Fertility

Births Up -- No, Down!: Stats and the Politics of Fertility Anxiety

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 08.27.2008 | Style

Read More: Family Friendly Policy, Census, Sex, Breaking News, Birth Rates, Cdc, Fertility, Fertility Anxiety, Living Childfree, Teen Birth Rise, Women's Work, Women's Education, Style News
Elizabeth Gregory

Anxiety helps put pressure on women to have babies now, at whatever age -- along with the recent highly politicized decreases in access to birth control, especially for younger women.

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8-8-08

One For The Table | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Fertility, Babies, Lucky Numbers, China and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, 8-8-08, Living News
One For The Table

Even if I wanted to have a baby in China today, I couldn't: in a country where over 60% of births are delivered by c section, the hospitals have been booked for months.

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40 Years Later, an "Infallible" Ban on Modern Birth Control

Robert Engelman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Population, Catholic Church, Birth Control Pill, Family Planning, Reproductive Rights, Contraception, Reproductive Health, Birth Control, Fertility, Sex, Living News
Robert Engelman

The Church's policy paradoxically has made it harder for people of every faith to use safe and effective contraception, especially if they are young, unmarried, and poor.

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$11 Million Twins: Brangelina Is in the Business of Making Us Look

Vanessa Richmond | Posted 07.17.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Pregnant, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Brangelina Twins, Tabloids, Angelina Jolie, People Magazine, Celebrity Magazines, Brangelina, Angelina Jolie Twins, Celebrities, Brangelina Twins Pictures, Fertility, Celebrity Kids, Entertainment News
Vanessa Richmond

Why do readers want to see the genetic spawn of people who memorize other people's words for a living?

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Halle, Baby! Cate, Baby!: Scripting the New Later Motherhood

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 04.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Helen Hunt, Changing Lifescripts, Later Motherhood, Cate Blanchett, Halle Berry, Pregnancy, Motherhood, Fertility, Amy Poehler, Older Moms, Breaking Living News, Living News
Elizabeth Gregory

We're asked to think simultaneously that nobody can get pregnant after 35 and that everybody (at least all celebs) can. But, later motherhood is not just a celebrity thing.

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Male Fertility Determined In Utero, Research Suggests

BBC | Posted 03.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Fertility, Male Fertility, Living News

Male fertility problems are determined in the womb, research from the University of Edinburgh suggests. Common genital disorders, low sperm count and...

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Celebrating Fertile Bodies as Well as Fertile Minds

Karen Kisslinger | Posted 02.29.2008 | Living

Read More: HPV Vaccine, Hpv, Reproduction, Family Planning, Maternity Leave, Midwives, Midwife, Pregnancy, Fertility, Paternity Leave, Planned Parenthood, Sexuality, Gardasil, The Doctor's Case Against the Pill, Women's Sexuality, Birth Control Pill, Women's Health, Barbara Seaman, Doula, Living News
Karen Kisslinger

Barbara Seaman's general advice on new innovations for women: "wait 5 years" until we know if it's really safe.

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On Indian Surrogates

Beth Kohl | Posted 10.30.2007 | Living

Read More: India, Women's Bioethics Project, Surrogate Motherhood, India Fertility Clinics, In Vitro Fertilization, Infertility, Reproductive Tourism, In Vitro, Surrogate Moms, Indian Surrogates, Pregnancy, Fertility, Women in India, Surrogacy, Bioethics, Assisted Reproductive Technology, IVF, Living News
Beth Kohl

Iron clad boundaries and clear roles, the sorts that the Akanksha Clinic in India insists upon for their IVF patients and surrogates, should matter immensely to potential parents.

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English Fertility Center Swaps Stem Cells For Discounts

Wall Street Journal | Jacob Goldstein | Posted 09.13.2007 | Business

Read More: Fertility, Stem Cell Research, In-Vitro Fertilization, Business News

The friendly folks at the Newcastle Fertility Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England would be glad to give you a 50% discount on in-vitro fertilizatio...

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Thank you, Rod Stewart. Seriously.

Christine Kenneally | Posted 09.05.2007 | Living

Read More: Human Race, Evolution, Fertility, Relationships, Older Men With Younger Women, Living News
Christine Kenneally

Scientists say, in not exactly these words, that it is the old goats who keep the human race alive for longer.

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