by Antonius Aquinas, Antonius Aquinas:

The destructive demographic effects of the leftist social engineering schemes of the past century are now being felt in the latest federal data on the precipitous decline in U.S. birth rates.  A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control shows that the fertility rate among U.S. women has fallen to 1.62 births per woman in 2023, which is the lowest recorded rate since the government began keeping such statistics in the 1930s.

Buried in the media reports is the drop off in white women’s fertility rates, which fell some 3% from last year and stand less than the national average.  Asian women and white women have equal reproductive capacities.  The fertility rate is an estimate of the number of babies a woman would normally have in her lifetime.  A rate of 2.1 births per woman is needed for a generation to replace itself.