“Fertility” on The Daily Caller

In the first real attempt to dismantle the nation’s health care law, two Republican congressmen introduced legislation prohibiting the federal funding of abortions, calling the procedure “accepted bigotry.” (more)

Natalie Portman will soon be entering a new chapter of her life – motherhood. The daughter of a fertility doctor, Portman, 29, is acutely aware that it is a blessing in itself just to have the ability to conceive a child. (more)

NEW YORK (WABC) – New and eye-opening statistics about the rate of abortions in New York City have been released by the Health Department. (more)

Ramajit Raghav claims his wife Shakuntala, 52, gave birth to their son Karamjit just last month. (more)

LARA CARTER has slept with 20 strangers in the past year – in a desperate and reckless bid to get pregnant. (more)

THURSDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) — Men with high amounts of the controversial plastics chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) in their urine also tend to have impaired semen quality, a new study of factory workers in China reveals. (more)

From the standpoint of popular culture, drinking during pregnancy is the equivalent of playing Russian roulette with your fetus. Any woman daring to consume a single glass of wine in public risks being construed as the most unnaturally selfish of mothers. Even as recent studies suggest that science refuses to conclude the case, we cling to the prohibition in a way that precludes discussion. But perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising—our reasons may have as much to do with the distinctive morality of pregnancy as they do with science. (more)

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded this year to Robert G. Edwards, an English biologist who, with a physician colleague, Patrick Steptoe, developed the in vitro fertilization procedure for treating human infertility. (more)

There’s good news for parents who worry that their teenagers’ sex lives are affecting their school performance: A provocative new study has found that teens in committed relationships do no better or worse in school than those who don’t have sex. (more)

A recent study at the University of Texas shows that women have increased libido the closer they approach age 40. They become more sexually driven and more likely to have flings. (more)

Massachusetts, a state known for its liberal political climate, is about to offer motorists specialty license plates that express opposition to abortion rights. (more)

Céline Dion’s dream to expand her family has come true. (more)

A DEPARTMENT OF Human Services caseworker pressured a pregnant Mayfair teenager to undergo a late-term abortion by threatening to take away either her toddler or her unborn baby if she had the child, according to the teen’s foster mother. (more)

If scientists from Mars were to study the human male’s reproductive system they would probably conclude that he is destined for rapid extinction. Compared to other mammals, humans produce relatively low numbers of viable sperm – sperm capable of making that long competitive swim to penetrate an unfertilized egg. (more)

UK scientists have created “designer embryos” containing DNA from a man and TWO women. (more)

People in nonromantic sexual relationships today are likely to have multiple partners, researchers have found, and that behavior could promote the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, they note. (more)

Apparently pro-life groups are not welcome on certain places on Duke University’s campus. (more)

In response to a March 14, 2010, op-ed in the Washington Post by T.R. Reid, titled “Universal health care tends to cut the abortion rate,” Americans United for Life vice president for legal affairs William Saunders offers the following rebuttal. (more)

A British fertility clinic announced Sunday that it will raffle off a human egg this week to promote its “baby profiling” service, which it maintains is legal under current UK law. (more)

The White House has now offered its own version of ObamaCare. It’s not a bill so much as it is an 11-page “talking points” memo, a description of elements the Obama administration would like to see in a final bill. It’s so vague that the Congressional Budget Office throws its hands up. CBO doesn’t have the time or the level of detail it would need even to venture a guess as to how much all this will cost American taxpayers. (more)