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The Flip-flop over Foreskin
This is a guest post by Elizabeth Reis, professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Oregon. Professor Reis is the author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (Johns...
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Now It’s Everybody’s Fault
By Adam Turner Welcome to the second in a series of posts discussing genetics, prenatal testing, and genetic counseling. In this post we'll be thinking about blame and birth atypicality. Earlier this...
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What Does Responsibility Have to Do with Reproduction?
By Adam Turner Genetic counseling, as the previous two posts in this series suggest, has a lot to offer for navigating the tricky decisions things like prenatal testing and preimplantation genetic...
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Beauty and Babies
By Cheryl Lemus Two nights ago I ran across a story about Farrah Abraham, who set off a firestorm when she posted online that she waxed and tweezed her 3-year-old daughter’s eyebrows because she had...
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Just Add Water . . . and Sperm
By Tina M. Kibbe As an historian of science and medicine, I am always interested in both the histories of and the latest innovations in genetic and reproductive technologies. It is unbelievable how far...
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Do No Harm: Intersex Surgeries and the Limits of Certainty
By Elizabeth Reis The Southern Poverty Law Center and Advocates for Informed Choice have filed a lawsuit against the South Carolina Department of Social Services (SCDSS), Greenville Hospital System,...
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I am a Real Mother
Sandra Trudgen Dawson A few weeks ago I heard an interview between Terri Gross and Jennifer Gilmore on NPR discussing Gilmore’s new novel, The Mothers.[1] The novel is based on Gilmore’s experience as...
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Breastfeeding 101: Why This Discussion Still Matters
by Rachel Epp Buller I had the opportunity to visit Los Angeles over the weekend and facilitate a panel discussion about breastfeeding. The audience consisted of mothers of infants and toddlers as well...
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My Children and the Limits of White Privilege
By Danielle Swiontek The community in which I live held a march in memory of Trayvon Martin two weeks ago. It seemed so dated, in a way. In this 24-hour news cycle that we live in, it feels like...
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Thalidomide—The Good and The Bad
By Sandra Trudgen Dawson I was listening to the BBC world news the other day and a story caught my attention. The story was about an epidemic of birth defects in Brazil, particularly in the slums of...
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Birth Certificates can be Changed; Surgery is Forever
By Elizabeth Reis We shouldn’t get too enthusiastic about Germany’s new birth certificate designation: “indeterminate.” Because the category will be an obligatory designation for babies born with...
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The Pain of Choice: Late Term Abortion and Catastrophic Fetal Diagnoses
By Ginny Engholm Recently, there’s been a lot of talk in both the political sphere and the blogosphere about the magic twentieth week of pregnancy. For some women, blissfully unaware of the fragility...
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Sportscasters Advocate Elective Cesarean Section
By Lara Freidenfelds Last week, Momsrising.org and others excoriated sportscasters Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton for obnoxiously opining that baseball player Daniel Murphy should have told his wife...
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The Boy Who Lived: Stillbirth and Life after Death
By Meggan Woodbury Bilotte How do you grieve for a stillborn child? How do you ensure your child is remembered for having lived, not just for having died? These are the questions that Elizabeth...
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Review: Positively Negative: Love, Pregnancy, and Science’s Surprising...
By Lara Freidenfelds What would you do if you desperately wanted to have a baby, and your spouse had HIV? In the mid-1990s, the introduction of highly-effective HIV drug regimens turned HIV from a...
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