Commentary James and his wife were not going to let COVID derail their plans to have a family. As pro-life Catholics, they viewed children as gifts from God, and wanted to be generous in accepting them. “We were living in rural Kentucky and the lockdowns did not affect our daily life very much,” says James….
Birth Rates Are Dropping Worldwide Post COVID-19 Vaccination—Here’s What Women Can Do
Birth rates have fallen all over the world “ominously,” said Dr. James Thorp, a practicing obstetrician gynecologist who specializes in high-risk pregnancies. ———– 
Support The Epoch Times: get the best coffee roasted in America at 15% off with code Health15 at DayesCoffee.com ———– This trend has been observed in the European Union using government…
Avoiding the Demographic Danger Zone
Commentary In a recent article in The Atlantic, Derek Thompson writes, “The implications of permanently slumped population growth are wide-ranging. Shrinking populations produce stagnant economies. … Whether by accident, design, or a total misunderstanding of basic economics, America has steered itself into the demographic danger zone.” It has been said by many over the years…
New Birth-Boosting Guidelines Reveal ‘Serious’ Population Issue in China: Experts
China’s top health body issued joint policy guidelines on its official website on Aug. 16 to encourage more births as part of the ruling communist party’s efforts to “promote long-term balanced development of the population.” The document, titled “Guidelines on Further Improving and Implementing Supportive Measures of Active Reproduction,” was jointly published by 17 different…
U.S. Births Rose in 2021 for First Time in 7 Years
It may not qualify as a baby boom, but U.S. births were up in 2021 for the first time in years. New federal government data show a 1% increase in births from 2020, with more than 3.6 million births last year. It was the first increase in seven years. The general fertility rate for 2021 also rose…
Amid Accusations of Genocide From the West, China Policies Could Cut Millions of Uyghur Births in Xinjiang: Report
BEIJING—Chinese birth control policies could cut between 2.6 million and 4.5 million births of the Uyghur and other ethnic minorities in southern Xinjiang within 20 years, up to a third of the region’s projected minority population, according to a new analysis by a German researcher. The report, shared exclusively with Reuters ahead of publication, also…
Suddenly, ‘The Population Bomb’ Is a Population Bust
Commentary Paul Ehrlich wrote one of the most famous and bestselling books of the 20th century. It was called “The Population Bomb.” It was 300 pages of doom and gloom. The planet was being destroyed because human beings were reproducing like Norwegian field mice. It was a Darwinian nightmare leading the species inexorably back to…
One Way to Fix Plummeting Birth Rates: Stop Bashing America
Commentary The National Center for Health Statistics, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention subagency, reported this week that America’s fertility rate dropped for the sixth consecutive year. Total births declined by 4 percent in 2020, down to 1,637.5 children per 1,000 women. The statistical replacement rate for the U.S. population, by contrast, is roughly…
What’s Causing America’s Baby Bust?
Commentary When the COVID-19 pandemic started and lockdowns became part of our daily lives, some romantic souls were predicting that this would produce a baby boom. Now, as the data shows up, we see exactly the opposite. CBS obtained data from health departments in over two dozen states that shows “a 7 percent drop in…