Women

Women As Guinea Pigs in Biotechnical Research

From remarks delivered at the Heritage Foundation’s recent panel, “Bioethics: What It Is and Why It Matters“ In 1985, just seven years after the birth of Louise Brown (1978), the world’s first ‘test tube’ baby, Gena Corea published her very important book titled, The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombs. In […]

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The Global Market for Human Eggs

Join us for an informative new episode of Venus Rising as we speak with cultural and medical anthropologist, Dr. Diane Tober. Dr. Tober is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Francisco Institute for Health and Aging and faculty at the Bixby Center for Reproductive Health. Her work and research is focused on […]

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International Day of Rural Women: Promoting Real Solutions

Today, October 15, the United Nations celebrates the “International Day of Rural Women.” The day was established in 2007 to mark “the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty.” Unfortunately, in places like India, Thailand, and soon, Nepal, one […]

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Jennifer Lahl on International Women’s Day

Today is International Women’s Day, and the official website asks, “What’s Your International Women’s Day 2012 Theme?” At National Review Online’s “The Home Front,” Jennifer suggests the theme of “Putting our bodies and babies back together.” The path to doing this begins with “serious public conversation about our reproductive bodies and the babies we create.” […]

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