Freezer Malfunctions Underscore The Dark Realities Of Artificial Reproduction
The recent malfunctions at two major fertility clinics expose more than just the technical failures of the assisted reproductive technologies industry.
Screenwriter Jeff Howard Talks ‘Before I Wake,’ Personal Tragedy, And Netflix Bringing Back Mid-Level Film
As I watched Netflix’s ‘Before I Wake,’ I told the late-night tweeterverse how excellent I thought the film. The film’s screenwriter, Jeff Howard, messaged me in response.
Why The Embryo Adoption Industry Is Not Pro-Life
As long as the business of creating surplus embryos remains unregulated in the United States, donating and adopting embryonic children increases the demand for it.
Male Fertility Is Not In Crisis Because Of Plastic
A hot, new, headline-grabbing study claims men in Western countries have a lower sperm count than their counterparts in South America, Asia, and Africa, all due to plastic.
In ‘4:44,’ Jay-Z Raps A Father’s Perspective On Infertility
Jay and Bey are helping others on fertility journeys know they’re not alone. For those facing setbacks on the road to building a family, that in itself is meaningful.
6 Ways To Love Your Infertile Friend
My friend asked me how to balance honesty about the difficulties of fertility with sympathy for her friends who couldn’t have kids. Here are some ideas.
Why You Should Consider Foster Care If You’re Infertile
Infertile couples are desperately wanting and waiting for children. Foster children are children desperately wanting and waiting for parents this very moment.
What It Feels Like To Be A Man Struggling With Infertility
Infertility is not a traumatic event but rather a state of being traumatized, so the stages of recovery and grief become a way of life, not a stage of life.
Why You Should Consider Starting Your Family Earlier Than You’re Planning
You’re never too young to meet your future spouse. And start your family while you’re still young, because it only gets harder with age.
Second Lady Karen Pence Opens Up About Her Struggles With Infertility
‘I didn’t care about fame or fortune, big house, fancy career, nice car—none of that has ever been important to me. I just wanted to be a mom.’
Stop Telling People To Be So Sensitive About Miscarriage On Facebook
What I don’t understand is a post going around on Facebook this week: ‘With April 1 coming up, PLEASE do not pull the ‘pretending to be pregnant’ prank on Facebook.’
For Beyoncé And Many Women, Having A Baby Is Indeed A Miracle
Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s willingness to publicly address a past miscarriage, their struggle to conceive this time around, and joyfully embrace their twins is important.
Ten Years Later, Critics Still Love—And Misunderstand—’Children of Men’
The critical adoration for ‘Children of Men’ is largely misplaced. The movie is technically brilliant, but fails even as the sort of political agitprop its admirers would like it to be.
We’re Still Waiting For A Better Memoir About Infertility
A new book, ‘The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood,’ tackles and important and often ignored topic—but needlessly hops up on a political soapbox.
Why So Many Families Who Want To Adopt Can’t
For every adoption-eligible baby, an invisible queue of 36 couples waits for the chance to take that baby home. Most never will.
10 Top Reasons You Should Have Kids Before 30
The U.S. fertility rate has fallen to match its record low. Here’s why that needs to change, and you need to be the one to change it.
Family Is On Fleek
It has become cool for celebrities to publicly praise family.
7 Reasons Kim Kardashian Should Not Use A Surrogate
There are better ways to address infertility. Kim Kardashian should not use a surrogate to bear another child, and neither should you.
4 Questions About The Fertility Industry’s Lack Of Oversight
Meet the industry that conjures life and often causes death yet argues, with a straight face, for ‘professional self-regulation.’
So Now People Need Reasons to Have Children?
We should worry about this modern notion that bearing children needs to be preceded (and justified) by an exhaustive search for ‘adequate’ reasons.
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