In states with abortion bans, birth rates increased after Roe was overturned. Infant mortality rates also rose in these same states. The greatest differences were seen among marginalized women. In 14 ...
Hospital labor and delivery units are shuttering across the nation — including more than two dozen in 2025 alone.
Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...
Pronatalism—the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed—is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...
It’s a swing and a miss from U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who earlier this week directed his department to prioritize projects in communities that have birth rates higher than the ...