Changes In Fertility Therapies Perhaps The Cause Of Decline In Higher-Order Births

Triplet And Higher-Order Births, In U.S. Down 41% by Nicholas Bakalar. The New York Times.  May 30, 2016

Babies With Genetic Material From Three People The Subject Of New Rules In The UK

Rules For Babies 'From Three People' by James Gallagher.  BBCDecember 17, 2014.

A Vision Of The Future Of Reproduction From The Inventor of the Contraceptive Pill

Sex Will Soon Be Just For Fun, Not Babies, Says Father Of the Pill by Sarah Knapton.  Montreal Gazette.  November 9, 2014.

Five Predictions About The Future Of Reproduction: More Diverse Parents; More Similar Children?

Making Babies:  Five Predictions About The Future Of Reproduction by Alexis C. Madrigal.  The Atlantic.  May 21, 2014.

90 Year Old Doctor With 35,000 Daughters

At 90, This Doctor Is Still Calling.  Opinion.  Nicholas Kristof.  The New York Times.  February 5, 2014.

Inspiring profile of Catherine Hamlin a gynecologist who has spent most of her life in Ethiopia caring for with a childbirth injury called obstetric fistula.

MTV Series Illustrates The Impact of New Reproductive Technologies On Families

Half Siblings Linked By Mystery Father by Jon Caramancia.  The New York Times.  November 24, 2013.

This reality show focuses on one young woman who visits families with children who are her half siblings as a result of sperm donations by one man at a California sperm bank.  This series is scheduled for six episodes on MTV.

Countering Trend, California Expands Access To Abortion; Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Midwives Now Eligible to Perform Procedure

California Expands Availability Of Abortion by Ian Lovett.  The New York Times.  October 9, 2013.

(1)  Nurse practitioners, midwives, and physician assistants, under a new law can perform a common type of abortion, an _________ abortion, during the first trimester.

(2)  The author of the bill stated that women in rural parts of the state ______________________.

(3)   Right to life advocates said that the law expands the number of abortions while reducing ____________.

(4)  So far this year _________ restrictions on abortion have been passed by states.

(5)  According to supporters of the law a state pilot program demonstrated that physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and certified nurse midwives could _________________.

Freezing My Eggs: A Personal Account

Why I Froze My Eggs (And You Should, Too) by Sarah Elizabeth Richards.  The Wall Street Journal. May 3, 2013.

Since the American Society for Reproductive Medicine no longer considers egg freezing as an experimental practice due to improved success rates through a process known as vitrification, more women are considering this as an option.  This article is an informative, first-person account.

Viable Eggs Created From Normal Cells

Japan Team Offers Fertility Hope with Stem Cell Eggs.  New York Daily News.  October 5, 2012.

Using mice, Japanese researchers have created viable eggs from normal cell.  Mice stem cells were harvested and genetically altered to create the primordial germ cells that create sperm and eggs. The cells were extracted, fertilized, and implanted into surrogate mother mice.  The mice pups born were healthy and able to reproduce.  With further research this type of approach could be beneficial for reproductive medicine in humans.