One (hard, lots of tradeoffs) question is: what natal policy should the US have? I have no idea, although I also think abortion access and queer rights are important. The other (easier, empirical) question is: does the US currently have a natal policy, to which the answer is imo unequivocally yes.
It’s like asking, “Does the United States have a national macrame policy?” In one sense, clearly not. In another, we now tax imported yarn, and we still have consumer product safety standards. Is that a coherent national policy on macrame? (Do we need one?)
(Does the fact that we were already legislating in that area, just less than deliberately, serve as warrant for a vigorous (“coherent”) policy with many new requirements?)
This isn’t a perfect analogy, but it helps to get at my concern, which is narrow and focused on setting a precedent. The United States has WAY more of natal policy (pro- and anti-). But the fact that the policy exists shouldn’t prove much in terms of the purposes of the state.
Right this was your original analogy, which I disagree with (I think family policy is very intentional), but I think at this point we’re just repeating ourselves.
We do lots of completely unintentional family policy too!