Thoughts On America As The Future Mother Of A Non-White Baby

So I neither have children, nor am I pregnant. Despite these minor details, I do hope one day to make babies and race through my own familial bliss. But as […]

The big news this morning is that white babies are now in the minority, while non-white babies make up the majority currently being born in the United States. We’ve written […]

A new report from the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) finds that cultural and linguistic barriers, among others, affect how LGBTQ Latinos receive reproductive care. An excerpt from the report noted: […]

[Editor’s Note: The following is a press release from the March of Dimes.] Fortifying corn masa flour with the B vitamin folic acid could prevent more serious birth defects of […]

Seeing as how about 15% of all marriages in the United States are between people of different races or ethnicities, and given recent Census results suggesting this trend will likely […]

I know that this latest round of immigration grandstanding isn’t the first time the term “anchor baby” has come into vogue. But as a woman, it’s the first time I’ve […]

Latinas, according to new Census data, are much more likely to have children than other women. A press release from the Census notes that immigrant women (likely to be Latina) […]

A Latina in Toppenish, Washington pretended to be pregnant for six months as part of a social experiment to understand what it would be like to be on the receiving end […]

A University of California at Berkeley study found that prenatal exposure to pesticides leads to lower IQs in babies. The study found that the use of popular organophosphate pesticides leads to […]

An actual “anchor baby” operation was recently shut down outside of Los Angeles, California involving pregnant Chinese women who paid to receive pre- and post-natal care and have their babies […]