The Trump administration wants to eliminate the nation’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention program—again. Last year, the administration called the program “radical indoctrination.”
Somehow it gets worse: the same week Trump proposed a budget sans Teen Pregnancy Prevention, conservatives lost their collective minds over the fact that the teen birth rate is going down. Seriously.
On Friday, Fox News analyst Dr. Marc Siegel called it a “problem” that teens are having less babies:
“The problem is teens and young adults from ages 15 to 19, the fertility rate is down 7 percent, and it’s down 70 percent over the last two decades, meaning we’re telling people that are young not to have babies, to wait until they’re in a more stable life situation, until they’re more financially secure. Maybe they haven’t found the right partner.”
Just a reminder that most teens are impregnated by adult men.
Yep, several on the right have been throwing absolute fits that the falling birth rate is partially tied to teens preventing pregnancies at higher rates.