July 9, 2020
(ABC News) INDIANAPOLIS — A federal judge has struck down an Indiana law that aimed to require reports from medical providers to the state if they treat women for complications arising from abortions.
July 8, 2020
(MedPage Today) Cerebral palsy among IVF children decreased by more than 50% in the last 20 years, researchers reported. The crude risk of cerebral palsy among children conceived via assisted reproductive technology (ART) dropped from 0.9% to 0.3% from 1990 … Read More
July 7, 2020
(ProPublica) – In late June, after three months of near silence on the topic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finally weighed in on a question of critical importance to millions of American women and families: How dangerous is … Read More
June 30, 2020
(Associated Press) – A divided Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era. … Read More
June 30, 2020
(Associated Press) – The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority … Read More
June 29, 2020
(U.S. News & World Report) – Vitrification is a safe way to freeze and store embryos during fertility treatment, but the longer embryos are stored, the less likely women are to get pregnant and have a live birth, a new … Read More
June 25, 2020
(ABC News) – The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday revamped its list of which Americans are at higher risk for severe COVID-19 illness, adding pregnant women and removing age alone as a factor. The Centers for Disease Control … Read More
June 24, 2020
(BBC) – Lockdown saw access to the morning-after pill fall significantly, figures suggest. Retail data show sales fell by 50% from March to April, while NHS prescriptions for the pills declined by around 20%. The British Pregnancy Advisor Service (BPAS) … Read More
June 23, 2020
(ABC News) – Researchers at Brookings in Washington, DC examined data from previous economic studies on fertility in the United States during the recession of 2007-2009 and the 1918 influenza pandemic. After analyzing that data, along with other factors such … Read More
June 23, 2020
(ABC News) – The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case, June Medical Services vs. Russo, this month. O’Brien, now a mom to two daughters, decided to tell her story publicly and join the case as an amicus … Read More
