The childless former bartender isn’t asking merely as a financial matter because “people are graduating with $20, $30, $100,000 worth of student loan debt, and so they can’t even afford to have kids and a house.”
Rather, she said that whether to have kids is a “basic moral question.... What do we do? And even if you don’t have kids there are still children here in the world and we have a moral obligation to them, to leave a better world for them.”
Thus, she said, “we need a universal sense of urgency, and people are trying to, like, introduce watered-down proposals that are frankly going to kill us. A lack of urgency is going to kill us.”...