August 27, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – In a state that touts itself as “the most pro-life state in the country,” where abortion is prohibited except to save the life of the mother, timber country in southeast Arkansas is an especially dangerous … Read More
August 26, 2024
(People) – The pair alleges that they arrived at a renowned fertility center for treatment and were told that their embryo was gone Mary told the outlet that her two embryos were retrieved on Sept. 19, 2023. The first one … Read More
August 26, 2024
Bioethics (vol. 38, no. 7, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 23, 2024
(Rutgers) – Women who conceive through in vitro fertilization and experience a serious pregnancy complication are twice as likely to deliver early (before 37 weeks) compared to those with only one of those factors, according to a Rutgers Health researcher. … Read More
August 23, 2024
(NBC News) – The high-risk strains of human papillomavirus that are linked to cancer appear to also pose a threat to sperm quality. Scientists have long considered that the world’s most common sexually transmitted infection, human papillomavirus, or HPV, may … Read More
August 23, 2024
(The Atlantic via MSN) – Rejoice offers conventional IVF, but it more routinely performs mini-IVF, in which a patient receives oral fertility medications and only a few days of low-dose hormone shots. The clinic also offers natural-cycle IVF, which uses … Read More
August 22, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Futurists who write about the destiny of humankind have imagined all sorts of changes. We’ll all be given auxiliary chromosomes loaded with genetic goodies, or maybe we’ll march through life as a member of a pod … Read More
August 21, 2024
(Axios) – Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz disclosed new details about the family’s fertility story this week, clarifying that they did not use in-vitro fertilization, as previous comments had implied. Why it matters: As both governor and the vice presidential … Read More
August 21, 2024
(STAT News) – Lack of research into miscarriage in the U.S. — its prevalence, its causes, and how best to treat people who’ve experienced pregnancy loss — has helped to reinforce what has long been a culture of silence and … Read More
August 19, 2024
(Axios) – Women who received uterus transplants have delivered more than 70 infants worldwide since the first successful transplant in 2011, with 20 cases at a Texas medical center showing about the same success rate as with natural wombs, per … Read More
August 16, 2024
(Associated Press) – An informational pamphlet for Arizona voters, who will decide in the fall whether to guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion, can refer to an embryo or fetus as an “unborn human being,” the state’s highest court … Read More
August 16, 2024
(The Conversation) – I’m a medical anthropologist and bioethicist who studies the values and experiences driving prenatal gene therapy developments, including genome editing. Human prenatal genome editing has not happened yet – as far as we know. Prenatal genome editing … Read More
August 14, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Amid risks, volunteers are mobilizing to assist networks that mail abortion medication to women in states with strict limits The women huddling around the conference table shuttled the small cardboard boxes along, assembly-line style. Into each … Read More
August 13, 2024
(Associated Press) – The Biden administration says hospitals must offer abortions when needed to save a woman’s life, despite state bans enacted after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion more than two years ago. Texas is … Read More
August 12, 2024
(New York Times) – An emerging movement against in vitro fertilization is driving some doctors and patients in red states to move or destroy frozen embryos. The embryo migration is most striking in Alabama, where the State Supreme Court ruled … Read More
August 8, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Babies born 22 weeks into pregnancy have increasingly better odds of survival—but parents often don’t know what’s possible Doctors are now capable of saving the lives of babies born at 22 weeks and, in rare cases, … Read More
August 7, 2024
(Associated Press) – The number of women getting abortions in the U.S. actually went up in the first three months of 2024 compared with before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, a report released Wednesday found, reflecting the lengths … Read More
August 7, 2024
(New York Times) – The herbicide, used widely on crops including broccoli and onions, can cause low birth weight and impaired brain development, regulators said. In a move not seen for almost 40 years, the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday … Read More
August 6, 2024
(NBC News) – Free or low-cost contraceptives are becoming increasingly difficult for women to access as clinics close or struggle with funding problems and policy restrictions. Years before the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, policy changes, flatlined … Read More
August 6, 2024
(PBS) – As Team USA continues to dominate at the Olympics, the most decorated American athlete in track and field history, Allyson Felix, is in Paris with a different goal in mind. She wants to change the narrative around mothers … Read More
August 5, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – Vladimir Putin, who has long cultivated an aura of machismo as Russia’s strongman leader, is enlisting women to grow Russia’s population through childbirth and to rebuild his nation as a great power steeped in traditional … Read More
August 1, 2024
(New York Times) – It’s probably not selfishness, experts say. Even young adults who want children see an increasing number of obstacles. Notably, studies of the reasons behind the fertility decline don’t reveal a dramatic shift in the desire to … Read More
July 31, 2024
(Slate) – Companies like Folx and Plume have branded themselves as beacons of community and pride. But their model may not be as revolutionary as it seems. Folx is just one entry in a growing list of digital health companies … Read More
July 29, 2024
(Newsweek) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is to sue the Biden administration to stop a federal program that gives birth control to teens without parental consent. Title X, introduced in 1970, allows contraception to be given without parental consent. … Read More
July 29, 2024
(KETV Omaha) — The state’s highest court ruled Friday to uphold LB 574, the law that bans abortions at 12 weeks and gender-affirming care for minors. The law had been tied up in a legal battle after Planned Parenthood tried … Read More
