October 10, 2024
(NPR) – One round of in vitro fertilization or IVF can cost you around $20,000 (or more). It’s a multi-step process that involves retrieving eggs from ovaries, fertilizing them in a lab, watching the embryos develop, and then transferring them … Read More
October 10, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The drugmaker responsible for bringing the controversial abortion pill to the U.S. is now pursuing a new use that could widen women’s access: treating miscarriages. Danco Laboratories is preparing scientific data and taking other steps to … Read More
October 9, 2024
(Politico) – The practice has long been embraced by Christian families who might otherwise have qualms about IVF, because it can be seen as a solution to the most troubling part of the process: the disposal of frozen embryos. Lately, … Read More
October 9, 2024
(New York Times) – In specialized wards called mother-and-baby units, doctors treat postpartum psychosis while allowing women to keep caring for their children. A few hours later, Mr. Hardie was driving his wife and infant daughter to a specialized psychiatric … Read More
October 8, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Embryo models—that is, embryos created using stem cells—could provide a real alternative for studying some of the hardest problems in human development, unlocking crucial details about, say, what causes miscarriages and developmental disorders. In recent years, Hanna … Read More
October 8, 2024
(New York Times) – The government is again trying to insert itself into women’s childbearing decisions, knocking on doors and making calls with questions some find downright invasive. Faced with a declining population that threatens economic growth, the Chinese government … Read More
October 7, 2024
(ABC News) – The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans. The justices did not detail their reasoning for keeping in … Read More
October 4, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Residency programs in states where abortion is restricted are drawing fewer applicants Dr. Kyle Baugh has a choice to make. In the penultimate year of her residency program in obstetrics and gynecology at Indiana University School … Read More
October 3, 2024
(STAT News) – Often, women with sickle cell disease are told not to have kids. They might come to an appointment, happily pregnant, only for the doctor to tell them they shouldn’t be. They might be preparing for a scheduled … Read More
October 2, 2024
(Associated Press) – On Tuesday, Louisiana will become the first state in the U.S. to categorize two widely used abortion pills as “controlled dangerous substances.” Opponents argue the classification could have catastrophic impacts in a state that already has a … Read More
October 1, 2024
(BBC) – Sperm donor compensation has risen from £35 to a maximum of £45 per clinic visit. The £10 rise comes into effect in England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1 October, when egg donor compensation also rises from £750 … Read More
October 1, 2024
(New York Times) – The state said that despite a doctor’s recommendation and state law, a Catholic hospital declined to provide an abortion because fetal heart tones were present. Officials in the attorney general’s office say they believe this to … Read More
September 30, 2024
(NBC News) – State laws targeting transgender people made trans and nonbinary young people more likely to attempt suicide in the past year, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The research, published last week in the journal Nature Human Behavior and … Read More
September 30, 2024
(Axios) – Drug developers are pursuing a new option for reproductive care in the post-Roe landscape: birth control pills for men. Why it matters: Mounting abortion restrictions across the U.S. are driving a search for new contraceptive methods that can … Read More
September 27, 2024
(Sydney Morning Herald) – Children conceived through IVF and other reproductive technologies have a significantly higher risk of serious heart abnormalities than naturally conceived children, a large international study has found. A study of 7.7 million children in four northern … Read More
September 27, 2024
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 49, no. 5, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 25, 2024
(Associated Press) – A federal judge is allowing more than 8,000 Catholic employers nationwide to reject government regulations that protect workers seeking abortions and fertility care. In a sharply worded order, U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor, of Bismarck, North Dakota, … Read More
September 25, 2024
Bioethics (vol. 38, no. 8, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 23, 2024
(NBC News) – Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period. The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during … Read More
September 23, 2024
(Medical Xpress) – People who are gestational carriers (or “surrogates”) may have a higher risk of severe complications during pregnancy and early postpartum, hypertension in pregnancy, and postpartum hemorrhage, compared to people who conceive without assistance or with IVF, according … Read More
September 20, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Deb Jenssen never wanted her children to suffer from the disease that killed her brother at 28. The illness, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, initially manifests in childhood as trouble with strength and walking, then worsens until the heart … Read More
September 19, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Scientists have now been studying microplastic for 20 years, since a paper in 2004 first used the term, and have started on nanoplastics, the vanishingly small versions that build up in organs. In that time, human exposure … Read More
September 18, 2024
(Plough) – If only her parents had been spared the terrible freedom of having to choose whether to have a child with a disability. “My husband and I decided that it was a loving decision not to bring her into … Read More
September 18, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – A now-ended adoption program created the perception that Chinese girls weren’t valued. One adoptee, once hidden in a grocery bag, found there was more to her own story. In “Ricki’s Promise,” a 2014 documentary by Changfu … Read More
September 17, 2024
(The Times) – In the state’s low-regulation fertility clinics the perfect child may soon be available — for a price. Megan Agnew meets the doctors, mums and surrogates Welcome to California, fertility capital of the world. Thanks to many years … Read More
