Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had people squirming after making a strange comment about teenage boys’ sperm at a White House event on Monday.
Declaring America is in the midst of a “fertility crisis” during an event promoting maternal healthcare and the Trump administration’s new moms.gov portal, the Health and Human Services secretary claimed, “In 1970, men had twice the sperm count as our teenagers do today.”
“This is an existential crisis for our country,” he went on, also claiming that female reproductive health was being compromised by a “toxic soup” of environmental factors that “young women are walking around in.”
It was unclear where the champion of the Make America Healthy Again movement was getting his information.
A widely-circulated review of male reproductive data published in 2022 determined sperm count had “declined appreciably between 1973 and 2018” and that action to combat the downward trend was “urgently needed.”
