January 24, 2025

Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts

(New York Times) – Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored. Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred, blocked or removed posts from two abortion … Read More



 
 

January 6, 2025

Artificial intelligence ‘beginning to make decisions about who is brought into the world’

(The Sydney Morning Herald) – Artificial intelligence is being used in Australian fertility clinics to help choose which embryos should be transferred into patients, with the potential to be dehumanising for parents and babies, researchers say. Allowing machine learning to … Read More



 
 

January 6, 2025

EPA Report Finds That Formaldehyde Presents an “Unreasonable Risk” to Public Health

(ProPublica) – The report was published weeks after a ProPublica investigation found that the chemical causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant and can trigger asthma, miscarriages and fertility problems. A long-awaited report from the Environmental Protection Agency … Read More



 
 

December 24, 2024

IVF pioneer used sperm from ‘lots’ of medical staff – and kept no records of the babies they fathered

(Daily Mail) – A retired NHS scientist has sensationally revealed that IVF pioneer Patrick Steptoe, whose work led to the world’s first test tube baby, used sperm from ‘lots’ of medical staff without keeping records of the children they fathered. … Read More