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Family Planning 2030
The International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP2025), held in Bogotá from November 3rd–6th, was not merely the seventh global event promoting family planning and discussing contraceptive methods. Rather, it was a public funeral for the now-defunct USAID combined with the
Sharp Decline in U.S. Births Linked to Covid Shot, New Study Shows
I initially thought that birth rates might rise when COVID hit. Indeed, there was a slight uptick in the total fertility rate (TFR) in 2021, rising to 1.66 children per woman over her reproductive lifetime from the previous year’s 1.64.
Hungary Doubles Down on Pro-Family Policy
Hungary is hungry for babies. Its earlier set of pro-natalist policies bumped its total fertility rate up from 1.4 to almost 1.6 children per women over her reproductive lifetime. While this was a significant increase, it was still well below
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