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.”

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    34 minutes ago

    WTAF. 15-19. That is some very weird shit.

    We need to go back to a well-funded, high-profile and concerted campaign of calling the right weird.

    Because they very much are.

    They are the party of the pedo-in-chief. Of Bannon. Of Stephen Miller. Of Peter Thiel. Of Musk. Of Curtis Yarvin. The authors of The Sovereign Individual and The Unhumans.

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    3 hours ago

    Need more teen parents to make vulnerable children for the pedo conservatives.

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    5 hours ago

    “Pedophilia has been trending downward since epstien files were mentioned…”

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      3 hours ago

      Mi get the sentiment, but this is much more likely due to teenagers smartening up about sex with other teenagers.

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        Remember when they said that sex ed would increase teen pregnancies? And now they’re low enough, because of sex ed, that they have to tell kids how fun it is to fuck without condoms

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      3 hours ago

      They need more poor kids from broken homes to feed their slave pens (prison).

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    12 hours ago

    More teens became smart and self aware enough to not get pregnant in so young age by effectively using different types of contraception. And guy says that this is a bad thing. What? 🫪

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      This is the same group that decries teen mothers who are Black as burdens on the system and trying to cheat welfare by having more babies because more babies means a bigger welfare check that they can spend on lobster, fur coats, and Cadillacs.

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    15 hours ago

    Nowhere in the US can 15 year olds legally consent to sex. The age of consent is 16, 17, or 18 depending on the state. This moron is literally supporting child rape.

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      12 hours ago

      All they gonna find there is this. Nothing really interesting…

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    21 hours ago

    “We beat teen pregnancy!” - “Oh no!”

    Elaborated: “Oh no! Fewer poverty-locked consumer slaves! Who do we convince breast feeding is unhealthy and peddle formula to? How will we paint immigration as a bad thing if unemployment goes down? What if - heaven forbid - social mobility goes up?”

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    11 hours ago

    “You really aughta get busy with kids before y’all start figuring out how fucked you are under this regime.”

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    1 day ago

    I have a female coworker and her daughter is currently eight months pregnant at 14 with a 17-year-old father. She couldn’t be happier. She is also a hardcore republican and a diehard Trump supporter.

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      1 day ago

      Ruin your kids life early that is the republican motto. Trap them in never ending wage slavery.

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        Yep exactly, it runs in her family. She was pregnant with her first baby at 15 and her husband was in his early 40’s. Her husband is older than her dad by 5 years. She is currently 41 and her husband is 73. She also has a younger sister like 5 years younger and I believe she basically did the same thing being pregnant at 15-16 with a much older man.

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          22 hours ago

          My wife has one branch of her family where 4 generations occured in a 60 year period, the 5 generation photos are pretty neat, and also I’m really happy for the last generation which broke the cycle.

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            24 hours ago

            Yep, my best friend had his first child at 17 and now that child is 18 with 2 kids already.

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      22 hours ago

      I knew someone who was by her own description baby-crazy as a teen and basically seeked out someone to knock her up. Hormones are wild things sometimes. Her child did not repeat the cycle fortunately

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    20 hours ago

    Thats all they care about. Bodies to feed the machine. Gross psychophants. Course kids are more conscious of pregnancy. Just cause theyre young you think theyll give their kids up to governemtn to fight some selfish bigoted war just to die, then work poverty levels never own a home just to feed the 401K of some billionaire while theyre surviving on cheese and crackers. Ugh I HATE these people!!!