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Jewish group helps Alabama clients after ‘fetal personhood’ ruling

March 5, 2024March 6, 2024Arsen Mayer

A Jewish organization that helps families have children says its clients now face a “worst-case scenario” after the Alabama Supreme Court classified frozen embryos as unborn children. The Jewish Fertility Foundation is funding out-of-state treatments for some Alabama clients after the ruling last month largely halted in-vitro fertilization, or IVF, treatments in the state, as […]

Israeli demography: Declining fertility, migration, and mortality

January 21, 2024January 21, 2024Arsen Mayer

Israel has been regarded as having one of the highest fertility rates in the higher-income Western world, and this is true. However, the rate has been declining in the past decade. This is despite the fact that until the end of September 2023, the death rate was at a record low, and the immigration rate […]