pregnancy
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The Easiest Way to Prevent Pregnancy Isn't the Pill
A new study reveals that IUD's are the most effective contraceptive method (by far.)
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Documentary Exposes The Lies Women Are Fed At Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Women are misled through vague advertising, false warnings about the health risks of abortion, and more.
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The Abortion Situation In Ireland Keeps Getting Worse
The latest: a woman is forced to undergo a c-section 25 weeks into her pregnancy—17 weeks after she first attempted to get an abortion.
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Do You Want to Get "Fake Pregnant"?
False pregnancy test, shipped right to your home!
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Women's Rights Overseas: The Abortion Battle in Ireland
The debate over abortion in Ireland stays heated as lawmakers debate the passage of new reproductive rights bill.
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Royally Dressed: Kate Middleton's Best Baby Bump Looks
We look back on some of the best looks from the Duchess of Cambridge's pregnancy.
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North Dakota Approves the Nation's Strictest Abortion Ban
On Friday, North Dakota one-upped Arkansas by passing a bill that is twice as restrictive, banning most abortions after just six weeks into pregnancy.
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Advice for Rep. Todd Akin
Rep. Todd Akin decided not to shut the whole thing down yesterday—he’s still running for Missouri Senate despite being almost universally panned for his nutso comments on rape and pregnancy, made in an August 19 interview.
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Would You Post Your Pregnancy Test Results Online?
Women are uploading their "big reveal" on the internet. Sweet, or too much information?
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My Unwanted Abortion
As U.S. abortion rights come under yet further attack, Sarah Ivens — shattered by her unborn baby's diagnosis — had to end her pregnancy in one of the most hostile places imaginable.
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What's the Best Age to Have a Baby?
Whether your clock started ticking early or you're feeling a time crunch at 40, deciding when to have a baby is never simple.
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Why My Husband and I Started Searching for Another Woman
One woman's infertility taught her, among other things, how men really look at the opposite sex.
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I Had a Baby with My Gay Best Friends
Kitty Stillufsen opens up about how she used her two best male pals — and a baster — to conceive her daughter.
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How to Stay Fertile Longer
St. Louis—based fertility specialist Dr. Sherman Silber performed the first-ever successful ovary transplant—and has played stork to thousands of baby-craving women since then, using IVF and other techniques. We asked him about the newest ways to prolong our child-bearing years.
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Pregnant? Depressed? You're Not Alone
Ashamed, confused, and afraid to take meds, thousands of mothers-to-be struggle silently with depression. But avoiding treatment could be the worst choice for mom and baby.
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4 Things You Should Know About Expired Condoms
Condom horror story! An expired rubber causes quite an uncomfortable situation over in this neck of the woods ... so I contact Planned Parenthood to get the lo-down on obsolete rubbers. (What are your condom horror stories?)
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I Tackled a Powerful Family Legacy
Four generations of mothers in my family had given up their daughters, leaving me to wonder if motherhood was simply not in my DNA.
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The Abortion Debate: What Would You Do?
Holly Rossiter was pregnant with her second child when doctors discovered that, once born, it would quickly die. How could she bear to keep carrying it?THE TIMELINE: HOW LATE-TERM TERMINATION BECAME THE THIRD RAIL IN THE ABORTION DEBATE
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Abortion by Cow Meds
Let's say you're under 18, pregnant, and unable to get an abortion without parental consent, as is the case in 24 states. The logical thing to do would be to ... swallow some cow meds from a nearby farm?
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Would You Sacrifice Sex to Get Pregnant?
The purpose-driven sex life. Cara Birnbaum discovers the real cost of IVF.
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Knocked Up in Iran
Moaveni recounts the dangerous double life she led in a foreign but familiar land.
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Gender Selection Comes Stateside
Freaky Trend
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Abortion in the First World
F.Y.I.
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Why Condoms Have a Bad (W)Rap
I do not get along well with condoms. Last time I tried to apply a condom I was drunk. After ransacking my drawer as if I was robbing my own bedroom.
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Inside the Gloucester Pregnancy Pact
In 2008, 18 teenage girls upended a quiet Massachusetts town and caused America to let out a collective gasp. But was there really a pact?
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What Gives With Our Girls?
Alarms went off as I read last Friday’s AP report: The principal of the Gloucester (Massachusetts) High School had announced the results of an investigation into the spike in teen pregnancy, seventeen this year as compared to an average of four in other years. It seems that a group of girls made a pact to get pregnant. None of the girls were over sixteen, and in visits to the clinic, they seemed more upset to find that they weren’t pregnant than to find that they were. One teen listed the father of her unborn child as a homeless man. The administrators described them as “girls who lack self-esteem and have a lack of love in their life.” Meanwhile, we’re worried sick about the child brides and teen mothers on the YFZ Ranch—as well we should be. Some of these FLDS girls are forced to marry and procreate long before they are ready (as clearly established in Elissa Wall’s recent book, Stolen Innocence). But some defiantly embrace the practice of young marriage and youthful pregnancy—in Massachusetts suburbs and throughout the state of Texas, in cities and towns, as well as in isolated fundamentalist communities in Arizona and Utah. What gives with our girls in America?
