The Unborn Victims of Occupation
Aug 15, 2007 Rampant violence and a curfew that makes nighttime medical aid unrealistic at best are threatening the health of pregnant Iraqi women and their children. Official data on the problem is scarce, but medical and humanitarian workers say childhood and maternal mortality is on the rise.New Jersey Considers Mandatory HIV Test
May 12, 2007 A new proposal would make New Jersey the first state to require HIV testing for pregnant women and their babies, unless the women decline the test in writing. Currently four states test just mothers, and two others only newborns. The bill is opposed by the D.C.-based Center for Women Policy Studies on the grounds that it limits health rights.
Mr. Fish – 300 Millionth Baby
Oct 20, 2006
Stoner Boom
Sep 8, 2006 Drug use among baby boomers is up, while use among teens is down, according to new government figures. That actually makes sense. If teens started paying as much attention to the doings of Bush & Co. as their forebears, we'd see those numbers rising in unison.The Fertility Gap
Aug 23, 2006 Liberals will continue to lose ground in American politics as long as conservatives continue to outbreed them, argues a Syracus University professor in the Wall Street Journal. (The blue/red baby gap is much bigger than you'd imagine.)
Infertile in a Baby-Crazed World
Aug 13, 2006 Glamour magazine runs a thoughtful piece about how we're witnessing "a rampaging, almost hysterical fixation on pregnancy and babies and how having them will transform your life and allow you to reach nirvana" -- and about the effect that's having on the infertile among us.
Readers Shocked, SHOCKED at Magazine’s Breast Cover
Jul 29, 2006 Puritanism is reigning supreme once again as many readers of BabyTalk magazine were offended en masse by the sight of -- horror of horrors -- a breast offering sustenance to an infant on the magazine's cover.
Ellen Goodman: The Baby Bump Fixation
Jul 27, 2006 "How did this fixation on celebrity babies, this upbeat bump beat, happen just as we are being told that parenthood is onerous and grueling and that parents are overworked and overwhelmed?"
A Satirical Broadside at China’s Employers
May 29, 2006 The Onion reports on an "unpaid 15-minute break during the regular 18-hour workday, to allow pregnant women to 'expel the child from their body, adjust to being a new parent, wash their hands, and return to work.' "
