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In "Ejaculate Responsibly," Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in post-Roe America. Her book is "Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion."
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In Elisa Albert’s highly-anticipated new novel, “Human Blues,” musician Aviva Rosner’s course cracks and crumbles the harder she pounds the pavement. Aviva wants to have a child. But, she wants to conceive on her own terms – though those terms become increasingly irrelevant with each missed opportunity.
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Aileen Weintraub is an award-winning author, journalist, and editor. She has written for the Washington Post, Glamour, NBC, and AARP, among others. She has also published several children’s books, including "Never Too Young! 50 Unstoppable Kids Who Made a Difference" and "We Got Game! 35 Female Athletes Who Changed the World."Her new book is a laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited, commitment-phobic Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, pregnant, and faced with five months of doctor-prescribed bed rest because of unusually large fibroids.
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In the new book "The Family Roe: An American Story," Joshua Prager shares for the first time both the identity and the story of Shelley Lynn Thornton, or “the Roe baby” as she has been referred to for nearly 50 years: the child who was put up for adoption by the pseudonymous plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, Jane Roe, whose real name was Norma McCorvey.
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Joe Donahue: Emma Donoghue's new novel "The Pull of the Stars", brings us to Dublin 1918, in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. With the…
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Jacqueline Woodson is the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of "Another Brooklyn" and "Brown Girl Dreaming."Her latest…
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Vanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection, "Deceit and Other Possibilities." For two decades,…
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To be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In "Shapeshifters," physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the…
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Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation’s jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In…
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Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly…