conception – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

22 Mar

Reproductive health clinics scramble as Title X funding cliff approaches

PhoenixLatest Newsconception, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump, United States

A group of 128 Democratic members of Congress is calling on the federal government to prevent a funding shortfall for reproductive health clinics in less than two weeks.

03 Mar

Trump administration distorting science on safety of FDA-approved contraception, former FDA officials tell Appeals Court

ChaseLatest Newsconception, FDA, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Three former Food and Drug Administration officials say the Trump administration distorted the science on the safety of FDA-approved contraceptives when it published final rules expanding religious or moral exemptions for employers who want to deny their employees no-cost contraceptive coverage as provided for in the Affordable Care Act.

02 Nov

The science of conception is clear

AlanLatest Newsconception, Healthcare, Pregnancy, Reproductive rights, United States

Regarding the article “Abortion issue key in retention vote” (Oct. 26): Science is a prime value in American culture. At least a dozen embryology texts, dating from 1887 (Quimby, I.N. Address at the 38th Annual Meeting of the A.M.A.: ”the life of the foetus commences at the moment of conception”) to 1964 (Guttmacher, A.F. et al in “Planning Your Family,” p. 36: “Fertilization, then, has taken place; a baby has been conceived”) refer to fertilization as the beginning of a new life.

08 Jul

Why we’re actually fighting over a medical procedure that allows the infertile to have children

AlanLatest Newsconception, IVF, Opinion, United States, US Senate

Not long ago, in vitro fertilization — the medical process by which human sperm and ovum are united in clinical conditions outside a woman’s body and later implanted, giving the otherwise childless a chance at having a child — would have met scant resistance in the chambers of political power.