In spring 1987, I was the public relations director for a private women’s hospital in the southeast. One day that year started with a press conference about triplets conceived through a new In Vitro Fertilization program at the hospital. The day ended with me as a patient in the same facility, suffering a miscarriage from [...]
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Yes, Abortion Should Be Between a Family, Their Doctor…and Their Surrogate
Reproductive rights revolve explicitly around the argument that all medical procedures should be between a woman, her doctor, and, when applicable, her partner or family. There is no other case than in a woman’s right to choose where so many politicians, activists and outright strangers feel it is not only their job but their actual [...]
Reproductive Math
If you maybe want a baby—and you have the means—you have options these days. IVF. Donor eggs. Surrogates. Or if your parents have the means, would-be grandparents have started to pay for freezing of “just in case she gets too old” eggs for later use for their daughters, although this route remains untested for its [...]
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I Want My Mother Back
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Charles Ramsey and the Racial Language Barrier
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Brave’s Merida is Herself Again. But for How Long?
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Can “Maybe” Empower Our Children in Times of Fear?
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When Big Pharma “Strong” Arms Mothers, We All Lose
