When Margaret Atwood sat down to write “The Handmaid’s Tale” in the early 1980s, she stopped working on it many times because she thought that the plot seemed too “far-fetched,” as she wrote in The ...

Pat Zavella, professor emerita of Latin American and Latino studies, has published a new book about the reproductive justice movement that blends research, history, theory, and memoir. In her new book ...

What Is the Female Reproductive System? The female reproductive system is designed to carry out several functions. It produces the female egg cells, called the ova or oocytes, which are necessary for ...

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the victory spurred advocates' pursuit of fetal personhood. That’s legislation that asserts that life begins at fertilization and establishes ...

The new book by Sara Clarke Kaplan, "The Black Reproductive: Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood," looks at Black freedom and the dismantling of oppressive systems through the lens of Black ...

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In the quest to study human reproduction, scientists have built a rudimentary model of the female system in the lab. Every 28 days, the 'ovary', cultured on a small plastic chip, releases an egg and ...