What does it mean to have a “real choice” about abortion? I am writing this book review as the Supreme Court hears arguments over...

In her latest book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health, sociologist Rene Almeling asks why all the public...

New Metaphors to Make Miscarriages Easier to Talk About, and Easier to Bear For someone who has been trying for a pregnancy, it is...

I wrote this letter to the editor of my local newspaper after my community experienced a Covid outbreak from a teen party, resulting in a...

Bess Williamson’s Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design is a thought-provoking and edifying look at the shifting culture...

This is a pre-publication draft of my review of Jacqueline Wolf’s Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and...

With the arrival of cheaper and more user-friendly home pregnancy tests in the 1980s, women were able to confirm their pregnancies...

In the decade and a half that I spent researching my book “The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America,” I...

Lara Freidenfelds’s new book, The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America, explores the history of pregnancy...

After I miscarried my first pregnancy, I quickly realized that I needed a historical perspective to make sense of this shockingly...

It was not that long ago that “test tube babies” only existed in science fiction. I remember my shock when, in 2007, one of my students...

In Mother Is a Verb, Sarah Knott takes her reader on a historian’s journey into motherhood. It is a sort of train travelogue, riding...

What happens when the person who delivers most of the babies in her community is arrested? This is a tale of two midwives, separated by...

Last week at a Vatican conference on abortion, Pope Francis “argued that children who were not expected to live long after birth deserved...

It’s a rare academic history book that tempts me to binge-read.  Wendy Kline’s Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth is one of those...

“Wait on the curb, kids. Wait until I say you can cross.” Janice, the crossing guard at Fairmount Avenue, stepped briskly into traffic,...

“In her new book, “Becoming,” Michelle Obama reveals that she miscarried her first pregnancy, and went on to conceive her two daughters...

Quick — is your nearest hospital affiliated with the Catholic Church? This is a question I would not have been able to answer during my...

Randi Hutter Epstein’s new book, Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything, traces the development of...

What led a Walgreeens pharmacist to deny a woman her prescription. Read the rest at the Washington Post #conscienceclause #misoprostol