healthy" parents, particularly SS members and their families. The Cross of Honour of the German Mother was given to the women who bore the most Aryan children. Abortion was legalized (and, more commonly, endorsed) by the Nazis for disabled and non-Germanic children, but strictly punished otherwise.
Texas Paul reports on a new plan being floated by the Trump administration to pay women to have babies.
“Baby bonuses and menstrual cycle classes are among the ideas pitched to Trump aides as they consider plans to try boosting the birthrate.
The White House has been hearing out a chorus of ideas in recent weeks for persuading Americans to get married and have more children, an early sign that the Trump administration will embrace a new cultural agenda pushed by many of its allies on the right to reverse declining birthrates and push conservative family values.
One proposal shared with aides would reserve 30 percent of scholarships for the Fulbright program, the prestigious, government-backed international fellowship, for applicants who are married or have children.
Another would give a $5,000 cash “baby bonus” to every American mother after delivery.
A third calls on the government to fund programs that educate women on their menstrual cycles — in part so they can better understand when they are ovulating and able to conceive.
Those ideas, and others, are emerging from a movement concerned with declining birthrates that has been gaining steam for years and now finally has allies in the U.S. administration, including Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk. Policy experts and advocates of boosting the birthrate have been meeting with White House aides, sometimes handing over written proposals on ways to help or convince women to have more babies, according to four people who have been part of the meetings who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.”
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The New York Times
White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children
April 21, 2025
Updated 10:00 a.m. ET
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“Elon Musk has solicited women to have his babies on X, shelled out millions of dollars to keep the mothers of his many kids quiet, and talked privately about wanting to sire “legion-level” numbers of children “before the apocalypse.” That’s according to an extensive new report from The Wall Street Journal, which details how the baby-making billionaire keeps his brood of (at least) 14 children and the women who birthed them in check.
It’s a rare peek behind the curtain of what one woman Musk reportedly propositioned described as Musk’s “harem drama.” It’s also a revealing look inside the paranoid mind of one of the world’s most powerful people, whose obsession with dwindling birth rates has contributed to his apparent belief that civilization is on the brink of collapse, necessitating a backup plan on Mars.
The report leans heavily on the story of Ashley St. Clair, the conservative influencer who went public in February about having Musk’s child. As recently as last month, Musk said he wasn’t sure “if the child is mine or not.” But the Journal’s report is loaded with receipts, including text messages between Musk and St. Clair illustrating their relationship, as well as a paternity test result from last week showing there is a “99.9999%” chance that Musk is the father.
In one text viewed by the Journal, Musk suggested during St. Clair’s pregnancy that they move faster with their baby-making. “To reach legion-level before the apocalypse,” Musk's message reportedly read, “we will need to use surrogates.”
In another, sent months after St. Clair delivered the baby, Musk reportedly replied to a selfie of St. Clair, writing, “I want to knock you up again.”
St. Clair said she was offered $15 million and a monthly stipend of $100,000 until the baby was 21, in exchange for agreeing to keep Musk’s relationship to the baby and to St. Clair secret. In a text message reported by the Journal, Musk wrote that privacy was necessary because he is “#2 after Trump for assassination” and that “only the paranoid survive.”
After St. Clair declined to sign, and later went public with her story, the Journal reports that Musk withdrew the $15 million offer and recently dropped payments to St. Clair down to $20,000 a month. According to St. Clair's lawyers, her legal fees in her fight against Musk have already surpassed $240,000.
St. Clair is not the only woman that Musk reportedly punished for perceived indiscretion. According to the Journal, Musk also offered to impregnate crypto influencer Tiffany Fong, after following her on X, but without ever meeting her in person. The online attention from Musk reportedly boosted Fong’s following, enabling her to make $21,000 in a two-week period from X’s creator program. But after Fong opted not to take Musk up on the offer, and confided in friends about it, Musk unfollowed Fong, prompting both her income and engagement on X to decline, the Journal reported.
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