January 30, 2010
You’re a bad mother. No kids? That’s why. A new study has come out informing working women that having a baby over the age of 30 is practically a miraculous event, and that having kids over 40 is actually evidence of the Rapture.
Tags: aging, babies, conception, feminism, fertility, womenMick, Morning Quickie
December 15, 2009
Michelle Duggar gave birth to her nineteenth child on Thursday. The premature baby was born at only one pound, six ounces and the mother is still recovering from the emergency c-section. While we wish them both health, it begs the question, how many babies is too much? Where I live, women are basically baby making ...
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November 27, 2009
With women delaying children into their late 30s and early 40s infertility is becoming more and more of an issue for couples to deal with. Dr. Sherman Silber, a fertility expert, is exploring a new way to battle infertility: freezing ovarian tissue.
Tags: age, babies, biological clock, fertility, IVF, parents, pregnancy, reproductive health, reproductive technology, women's rightsMack, Morning Quickie
October 22, 2009
Scientists have proven that models are becoming extinct… well, sort of. A study of over 14,000 women showed which way the evolutionary winds are blowing. Women who are shorter and plumper are wining the survival of the fittest. The downside is the the women of the future will have to deal with more periods.
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October 8, 2009
Mick // With their usual careful treatment of facts, the Daily Mail has declared that the pill “has put women off masculine men.” My love affair with Brad Pitt, like all great romances, was a complex thing. What it did, however, was prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that being on the pill does ...
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October 8, 2009
Mack // The Daily Mail has published a story that attempts to explain how the contraceptive pill might cause women to be attracted to less masculine men and how taking the pill makes women less attractive to men. This is a great example of how scientific research is often drastically misrepresented by the media and ...
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October 5, 2009
Mack // Researchers are recruiting for a trial birth control injection for men in Scotland. Getting an injection to lower sperm count will work better than condoms and is fully reversible.
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