USA abortion bans have led to more births but also a rise in infant mortality, with Southern states facing the greatest ...

The Department of Transport has been directed to distribute funding to states dependent on their birth and marriage rates.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers analyzed the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., identifying ...

The national fertility rate — calculated as the total number of live births per 1,000 women of reproductive age — has been declining steadily in the United States over the past decade, from 62.5 in ...

States that implemented abortion bans had an estimated 0.33 additional infant deaths per 1,000 live births above the expected ...

An undated memo urged the DOT to give precedence to "communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national ...

Globally, mothers are having fewer children. Yet despite this latest observed decline in birth rates, the number of twins and ...

The memo could have broad implications for projects across the United States ... The national birth rate in 2023 was 54.4 births per 1,000 females aged 15 to 44, according to the center.

A recent study shows that the number of infants dying after states implemented abortion bans is higher than expected.

Researchers estimate that recent abortion bans have driven a rise in infant death rates in affected states, especially among ...

In previous years, twinning rates ... 12-13 per 1,000 pregnancies. Mothers in the 1960s were having their babies at an average age of 26 – an age when multiple birth is less likely. Most women ...

While Republican state-led efforts aim to increase restrictions to abortion care and access to mifepristone and misoprostol ...