Bill comes ahead of a midterm elections in which women are expected to be a key voting bloc.
Month: September 2014
Praying for a Child: The Catholic Church Makes Life Impossible for Infertile Women
The Catholic Church’s rigid stance against abortion and contraception is well known. In Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI described the “transmission of human life” as a “sacred duty.” In Catholic thought, it is incumbent upon us to create life, not to prevent or destroy it. What is less well known is that this same logic is arrayed against women who seek to become pregnant through certain reproductive technologies such as IVF, in which a significant number of embryos are fertilized, many of which are then typically destroyed. Embryo destruction in the course of fertility treatments is, like abortion, murder in the eyes of the church.
New Guidelines For Estimating Women’s Due Dates Issued By OB-GYN Group
On Monday, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) joined with the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine to release new guidelines for health care providers on estimating accurate due dates for expectant mothers.
The Deadliest Below-the-Belt Disease You Need to Know About
You’re a grown women who takes charge of her sexual health and sees her gyno regularly, but you may still be forgetting one crucial part of the picture: your ovaries. We get it–they’re out of sight and out of mind, right? But did you know that ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecological disease and that there’s no real early screening tool available?
Hiring a Woman for Her Womb
People unable to bear children have increasingly turned to women who bear children for them, often by transferring an embryo created by in-vitro fertilization. Because legal and social views on surrogacy vary from nation to nation (and even state to state), prospective parents often engage surrogates in the United States and in developing countries. Controversy has clouded this issue.
Promiscuity Is Pragmatic: Why Women and Other Female Primates Seek Out Multiple Partners
More than 30 years of subsequent research has confirmed Hrdy’s findings and expanded on them to reveal that females in many primate species, humans included, engage in a diversity of sexual strategies to enhance their overall reproductive success.
What Do Sperm Have to Do With Brain Tumors?
My lab studies epigenomic and transcription factors including a molecule called histone variant H3.3. Recent studies have indicated that H3.3 plays key roles in both stem cells and cancer.
Sperm Bank Mothers: Looks Aren’t A Priority But Brains Are
Thanks to advances in medical science, more and more professional women are using sperm banks to fulfil their dreams of motherhood. Casilda Grigg reveals the human stories behind a reproductive revolution.
Today’s Sperm Donor Isn’t a Broke 20-Something
Most people think of sperm donors as 20-somethings looking for a quick buck. But today’s donors want to know about their offspring, and even be involved in their lives.
Birth Control Not One-Size-Fits-All: 9 Types Of Birth Control To Prevent Unwanted Pregnancy
Women who seek birth control often find themselves needing or wanting different birth control methods as they go through lifestyle changes. Although birth control is available for all women, they are not one-size-fits-all, and it can even become overwhelming trying to figure out which method to use. To effectively prevent unwanted pregnancy, and plan the timing of the pregnancy, decide which of these nine types of birth control is the perfect fit for your sex life.