DEAR EDITOR:

Star Parker’s pervasive nonsense got loose again in her column printed in the December 31-January 1 edition of the Vindicator. She supports Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. saying our declining fertility rate is a “national security threat.” Along with that alarmist opinion she says that the “struggles of those who live secular lives take place in a backdrop of meaninglessness.” Render unto me a break, lady.

Her anti-choice, “Christian values” narratives forget that choosing to not get married, not give birth and a secular life are supposedly the well-spring of her Creator’s greatest gift, man’s vaulted free will, but the use of this gift is somehow shameful?

When The Washington Post reports that the number of women between 25 and 44 that have never given birth has risen from 18.2% in 1976 to 34.6% in 2022, we should consider that 65.4% have. When Pew Research says the percentage of 40-year-old Americans who have never married has risen from 6% in 1980 to 25% in 2021, we should consider that 75% have. If Pew Research says that in 1993, 83% of 12th grade girls said they were likely to get married and by 2023, this was down to 61%, we should consider that only 39% said that they were not.

Star also forgets that even with the aforementioned percentages, a population increases exponentially and why the U.S. population has grown from 218 million in 1976 to around 340 million in 2025. Hardly a decline. English clergyman Thomas Malthus pointed out way back in 1798, “a population increasing exponentially will outstrip any conceivable increase in food supply.” How, Ms. Parker, does creating a demand for food that grows faster than the ability to produce or deliver it embrace scripture that tells us to “choose life” or be good stewards of the planet?

KIM R. KOTHEIMER

Poland