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Dissertation: A Fetus By Any Other Name: How Words Shaped the Fetal Personhood Movement in US Courts and Society (1884-1973)
By: Carolina Abboud
| Published: Mar 24, 2021
The 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade was a significant event in the story of fetal personhood—the story of whether embryos and fetuses are legal…
Fetus--Legal status, laws, etc.--United StatesFetus--Research--Law and legislationEmbryoAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortion--Law and legislation
Pope Pius XII (1876-1958)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Jun 10, 2010
Pope Pius XII was born Eugenio Maria Giuseppi Giovanni Pacelli on 2 March 1876 in Rome, Italy, to Virginia and Filippo Pacelli. Known for his oft-…
PeoplereligionReproductionCatholicismPopes
The Impact of the Safe Motherhood Initiative from 1987 to 2000
By: Emily Santora
| Published: May 02, 2020
In 1987, the World Health Organization, or WHO, took action to improve the quality of maternal health around the world through the declaration of the…
PregnancyGestationPoorLow-income parentsMothers--Mortality
Minnie Joycelyn Elders (1933–)
By: Ross J. Nalubega
| Published: Jan 15, 2021
Minnie Joycelyn Elders, known as Joycelyn Elders, is a pediatrician and professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock,…
Surgeons general (Military personnel)Sexual HealthTeenage pregnancyHealth educationCommunity Health Education
Berman v. Allan (1979)
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Sep 29, 2011
The Supreme Court of New Jersey decided the case of Berman v. Allan on 26 June 1979, brought by Shirley Berman and Paul Berman and their daughter…
LawWrongful lifeReproductionbioethics
Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home (1925–1961)
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Jun 07, 2019
Between 1925 and 1961, a Roman Catholic order of nuns called the Bon Secours Sisters operated the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, or the Home, an…
Unmarried MothersAdult child abuse victimsChild AbuseFoster children--CareFoster children
Leonard Colebrook (1883–1967)
By: Safiya Shaikh
| Published: May 25, 2017
Leonard Colebrook was a physician who researched bacteria and infections in England during the twentieth century. In 1936, Colebrook deployed the…
BacteriaInfectionsPuerperal septicemiaChildbirthBurn care units
Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)
By: Benjamin Garcia, Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, has been crucial to the clarification of Roman Catholic views on embryos and…
PeoplereligionReproductionCatholicismPopes
The Discovery of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
By: Erica O'Neil
| Published: May 09, 2011
The term Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) was first published in 1973 in an article published in the British medical journal The Lancet. In that article…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionHuman Development
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun known for her charitable work and attention to the poor, was born 26 August 1910. The youngest child of Albanian…
religionReproductionCatholicismContraceptionAbortion