On April 9 podcaster Katie Miller, wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, lamented on X that teen births are down 72%, a statistic she blamed on hormonal birth control. “Our biological destiny is to have babies,” she wrote. That same day, Fox News medical analyst Marc Siegel called it a “problem” that the birth rate for girls aged 15-19 has plummeted in the past couple of decades.

But it’s not just talk. The push to drive teenagers to have babies is showing up in policy. After a federal judge blocked the Trump administration in October from shuttering the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, the White House got more brazen, proposing a Health and Human Services budget that would eliminate it altogether. The administration is also demanding that federally-funded clinics serving low-income populations dissuade their patients, who are disproportionately young, from using contraception. (snip)

In February, the New York Times published an article outlining why it’s a good thing teenagers and college-aged women are having fewer babies. The story noted that “many women talked about establishing themselves, getting a degree or a stable job,” and cited demographers who argued that this is what we should want, because stable adults do a better job at raising kids, on average, than those who don’t have this security.

MAGA’s reaction to the article was furious — and telling. Libs of TikTok, the popular right-wing X account, raged at the story, with commenters insisting the changing demographics represented a plot to destroy white America and “replace” it with immigrants. Miller called it “the number one threat to Western Civilization.” The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh said humans are in danger of becoming “an endangered species.” (Not quite: the world’s population is currently four times what it was 100 years ago.) The Washington Examiner warned it was “the end of the world.” According to the Federalist, the real problem is “an unwillingness to embrace adulthood along with its hardships and responsibilities.”

Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier accused of sex trafficking, planned to develop an improved super-race of humans using genetic engineering and artificial intelligence, according to the New York Times.

In the aftermath of his 2008 sex trafficking conviction, Epstein hoped to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his ranch in New Mexico, one of his properties where young women, including minors, were allegedly abused, the newspaper reported in a major investigation.