US fertility rate plummets to historic low
America’s fertility rate plunged to a new low last year, according to numbers published last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The data show that an average of fewer than 1.6 babies were born per woman in 2024. This is far below the replacement rate of 2.1, which is the number a generation needs to replace itself.
The US fertility rate has been plummeting for decades. In the early 1960s, it was 3.5. It began to decline with the “women’s liberation movement” until it reached 1.7 in 1976. The rate briefly rebounded to 2.1 by 2007, but has since continued to drop.
The Trump administration is taking measures to increase the fertility rates. In February, President Trump signed an executive order reducing the cost of IVF. The administration has also supported the idea of offering “baby bonuses,” financial incentives for having children.
The decline is part of a general fertility crisis in the West, with nearly all countries outside of Africa suffering from falling fertility rates. The UK’s fertility rate last year was just 1.44, down from 2.47 in 1946, leading British officials to plead with the public to have children. The UN recently issued a warning about plunging birth rates after a survey showed disappointing results. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) polled 14,000 people across 14 countries about their fertility rates: South Korea, Thailand, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, the US, India, Indonesia, Morocco, South Africa, and Nigeria. Twenty percent of respondents said they don’t yet have or don’t expect to have their desired number of children.
Researchers warn that by 2050, two-thirds of countries will lack the fertility rates to sustain their populations. That number will increase to 97% by 2100, which is when sub-Saharan Africa is expected to account for 50% of global births. Currently, fertility rates are highest in Africa, where Chad boasts the highest in the world.
Feminism
One of the main causes of the fertility crisis is feminism. Feminist ideals like widespread abortion, higher education, and full-time careers are all associated with lower fertility rates. The UN is known to aggressively encourage women’s participation in the labor force, even turning it into a public health issue.
This has become an unmistakable success. According to data from Pew Research, Millennial women are four times more likely than those in the Silent Generation to have a bachelor’s degree — and the more educated a woman becomes, the more likely she is to postpone having children or not have them at all.
In the 1960s, only about 40% of women were employed. Today, that number is 72% among Millennial women.
Business Insider says declining birth and marriage rates are being driven by women who are choosing careers over children, which it claims is “a sign of economic progress, signaling a rise in individualism and women's autonomy.”
"I couldn't imagine juggling work and children. I wouldn't be able to care for my two dogs without my husband,” 40-year-old career woman Jennifer Mathieu told the publication, adding: "I have zero regrets, love my life, and think at least three to four times a week about how thankful I am that I do not have children."
"We both work hard at our careers and honestly didn't feel like children fit into the life and goals we wanted," said Heather Watson, another female professional. "It always felt like it would be unfair to kids to try to fit them into our lives."
“Kids are expensive and sticky,” said another career woman.
Statista confirms that women no longer feel marriage is important because they have “gained economic power.”
The Jaffe Memo plan for Depopulation
Feminism was just one of the proposed measures laid out over 50 years ago in the Jaffe Memo, which outlined a detailed plan for depopulation.
In 1969, an economist named Frederick Jaffe devised a set of proposals to limit US population growth, which continue to be put into practice today. Jaffe, who at the time was vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, had created the plan at the request of Bernard Berelson.
Berelson was the head of the Population Council, an organization founded by John D. Rockefeller III in 1952 to stem birth rates in the United States. Until today, the Population Council has concerned itself with researching contraception and other ways to prevent births, such as the Copper T intrauterine device. Since then, an estimated 50 million Copper Ts have been distributed in over 70 countries.
In 1969, Berelson was searching for ideas.
Jaffe rose to the occasion and responded with what would later become known as the Jaffe Memo. He proposed a set of actions that he believed could suppress the US birth rate. He compiled them into a table titled “Proposed measures to reduce fertility by universality or selectivity of impact in the US.”
Some of those proposed measures were to “encourage increased homosexuality,” “allow harmless contraceptives to be distributed nonmedically,” to “make contraception truly available and accessible,” and to provide “abortion and sterilization on demand.”
Another measure was titled “Restructure family” and contained two parts: “(a) Postpone or avoid marriage,” and “(b) Alter image of ideal family size.”
These were listed alongside two of Jaffe’s other propositions, which were to drive women into higher education and to convince more women to join the workforce.
“[T]he relationship between employment of women and lower fertility seems well established,” wrote Jaffe. He said that full employment is accompanied by higher inflation, a sacrifice the US may need to make to depopulate. “How much inflation could or should we risk to achieve lower fertility?” he asked.
Another of Jaffe’s proposed actions was to place “fertility control agents in the water supply.”
Common pesticides have been found to not only dramatically affect fertility but also to feminize males. In one study of the pesticide atrazine, most male frogs exposed to the toxin became attracted to other males, including some who began functioning as females and produced eggs. Most atrazine produced in the United States is manufactured by Syngenta, a company owned by the Chinese Communist Party.
These pesticides, which have been detected in water supplies across the US, have been blamed for reducing the sperm count in men by 50% over the last 50 years.
Other depopulation techniques proposed by Jaffe included compulsory education for children and government incentives for lower birth rates as possible effective methods. Another entry listed among the proposed measures simply reads “chronic depression” with no further explanation.
Discouraging private home ownership was also one of the proposals, which is also a cornerstone of the WEF’s Agenda 2030, which promises taxpayers they will “own nothing” and “be happy.”
“The hypothesis underlying these proposals is that the achievement of a society in which effective contraception is efficiently distributed to all, based on present voluntary norms, would either result in a tolerable rate of growth, or go very far toward achieving it,” Jaffe wrote. “If this hypothesis is basically confirmed, it would negate the need for an explicit U.S. population policy which goes beyond voluntary norms.”
In the year the Jaffe Memo was produced, then-President Richard Nixon proposed the creation of a presidential advisory commission tasked with creating a plan to solve the “population problem.” The next year, Nixon established the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, on which sat both Jaffe and Berelson.
Today, the Population Council’s website focuses on gender equality, abortion on demand, and even “climate change” as a determinant of “reproductive health and fertility.” A growing number of adherents on the Left have sworn off having children due to climate change, fearing it will soon cause an Armageddon.
FP2030
Other globalist bodies have been investing heavily in bringing the Jaffe Memo to realization, particularly through an organization called FP2030.
In July 2012, a meeting in London was convened by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The goal of the meeting was “to empower the voluntary use of modern contraception by 120 million additional women and girls in the world’s lowest-income countries by 2020.” Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) was formed.
FP2020 soon recruited over 130 governments, organizations, and corporations to join the cause. Drug companies like Pfizer and Bayer pledged to provide birth preventive products all around the world.
As 2020 approached, FP2020’s founders evidently deemed it so successful that they renewed it for another decade and renamed the organization FP2030. Its globalist managers include North America and Europe Managing DIrector Monica Kerrigan, MPH, who previously worked for Planned Parenthood, the Gates Foundation, and USAID.
In 2021, FP2030 received $1.4 billion from government funding alone, with over $500 million annually from USAID.
When starting a birth prevention campaign in a target country, FP2030’s founding organizations first contact an official in that country’s Health Ministry. They present the official with a strategy containing high-impact practices (HIPs) for preventing births on a mass scale and provide them with the funds to execute it.
However, FP2030’s goal is not simply to make birth prevention devices available, but to convince women to take them. Therefore, any mass birth prevention strategy must “improve attitudes.”
One of the main vehicles used for changing minds and attitudes towards birth prevention is mass media. In a 2016 High Impact Practices Partners’ meeting attended by FP2030 operatives, organizations were encouraged to “[u]se one or more mass media channels (radio, TV, print) to increase knowledge, improve attitudes and self-efficacy, and encourage social change to effect family planning.”
Another part of the strategy is using gender confusion ideology to prevent mass births. Whereas men and women naturally have children, masculinizing women and effeminizing men — contravening “gender norms” — is an effective way to stagnate a population.
“For FP2030, an intentional approach to gender equality makes our work more effective in advancing both family planning and gender equality,” says an FP2030 presentation titled “FP2030 Gender Strategy.”
The organization plainly states that “[g]ender norms . . . create barriers to FP access” and “[w]ith greater funding and scale, gender-transformative approaches will advance gender equality and accelerate progress on contraceptive access and use.”
In countries where birth prevention rates are stagnant, FP2030 says gender ideology, or “positive gender norms,” can be “more effective”: “In countries where contraceptive prevalence has plateaued, demand-side interventions promoting positive gender norms can be more effective than supply‑side approaches.”
Gender Strategy notes that feminist operatives are also very helpful in driving birth prevention.
Such gender confusion — where women are masculinized and men are effeminized — is also achieved by birth prevention drugs themselves. According to scientific evidence, women who take birth prevention pills are likely to find more effeminate men attractive and themselves less attractive. They are also more likely to be sexually dissatisfied and cheat on their partners. If the woman wants to conceive, she can cease taking the pill, which may make her lose interest in her partner, potentially fragmenting the family if a child is conceived.
