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Vasectomy for Male Sterilization
By: Cole Nichols
| Published: Jun 03, 2024
A vasectomy is a surgery that works to inhibit reproduction by interrupting the passage of sperm through the vas deferens, a tube in the male…
VasectomyVasovasostomyVasectomy ReversalEugenicsSterilization, Reproductive
Chapter One and Chapter Two from “Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development” (1994), by United Nations Population Fund
By: Ross J. Nalubega
| Published: Jan 15, 2021
“Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development” comprises the majority of context within the twenty-year…
LiteratureUnited Nations and non-member nationsInternational AgenciesWomen's rightsfeminism
Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925-2013)
By: Samuel Philbrick
| Published: Jun 20, 2011
Robert Geoffrey Edwards worked with Patrick Christopher Steptoe to develop in-vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques during the 1960s and 1970s in the…
PeopleFertilization in VitroReproductionBiographyFertilization
"Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells" (2005), by Leon Kass and the President’s Council on Bioethics
By: Samuel Philbrick
| Published: Feb 22, 2011
Human pluripotent stem cells are valued for their potential to form numerous specialized cells and for their longevity. In the US, where a portion of…
LiteratureKass, LeonStem CellsPublicationsethics
James Daniel Hardy (1918–2003)
By: Aubrey Pinteric
| Published: Jun 13, 2025
James Daniel Hardy was a surgeon and researcher practicing in the United States during the twentieth century who studied organ transplantation, or…
Heart Transplantorgan transplantationGeneral SurgerybioethicsCardiovascular System
Jane Elizabeth Hodgson (1915–2006)
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Jun 28, 2017
Jane Elizabeth Hodgson was a physician who advocated for abortion rights in the twentieth century in the United States. In November of 1970, Hodgson…
AbortionInduced AbortionBirth ControlReproductive RightsContraception
Roe v. Wade (1973)
By: Sharaden Seward, Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Jul 03, 2018
In the 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court ruled that laws banning abortion violated the US Constitution. The Texas abortion laws,…
LawBirth control clinicsAbortionFamily planning servicesAbortion--Law and legislation--United States
Buck v. Bell (1927)
By: Nathalie Antonios, Christina Raup
| Published: Jan 01, 2012
In 1927, the US Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell set the legal precedent that states may sterilize inmates of public institutions because the court…
LawEugenicsConstitutional courtsSterilization (Birth control)Involuntary Sterilization
A Series of YouTube Videos Detailing the “CRISPR Babies” Experiment (2018), by He Jiankui
By: Risa Aria Schnebly, Brianna Ellis
| Published: Jul 31, 2021
In 2018, He Jiankui uploaded a series of videos to a YouTube channel titled “The He Lab” that detailed one of the first instances of a successful…
Literaturegene editingGenome EditingCRISPR (Genetics)CRISPR-associated protein 9
Arizona Revised Statutes 13-3603 (1864)
By: Manar Hajja
| Published: Jun 19, 2025
Arizona Revised Statutes 13-3603 (1864), or ARS 13-3603, was a territorial law enacted in 1864 before Arizona was granted statehood that banned…
Abortion, InducedAbortion, LegalReproductive RightsAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesArizona--Politics and government