<p>A new piece in Nature raises important points for scientists working in fetal epigenetics to consider when writing up and communicating their work. The authors urge consideration of how the results will be used to target the behavior of pregnant &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/08/society-dont-blame-the-mothers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-

<p>A thought-provoking piece at Slate.com. The logic behind the past push for registries rested on what seem like common sense assumptions. Among the most prominent were, first, sex offenders were believed to be at a high risk for reoffending—once a &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/08/have-sex-offender-laws-have-gone-too-far/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" cl

<p>A little bit of good news on the world stage: The new abortion policy, which was proposed by the minister for women’s rights and has been debated among lawmakers since the beginning of this year, is just one of the &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/08/france-just-passed-a-sweeping-gender-equality-law-to-make-it-easier-to-get-an-abortion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding

<p>In Britain over the last weeks and months we&#8217;ve been inundated with a succession of memorial events about the First World War, or Great War, or War to End All Wars (which patently failed to achieve that aim, at least). &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/08/remembering-the-great-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- Hupso

<p>A complication of transnational surrogacy: what happens when the contracting couple/parent(s) decide after birth that they do not want the child? In this case, one of two twins carried by a surrogate was born with Down syndrome. His &#8220;healthy&#8221; sister &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/08/australia-queries-moral-responsibility-over-abandoned-downs-baby/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="pad

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<p>The controllers of pregnant women are at it again. In this case, however, it is not clear whether the controllers are seeking to protect the fetus, the woman, or both. They may even be seeking to protect the hospital against &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/07/controlling-pregnant-women-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!--

<p>In an effort to be slightly less heteronormative than usual, Cosmopolitan magazine has been running the occasional queer-friendly article. Following last December’s “14 Things You Should Never Say to a Gay Man” and the more recent “8 Things Not to &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/07/sex-women-and-the-orgasm-gap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-

<p>Legislators and major news outlets have stated that the United States is one of the few countries that does not prohibit abortion for sex selection purposes. However, the eight states in the United States that currently ban sex-selective abortion are &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/07/replacing-myths-with-facts-sex-selective-abortion-laws-in-the-united-states/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="pad

<p>From &#8220;America&#8217;s Finest New Source,&#8221; The Onion: Authorization for the clinic walls reportedly sailed through the state legislature and was quickly signed by Gov. Bryant, despite failed amendments from a small group of Democrats that would have reduced the wall’s &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/07/new-anti-abortion-legislation-requires-doctors-to-scale-18-foot-wall-surrounding-clinic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-n

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<p>The news is grim. A dozen shells hit the Al Aqsa hospital in the town of Deir el-Balah,Palestinian health official Ashraf al-Kidra said. Limited data are available in regard to over dosage in humans but if you suspect an http://pharma-bi.com/levitra-7777.html &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/07/hospitals-as-sites-of-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" clas

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<p>In her response to our poll on influential feminist work in the new millennium, Wendy Rogers brought to my attention the the Everyday Sexism Project, in which readers post accounts of the daily harassment to which they are subjected as &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/07/responding-to-street-harassment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-but

<p>Readers, I invite you to use the comments section to nominate the book or article that stands stands out to you as the most important development in feminist thought so far this millennium. Feel free to answer from a personal &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/07/most-important-contributions-to-feminism-since-2000/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso

<p>Nearly 50 percent of women giving birth in Finland and Canada, a full 50 percent in Australia, and 60 percent in the United Kingdom, avail themselves of nitrous for pain relief, and have for generations. But even though it&#8217;s cheap &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/07/using-laughing-gas-to-relieve-the-pain-of-childbirth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;"

<p>This article at The Atlantic is kind of funny &#8220;there’s a lot of these guys who are partnered with women who are better looking than them, which is just because, on average, women are better looking. Men are partnering &#8216;up&#8217; &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/07/the-myth-of-wealthy-men-and-beautiful-women/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class

<p>Many posts on this blog have dealt with the omnipresent problem of the objectification of women in our society and around the world. Feminists of all stripes agree that this is a problem, though what exactly constitutes “objectification” and what &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/07/no-ifs-ands-or-butts-what-does-the-objectification-of-male-soccer-players-show-us-about-difference-in-mens-and-womens-athletics/">Continue reading <span class=

<p>IJFAB invites nominations for the IJFAB Essay Prize. The Prize will be awarded annually to recognize excellent scholarship in feminist bioethics by a graduate student or recent PhD. The winning essay will be published in IJFAB, and the author will &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/07/ijfab-essay-prize-call-for-nominations-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" c