fertility industry

Control Womb

Control Womb
Article by Bree Kessler, Illustrated by Dani Crosby, appeared in issue Old; published in 2010; filed under Social commentary; tagged apps, fertility, fertility industry, iPhone, pregnancy, technology.
Want to get pregnant? There’s an app for that. Want to not get pregnant? There’s an app for that, too (and no, it’s not condoms). Want to know why you’re so damn moody? There’s—yep—an app for that. They could be considered the Our Bodies, Ourselves for the tech-savvy women of the 21st century: iPhone applications that inform women about the workings of their bodies without actually engaging with flesh and blood.
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Reproductive Writes: The Baby-Makers

Social Commentary post by Holly Grigg-Spall on February 10, 2010 - 9:00am; tagged baby, conceive, fertility, fertility industry, fertility treatment, flame retardent chemicals, high fiber diet, infertility, pregnancy, Reproductive Writes, sub-fertility.
Barely a week goes by without a new cautionary tale for would-be mothers making newspaper headlines. This last week, there were two.
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