The secretary of health and human services joined the president in the Oval Office to announce the Trump administration's goal to make in vitro fertilization more accessible to Americans by pressuring drug companies to lower the prices of fertility medication.
00:00When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%.
00:05Today, it is 1.6%.
00:09The replacement rate, in other words, the fertility that you need in order to keep your population even, is 2.1%.
00:20We are below replacement right now.
00:22That is a national security threat to our country, and we know why this is happening.
00:28And President Trump is addressing the root causes through his Maha agenda of reducing endocrine disruptors, the exposure to chemicals that decrease fertility.
00:40Today, the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone is a 65-year-old man.
00:50Our girls are hitting puberty six years earlier, and that's bad, but also our parents aren't having children.
00:58Parents who want to have children do not have access.
01:01I have seven children.
01:03I feel that God has blessed me with that, and I can't imagine how different my life would be if I did not have that blessing.
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