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.
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Posted inBlog Post, Science & Nature
What Makes a Disability Undesirable?
Should we try to correct disabilities to help the disabled, or make their existence easier for the abled?
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Pregnant, then Ruptured
After an emergency operation, Joanna Petrone considers the medical advances and legal protections that allow women to survive ectopic pregnancies.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Pregnant, then Ruptured
After an emergency operation, Joanna Petrone considers the medical advances and legal protections that allow women to survive ectopic pregnancies.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Uncommon Ancestry: Your Dad is My Dad?
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.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Wait: Is There Such a Thing as a Good Miscarriage?
Jessica Grose recounts the agonizing waiting period after an inconclusive ultrasound, and considers whether there is such a thing as a good miscarriage.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Biological Clocks and Biological Gender: Trans Women and the Dream of Pregnancy
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.