Fox News Senior Medical Analyst Marc Siegel made some eyebrow-raising comments lamenting that birth rates are down among teenagers aged 15 to 19.

On Thursday, the National Center for Health Statistics reported that the U.S. fertility rate fell to another record low. The agency reported that the number of births per 1,000 women of childbearing age declined from 53.8 in 2024 to 53.1 last year. The latest figure represents a continuation of a decades-long decline in fertility rates.

Siegel joined Friday’s edition of America’s Newsroom, where Dana Perino said that while the continuing trend is not surprising, “the numbers might feel a little shocking.”

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Why are they so afraid of declining population?

    Also, they know what to do to change that, but they won’t because that would mean less money flowing to the top.

    Fuck 'em.

    My adult son told me he wasn’t planning on having kids, and said, “Good. I think that’s right choice.”

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      13 hours ago

      They need to keep pumping out low IQ voters because the smart ones keep leaving the party.

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        12 hours ago

        There’s a very funny juxtaposition between what they actually care about (white children) and what you seem to suggest. Sort of a reverse eugenics theory, where they need more white people because white people are naturally dumber.

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          6 hours ago

          They don’t only want white people , they want poor, uneducated white people. That’s why they work so hard to get teenagers pregnant, take away school lunches and prenatal care, take away abortion rights. That’s how they build their base of uneducated impoverished white people.