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.”

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    2 days ago

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

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      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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        2 days 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.

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          1 day ago

          They don’t only want white people , they want poor, uneducated white people.

          Eh. You need a well defined underclass. One of the “perks” of racism is being able to identify at a glance who the in group is supposed to be.

          That’s how they build their base of uneducated impoverished white people.

          Plenty of the conservative base is well educated and well off.

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            1 day ago

            Yeah, the white idiots are the ones that you put in place to opress the minorities and “just follow orders”

            The educated and well off conservatives are the ones exploiting the rest of them to get massive wealth.