Safe, convenient, reversible contraception allows women and men worldwide to plan their families and ensure that they are ready to nurture and provide for the children they parent. So why are so few male contraceptive methods available?
Early this morning in Los Angeles County a woman gave birth to eight babies in just five minutes, just the second time in history that live octuplets have been born.
Miraculous biblical stories of birth fit more closely with our notions of reproductive technologies than with the Vatican’s re-assertion that the only authentic context for human life is an act of reciprocal love between a man and woman in marriage.
Will the Catholic Church’s recent document opposing in vitro fertilization affect a Polish bioethics law addressing the method?
In a broken economy, do Americans realize that moralizing about sex doesn’t address people’s real needs?
As a women’s health community, we must grapple with the ethical, moral, legal and financial impacts of IVF before others tell us what’s best for our bodies and our children.
Bush’s proposed anti-contraception regulations have struck a nerve with Americans; Study underscores importance of checking HIV drug treatment combinations; Study links high soy consumption to low sperm count.
When it comes to motherhood, Canada may offer some benefits and social programs that American mothers envy, but not still not enough to make having children accessible to all women.
When I began reading The Fertility Diet, I realized how lucky I was that it was not in print at the time of my own infertility diagnosis 16 years ago. Otherwise I, too, might have been tempted to follow it. And that would've been a mistake.
Removing gaps between men and women — gaps in education, health, nutrition, human rights and laws — is the only real solution to eliminating the sex ration at birth gap.
