For women who have had a child before, giving birth is just as safe in a hospital, at home, or with a midwife, according to a new study. The research looked at 64,500 births in England and concluded that low-risk mothers should have the right to choose where they give birth. Who is low risk? ...
I’ve often wondered what the woman behind the birth control revolution in England was like in real life. It turns out that in addition to being a pioneer in the field of birth control, Dr. Marie Stopes was a famous biologist who was the first woman to accomplish many things, and her personal life was ...
Should contraception be free? A group of American experts is meeting in November to determine whether it could be covered under the healthcare bill as preventative care. “There is clear and incontrovertible evidence that family planning saves lives and improves health,” said obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. David Grimes, an international family planning expert. “Contraception rivals immunization in ...
A fertility doctor has recommended that women in their 20s and even late teens should freeze ovarian tissue so they can have healthier babies when they are older. Dr Sherman Silber recommends not freezing individual eggs, as is currently done, but freezing ovarian tissues by taking a sliver out. This would allow up to 60,000 ...
Most women wouldn’t trust a man to take a birth control pill. And most men don’t want to deal with the hormonal side effects (moodiness, lower libido) of taking a pill. These have been the most significant stumbling blocks to finding a male contraceptive. Luckily scientists have now found a simple solution to these problems!
In America, anti-abortion advocates must be celebrating in the streets. Eleven states have passed laws this year restricting abortion and 370 state bills are under consideration. I think it’s time we finally accept that women will never be completely free to choose and there will always be an ongoing battle over rights to abortion. Also, for ...
The abortion pill will soon be available at selected GPs across the UK. In spite of being 97% effective and available in France since 1988 it is still being hotly debated around the world. It is a form of medicinal abortion where the woman takes a drug that causes her to miscarry up to 9 ...
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 ...
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 how the ...
It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...
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...
