Reproductive Tech

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...

The Biobag: A Brave New World, Part 1

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

The Biobag: A Brave New World, Part 2

n the 1970s, a debate about ectogenesis raged among early second-wave feminists. One side saw ectoge...

“Fertility” App Developed by Catholic Group That Opposes Contraception/Abortion

Hundreds of thousands of women around the world have downloaded FEMM, an app that tracks fertility b...

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App-ropriate Contraception?

Just under 60 years ago, the contraceptive pill was made widely available to women in the Western wo...

Campaign posters on a Dublin street prior to the referendum. © BRENDAN DONNELLY / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

Testing Times

“A World Without Down’s Syndrome?” is the title of a well-publicized BBC TV program fi...