Last March, at a Women’s History Month event, President Donald Trump highlighted his record on women’s health, including support for in vitro fertilization, saying he’ll one day be known as the “fertilization president.” A couple of weeks later, new federal data found that America’s birth rate had hit a record low.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the number of U.S. births per 1,000 women of childbearing age fell from 53.8 in 2024 to 53.1 in 2025, part of a decades-long decline that’s happening internationally as well. When discussing the new data on FOX News, senior medical analyst Marc Siegel said the “problem is teens and young adults from ages 15 to 19 — the fertility rate is down seven percent, and it’s down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we’re telling people that are young not to have babies.”
