Americans should be rightly alarmed that the country’s birth rates have declined to yet another new low — falling by 23% over the last nearly two decades. But they aren’t dropping for political reasons — the drop is as stark in Texas as it is in New York.  They’re dropping, I fervently believe, because America is one of only seven countries out of 193 in the world — and the only developed country of those — not to offer national paid maternity leave.  If you are a working woman and have a baby