Policy, Politics, Public Health, Reproductive Ethics
The Dark Side of Wearables: A Potential Fertility Surveillance Network
While there is an abundance of literature noting the risks of period tracking apps in jurisdictions with strict abortion...
Subject: Reproductive Ethics
Abortion, End of Life Care, Ethics, Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Policy, Politics, Reproductive Ethics
The Adriana Smith Case Unfolding in Atlanta Raises Many Questions
The widely discussed Adriana Smith case unfolding in Atlanta raises many thorny ethical questions. Despite the case’s hi...
Abortion, Conflict of Interest, Health Regulation & Law, Reproductive Ethics
The US Needs Confidential Birth
The coin was severed into two pieces, each with a puncture hole. The parents threaded string through one of the halves a...
Cultural, Editorial-AJOB, Reproductive Ethics
Health Consequences of an Ideological Perspective on Population Growth in Iran
This editorial can be found in the July 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics The promise of “Independence, Fr...
Editorial-AJOB, Reproductive Ethics
Bodily Autonomy & the Patient’s Right to Refuse Medical Care
This editorial can be found in the February 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. The Supreme Court’s decisio...
Reproductive Ethics
Coercive Sterilization Isn’t A Matter of the Past: A Call to Action for Medical Providers...
Reproductive coercion is alive and well in the United States, violently robbing women of their ability to build f...
Gender Disparities, Reproductive Ethics
The Retrievals, Episode 2: The Nurse
Welcome back to my analysis of The Retrievals – a new podcast about women’s pain from This American Life and The N...
Editorial-AJOB, Gender Disparities, Health Regulation & Law, Policy, Politics, Reproductive Ethics
Why I’m Not Backing Down From Fighting for Our Right to Abortion
On the morning of Friday, June 24, 2022, over half of the population of the United States was stripped of a fundamental ...
Health Disparities, Politics, Reproductive Ethics
Abortion: Welcome to the Sixties
In November 1964, 9 years before the right to an abortion was codified by Roe v. Wade, I was an intern in a busy, urban ...
COVID-19 pandemic, Ethics, Health Disparities, Public Health, Reproductive Ethics
I Will Definitely (Probably?) Get The COVID-19 Vaccine While Pregnant
by Amie Devlin, MPH, MA As a pregnant epidemiologist and bioethicist with an interest in clinical research, the developm...
Gender Disparities, Informed Consent, Justice, Professionalism, Reproductive Ethics, Social Justice, Vulnerable Populations
Doctor Performs Hysterectomies on Immigrant Detainees
by Craig Klugman In a startling whistleblower report, Dawn Looten who is a licensed nurse practitioner at the Irwin Coun...
Politics, Public Health, Reproductive Ethics
Everyone should support abortion-free vaccines
by Mark Christopher Navin, PhD; Michael Redinger, MD, MA Some leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates—including those being ...