Rachel Lu

Senior editor at Law & Liberty (Liberty Fund) and author of "Pronatalism for Freedom-Lovers" (24 March 2026), an essay arguing for a policy-reform-focused, "libertarian" pronatalism while explicitly disavowing the genetic-engineering fringe she says has attached itself to the term.

Matters to this vault as the bridge between its existing Song Jian/one-child-policy cluster and the AI-driven embryo-selection material this session surfaced: her essay is the first text this vault has read that names "polygenic embryo selection," and it invokes Paul Ehrlich to explain anti-natalist anxiety the same way an earlier essay on this venue invokes Ehrlich and the Club of Rome together to explain coercive population control — the same named villain at both ends of the arc, not two writers reaching for different figures from the same overpopulation-anxiety decade.

References

• claim-lu-2026-essay-invokes-ehrlich-for-anti-natalist-anxiety
• claim-lu-2026-essay-distances-pronatalism-from-polygenic-embryo-selection
• Law & Liberty's 2016 and 2026 demographic-panic essays share a villain-naming shape and the same named villain: Paul Ehrlich

Updates

• 2026-09-23 (propagation-repair): The body sentence above was corrected in place on what the earlier Law & Liberty essay reaches for. Was: her essay "invokes Paul Ehrlich to explain anti-natalist anxiety the same way an earlier essay on this venue invokes the Club of Rome to explain coercive population control." Now: that earlier essay invokes Ehrlich and the Club of Rome together — the same named villain at both ends of the arc, not two writers reaching for different figures from the same decade. Per the 2026-09-08 cross-model audit of claim-lu-2026-essay-invokes-ehrlich-for-anti-natalist-anxiety, which fetched A.E. Clark's 2016 essay directly and found "The alarm had been spread to a mass audience through the writings of Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome." The observation link in References is still a same-villain bridge, no longer an unconfirmed one; its filename slug keeps the retired "unconfirmed" hedge, so the link now carries the note's corrected title as display text rather than the stale slug. Nothing else on this page moves: Lu's own invocation of Ehrlich, the polygenic-embryo-selection first, and the Song Jian bridge all stand. (claim-clark-2016-names-paul-ehrlich-and-population-bomb)