Houston OB-GYN Dr. Hillary Boswell says she has seen how abortion bans affect teenage girls: More of them are carrying their pregnancies to term. “These are vulnerable girls, and it’s just ...

The teenage birth rate for African-American and Hispanic teens has dropped by almost half since 2006, according to a new report from the CDC. The national teen birth rate is now at an all-time low.

Louisiana had the third-highest teen birth rate in the country with 23.1 teen births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19, according to 2023 birth data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — ...

At a time when the number of teens having babies in the Mountain State remains higher than the national average, maternal and ...

The Centers for Disease Control just reported a 44% decline in the teenage birth rate since 1990, the lowest level in almost 70 years. The decline represents an actual decrease in teen pregnancy, not ...

A slight uptick in US births occurred in 2024, breaking years of decline dating to 2008. The number of births in the United States inched up last year to roughly 3.6 million, according to provisional ...

At a time when the number of teens having babies in the Mountain State remains higher than the national average, maternal and child health researchers at West Virginia University found these infants ...

Teen birth rates in the U.S., which have been declining for two decades, have reached a record low, with significant drops in almost every state. The report, from the U.S. Center for Disease Control ...

Teen pregnancy is not someone else’s problem; it affects all of us in some way. The cost to taxpayers for teen births in Bexar County is well over $70 million a year for medical care, foster care and ...

Students wait for a bus outside Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago. Teen birth rates have been falling for decades, but abortion bans threaten to undo that progress, experts say. (Scott ...