It was not that long ago that “test tube babies” only existed in science fiction. I remember my shock when, in 2007, one of my students...

What happens when the person who delivers most of the babies in her community is arrested? This is a tale of two midwives, separated by...

It’s a rare academic history book that tempts me to binge-read.  Wendy Kline’s Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth is one of those...

Before 2016, conversations at school pickup time in my affluent suburb nearly always revolved around kids’ activities and home...

What led a Walgreeens pharmacist to deny a woman her prescription. Read the rest at the Washington Post #conscienceclause #misoprostol

When I was 19, I had a summer job supervising a playground. It was a pretty lame job. It paid $5 an hour, and it was outside in the...

For three decades, my dad’s brothers framed houses. The three of them had a small construction business in rural Connecticut. The eldest...

My friend’s father is in the hospital, and it’s been rough. His cancer treatment did not go as expected. “He’s suffering so much!” my...

I was born into 1970s feminism. I came into the world in 1972, the year Free to Be You and Me came out. It must have made a big...

“What makes a mother real?” asks writer and performer Alice Eve Cohen in her newly-published play, What I Thought I Knew. In 1999, Cohen...

The Indiana legislature claims it wants to protect unborn children and their parents. Last week Governor Mike Pence gave his blessing to...

As a kid, I loved shooting a rifle with my uncle, out back at my grandmother’s farmhouse. My dad and I would go out with Uncle Bill, in...

History matters. Sober and sophisticated historical research can make a difference in the world. I am proud to live in a nation that now,...

Appeals court judges who have daughters are more likely to make liberal or “feminist” decisions in gender-related cases than are judges...