Fox News Doc Says Not Enough ’15 to 19′ Year-Olds Are Having Kids: ‘The Fertility Is Down’
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Fox News medical contributor Marc Siegel made some eyebrow-raising comments lamenting that birth rates are down among teenagers aged 15 to 19.

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.”

  • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
    0·
    10 days ago

    The problem is the encouragement in general

    I don’t see why that’s a problem. I think it could come in the form of actual benefits, not a just verbal haranguing / extolling based on (not) having children, but that it’s good for the birth rate to be slightly above replacement and correcting any divergence should be encouraged.

    • Virtvirt588@lemmy.world
      01·
      10 days ago

      You’re sabotaging your own argument here. You stated full body autonomy to be a right to then dismiss that within this statement.

      Also,

      no one should be forced to let anyone else use their uterus

      Tell me, how does this relate to your current argument?