She has tried to change German attitudes towards children, clouded as they are by the Nazi campaign to encourage procreation.

Jim Campbell, counsel for 12 Republicans contesting same-sex unions, argued that the purpose of the marriage statutes was to encourage procreation.

If the State can and will lighten the burden of taxation and modify the strain and stress of life, it will indirectly encourage procreation.

Exploring feminism's resistance to encouraging procreation seems central to the debate about whether or not feminism is in fact a pro-mother movement.