fertility

Actress-singer and star of Only Murders in the Building, Selena Gomez revealed in a recent interview she experienced intense grief on learning she would no longer be able to bear children.

The Republican-controlled Alabama House and Senate passed companion bills on Thursday that would shield in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics in the wake of the state Supreme Court decision ruling that frozen embryos are considered unborn children.

A Senate Republican blocked the quick passage of a Democrat-led bill on Wednesday that would have installed federal protections, not just for in vitro fertilization (IVF) but for all “assisted reproductive technology” as defined by the federal government.

Both Republicans and Democrats in Alabama are working to carve out exceptions for in vitro fertilization (IVF) after the state’s Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that frozen embryos are considered unborn children under state law.

The South Korean city of Seongnam held a mass blind dating event at a hotel on Sunday evening for the express purpose of helping more young people get married and have children to shore up South Korea’s collapsing birth rates.

A majority of Democrats say the trend of people having fewer children has a “positive impact” on the environment, according to a Pew Research Center survey.

China’s state-run National Business Daily reported Tuesday the nationwide fertility rate dropped to 1.09, a shockingly low number.

A woman has become the first to give birth with a transplanted uterus outside of a clinical trial, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) announced on Monday.

A new study finds there’s a considerable impact of the level of education a woman’s own parents has on the total fertility rate.

The World Health Organization estimated that a staggering one in six people around the globe experiences infertility during their lives.

Remote work may boost marriage rates and encourage women who are already parents to have more children, a new paper found.

An unsettling majority of young American men are single, while most of their female counterparts are in a relationship.

As society has moved further toward nontraditional unions, new research shows traditional marriage is linked to higher fertility rates while cohabitation and relationship instability is linked to lower fertility.

The collapse in male fertility rates around the world is accelerating, according to journal Human Reproduction Update.

The United States needs more immigration to compensate for declining fertility, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said at a press conference Wednesday.

Men’s sperm count around the world has dropped by 62 percent in less than half a century, a new Israeli study has found.

China’s central government issued new “fertility-friendly” guidelines on Tuesday designed to increase the Chinese population, which is currently projected to contract sometime before 2025 following decades of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy, the Global Times reported.

Japan had a “record low” of 811,604 newborns last year, Kyodo News reported on Friday, noting that the data was merely the latest statistic highlighting Japan’s dire population woes.

A majority of women have remained childless in Britain past their thirtieth birthday for the first time in recorded history.

British fertility rates have fallen to the lowest level in recorded history, while the number of foreign-born mothers hit a record high.

Britain and other Western nations should welcome declining populations and ageing demographics as it will help them meet climate change goals, the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has argued.

The UK is facing a “baby shortage” that could lead to economic stagnation, with fertility rates dropping to nearly half those seen after WW2.

Climate change could make penises smaller but it’s OK because you too can learn to live with a smaller penis.

The Iranian regime, facing one of the steepest drops in fertility in the world, rolled out a government-approved matchmaking app for smartphones this week. 

A German study suggests that the Chinese coronavirus may inflict long-term on male fertility, with sperm quality significantly impacted over a period of 60 days.

A baby who was born after spending more than 27 years as a frozen embryo has set a new record for the longest frozen embryo to come to birth.

A California woman is suing a fertility doctor in Glen Allen, Virginia, for fathering two of her children without her permission.

Britain risks “sleepwalking into a crisis” as the number of elderly women who are childless is set to triple in the coming years, official data has revealed.

Not only are couples having fewer children, but there is an increase in the number of people who never have children at all. 

The fertility rate for under 30s women fell to the lowest level since 1938, with nearly one-third of babies being born to foreign-born mums.

First world countries must respond to a “jaw-dropping” crash in fertility by totally opening their borders to unlimited mass migration, according to “experts” interviewed by the BBC.

Total fertility has fallen to the lowest level ever in records that date back to 1909.

An article published Thursday on the website of the government of Hubei, the Chinese province at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak, claimed that the virus could theoretically damage male fertility. The article was removed without explanation a few hours later.

Forty-two states in the nation and Washington, DC, continue to see their birth rates decline with no plans among lawmakers to financially incentivize Americans to have more children. 

Research has found a link between interest rates and fertility, with homeowners more likely to have children when rates fall. 

A doctor in Corvallis, Oregon, is suing a fertility clinic for allegedly using his sperm to conceive 17 kids that he did not know about.