Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several bizarre claims during a press conference on Thursday announcing the Trump administration's plan to expand fertility treatment coverage.
The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it plans to expand access to in vitro fertilization by getting companies like Germany's Merck that manufacture fertility medicines to slash their prices. Trump announced on Thursday that EMD Serono, a subsidiary of Merck, made a deal with the administration to lower the cost of its fertility medicines.
“We’ll dramatically slash the cost of IVF and the treatment and many of the most common fertility drugs for countless millions of Americans,” Trump said during the news conference. “Prices are going way down, way, way down.”
Kennedy said that the country's declining fertility rate has become a "national security issue."
"We know why this is happening, and President Trump is addressing the root causes," Kennedy said.
Kennedy also made some bizarre claims about the health of America's children.
"Today, the average teenager has 50% of the sperm count and 50% of the testosterone as 65-year-old men," Kennedy, who is 71, continued. "Our girls are reaching puberty five or six years earlier.
"But also, our parents aren't having children," Kennedy said. "Our parents who want to have children do not have access."