It’s pretty much open season on Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance. Criticism has focused on caustic remarks he made in 2021 about “childless cat ladies.” But as Vance stated then and has explained now, he isn’t making personal attacks on those who find themselves childless through circumstances or choice.

His critique is instead aimed at a party whose policies reflect growing indifference or even hostility to childbearing and family life. The fact that Kamala Harris never had children is no one’s business but her own. Her celebration of abortion and her proposal to eliminate the child tax credit is what matters to Vance.  

Almost half of young people aren’t sure they want children—some can’t afford them, others have no hope for the future. That’s a major failure. 

Vance wants to address it and try to fix it. Do Democrats?