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LONDON _ These British just can't make up their minds. A few days ago they were complaining about the destruction of 3,000 frozen human embryos as well as a poor […]

According to 'Jordan Times', evidence gathered from a study by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) in Washington, DC suggests that achieving the family planning needs of reproductive women in Jordan [...]

According to 'Jordan Times', although national family planning programs have proven to be successful over the past decade, helping to reduce the fertility rate from 5.6 children per family in [...]

2002 JAN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than 30,000 babies were born as a result of assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedures carried out in 1999, the U.S. Centers [...]

The maternity wards of Europe are getting busier. Just over four million babies were born last year in the European Union, a slight increase on the 1995 total when fertility [...]

Birth rates throughout Europe are declining, with 20% of British women born during 1960-1990 expected to stay childless. Some may choose not to have children because they fear the responsibility, have financial concerns or have suffered family breakdowns. The British Organisation of Non-Parents has been formed for those people who choose not to follow the conventional pattern of family life. The organisation, which has 200 members, claims parenthood is over-romanticised and that many people decide to have babies only to ensure care in old age, improve their relationship or please their own parents.

A number of enlightening facts emerged from the 3,500 government delegates and 4,000 non-governmental activists who attended the Cairo Population Conference, including the statistic that pregnancy-related causes are responsible for one death every minute. Failure to breast-feed kills at least 4,000 infants every day while more children die from measles than from wars and famines worldwide. The US has nearly the highest fertility rate in the advanced world while the fourth largest manufacturer of contraceptive pills, Brazil, is also the world's largest Catholic country.

In a major step towards public accountability, a registry for the nation's infertility clinics has been established to provide couples with per-clinic success rates for the most common procedures. Given [...]

'The world's population aged 65 and older is growing by an unprecedented 800,000 people per month,' according to the Census Bureau and the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The number [...]

/FIRST ADD -- FNS7 -- PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ TWO DECADES AT A GLANCE The Impact of Legal Birth Control On Health, Family and the Economy and the Challenges that Remain On [...]

/SECOND ADD -- FNS7 -- PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ II. The Challenges Twenty years of legal contraception have not solved all the problems related to fertility. Many challenges remain that demand our [...]