Birth Tourism - Should Physicians be Disciplined?

Birth tourism has been featured in multiple investigative reports - including the Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and this in-depth piece from Rolling Stone Magazine. The negative impacts of birth tourism are easy to summarize...

 Two New Takes on "Birth Tourism"

What we have learned recently is that Canada is understandably worried about the practice of birth tourism and may do something about it, while a distant U.S. territory, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), egged on by Mainland policies, seemingly encourages it.

A Plan to Address Birth Tourism

Consular officers want to prevent birth tourism, but are left powerless because of an inadequate congressional mandate to take on this problem.

Birth tourism: the 30 best countries that give citizenship by birth

The process of “jus soli” is generally available to anyone who has a child on the territory of a birth tourism country, even if they are a temporary resident or (as is often bemoaned in the United States) an illegal alien. The only people whose children don’t qualify for instant citizenship are diplomats.

Birthright Citizenship for the Children of Visitors: A National Security Problem in the Making?

Whatever the number of birthright children born each year of undocumented immigrants, border crossers, and nonimmigrant visitors, we must ask ourselves: is it reasonable to assume that those individuals will share our societal values or our worldview, or appreciate the accident of birth that accords them the right to come and go through American borders and among American communities as they choose, as “one of us”? Or is doing so an example of American hubris and naiveté of the worst sort, one which may come back to bite us in the long run?

Chinese Maternity Tourists and the Business of Being Born American

There are many reasons to have a baby in the U.S. The air is cleaner, the doctors generally are better, and pain medication is dispensed more readily. Couples can evade China’s one-child policy, because they don’t have to register the birth with local authorities.

People are freaking out over ‘birth tourism’ in Canada

There's panic once again in British Columbia over a rise in "birth tourism" in the province, as locals accuse Chinese mothers of delivering their babies on Canadian soil in order to get citizenship. The issue routinely makes news in the western province every few months, and now a new petition, filed in Parliament, is calling on the Canadian government to stop granting citizenship to so-called "anchor babies" unless one of their parents holds Canadian citizenship.

Welcome to Maternity Hotel California

A full-service stay inside the Chinese birth tourism boom.

Where ‘Anchor Babies’ Can Be a Lucrative Business

Thousands of wealthy foreign women, mostly Chinese, come to America each year for the express purpose of having babies on U.S. soil. The women arrive on tourist visas and typically go home with the baby after several months.