Usha Vance pregnant with fourth child, cited by pronatalist advocates

Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, announced last week that they are expecting a fourth child, a boy due in late July; the couple said in a joint statement posted on social media that "Usha and the baby are doing well." The pregnancy is being held up by supporters of conservative family values and the administration as emblematic of a pronatalist agenda.

The official White House social media account called it a reflection of "the most pro-family administration in history." Some social media users called the baby a "miracle" and a "blessing," and Representative Anna Paulina Luna wrote, "Make families great again." Pronatalist activist Malcolm Collins, who has worked with the White House on birth-rate proposals, said Mr.

Vance is "walking the walk." Ms. Vance, the eldest of two daughters of Indian immigrants, met Mr. Vance at Yale and the couple married in 2014. She initially thought she wanted only two children and said she was "more or less done" after their third child, but the couple already have three children — Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel, now 8, 5 and 4 — who often accompany their parents on official trips, including visits to India and the Vatican.

Commentators noted the rarity of a pregnancy announced by a sitting second lady: the last comparable occurrence the article cites was in 1870, when Vice President Schuyler Colfax’s wife gave birth.

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