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.”
I don’t get what is so fucking hard for these pedophile conservative fucks to understand. When you make life fucking impossible to live, no one wants to bring a child into the world.
Instead, their response is, “if we fuck children, we can raise the birth rate.”
Fuck these ghouls. They just all need to die already.
Fuck these ghouls
Absolutely not.
Also I’m not young enough for them apparently.
People lived horrible lives in previous ages and still had lots of kids. Of course the answer to that was plenty of rape. Buuuut they don’t see that as a problem so…it isn’t about understanding, it’s about a complete lack of empathy.
People lived horrible lives in previous ages and still had lots of kids. Of course the answer to that was plenty of rape.
Actually, lack of reliable contraception was a much bigger contributer to the higher birthrate than rape.
They dont care how hard life is for people, they desperatly need more lives to ruin.
PEDOPHILE PROPAGANDA. MAKE PEDOPHILES AFRAID AGAIN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER-JM
These were the same morons that decried teen pregnancy 20+ years ago
Sure, they didn’t need it then. Apparently now they need it. Times change. 😮
Trying to soften the idea of statutory rape. Nothing will make it okay that donald trump fucked children, no matter how hard he tries to corrupt our views. He will be fed to the woodchipper.
If you watch the video, it’s much less strange in context (in fact, it’s not strange at all, although the guy himself is a religious crackpot). The reason he mentions “15 to 19” at all is because that’s a specific demographic in a statistic that he used, among other things, to suggest that people are having kids much later than they used to, but he doesn’t specifically talk about declining teen pregnancy like it’s a bad thing. Like seriously, watch the video; I don’t know what the fuck Mediaite is doing with this headline except for ragebait. I genuinely thought there would be even a little hint of weirdness, but no?? Somebody else please watch the clip and tell me what they think is wrong with it re: teen pregnancies.
The clip is 2:08 long; I encourage anyone who thinks this is bullshit apologia to watch it. I’m legitimately shocked that I’m having to defend something someone said on Fox News. The whole time watching it I was wondering when they were going to get to the shocking, deranged part.
(Side note: the host looks like a bootleg Rhea Seehorn.)
Edit: The Mediaite transcript of the quote below is wrong in a subtle but, I think, very important way. Please see edit in comment below.
So calling it a “problem” was just a poor choice of words?
maybe people who had living wages would be able to afford more kids… but something tells me they won’t address that. they’ll simply take away birth control and abortion.
fucking ghouls
(Edit: Please see edit first for where I just realized this disconnect between reading and viewing might be coming from.)
Yeah, I really think it is. It’s more evident if you watch the whole video (and I really think you should). I think he was implicating 15 to 19 rates as partial evidence that ages of pregnant women are climbing – but not problematic unto itself. Later in the video, he makes the claim that people are gravitating to waiting until they’re into their 30s to have kids. I.e. the “problem” isn’t that underage teens are getting pregnant less; a drop in teen pregnancies is just used as a symptom of the reasons people are waiting until late 20s, 30s, or never to have kids.
Points that he makes throughout the segment are things like advances in medical technology making late pregnancies much more viable, and that certainly isn’t targeted at teen pregnancies.
Keep in mind that I have zero respect for this guy and would have no reason to doubt he would support teen pregnancies as “god’s will” or whatever the shit: the cover of his book shown in the segment tells it all. Even through that lens, I just don’t see it as anything more than a poor choice of words that can be easily quoted without the full surrounding context. I don’t blame anyone who comes away from this thinking I’m wrong; he’s earned not having a slip-up taken charitably.
EDIT: We weren’t even talking about the same “it” here. Something I just noticed reading that again (and maybe why I didn’t think it was fucked-up watching it): that Mediaite version of the quote gets it wrong in a subtle but very important way. The real quote is: “But the problem is teens and young adults. [keeping in mind 18 and 19 are teens] From ages 15 to 19 – the fertility rate is down seven percent […]” Notice that there’s a full stop in there. That’s the way he says it. “Teens and young adults” in a healthy-ish sense of pregnancy (I don’t think pregnancies at 18 are a great idea, but you do you, queen) would, to me, refer to 18 to 25-ish. Whereas the lack of a full stop (that’s definitely present in his speech) implies “teens and young adults” means “15 to 19 exclusively”. That distinct cut-off actually changes the meaning of what he’s saying.
- In the segment: “teens and young adults” having pregnancies later is the problem. Here’s 15 to 19 to show that we’re having pregnancies later, and here are some social factors that could explain that which I’ll then use to argue is similar in young adults.
- In the subtly malformed quote: “15 to 19” having pregnancies later is the problem.
The “it” I was talking about was having them so close together. The “it” you were talking about was having 15 to 19 being a problem.
I appreciate everything you’ve done so far here- I mean no offense in saying this, but is there any chance you’d accept that maybe, you’re viewing it through a green lens?
I really tried not to. I even paused the segment when it showed his book to find out it was talking about “healing through God” – which to me grossly crosses a line for what a medical doctor should be doing. I didn’t go into the video thinking “this is bullshit”; I went into it because that’s standard practice I have for reading “person says X”-type articles like this. That’s why I was in such disbelief.
I don’t even like his rhetoric about how waiting for stability is some problem in need of solving because young people need to sacrifice their lives for
the greater goodmuh birthrate.In sum, I think this guy’s a shithead. What I don’t think is that this guy is advocating for 15-year-olds getting pregnant like the headline and the ever-convenient typo in the quote suggest.
Kinda puts the abstinence only sex ed in a different light. I guess we were just supposed to push out babies and live in trailers the whole time.
Well yes, actually. There’s data from the 1400s that abstinence isn’t sex education and results in higher teen pregnancy rates.
If the goal was ever to stop teen pregnancy they’d just encourage porn use among teens and free condoms in any third space they congregate.
Maybe it’s because people can’t afford to feed themselves and actually realise that having 1-2 additional mouths to feed isn’t a recipe for happiness.
He should focus on people having free education, free healthcare, jobs that allow them to have a decent life, but he and pieces of shit like him ruined millions of lives and will ruin millions more and a failing economy won’t stimulate a population boom.
Don’t forget affordable housing
WHY are Children NOT having Kids?
-Protect The Kids TM Republicans!
Gentle reminder that their main concern is not having enough targets to rape.
Excuse me while I go barf.
They truly want a third world economy
A third world economy is quite nice for the folks on top. Until they’re deposed and replaced.
I feel it is important to point out that a third world economy is not necessary for things like that!
Yes but you and I are far smarter than the current US government.
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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.”
They need to keep pumping out low IQ voters because the smart ones keep leaving the party.
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.
The 1.56 needs to be over 2 only makes sense if you deny all immigrants access. I would say the population of the U.S. has never declined in its history but that wouldn’t be true. We fell by .06% in 1918 do to a couple ignoramus things like the Spanish Flu and world war 1.
If you want population increase… Don’t do what Trump has done
If you want population increase… Don’t do what Trump has done
Some of our highest population rates came under Presidents like Trump. The Napoleonic Wars were great for US economic expansion
True, but women were also popping out 7 field hands per person at the time… And we need 15/16 less field hands now. So immigration or not, we are above schedule. 7 kids, yikes. But shit to be afford 7 kids… wow
I remember when teenage pregnancy was the issue of the day and how we had too many young sluts just giving it away.
I guess the zeitgeist shifts when we’re a nation governed by pedos
they’re always supportive of teenage pregnancy when it’s older men.
lamenting that birth rates are down among teenagers aged 15 to 19.
Wait, they want 15 year-old having kids?!!
Oh wait, it’s Faux News. Yeah, gotta keep them young’uns overwhelmed with babies so they don’t have time to do horrible things like express their concerns, or educate themselves, or aspire to their own dreams. Makes perfect sense.
