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…as those seeking to conceive. But even if there were not scientifically superior, cheaper, and cancer-free alternatives to hormonal birth control, you’d still have to wonder how these OB/GYNs get…

…specifically and exclusively for mothers. That’s because, as God and biology would have it, only moms incubate and birth babies. Thus, only moms physically recover from birth and (often) nurse…

…technology. But the New York law uses the term “viability” in an unusual way to signify a life-limiting birth defect. Some fatal birth defects, such as Potter’s syndrome or thanatophoric…

…to improve physical characteristics. Likelihood of Live Birth If an embryo passes the test of being “desirable,” the odds of surviving until birth still aren’t high, as only 7 percent…

Facebook offers a rainbow selection of more than 50 genders to choose from when you sign up. So why doesn’t Facebook let us select our date of birth as well?…

…receive an abortion,” Becerra said. After another 60-seconds of back-and-forth on the issue, Becerra never acknowledged partial-birth abortion was illegal. Such procedures were outlawed in the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act…

…life on screen: Happy Birthday, Thomas! Happy Birthday, Strawberry Shortcake! Happy Birthday, [Disney] Princess! The princess version of this theme shows princesses celebrating alone or with animal friends, no prince-husbands,…

…It’s ridiculous. And it has to end.” (More than 30 countries, most in the Western Hemisphere, provide birthright citizenship.) “It’s in the process. It’ll happen … with an executive order.”…

…and birth control. In advertisements (curiously, even those supposedly about climate change), on the stump, and in debates, Udall and his allies have attempted to move poll numbers strictly by…

…address the motherhood of the birth mother, our public language is still haunted with the lies about pregnancy and motherhood. Barger’s piece on her feelings for her children’s birth mothers…

…op-ed is an argument for eliminating “birthright citizenship,” the provision from the Fourteenth Amendment (with roots going back much, much earlier) that states children born in America are automatically citizens,…

…the lowest-risk time for her to physically bear a baby, heal after birth, and continue to physically sustain a baby through nursing. That’s just a plain fact. Why wouldn’t we…

…Texas. Thank God for California’s lax adolescent birth control policies that allow school nurses to write scrips for birth control (even an entire year’s worth, for free!) for kids without…

…resulted in youth who were just as likely as other youth to report having sex without birth control. And teen girls in the program actually reported higher rates of pregnancy…

…mean that the decision is easy. Academic studies have found that legalized abortion, by encouraging premarital sex, increased the number of unplanned births, even outweighing the reduction in unplanned births due to abortion….

…first birth did not go like you wanted, get a doula for your birth. Or use a birth center or practice that employs midwives. I cannot overemphasize this one enough…

…perpetuated birtherism, many (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 etc …) distanced themselves from Trump and Birthers (who at the times had as much to do with the Democratic Party as they did with the…

…her opinions on birth control. Their logic is essentially that because Palin had two unplanned pregnancies, she isn’t qualified to have an opinion on birth control. Granted, Palin isn’t the…

…sustain the birth rate of 2.1, and a Centers for Disease Control report in 2013 indicated that the average number of births per woman in the United States was 1.88….

…birth control access, can be physical, emotional, and economic insecurity for women and kids. Bill and Melinda Gates claim that birth control contributes to “maternal and child survival, education, prosperity…when…

…of maternal mortality and race-based disparities in outcomes among birthing people.” The phrase “birthing people” previously drew controversy in May when it was used during a House Oversight Committee hearing…

Unfortunately, birth control is no longer available in the United States because, you know, the patriarchy. Or at least that’s what Amy Schumer’s sketch, “Ask if Birth Control Is Right…

President Trump has caused larger-than-usual ripples in the news with his thoughts on limiting birthright citizenship. There are first constitutional considerations about whether jus soli citizenship can be limited at…

…theories regarding Barack Obama’s birth. “I wish we as a party had stood up, for example, when the birtherism thing was going on,” Flake explained on NBC’s “Meet the Press”…

The United States is facing a historic collapse in its birth rate, which has many people scrambling to figure out ways to reverse that trend. If you can believe it,…

…to pay for things over their religious objections, and at a time when covering 16 forms of birth control out of 20 is culturally insufficient, the Obama administration will be…

…birth records. I hope the lawyers at this conference will speak the truth about the roadblocks regretters encounter in restoring original gender markers on their birth records. Judges so far…

…of affairs in a country of roughly 330 million. There are also about 3.8 million births each year. So for deaths to exceed births in the coming year, the Wuhan…

…multiple dictionaries, “perinatal” means “the period around childbirth, especially the five months before and one month after birth.” The California Family Council notes that definitions of the word all include…

…the nation’s abortions. 1. Parroting the ‘Pro-Birth’ Smear “If we’re going to ban abortion,” Mace said during the Fox interview, “what are we doing about” issues such as promoting access…

…sex but are seeking pregnancy or already pregnant. Many people who use birth control do not do so effectively. The pregnancy prevention rate of birth-control pills used consistently and correctly…

…Celebrate Real Birthdays, Not PR ‘Birthdays’ In the article detailing Planned Parenthood’s projected transition into a more “human-centered” model of service, Dawn Laguens, the organization’s executive vice president and chief…

…some form of birth prevention in the past three months, not including 8 percent who have such sex but are seeking pregnancy or already pregnant. Many people who use birth…

…Why Planned Parenthood’s Birth Control Services Can Be Awful Because Planned Parenthood makes minimal profits selling birth control to customers who depend on Title X or Medicaid, the organization doesn’t…

…actually much higher, and Iceland is actually doing a thorough job of preventing the birth of babies with Down Syndrome. If the U.S. birth rate for Down Syndrome is only…

…explosion” regarding birth control that included a “cascade of misleading videos vilifying hormonal contraception” on social media outlets such as TikTok and Instagram. “Debunking common birth-control misconceptions,” was the title…