September 12, 2025
(UPI) – Researchers analyzed more than 1,000 samples of ovarian fluid from patients undergoing fertility treatment. They compared unfertilized eggs (oocytes) from 62 women who tested positive for THC with a control group who did not use cannabis. The study … Read More
September 11, 2025
(New York Times) – The birth control pills, IUDs and hormonal implants were purchased by U.S.A.I.D. for women in low-income countries. They had been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse after the U.S. cut much of its foreign aid. Millions … Read More
September 11, 2025
(New York Times) – The intent is to protect health care providers who send the pills to patients in states with abortion bans, and to reassure patients who fear they could be identified. California legislators have passed one of the … Read More
September 11, 2025
(The Economist) – Adapting to an emptier planet will not be easy, but it will be doable. None of the predictions of demographic disaster seems plausible this century, and 2100 is so far away that forecasts beyond it seem pointless. … Read More
September 11, 2025
(Axios) – Abortion politics are colliding with ongoing efforts in Congress to extend enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act coverage. Why it matters: Renewing the premium subsidies even for a year beyond their Dec. 31 expiration was always going to … Read More
September 11, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Research about the effect on a fetus is sparse; pot has become more potent An analysis of data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that cannabis use during pregnancy has risen in … Read More
September 3, 2025
(Wired) – When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate. More than a dozen big tech companies provide five-figure subsidies to any employee who needs or wants to outsource gestational labor. A … Read More
August 28, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The antiabortion movement has found an unlikely new ally to target abortion providers: husbands, boyfriends and exes. Men have filed several recent lawsuits stemming from abortions obtained by their partners or ex-partners. The strategy is part … Read More
August 27, 2025
(ABC News) – The odds are stacked against pregnant women in Nigeria’s northeast like never before. The deadly Boko Haram militant group is making a resurgence. And hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid from the United States, once … Read More
August 26, 2025
(Longreads) – “Standard of Fear,” a project led by Lauren Caruba and Marin Wolf of The Dallas Morning News, details the consequences of recent laws restricting abortions in Texas, which now has “one of the country’s most strict and punitive … Read More
August 26, 2025
(Unherd) – As the historian Nadya Williams has shown, Greece and Rome offer proof that the parental quest for quality control over offspring is anything but new. Indeed, the popular stories of the era vigorously affirmed such practices. From Thetis … Read More
August 25, 2025
(New York Times) – If cherishing the suffering can make a nation kind, then discarding the suffering makes it cruel. It can breed a sense of contempt — why should we care for this hopeless cause? — and when our … Read More
August 22, 2025
(Wired) – Scientists recorded in 3D and in real time the exact moment a human embryo implanted itself in an artificial uterus, opening new avenues for treating infertility. A team of researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) … Read More
August 21, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Surrogacy is typically the most expensive path to parenthood. Turning to friends and family can lower the cost—for those willing to navigate legal minefields and tricky family dynamics. Having a surrogate give birth to your baby … Read More
August 19, 2025
(NBC News) – The dilemma over what to do with embryos cast aside, and who should assume ownership of them, is a thorny one. “We were not prepared for any of this,” Sweet said. Sweet is one of thousands of … Read More
August 18, 2025
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (vol. 22, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 15, 2025
(Nature) – Video provides an up-close look at a human embryo plunging into tissue that simulates the uterine lining. A time-lapse film offers a glimpse of a hidden milestone of human development: the moment when the newly formed embryo latches … Read More
August 14, 2025
(The Guardian) – A drug used in medical abortions could help prevent women at high risk of breast cancer from developing the disease, according to an international group of doctors and scientists. However, “stigma” around mifepristone is stopping pharmaceutical companies … Read More
August 13, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Tech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant dates or select high-IQ embryos. ‘They want to raise high-performing children.’ Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, a mathematician, spent seven years researching how to keep an advanced form of … Read More
August 12, 2025
(New York Times) – Male fertility deserves broader consideration outside these isolated spaces. Mounting evidence suggests that exposure to so-called endocrine-disrupting chemicals present in many products, from food and beverage containers to furniture and agricultural pesticides, may affect male potency … Read More
August 12, 2025
(The Guardian) – To the shock of experts, the number of abortions performed in the US rose in the three years since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and paved the way for more than a dozen states … Read More
August 12, 2025
(NBC News) – In a lawsuit filed Monday, Liana Davis says the hot chocolate, allegedly tainted with nearly a dozen abortion pills, killed her unborn baby April 5. A Texas woman is suing a U.S. Marine, alleging he spiked her … Read More
August 11, 2025
(The Free Press) – I’ve spent hours talking to the ‘Chinese Frankenstein’ who says he’s opening a lab in Austin. His competition, in his quest to pioneer gene editing in the United States? It’s his ex. I’m speaking to him … Read More
August 8, 2025
(NBC News) – Conservatives, anti-abortion groups and members of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement have pushed for a method known as “restorative reproductive medicine” instead. Since he campaigned on the issue last year, Trump’s push to support IVF has … Read More
August 7, 2025
(New York Times) – For as little as $2,500, you can choose your future baby. Should you? Would you use an algorithm to select your embryos? Enter Orchid, a company that promises parents the ability to protect their future children … Read More
