President Donald Trump backed a report by the New York Times that said a $5,000 “baby bonus” for women who give birth would help reverse a decline in birth rates for the United States. In 2023, birth rates hit a low, with just under 3.6 million babies ...

Editor: As of 2022, the U.S. fertility birth rate of 1.7 births per 1,000 women was less than the minimum rate of 2.1 to maintain a replacement population. This is a very serious crisis as currently no incentives are provided to young couples to have children.

LVIV, Ukraine — As an OB-GYN doctor, Stefan Khmil has built a nearly 50-year career on helping women in Ukraine have children — an especially important job in Ukraine, the country with the lowest birth rate in all of Europe. However, the last 2 1/2 ...

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China's government is imposing a value-added tax (VAT) on contraception as part of a policy to reverse the country's declining birth rates, according to reports. Under the plan, citizens would pay a 13 percent levy on contraceptive drugs and devices for the first time 1993, Bloomberg reported.

Beijing has rolled out a series of pro-natalist policies, from offering cash handouts to improving childcare services, extending paternity and maternity leave.

A U.S. appeals court on Monday upheld a judge's ruling allowing two New York crisis pregnancy centers and a national anti-abortion group to continue telling women about an unproven treatment to reverse the effects of the abortion pill mifepristone,