July 24, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Louisiana lawmakers have added two drugs commonly used in pregnancy and reproductive health care to the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances, a move that has alarmed doctors in the state. Mifepristone and misoprostol have many … Read More
July 24, 2024
(MedPage Today) – The FDA has approved the first orally disintegrating birth control pill, the agency announced or window on Tuesday. Branded as Femlyv, the product uses active ingredients — norethindrone acetate (a progestin) and ethinyl estradiol (an estrogen) — … Read More
July 24, 2024
(Axios) – Teen birth rates in the United States have continued to decline significantly across the board since 2000, but racial and ethnic disparities still exist, federal data released Wednesday shows. Why it matters: Decreasing teen births can positively affect … Read More
July 23, 2024
(Medical Xpress) – A randomized controlled trial looked at in-vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes in the UK and Hong Kong. The results, published in The Lancet, provide much-needed evidence that using time-lapse imaging (TLI) does not improve treatment outcomes for someone … Read More
July 22, 2024
(The Atlantic) – One way is to talk about abortions as lifesaving health care, which more women have been doing. Another model is to talk about it not as a women’s issue, but as a family issue. This is the … Read More
July 22, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Women without children, rather than those having fewer, are responsible for most of the decline in average births among 35- to 44-year-olds during their lifetimes so far, according to an analysis of the Census Bureau’s Current … Read More
July 22, 2024
(PBS News) – Up to a million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage every year. For many patients, there’s no answer about why. “This is a very common condition,” said Dr. Diana Bianchi, director of the National Institute … Read More
July 18, 2024
(Newsweek) – China’s fertility rate, or births expected per woman during her lifetime, amid the rising cost of living in major cities and shifting cultural attitudes toward having children, is 1.0. This puts the country in the company of neighboring … Read More
July 17, 2024
(The Guardian) – When Yang Li* turned 30, she gave herself three years to decide whether or not she wanted to have children. But as the years ticked by, working a busy job in Beijing, Yang felt none the wiser … Read More
July 17, 2024
Medico-Legal Journal (vol. 92, no. 2, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 16, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Until this spring, Michigan was the only state that had a broad criminal ban on surrogacy. Many families say that ban left them in legal limbo: They were compelled to leave the state to have children; … Read More
July 16, 2024
(Reuters) – Vertex Pharmaceuticals sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday, seeking a court declaration that a fertility support program for patients who are prescribed its gene editing therapy Casgevy does not violate federal anti-kickback laws. … Read More
July 15, 2024
(New York Times) – Many families are happy to pay for the assurance of a healthy future. More than two million umbilical cord samples sit in a handful of suburban warehouses across the country. It’s a lucrative business, with companies … Read More
July 15, 2024
(NPR) – At least 41 Iowa hospitals have shuttered their labor and delivery units since 2000. Those facilities, representing about a third of Iowa hospitals, are located mostly in rural areas where birth numbers have plummeted. In some Iowa counties, … Read More
July 15, 2024
Christian Bioethics (vol. 30, no. 2, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 12, 2024
(ABC News) – Relatively few Americans fully endorse the idea that a fertilized egg should have the same rights as a pregnant woman. But a significant share say it describes their views at least somewhat well, according to a new … Read More
July 12, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The policy supercharged the country’s workforce: By caring for fewer children, young people could be more productive and put aside more money. For years, just as China was opening its economy, the share of working-age Chinese … Read More
July 10, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Living and breathing in Southern California’s pollution corridor Franco can still map Wilmington’s refineries, and still remembers the chemicals they’d release into the sky. At 28, after moving back to California, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. … Read More
July 5, 2024
Hastings Center Report (vol. 54, Issue 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Beneath the Sword of Damocles: Moral Obligations of Physicians in a Post?Dobbs Landscape” by Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Ruth R. Faden and Michelle M. Mello … Read More
July 4, 2024
(Nature) – The United Kingdom has developed its first rules to guide research using human embryo models. Scientists say they are pleased the country has clarified its position on the fast-moving field. The voluntary code of practice, published today, prohibits … Read More
July 4, 2024
(ABC News) – In a landmark decision, Japan’s Supreme Court ordered the government Wednesday to pay suitable compensation to about a dozen victims who were forcibly sterilized under a now-defunct Eugenics Protection Law that was designed to eliminate offspring of … Read More
July 3, 2024
(NPR) – Transgender people under 18 face laws that bar them from accessing gender-affirming health care in 25 states — just a few years ago, not a single state had such a law. The Supreme Court has agreed to consider … Read More
July 2, 2024
(Aeon) – Even happy families cannot avoid the reality – my reality – that adoption is predicated on transacting the life of a child. In truth, it can only ever be a happier ending. Of course, every kid who escapes … Read More
July 2, 2024
(NPR) – Louisiana is now the first state to allow surgical castration to be used as a punishment for sex crimes under a new law signed by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry. This law, which will go into effect Aug. 1, … Read More
July 1, 2024
(RNS) – Perhaps it is the time your childhood friend, still so young, posts a photo of her first grandchild on social media. Perhaps it is when the first grandchild is born to your sibling. Perhaps it is the first … Read More
