Binders Full of Men By Jennifer Berney Feature In an excerpt from her new book on fertility, feminism, and queer family-building, Jennifer Berney explores the possibilities of sperm banks.
Game of Crones By Laura Lippman Feature It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.
The Fertility Doctor’s Secret Children By Krista Stevens Highlight Donald Cline justified his deception with choice bible verses, so that makes everything okay.
Mega-drought and Me By Zoe Fenson Feature As California gets drier, a woman entering her 30s reflects on PCOS, pregnancy, and her desire to have children.
Making Peace with Selective Reduction By Amber Leventry Feature When risks arise in her partner’s pregnancy with triplets, Amber Leventry discovers that letting go of one life doesn’t have to mean losing faith, or love.
From One Friendship, Lessons on Life, Death, AIDS, and Childlessness By S. Kirk Walsh Feature S. Kirk Walsh reflects on her friendship with a gay man battling AIDS — how he taught her to grieve her own infertility, and live life more fully.
What Makes a Disability Undesirable? By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Should we try to correct disabilities to help the disabled, or make their existence easier for the abled?
Pregnant, then Ruptured By Joanna Petrone Feature After an emergency operation, Joanna Petrone considers the medical advances and legal protections that allow women to survive ectopic pregnancies.
Uncommon Ancestry: Your Dad is My Dad? By Krista Stevens Highlight Alison Motluk writes on how fertility doctors impregnating their own clients is more common than you might think, and on how the law around tracking sperm donors and donations is impotent against the problem.
The Wait: Is There Such a Thing as a Good Miscarriage? By Krista Stevens Highlight Jessica Grose recounts the agonizing waiting period after an inconclusive ultrasound, and considers whether there is such a thing as a good miscarriage.
Biological Clocks and Biological Gender: Trans Women and the Dream of Pregnancy By Michelle Weber Highlight Belle Boggs writes in Guernica, exploring what the possibility of uterine transplants — no matter how remote or unaccessible the science is — means for trans women.
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