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Social Implications of Non-Invasive Blood Tests to Determine the Sex of Fetuses
By: Ceara O'Brien
| Published: Mar 23, 2014
By 2011, researchers in the US had established that non-invasive blood tests can accurately determine the gender of a human fetus as early as seven…
ContextDiagnostic sex determinationSex PreselectionFetusSex Determination Analysis
Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome)
By: Grace Fitzgerald
| Published: Aug 01, 2022
As of 2022, Trisomy 21 is the most common type of trisomy, or a condition where the person has three instead of the normal two copies of one of the…
Genetic DisordersGenetic disorders in childrenGenetic disorders in pregnancyGenetic disorders--DiagnosisDown syndrome
Geduldig v. Aiello (1974)
By: Nathaniel Ross
| Published: Aug 22, 2024
In 1974, the United States Supreme Court decided in a six-to-three decision in Geduldig v. Aiello (1974), hereafter Geduldig, that pregnancy-related…
Lawpregnancy complicationsEctopic PregnancySex discriminationSex discrimination in insurance
The Comstock Law (1873)
By: Sheraden Seward
| Published: Jan 13, 2009
The Comstock Law was a controversial law because it limited the reproductive rights of women and violated every person's right to privacy. This…
LawReproductionReproductive RightsAbortionContraception
Stanley Alan Plotkin's Development of a Rubella Vaccine (1969)
By: Christian H. Ross
| Published: Jun 28, 2017
In the US during the late 1960s, Stanley Alan Plotkin, John D. Farquhar, Michael Katz, and Fritz Buser isolated a strain of the infectious disease…
RubellaRubella--VaccinationRubella in pregnancyRubella vaccinesMMR Vaccine
Stanley Alan Plotkin (1932– )
By: Christian H. Ross
| Published: Apr 13, 2017
Stanley Alan Plotkin developed vaccines in the United States during the mid to late twentieth century. Plotkin began his research career at the…
VaccinesViral vaccinesRubellaRubella--VaccinationRubella virus
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (1990)
By: Jonathan LaTourelle
| Published: Dec 19, 2014
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 established the legal framework that governs infertility treatment, medical services ancillary to…
LawEmbryo transplantationReproductive technologyWarnock, Mary, 1808-1900Human reproductive technology
“Prenatal Diagnosis of Down Syndrome: Mothers’ Reflections on Supports Needed From Diagnosis to Birth” (1998), by David T. Helm, Sara Miranda, and Naomi Angoff Chedd
By: Grace Rauch
| Published: Jun 04, 2024
On 1 February 1998, David T. Helm, Sara Miranda, and Naomi Angoff Chedd published “Prenatal Diagnosis of Down Syndrome: Mothers’ Reflections on…
Down syndromeCongenital AbnormalitiesGenetic disorders in pregnancygenetic testingAmniocentesis
Dennis Lo (1963- )
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Nov 04, 2014
Dennis Lo, also called Yuk Ming Dennis Lo, is a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China. In 1997, Lo discovered fetal…
genetic testingHuman chromosome abnormalities--DiagnosisPrenatal DiagnosisAmniocentesisChorionic Villus Sampling
Pope Sixtus V (1520-1590)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Known for dropping a long-held distinction in the Catholic Church between the animated and unanimated fetus, Felice Peretti was born in Grottamare,…
PeoplereligionReproductionCatholicismPopes