Giving Birth

Judy Hsu, ABC 7 Anchor, Gives Birth On The Eisenhower Expressway

ABC 7 | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago


ABC7 anchor Judy Hsu delivered her fourth baby - while riding in the front seat of a car on the Eisenhower Expressway -- early Tuesday morning. ...

10 Things They Never Tell You About Motherhood

Times Online | Sarah Vine | Posted 04.17.2009 | Living


Motherhood is one of the great obsessions of our age. Everyone seems to have an opinion, even those who will never experience it (men), and those for ...

The Morality of Eight Babies or, Sometimes, Even One

Valerie Tarico | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living


Valerie Tarico

Abortion opponents have no trouble saying that killing blastocysts is wrong. They don't say blastocysts. They say people. And then they attribute souls and personhood to fertilized eggs.

Why Are American Women Having More Children?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 02.07.2009 | Living


Philip N. Cohen

Even if the declining employment rates for women don't reflect general support for "opting out," the cultural elevation of women who choose to stay home with their kids is palpable.

Docs to Women: Pay No Attention to Ricki Lake's Home Birth

Ricki Lake, Jennifer Block, and Abby Epstein | Posted 06.26.2008 | Living


Ricki Lake, Jennifer Block, and Abby Epstein

The physicians of America have issued their decree -- they don't want you having your babies at home with midwives -- we can't imagine why not. They have no evidence to back up their claims.

Sex After The Baby

Elle.com | Posted 06.14.2008 | Living


When I got pregnant, there were many things I worried about: contributing to overpopulation, getting fat, losing my inner life, being a badly dressed ...

Newborn Babies Switched At Birth

abcnews.com | Chris Strathmann, Rich McHugh, and Imaeyen Ibanga | Posted 04.22.2008 | Living


New mother Kassie Hopkins had an eerie feeling when she was handed her newborn son after his March 28 birth at Heartland Regional Medical Center in Ma...

Womb For Rent: The Curious Lives Of Surrogates

Newsweek | Lorraine Ali and Raina Kelley | Posted 04.08.2008 | Living


But what kind of woman would carry a child to term, only to hand him over moments after birth? Surrogates challenge our most basic ideas about motherh...