Will a New Kind of Pill Be the Holy Grail We Seek?

Medical, moral and metaphysical conclusions about the biology of reproduction have historically been...

Un-Doctored

Doctors’ conscientious objection to abortion can be a major obstacle to women who want, or are co...

The Biobag: A Brave New World, Part 1

Premature infants struggle to survive in a gaseous environment, which is why scientists have for dec...

“Conscience is the most sacred of all property.”

-James Madison
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Dan Savage

A Conversation with Dan Savage

As a teenager, you considered becoming a priest—but changed your mind soon after you enrolled at ...

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D.I.Y.

The advent of abortion pills as a health technology has deep personal and political consequence...

A sea of thousands of umbrellas of women and men participating in a nationwide “Black Monday” strike to protest a legislative proposal for a total ban on abortion in downtown Castle Square is pictured in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. Massive protests were held in the rain in the streets of Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw and elsewhere across the largely Catholic nation led by a conservative government. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

The More Things Change (the More They Stay the Same)

This year marks the 30th birthday of the internet—an invention that has come to characterize a gen...