Women are being sterilized without their permission or knowledge in Uzbekistan as the result of a secret government policy to keep statistics for maternal and infant death artificially low. Uzbekistan is a small dictatorship in Central Asia and has recently gained strategic importance to countries involved in the conflict in Afghanistan (including the US) as ...
I can’t imagine how awkward it must be to..you know..produce a sperm sample at the doctor’s office. It seems downright impossible with all those people around, in a small room that has been used for that purpose for years. Fortunately for men, this humiliating visits may soon be over. There is now an inexpensive way ...
Thin women have a harder time conceiving than overweight women, according to a new study. A healthy woman has a one in two chance of having a baby, and an overweight woman has only slightly lower chances. Underweight women, however, only have a one in three chance. Being too skinny is bad for you. Why ...
Most people have babies, they don’t win them. But some couples need help to have kids and assisted reproductive technology can be costly and, therefore, inaccessible. Recently, an Ottawa radio station gave couples hope with their “Win A Baby!” contest. You may not literally win a baby, but one couple wins a chance at having ...
Doctors are discussing whether fat women deserve to have babies. Specifically, they are deciding whether obese patients should have access to fertility treatments. “Get off your 50 pounds or so and exercise and then see where your fertility is at,” said Beverly Hanck, executive director of the Infertility Awareness Association of Canada. Obese women, even if ...
Dear Madame X, A nice couple is willing to pay me $10,000 to harvest my eggs and I’ve accepted. Now comes the hard part (no, not the medical stuff) — telling people. My boyfriend was horrified — even though he never wants kids. He doesn’t like the idea but can’t give me a good reason ...
As abortion laws go crazy and anti-abortion groups picket themselves into a frenzy, a new type of abortion is coming onto the scene. Women who are told that they will be having twins now have the option to continue with a Two-Minus-One Pregnancy, aborting one child and keeping the other. Many mothers dealt the unfortunate ...
Infertility is often a problem mostly associated with women but a new studyhas just uncovered a genetic mutation in men that lowers their partners’ chances of giving birth by 30 percent. Researchers from the University of California, Davis have found that around one in every 250 men has a genetic mutation that stops the production ...
Susi Henson, 33, just wants to have a baby of her own. This could be near impossible, though, due to polycystic ovarian syndrome that has formed cycts on her ovaries, not allowing her to conceive naturally without IVF treatment. So, she and her husband, 40, applied for the miracle treatment and waited six months for ...
Having trouble getting pregnant? Why not invite a clown into your bedroom? A study in an IVF fertility centre looked at women who had seen a clown performance shortly after embryo transfer and those who hadn’t, and found that there was double the chance of conception for those who’d had their funny bones tickled. What ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
