Pregnancy and Childbirth

Now That 15-Year-Olds Can Access Emergency Contraception, Can We Get Rid of Those Terrible Subway Ads?

After an election season infused with contraception-bashing partisanship, on Tuesday the FDA lowered the age at which a person can access Plan B One-Step to 15. The federal government had required that women under 17 years-old obtain a prescription for emergency contraception, but in early April, a ... More >>

Pols Irked By Those Awkward Teen Pregnancy Ads On Subways

Two weeks ago, we here at the Voice reported on the new campaign conducted by the Department for Social Services. Along with a YouTube video series and teen texting program, anti-teenage-pregnancy ads that should make you feel uncomfortable were introduced to straphangers on subways across the five ... More >>

Protection For Some: NYC Teen Pregnancy Down By 27% Over Last Decade

Two things: less sex, more protection. According to the Daily News, that's the word coming from the New York City Health Department to explain a serious downward trend. In new data released yesterday, the City's youth has undergone a 27 percent drop in pregnancies over the last ten years. The res ... More >>

Even Pro-Life Christians Think Congressman Todd Akin Is "Extreme"

"He seems a little extreme."Those were the words we were shocked to hear this morning when we spoke to a pro-life Christian leader about the idiotic comments made by Congressman Todd Akin about women being able to magically end a pregnancy when they're the victims of "legitimate rape."Pastor Robert ... More >>

Congressman Todd Akin Concedes "Rape Can Lead To Pregnancy." But The Guy's Still A Liar

Senate hopeful Todd Akin continues to run damage control today as members of his own party are asking him to bow out of the Missouri Senate race after he attempted to re-write the laws of biology with his claim that rape victims have the miraculous ability to end their own pregnancies if the baby's ... More >>

Pregnant? Then Get an STD Test, for God's Sake

A lot of pregnant women don't get tested for sexually transmitted diseases. But a lot of pregnant need to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases, according to just released Centers for Disease Control stats. Out of some 1.3 million American women who had blood work during pregnancy, only 59 p ... More >>

Parent Trap: The Narrow Worldview of What to Expect When You're Expecting

Dawa Lama, Queens Monster Who Dumped Newborn In Hospital Trashcan, Gets 10 Years In Prison For Baby's Death

When Dawa Lama, 24, gave birth to a healthy baby boy in the bathroom at a Queens hospital last year, she could have easily turned him over to hospital staff if she felt she couldn't care for him. But she didn't -- she threw him in a trashcan in the bathroom at the hospital. He died seven days lat ... More >>

Dawa Lama, Queens Monster Who Threw Newborn In Hospital Trash Can, Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter; 10-Year Prison Sentence Expected

​When Dawa Lama, 24, gave birth to a healthy baby boy in the bathroom at a Queens hospital last year, she could have easily turned him over to hospital staff if she felt she couldn't care for the boy. But she didn't -- she threw him in a trashcan. He died seven days later -- and now Lama is likely ... More >>

Rick Santorum Opposes Prenatal Testing, Women

​Rick Santorum doesn't think that insurance companies should have to pay for a simple diagnostic test that determines whether a baby will be born sick or severely disabled. Santorum, who is so anti-abortion that he would make his own daughter carry a rape-baby to term, thinks that amniocente ... More >>

Pregnancy and Boozing Are a Bad Mix: Study

​File this under "parenting tips for selfish jackasses who should never, ever have children." A new study has found -- get ready -- that drinking during pregnancy is still really bad for the developing fetus, according to the U.S. News & World Report.

817 Jaydens Were Born in New York City Last Year

It's that time of year again! Let's look at what we all named our babies in New York City in the last year, and figure out which name is the "most popular," which really means your kid is just going to get called by a first and last name, or some other nickname, all his or her life, so as to differe ... More >>

Milk Like Sugar

NARAL's Endorsement of Eric Schneiderman: The Backstory

​NARAL New York just produced a video and hosted a press conference for Eric Schneiderman, the Democratic candidate for attorney general. NARAL has yet to even endorse Andrew Cuomo, the sitting attorney general who is running for governor. Yet it is governors who shape abortion policy; Ne ... More >>

Forever 21 Launches Maternity Line, Basically Forcing Teens to Get Pregnant

​Forever 21, purveyor of cheaply made, brightly colored teen-wear, has launched a maternity line. It's only in five states, three of which have some of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the country. In a store that's aimed at the teen and tween demographic, it's likely that this is a specifi ... More >>

US Military drops pregnancy penalty in Iraq

​Gen. Ray Odierno announced yesterday that a new code of conduct for soldiers in Iraq which goes into effect Jan. 1 will not include a controversial rule penalizing "all United States military personnel, and... all civilians, serving with, employed by, or accompanying" the military in northern ... More >>

BABY LOVE

Christina Anderson's new drama Inked Baby

Nina Hartley's Guide to Pregnant Sex

Her latest movie offers a sex-positive approach to that oft-neglected subject

Gone Baby Gone

The heroines of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days don't get to play pregnancy indie-cute

Bad Sushi: One in Four New Yorkers Have Elevated Mercury Levels

It's a Good One: Flying Liverwurst

I'm Pro-Choice and I Fuck

The intimate link between reproductive and sexual freedom

Born Again

When it comes to the abortion issue, TV shows are where they were 30 years ago.

A New Kind of Abortion War

Stealth Pro-Life Campaign Erodes Reproductive Rights

Listings

Affordable health care and services for women

Mothering the Mother

Postpartum doulas take care of moms when they need it most

Morning Report 8/20/05
Bangladesh Bomb Blasts? Sew What?

Oh Baby!

Pampering Mom for a happy birth day

Mothers Who Like to Fuck

Lusty moms share their sex secrets—the good, the bad, and the horny

Changing Station: Clothes for a Pregnant Britney

The Fetal Frontier

Pro-choice advocates wrestle with the uncomfortable

NyQuil, Yes. Morning-After Pill, No.

Bush welcomes next wave of teen mothers

Period Peace

Women Get Their Revolution in Birth Control—Sort Of

A Room for One's Womb

Baby om meets the postpartum body

The Inception Deception

'Partial-Birth' Ploy Threatens Abortions, Forces Legal Challenges

Girls in Trouble

'Hooky Party' Puts the Spotlight on Schools' Treatment of Pregnant Teens

Home Womb

Hot Mamas

Emergency Landing

They Come to New York Needing Second-Trimester Abortions. An Underground Network Keeps Them Safe.

A New Kind of Abortion War

Stealth Pro-Life Campaign Erodes Reproductive Rights

Darn, I Forgot to Have Babies!

Stem Cells, HBO, and Passing Buses Fuel a Fertility Panic

No Rx Required

The Fight to Make Morning-After Pills Available Over the Counter

A Womb of One’s Own

Saving Babies

Fighting to Reduce Infant Mortality Among Immigrants and African Americans

The Best-Kept Secret

Misinformation and Moral Issues Limit Access to 'Morning After Pills'

Letters

The Cult of Lauersen

Why Patients Adore Embattled Fertility Doc

Quick Fixes

Uncovered Sex

The Long Overdue Campaign To Force Insurers To Pay For The Pill

Problem Pregnancy

Doctors regard AZT as an AIDS vaccine for babies. But South Africa says it's too expensive.