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highplainsdem

(62,981 posts)
Mon May 11, 2026, 03:49 PM 5 hrs ago

Dr. Oz says we're "under-babied"

Dr Oz: "One in three Americans are under-babied"

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-05-11T15:28:35.754Z




People can't afford housing, gas, groceries, college educations, student debt, and are under threat of losing their jobs to AI, so by all means, more babies!

Bob Cesca (@bobcesca.bsky.social) 2026-05-11T19:44:18.447Z
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Dr. Oz says we're "under-babied" (Original Post) highplainsdem 5 hrs ago OP
Gosh, Dr. Oz, then you'd better say something about all the parents who are refusing tanyev 5 hrs ago #1
Couple of things: no_hypocrisy 5 hrs ago #2
Didn't Oz really mean "White people" are johnnyfins 5 hrs ago #3
Reading this swill makes me realize that I'm under-liquored as well as under-babied. Ocelot II 5 hrs ago #4
I think he means under white-babied. ananda 5 hrs ago #5
We are over-crazy-old-white-men. Midnight Writer 5 hrs ago #6
So true. efhmc 5 hrs ago #9
Pay no attention to the man behind the pedophile Blue Owl 5 hrs ago #7
And we will continue in that direction as long as we are treated as baby manufactures and not humans. efhmc 5 hrs ago #8
And Oz is... GiqueCee 5 hrs ago #10
Us brown folks are doin' just fine, Doc. Iggo 5 hrs ago #11
Is he talking about the increasing number of grown-assed adults - haele 5 hrs ago #12
From the subject canetoad 4 hrs ago #15
Hey forced birthers.... OhioBack2Blue 4 hrs ago #13
... says the doctor of the rapist Tetrachloride 4 hrs ago #14
a conerstone of nazi philosophy was a breeding program, no marriage required, just have the blood line msongs 4 hrs ago #16
I have 2 kids in their 20's and one in high school Bettie 4 hrs ago #17
In other words, women are merely baby makers BigmanPigman 2 hrs ago #18
Damn...Why am I beginning to worry that, under this regime, we'll all be REQUIRED to have babies? Totally Tunsie 1 hr ago #19
then he should dlilafae 1 hr ago #20

tanyev

(49,620 posts)
1. Gosh, Dr. Oz, then you'd better say something about all the parents who are refusing
Mon May 11, 2026, 03:55 PM
5 hrs ago

lifesaving Vitamin K shots and vaccines for their little ones. Babies that are already here are dying!


no_hypocrisy

(55,294 posts)
2. Couple of things:
Mon May 11, 2026, 03:55 PM
5 hrs ago

One: Translated to me under-WHITE-babied.

Two: Maybe we'd have more babies in this country if you weren't so busy deporting them and their families.

Ocelot II

(131,139 posts)
4. Reading this swill makes me realize that I'm under-liquored as well as under-babied.
Mon May 11, 2026, 03:56 PM
5 hrs ago

I'm much too sober to be subjected to this lunacy.

efhmc

(16,922 posts)
8. And we will continue in that direction as long as we are treated as baby manufactures and not humans.
Mon May 11, 2026, 04:03 PM
5 hrs ago

GiqueCee

(4,656 posts)
10. And Oz is...
Mon May 11, 2026, 04:09 PM
5 hrs ago

... under-brainied.
None of Trump's confederacy of dunces has the remotest clue what they're talking about. Oz just pulls numbers out of his ass, thinking that if the demented psychopath he works for can do it, so can he.

haele

(15,571 posts)
12. Is he talking about the increasing number of grown-assed adults -
Mon May 11, 2026, 04:16 PM
5 hrs ago

Who feel the need to be babied?

Or is he like those grannies who tell people who get a female puppy or kitten to "don't fix them until they've had a litter or they'll be vicious" - stating that females need to have babies or it hurts their health.
Tell that to the 10 -20% of women throughout history who died of pregnancy complications. Far greater percentage of dying early due to pregnancy complications or pregnancy- related hormonal imbalances than some sort of cancer because you never had kids or were on birth control.

canetoad

(20,961 posts)
15. From the subject
Mon May 11, 2026, 04:37 PM
4 hrs ago

That's what I anticipated. Glad he has all the medical terms for low population growth. Under-fucking-babied indeed.

OhioBack2Blue

(194 posts)
13. Hey forced birthers....
Mon May 11, 2026, 04:24 PM
4 hrs ago

As of the most recent 2024–2025 data, over 70,000 children and youth/young adults in the United States are currently in foster care with a permanency plan of adoption, meaning they are legally free to be adopted. The total number of children in foster care is higher—estimated around 329,000 to 391,000. (National Council for Adoption).

This number does not include those that have been adopted and are being neglected, physically or sexually abused, or psychologically traumatized due to the agencies' or private attorney's failure to screen the prospective parents beyond their net worth.

Oh, that's right, your formal policy is that you don't care about them once they are born, especially POC, PWD, LGBITQA...who you actively kill slowly through oppressive policy and societal marginalization and neglect.

Equally as moronic, you actively block responsible, productive, and qualified LGBTIQA people from adopting, because of your anti-christian Christianity.





msongs

(74,111 posts)
16. a conerstone of nazi philosophy was a breeding program, no marriage required, just have the blood line
Mon May 11, 2026, 04:49 PM
4 hrs ago

and no abortions please. do it for the race

Bettie

(19,841 posts)
17. I have 2 kids in their 20's and one in high school
Mon May 11, 2026, 05:20 PM
4 hrs ago

all three feel that they probably won't be able to afford to have kids, given how our economy works or rather doesn't work for younger people.

BigmanPigman

(55,488 posts)
18. In other words, women are merely baby makers
Mon May 11, 2026, 07:12 PM
2 hrs ago

nothing more. What else is new. This has been a theme for thousands of years in many cultures and societies.

Nothing changes, everything stays the same for the men who control the entire planet.

Totally Tunsie

(11,988 posts)
19. Damn...Why am I beginning to worry that, under this regime, we'll all be REQUIRED to have babies?
Mon May 11, 2026, 07:29 PM
1 hr ago

Whatever happened to the idea of Zero Population Growth?

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