In his draft decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. repeatedly emphasizes that the Constitution did not...

Sociologist Monica Casper, who has written previously on fetal surgery, has published a new book called Babylost: Racism, Survival, and...

I almost didn’t read The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager. When I saw the premise – a biography of Norma McCorvey, the...

This is a pre-publication draft of a book review appearing in Technology and Culture, v. 63, n. 1, 2022 Most scholars would find the...

I wrote about today's gospel reading in an essay from 2019: "As a historian who has spent a career studying pregnancy and birth, I always...

What does it mean to have a “real choice” about abortion? I am writing this book review as the Supreme Court hears arguments over...

Anyone tempted to make facile arguments about abortion politics, on either side of the aisle, needs to read John Christopoulos’s new...

The Hagley Museum and Archives were a key research source for The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy. Gregory Hagreaves interviewed me about...

In the 1960s conservative Christian leaders like Billy James Hargis and his “Christian Crusade” defined the culture wars over sex...

Last month New Zealand broke new ground with a national policy of "Bereavement Leave" following miscarriage. This is a welcome...

Dr. Monique Tello, a primary care doctor and author, interviewed me on her blog: This month is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month,...

In her latest book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health, sociologist Rene Almeling asks why all the public...

New Metaphors to Make Miscarriages Easier to Talk About, and Easier to Bear For someone who has been trying for a pregnancy, it is...

I wrote this letter to the editor of my local newspaper after my community experienced a Covid outbreak from a teen party, resulting in a...

Bess Williamson’s Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design is a thought-provoking and edifying look at the shifting culture...

I wrote this letter to the editor of my local newspaper on June 16. To the Editor: For the past week, African-American Chatham resident...

This is a pre-publication draft of my review of Jacqueline Wolf’s Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and...

I'll be discussing The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America on a new on-line platform, called Speakeasy, on...

In Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin, sociologists Rosanna Hertz and Margaret Nelson...

With the arrival of cheaper and more user-friendly home pregnancy tests in the 1980s, women were able to confirm their pregnancies...