May 2, 2024
(CTV News) – Three men in Quebec from the same family have fathered more than 600 children, according to a documentary by Noovo Info. The trio served as sperm donors for women across the province trying to get pregnant. The women … Read More
April 30, 2024
(Vox) – More than half a century ago, men of science and men of faith gathered together to unlock the mysteries of female fertility. The answer: urine from the brides of Christ. And lo, those nuns gaveth. All that urine, … Read More
April 30, 2024
(Axios) – The rate of cesarean births in the U.S. has gone up, again. Why it matters: About one in three births in the U.S. are C-sections, according to new data, well above the 10-15% rate that the WHO considers … Read More
April 30, 2024
(Vox) – For many years, the effectiveness of the procedure was a bit of a black box: Not enough people had tried to use their frozen eggs for scientists to pull together reliable data. Now, however, a picture is emerging. … Read More
April 30, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – Postpartum depression is a leading cause of maternal death, but its diagnosis and treatment is spotty at best, negligent at worst. Now San Diego-based start-up Dionysus Digital Health is pitching a blood test to check … Read More
April 29, 2024
(Washington Post) – Most of the time, experts say, errors and accidents go unreported in the burgeoning fertility industry, which is largely self-policed. It is not mandated to report errant episodes to the government, the public, any professional organization or … Read More
April 29, 2024
(Axios) – State health care plans must cover gender-affirming surgeries, a federal appeals court in Virginia ruled Monday. Why it matters: The ruling marks a major victory for transgender rights at a time when many states have cracked down on … Read More
April 26, 2024
(Associated Press) – U.S. births fell last year, resuming a long national slide. A little under 3.6 million babies were born in 2023, according to provisional statistics released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s about 76,000 … Read More
April 26, 2024
(Los Angeles Times via Yahoo! News) – For decades, the abortion wars have centered on whether a woman should be able to decide when and if she has a child. But with increasingly strict restrictions on reproductive rights being enacted … Read More
April 26, 2024
April 24, 2024
(People) – Berger and Hardy are one of the nine couples who filed a joint lawsuit on Tuesday, April 23, obtained by PEOPLE, against IVF provider Ovation Fertility in Newport Beach, alleging its clinic destroyed their embryos. The filing claims … Read More
April 23, 2024
(Axios) – The Supreme Court this week will consider whether a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care overrides Idaho’s strict abortion ban. Why it matters: The case justices will hear Wednesday focuses on a key Biden administration effort … Read More
April 17, 2024
(New York Times) – “Have an abortion with me,” a single mother from Brooklyn named Sunni says as she twirls around her kitchen to light jazzy piano, before walking TikTok viewers through the steps she took to end her pregnancy … Read More
April 17, 2024
(Reuters) – U.S. employers’ obligation to accommodate workers’ pregnancies also extends to abortions and the use of contraception, the U.S. agency that enforces workplace discrimination laws said on Monday. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) unveiled a rule to … Read More
April 15, 2024
(CNN) – In the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, more young adults in the United States took pregnancy off the table entirely, new research has shown. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2022, the US … Read More
April 12, 2024
(NPR) – A surgical team scurries around a pregnant female pig lying unconscious on an operating table. They’re about to take part in an experiment that could help provide a new option to help premature babies survive. “The ultimate goal … Read More
April 11, 2024
(NPR) – In a few weeks, Florida and Arizona are set to join most states in the southern U.S. in banning abortion. It’s a significant shake up to the abortion legal landscape, and data shared exclusively with NPR maps and … Read More
April 10, 2024
(New York Times) – England’s move is part of a broader shift in northern Europe, where health officials have been concerned by soaring demand for adolescent gender treatments in recent years. Many patients also have mental health conditions that make … Read More
April 10, 2024
(Wired) – God help the babies! Or, absent God, a fertility startup called Orchid. It offers prospective parents a fantastical choice: Have a regular baby or have an Orchid baby. A regular baby might grow up and get cancer. Or … Read More
April 10, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Arizona’s highest court revived a 160-year-old ban on nearly all abortions, a decision that turns up the political heat on an issue that is pivotal in the battleground state and beyond for the 2024 presidential race. … Read More
April 8, 2024
(New York Times) – The shift to “sex assigned at birth” may be well intentioned, but it is not progress. We are not against politeness or expressions of solidarity, but “sex assigned at birth” can confuse people and creates doubt … Read More
April 8, 2024
(Associated Press) – The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that it said reject God’s plan for human life. The Vatican’s doctrine … Read More
April 8, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – One of us (Mr. Pence) sought fertility treatment with his wife when starting a family in Indiana. Mr. Mize has worked in biobanking storage facilities in the state. We urge states to adopt basic protections for … Read More
April 5, 2024
(CNBC) – CVS Health on Thursday said its drug plans will cover the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the U.S. at no cost for many health plan sponsors, a decision that could open the door for more people to … Read More
April 5, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The Food and Drug Administration is making plans to significantly expand the number of gay and bisexual men who could donate sperm anonymously. Longstanding agency rules ban anonymous sperm donations by men who acknowledged having sex … Read More
