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🗓️ 30 July 2025
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0:00.0 | The fertility rate in the U.S. reached an all-time low last year, according to new CDC data released this month. |
0:07.7 | That trend has sparked fear among many on the right, from Elon Musk to Donald Trump. |
0:12.6 | They believe Americans should have more babies. Others are concerned about the potential consequences, especially for women. |
0:20.1 | So is the declining birth rate a problem |
0:22.6 | and how? For the final part of our series, The Next Frontier, special correspondent Sarah Varney |
0:28.5 | looks at this movement, encouraging families to have more children, its growing influence, |
0:34.0 | and its ties to the anti-abortion rights movement. Yeah, on this side we have our blue eggers. |
0:40.3 | After a visit to the chicken coop. |
0:42.3 | Wow, that's amazing. |
0:44.3 | And a stroll through the field behind Simone and Malcolm Collins' |
0:47.3 | late 18th century home in suburban Pennsylvania, |
0:50.3 | talk quickly turns to their vision for the future. |
0:53.3 | I'm mother to our four, soon five kids. |
0:57.0 | They want others to follow their lead. |
0:59.0 | People need to fundamentally rethink what it means to live a successful life. |
1:04.0 | For example, starting with family, starting with marriage, instead of starting with university, |
1:09.0 | college debt, career, tried to get out of debt, maybe eventually get married, |
1:13.6 | and then five years later, try to have children |
1:16.6 | while realizing your fertility window is already gone. |
1:19.6 | It's not ideal. |
1:20.6 | The Collins is a part of a movement known as pronatalism |
1:23.6 | that encourages people to have more children. |
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