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 ...
Knowing the law gives you the best tool to bend it but it doesn’t ensure you’ll get away clean, especially when your shady line of business means making big bucks from people’s desperation. Theresa Erickson, a lawyer specializing in reproductive law, pleaded guilty to wire fraud for faking surrogacy documents she presented to the San ...
Whether it’s because they want to start decorating their baby’s room, pick out names, or they just hate surprises, some couples want to know the sex of their baby as early as possible. If you fall under any of these categories, a simple blood test can do the trick. Blood tests that are done around ...
Child birth is supposed to be the miracle of life, but the women who have gone through it know that it’s only a miracle once the pain-relieving hormones have kicked in after the baby is out. Before that, it’s pretty painful and can be dangerous, so special care needs to be put in ensuring a ...
The Male Pill is apparently on its way. Yes, soon men will be able to take care of their contraceptive needs in a convenient tablet to be crumbled daily over their Cheerios, and need never bother with the difficulty, embarrassment and expense of condoms ever again. Women will be protected from the risk of unwanted ...
Halina Jane Gillett has Erb’s Palsy. This disease, also known as Erb-Duchenne Palsy, is a paralysis of the arm caused by injury to the upper group of the arm’s main nerves, and often manifests itself after a difficult birth. Gillett was pulled out of the womb by a forceps, even though her mother asked for ...
Mark Zuckerberg has never hidden his desire for Facebook to be the place where users share everything. From your favourite sports to the people you admire, your home town to your entire work history, they can all be listed in their special dedicated box on your profile. The newest addition: a built-in option to tell ...
Virginity loss has been the bane of many young people’s existence. Once friends take the plunge and spread legs, there is a fire that begins to burn inside, pushing you to join the club. But is the club really so fantastic any way? Obviously, sex is wonderful. It allows you to make mature decisions about ...
“There was a girl here. Ayesha is her name. She is 10 years old. Very tiny. The man she married is 50 years old, with a big belly, like so,” a man called Mohammed explained to a National Geographic writer visiting Yemen to write about the plight of child brides. “Like a rat getting married to ...
Desperate times call for desperate measures — The women in Mali are a sad example of that adage. Because of the extreme poverty, women who are pregnant often find themselves having no other solution than to kill their babies, making infanticide or attempted infanticide the most common crime after theft and assault among inmates at the ...
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
