April 3, 2025
(New York Times) – She used her wealth strategically to expand opportunities for women, underwriting the development of the pill and supporting the suffrage movement. Katharine Dexter McCormick, who was born to a life of wealth, which she compounded through … Read More
April 3, 2025
(New York Times) – Orchid screens embryos’ DNA for hundreds of conditions, such as retinitis pigmentosa, which can be traced to a single genetic variant. But the company also goes further, offering what is known as polygenic screening, which gives … Read More
April 2, 2025
Hastings Center Report (vol. 55, Issue 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 1, 2025
(Michigan Advance) – Starting Tuesday it will no longer be a crime to enter into a surrogacy contract in Michigan. The Michigan Family Protection Act will go into effect April 1, officially repealing a ban that made Michigan the only … Read More
April 1, 2025
(Axios) – The Supreme Court on Wednesday is due to hear a high-profile case blending patients’ rights with reproductive care access, stemming from South Carolina’s move to block Medicaid recipients from getting care at Planned Parenthood clinics in the state. … Read More
March 28, 2025
(Wired) – In an advance for treating male infertility, researchers transplanted a patient with his own sperm-forming stem cells that were collected from testicular tissue when he was a child. Jaiwen Hsu was an active 11-year-old when he developed pain … Read More
March 28, 2025
(ProPublica) – Texas Republicans have proposed changes to the state’s strict abortion ban they say would make clear that doctors can terminate pregnancies for serious medical risks without having to wait until a patient’s condition becomes life-threatening. The legislation comes … Read More
March 27, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – He Jiankui stands by a controversial research approach that landed him in prison as he aims to tackle Alzheimer’s disease Chinese scientist He Jiankui set off global outrage and landed in prison after he skirted ethical … Read More
March 26, 2025
(Nature) – Data from 300,000 births reveal how essential biological measurements are altered by carrying and delivering a baby. Biologists have built one of the most detailed pictures ever of the changes that occur in women’s bodies before and after … Read More
March 26, 2025
(BBC) – Many fertility patients in the UK are being offered unnecessary add-on treatments that have little or no proof of improving the likelihood of pregnancy, a report suggests.Add-ons are optional, non-essential treatments some private clinics offer in addition to … Read More
March 25, 2025
(New York Times) – On June 24, 2022, the same day the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, I received a call from the fertility clinic where I’d been undergoing in vitro fertilization, informing … Read More
March 19, 2025
(Undark) – Fertility clinics should provide easy access to mental health support for those undergoing IVF treatments. Although literature from my fertility clinic acknowledged that in vitro fertilization would be stressful on the body and mind, those words did not … Read More
March 18, 2025
(WTOP News) – A northern Virginia judge determined embryos are not property that can be divided up, rejecting a previous analysis by the court saying such fertilized eggs could be considered divisible “goods or chattel” based on 19th-century slave law. … Read More
March 18, 2025
(New York Times) – Abortion bans successfully prevented some women from getting abortions in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a detailed new study of birth data from 2023. The effects were … Read More
March 10, 2025
(ABC News) – Mishaps may be rare, but families who experience them face unimaginable consequences. Wolf says that at the crux of the issue is a need for more regulation to prevent and track mistakes, and better enforcement in the … Read More
March 7, 2025
(NBC News) – Losing a baby late in pregnancy is more common in the South than in other regions of the United States, according to a new report given exclusively to NBC News. The difference is dramatic: Compared with other … Read More
March 6, 2025
(USA Today) – As the need for out-of-state care rapidly increases, abortion clinics and funds caution that even in protective states, the infrastructure is under strain. With fewer healthcare centers to turn to, people have to travel further for care, … Read More
March 5, 2025
(New York Times) – The research constitutes some of the first evidence that the condition is associated with modifications in the brain before childbirth. Researchers scanned the brains of dozens of women in the weeks before and after childbirth and … Read More
March 4, 2025
(New York Times) – As China’s government worries about the falling birthrate, some private employers have ordered workers to do their part, or else. Last year, 6.1 million Chinese couples got married — a 20 percent decline from a year … Read More
March 3, 2025
(Axios) – Black and Hispanic people paid more in out-of-pocket costs for maternal care than Asian and white people with the same commercial insurance, a new study published in JAMA Health Forum found. Why it matters: Black mothers in the … Read More
February 28, 2025
(CNet) – With a pregnancy study and a smarter cycle-tracking approach, Oura is delivering more accurate health insights If you track your health with wearable tech, you’ll know that pregnancy and menstrual cycles have long been limited in the insights … Read More
February 26, 2025
(The Guardian) – GenBioPro seeks to defend access to mifepristone in suit brought by attorneys general of Idaho, Missouri and Kansas The manufacturer of the generic version of a major abortion pill has asked to join a federal lawsuit over … Read More
February 24, 2025
(Independent) – Would-be parents seeking out commercial foreign surrogacies are being warned the government may fight their bids for adoption, rendering the infants both permanently stateless and legally parentless. A High Court case revealed a “self-centred” older UK couple – … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Politico) – ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they … Read More
February 20, 2025
(The Verge) – The US wants to bring back domestic chipmaking. But America’s first generation of Silicon Valley factory workers endured unsafe manufacturing conditions and never got answers about kids born with birth defects. The Verge sought out legal documents and … Read More
