MAHA Remains Awesome as Hell on Reproduction

Landing page about Moms.govand The Trump administrationThe latest page for “New and Expectant Mothers,” is a woman trada dream.

Featuring soft pastel illustrations and a picture of a young, white, brown-haired woman in a field holding her belly, the site offers resources for women of reproductive age such as an abortion “pregnancy center,” as well as a CDC site listing what they can do. workplace accidents for pregnant women who do not know to be accompanied by legal protection for pregnant women.

If you think about conspiracy, you can tell from the page itself that the Trump administration is chasing a little bit so that young women (white and blond) have as many children (white and blond) as possible. But as it turns out, you don’t have to have a conspiracy theory to achieve this, because on Monday, the president and health officials reiterated their courage. pronatalist policy in the context of maternal care.

At the event, Trump announced a request for employers to provide coverage for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility treatments, which are not covered under most insurance plans. Although the plan would not mandate that employers provide such services, Trump said he had invested heavily in expanding maternity services, saying he had “learned everything” about maternity and that he was a “birth father.”

This wasn’t even a very scary word to come out of the ceremony. That honor goes to the secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.who said that the country was facing a fertility problem that was “dangerous to our country’s economy and our security.” As proof, he mentioned things like endocrine disrupting drugs, pesticides, and other things that can cause hormonal imbalances that cause infertility, mocking “the poison juice that our girls are walking around in.”

But it wasn’t just women who were blamed: He also cited the number of men in 1970 who had “double the amount of masculinity that our young people have today,” saying that this is “the problem that exists in our country.”

In response to questions about Kennedy’s favoring of young masculinity, White House spokesman Kush Desai tells WIRED: “It takes systemic change to change America’s birthrate. The Trump administration is leaving no stone unturned to address the problem, from researching long-neglected health issues that affect fertility to pushing policies that will improve child care, health care, and housing.”

A reference to masculinity, which Kennedy repeated several times during his entire period of leadership, it is closely related to Make America Healthy Again stability of men’s movement, and HHS frequently testosterone therapy and RFK Jr. send a firm movies about him hanging out with Kid Rock. But the science is highly questionable, says Ashley Wiltshire, a fertility specialist at Columbia University Fertility Center, saying that the research it’s based on has been “disproved” by current studies. A meta-analysis published last year in the Journal of Fertility and Sterility found that the sperm count among men did not decline between 1970 and 2023, but remained stable over time.

Although Wiltshire says that male infertility has been increasing all over the world (not only in the US), the causes of this decline are still unknown, and seem to be directly related to the research on fertility mentioned by Kennedy. “We don’t have any evidence to say” that American men are facing a “fertility problem”, says Wiltshire.

Soon after, Mehmet Oz, the head of the Medicare and Medicaid agency, said at the event that one in three Americans “have children,” meaning “no children,” or “have fewer children than you would like to have.” He said this practice is making the American country less fertile and more expensive to replace, which will cause the economy to stagnate. It is true that the fertility rate in the United States is declining, while the US is hitting a low profile in 2024 women will have 1.6 children in their lifetime. But the number of people born exceeds the number of deaths in the US (unlike countries like Japan, which are facing a serious problem. very much the problem of population decline), and declining birth rates are seen in most developed countries.