Global Fertility Rate Decline chart
Source: World Economic Forum

Stuff you need to know, 5.15.23

“New Mexico locales pass more anti-abortion ordinances than other states”
by Susan Dunlap, NM Political Report
May 15, 2023

Four small municipalities and two counties in New Mexico have passed such ordinances. Two mirror Texas’s six-week gestational ban that the U.S. Supreme Court did not strike down in 2021 in creating a judicial bypass system that leaves enforcement up to individual citizens, rather than the state. A leading pro-choice advocate observes that the New Mexico ordinances did not arise from “an organic grassroots movement; it’s a coordinated legal strategy” that is being attempted in small towns across the country.

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“Low fertility rates, high housing prices mean fewer children in most states”
by Tim Henderson, Stateline; republished in Source NM
May 15, 2023

Since 2017, New Mexico’s population has dropped by 6 percent. One of the largest dips in the nation, the decline was caused primarily by decreased birth rates and has lowered public school enrollment in the state, which could drive teacher layoffs and possibly even school closures and affect future workforce strength.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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