The importance of assisted reproductive technologies for women in...
<p>While assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are common in most “developed” countries (the global North), in the global South (“developing” countries), ART is generally not available for a...
View ArticleUnderstanding Abortion
<p class="MsoNormal">Abortion is a contentious issue and one that gets a lot of attention by politicians and in the media. These debates on the ethics of abortion often take place on the...
View ArticleRemote Control Birth Control
<p>The goal of the <a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Family-Planning">Bill & Miranda Gates Foundation Family Planning program</a> is “to...
View ArticleViagra Versus the Pill
<p>Given the continuing controversy surrounding insurance coverage for female contraceptives, I want to point out another drug that also targets sexuality and reproduction yet does not generate...
View ArticleHow does the history of contraceptive responsibility shape current...
<p style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">One of the more controversial parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the mandate that insurance...
View ArticleThe New Abortion Issue: The Moral Status of Women
<p style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Let me emphatically state at the outset of this short blog: I have always thought the elective...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Uterus Transplantation
<p><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">In the last couple of years, the media has reported women undergoing uterus transplantations. Just last month, </span><a...
View ArticleThe Need for Patient Navigators for Fertility Preservation
<p style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Although life-saving, cancer treatments (e.g. radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery) can also lead...
View ArticleFrankenstein babies and designer babies? Ethical concerns raised by “3 person...
<p style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><a href="http://www.popsci.com/uk-one-step-closer-using-dna-3-people-make-babies">The story</a> about the UK...
View ArticleIdeological Struggles Old and New in America: The Inappropriate Use of...
<p><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">The history of America from the beginning was a struggle of opposing ideological perspectives over the role...
View ArticleiPhone App Will Track Sexual Activity and Reproduction
<div style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Apple recently announced that they will update their health app, HealthKit, to include reproductive health. Many were...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood and fetal tissue donation
<p style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Planned Parenthood recently made national news because an anti-abortion group released an <a...
View ArticleMarketing Trumps Science, or How the Pink Pill Does Not Even the Score
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">This month’s blog...
View ArticleIs Sex Selection Ethical?
<p>In some countries where there is a strong preference for sons due to cultural and religious reasons, women sometimes choose to have an abortion after learning the sex of the fetus they carry...
View ArticleElective or life-saving? Catholic hospitals and the ban on tubal ligation
<p style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 19.04px;"><span style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 19.04px;">A Catholic hospital </span><a style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height:...
View ArticleMy Child, Your Womb
Gestational surrogacy contracts have been in the news again recently as a gestational surrogate reports that the intended father, having discovered that she is expecting triplets, is demanding that she...
View ArticleShould providers offer oncofertility to patients with a poor prognosis?
Whereas quality of life issues for cancer patients used to minimized, and sometimes even ignored, today there is more of a focus on cancer patients’ quality of life post-cancer. One such quality of...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts On Abortion and Valuing Human Life
Who could be against life? Ancient natural law theory in the Catholic tradition tells us that human beings desire to live, and that life is good, therefore humans have an obligation to live and not...
View ArticleThe ethics of Indiana HB 1337: Outlawing abortion based on race, sex, and...
In March, the Indiana legislature passed and the Indiana governor signed into law HB 1337, a bill that bans abortions for women seeking them based solely on certain characteristics of the fetus, such...
View ArticleThe Politics of Fetal Pain
Earlier this year, Utah passed a fetal pain bill that requires the use of general anesthesia on women seeking abortions at 20 weeks gestation or later. This bill, which relies on a controversial...
View ArticleThe Politics of Fetal Pain: Why This Is Not A Legislative Issue
I read with interest the recent blog by my colleagues Paul Burcher and Claire Horner entitled “The Politics of Fetal Pain”. In their blog they discuss the recent fetal pain bill passed in Utah, which...
View ArticleMore on the Male Pill: Social Reasons Why It Is Good for Women and Men
In my previous blog , I discussed how the lack of male contraception reduces men’s reproductive autonomy and burdens women with the health-related and financial consequences of being the one...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Crisis Pregnancy Centers
"Pregnant? Scared? Need Help?" read signs along major thoroughfares in the southern United States. Many Americans have seen signs like these, often simultaneously advertising free pregnancy and...
View ArticleThe ethics of conscientious objection: Caring for patients and supporting...
Although conscientious objection arises in various areas of medicine, notably end-of-life issues (e.g. physician assisted death), it is ubiquitous in all aspects of reproductive medicine and women’s...
View ArticleNo More Clitting Around: Let’s Talk about Clitoris Transplants
Quality of life transplantations (e.g. hand, face, etc.), in contrast to life-saving transplantations (e.g. heart, lungs, etc.), have become increasingly popular and have gained more acceptance in the...
View ArticleThe Male Pill: Will It Help Advance Gender Equality?
Last month, I was honored to be named one of the BBC 100 Women of 2019, which is a list they compile each year of inspiring and influential women. The list includes women from around the world of all...
View ArticleInfertility Injustice: Why We Need Better Options to Treat Male Factor...
Reproduction is generally associated with women and consequently men’s reproductive is often neglected. One clear example of this is the discrepancy in female and male contraceptives. Women have over...
View ArticleArtificial wombs and egg freezing: Reproductive technologies will not “solve”...
The possibility of artificial womb technology (ectogenesis) is no longer hypothetical. Three years ago, scientists put a premature lamb fetus in an artificial womb and it was able to develop normally...
View ArticleThe American Society for Reproductive Medicine Covid-19 Guidelines: In Favor...
In response to the global Covid-19 pandemic, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) created a specific task force to address infertility treatments, which were only indirectly mentioned...
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