When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star of Bethlehem, he wrote that it should be “classified with the comets which ...
Lots of interesting tidbits about birth control, abortion, and American political history – but the mentions of ancient and "pre-medical" contraception only tease. Just how well did those dung-based ...
On its face, The Icon and the Idealist is not a book about abortion. Thanks to advances in technology and medical knowledge, Americans have become accustomed to an ideological separation between ...
As the FDA considers whether to make birth control pills available over the counter, some are looking back at the controversial history of the development of "the pill." The Food and Drug ...
If you have ever wondered about why many of us are born in a hospital, where all the midwives have gone, how Lamaze came about and the seemingly increased numbers of Cesarean births, then this is the ...