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.”
Let’s just break this down as a little reminder:
- 15: statutory rape
- 16: statutory rape
- 17: statutory rape
- 18: creepy
- 19: creepy
I am a little confused why everyone is forgetting that teens have sex with other teens. >.>
It’s not creepy for an 18 year old to have sex with an 18 year old.
I didn’t forget, but it is old white men hyper about this, and considering how many old white men are creepy around teens, suddenly being interested in them getting pregnant is extremely creepy.
Teens will always have sex, sure, although many fewer are as compared to previous decades. I’m not so worried about them.
Also… do we REALLY want teens getting pregnant?
That is just being racist as countless studies show this is a human race issue not a white men only.
Blocked. I don’t fuck around with white supremacist bullshit.
In brief, the people I’m talking about ARE almost all old white men. It just shows who you are that you leap to defend them.
That is projection on your part as I am in no way defending that group, more pointing out that is not exclusive to one race or another and calling it out like you did is just racist. Calling out the sociopaths and psychopaths who tend to get into leadership positions is what we need to do and not an entire group of people most of which are just living there lives peacefully. People who are behaving horribly need to be brought to justice, all of them, regardless of race as they are in every single race and are THE thorn in the backside of humanity.
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I’m going nuts. I’m from Russia, and Russian officials say insane stuff, and then I read news from the US, and it’s the same shit, side view.
Why? Its insane, and it only gets worse. When I lived in the US during Tramp’s first term, it wasn’t that crazy, despite having± same names in high places. Now, it’s like another country, and too much alike my insane motherland. USA, you’re becoming what you hate the most!
Looneytunes, all of them. ☠️
Trump was not daring to go as far as now but most importantly he only learned what the safeguards of rule of law and state institutions are. So even if he tried, there were too many people in too many positions pushing back hard enough for him to hit a wall. So for his second term he used the Republican party to purge all those upright and reasonable people from all those administrative positions. As far as he could anyway. After regaining power, that purge of course vastly accelerated using presidential powers. Also the Supreme Court has a solid Republican majority now, with judges that will go very far in rubber stamping previously considered unconstitutional stuff (maybe not everything but almost as much).
This will also not go away when Trump is finally going to hell. The destroyed structures are destroyed and the tech oligarchy teamed up with the thecoratic extremists behind him will take over control directly, via Vance or some other guy. It is a lot of the Russian playbook, translated for US cinema.
USA, you’re becoming what you hate the most!
For ~40% of Americans, this isn’t true. They hate Democrats more.
Capitalism contributes, yes. But, if humanity stays below replacement rate, humanity goes extinct.
Also, no matter how you distribute resources, there are periods of life when your productivity is less that what you need to survive. Everyone has this for many years at the beginning of their life, and those lucky enough to live long enough will have this toward the end of their lives, as aging is the disability that comes for us all. The proven method to sustain persons during those periods is to have enough people in their productive years; it generally requires more than the replacement rate. And, if that doesn’t happen, the less productive suffer and die more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufmu1WD2TSk
All that said, I’m against encouraging teenage pregnancy, and for full bodily autonomy – no one should be forced to let anyone else use their uterus.
I’m against encouraging teenage pregnancy
Encouraging teenage pregnancy isn’t the problem. The problem is the encouragement in general. As said, full bodily autonomy - it should remain a right for all.
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.
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?
