MAHA Keeps Being Weird as Hell About Fertility
Key takeaways
- If you were conspiratorially minded, you might conclude from the website alone that the Trump administration is champing at the bit for young (white and blond) women to have as many (white and blond) babies as possible.
- This was not even the creepiest quote to emerge from the event.
- But it wasn’t just women who were blamed: He also cited a statistic that men in 1970 had “twice the sperm count our teenagers do today,” referring to this as “an existential crisis for our country.”
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of Health and Human Services, and President Donald Trump discuss workplace IVF benefits on October 16, 2025, in Washington, DC.Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story. The home page for Moms.gov, the Trump administration’s recently launched website for “new and expecting mothers,” is a trad wife’s dream.
Featuring soft pastel graphics and a photo of a young, white, blond woman in a field clutching her pregnant belly, the website offers resources for women of reproductive age such as anti-abortion “pregnancy centers,” as well as a CDC website listing potential workplace hazards for expecting mothers without noting accompanying legal protections for pregnant women.
If you were conspiratorially minded, you might conclude from the website alone that the Trump administration is champing at the bit for young (white and blond) women to have as many (white and blond) babies as possible. But as it turns out, you don’t need to be conspiratorially minded at all to arrive at that conclusion, because on Monday, the president and senior health officials reiterated their hardline pronatalist agenda at a maternal health care event.