Here’s a link to my recent piece in the Nation on policies restricting rights for women and LGBTQ people in the US and their common core: fertility control.
The New Pronatalism
US Birth Rate Falls 4% in 2020 across All Age Groups, including a 7.8% Decline among Teens
In 2020, the world’s first year of living dangerously with Covid, a smaller share of Americans had children than in the year prior. Most of this birth rate fall was part of the ongoing trend toward decline that has been underway
Slut Limbaugh and the Virgin Queen
What better state to play out reproductive political battles in than the only one named for a woman’s hymenal status. That’d be Virginia – named for the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth the First of England. Funny, maybe, but more importantly a
Remember Mama?
This piece appeared first on Huffington Post Motherhood changed utterly on the day after Mother’s Day 1960. That’s when the FDA approved the birth control pill for general use, and women at long last could become mothers by choice rather
Ready or Not?
Here’s a piece from earlier this year: Ready or Not? What do Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama have in common? They all began their families at relatively advanced ages. Hillary was 32 when she had Chelsea in 1980,
Generating: Birth Timing, Gingerbread and Girl Talk
Greetings from my world of gingerbread and travel arrangements. Thanks for stopping by the blog in the midst of all the holiday hubbub. My house was full of kids yesterday, ranging in age from 2 to 10. Friends came by