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The Dalkon Shield
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Jan 10, 2018
The Dalkon Shield was an intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD) that women used in the early 1970s and 1980s. Produced by the A.H. Robins Company in…
TechnologyDalkon Shield (Intrauterine contraceptive)Intrauterine contraceptivesCopper intrauterine contraceptivesContraceptives
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (2014) by Mary Dore
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Sep 20, 2019
In 2014, Mary Dore directed the documentary 'She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,' which details the events and accomplishments of the women’s…
LiteraturefeminismWomen's rightsEqual RightsReproductive Health
Davis v. Davis [Brief] (1992)
By: Brock Heathcotte
| Published: May 09, 2008
This case was the first of its kind to address questions of personhood in the context of in vitro fertilization of a human embryo. It laid a…
LawFertilizationReproductionbioethics
The China-US Study on the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects using Folic Acid (1999)
By: Dorothy Regan Haskett, Lauren Lynch
| Published: Oct 11, 2017
From 1993 to 1995 researchers led by Robert J. Berry from the US Centers for Disease Control headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and Zhu Li from…
Center for Disease ControlFolic AcidFolic Acid DeficiencyFolic acid in human nutritionNeural tube--Abnormalities
Ann Trow (Madame Restell) (1812–1878)
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Aug 23, 2017
Self-proclaimed female physician Ann Trow was a women’s reproductive health specialist as well as an abortion provider in New York City, New York…
AbortionAbortion servicesPro-choice movementTrials (Abortion)Abortion--Law and legislation--United States
Planned Parenthood Committee of Phoenix (1942-1978)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Nov 08, 2016
The Planned Parenthood Committee of Phoenix was established in 1942 to expand Arizona women's access to family planning resources. The Planned…
OrganizationContraceptionDiaphragms, VaginalBirth control clinicsGynecology
Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879-1966)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy, Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Oct 13, 2016
Margaret Higgins Sanger advocated for birth control in the United States and Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.…
Planned Parenthood Federation of AmericaBirth ControlContraceptionReproductive RightsArizona
“Effect of Vaginal Sildenafil on the Outcome of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) After Multiple IVF Failures Attributed to Poor Endometrial Development” (2002), by Geoffrey Sher and Jeffrey Fisch
By: Alison Lane
| Published: Dec 22, 2020
Researchers Geoffrey Sher and Jeffrey Fisch gave Viagra, also known as sildenafil, to women undergoing fertility treatment to test whether the…
Fertility clinicsFertility, HumanHuman embryo--TransplantationEmbryo TransferSildenafil Citrate
Thesis: Non-Medical Origins of Reproductive Health Solutions in the US
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Feb 23, 2021
By demonstrating the struggle for sound standard of care for non-medical reproductive health care providers during the nineteenth and early twentieth…
Health care reformReproductive Health ServicesReproductive Healthreproductive historyOrganizations
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