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Perhaps prosperity, not secularism, lies beneath the low birth rates.
Why bother having more than a kid or two when the need for a large family simply isn't there? Europe is prosperous. Few families rely on large pools of offspring to work the family farm and replace the odd child or two who dies from disease or violence.
As usual, the Right is wrong. Instead of trying to drag Europeans back to the Dark Ages, we all ought to be doing all we can to drag repressive cultures into the modern age. Women's rights, gay rights, environmentalism, science, reason...the opposite of all that religious crap.
The best thing would be for everyone to just stop reproducing. If you want a kid, adopt one; there's plenty of orphans out there. Better yet, adopt a cat or dog.