LA readers should head to this weekend’s CYCLES + SEX, an all-day event at The Springs in DTLA that brings together the top experts and leaders in the areas of sexual and reproductive health to talk all things hormones, menstruation, gender, body awareness, and more. Speakers include actress and filmmaker Rickie Lake (The Business of […]
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This Is Why A Low Income Limits Your Control Over Your Own Reproductive Life
“The reality is that for many women who have decided they want an abortion, it’s still unaffordable and unattainable,” deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek said in a speech last week. Plibersek added abortion drug RU486 to Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) in 2013 when she was health minister. The medicine was supposed to cost $ […]
Next in Reproductive Tech: The Artificial Womb
In a sterile, brightly lit lab, a tiny hairless creature lies perfectly still. It’s not even breathing — though thanks to tubing in its jugular and navel, it’s getting in oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide, and is 100 percent alive. At this point, the little lamb should still be floating around in its mother’s amniotic […]
Watch Women’s Reproductive Rights Get Taken Away in First Full Trailer for AHCA…ndmaid’s Tale
The just-shared, first full trailer for Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale begins with a bit of all-too-relevant (like, irksomely relevant, if you’re having one of your tired-of-TV-as-Trumpism-metaphor days) bit of voiceover from the series’ star, Elisabeth Moss. “I was asleep before, that’s how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress we didn’t wake up. When they blamed terrorists […]
Justin Trudeau marks International Women’s Day with $650M for reproductive rights
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marks International Women’s Day by promising $ 650 million for reproductive health and rights around the world. CBC | Health News