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.”

  • Devolution
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    15 hours ago

    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.

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      14 hours ago

      Fuck these ghouls

      Absolutely not.

      Also I’m not young enough for them apparently.

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      14 hours ago

      They dont care how hard life is for people, they desperatly need more lives to ruin.

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      13 hours ago

      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.

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        11 hours ago

        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.