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The Fight Over Tylenol and Autism Just Got Messier

March 9, 2026

A close-up of a Tylenol pill against a red background. Half the photo is blurred and half is in focus.

The Most Useless Piece of Parenting Advice

November 7, 2025

An illustrations of a mother with a baby looking into the distance at a group of parents with children

A Conservative Rejoinder to the Manosphere

Anna Louie Sussman

November 7, 2025

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Trump Tells Pregnant Women to ‘Fight Like Hell’ Not to Take Tylenol

September 22, 2025

Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump, and Mehmet Oz stand behind a podium in the Roosevelt Room of the White House

Moms Are Losing Options to Protect Newborns From COVID

September 16, 2025

Photo collage of a pregnant belly, three syringes, and a vial of clear liquid.

The States Where It’s Riskier to Have a Baby

August 22, 2025

Men Might Be the Key to an American Baby Boom

July 11, 2025

A wilted rose laid over an image of a pregnant woman.

The Adriana Smith Case Was an Ethical Disaster

Christine Henneberg

June 24, 2025

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The Archaic Sex-Discrimination Case the Supreme Court Is Reviving

June 24, 2025

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Whose Choice? Whose Life?

Elizabeth Bruenig

June 16, 2025

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Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.

April 29, 2025

A woman pushing a stroller in Moscow

Miscarriage and Motherhood

April 2, 2025

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Want to Change Your Personality? Have a Baby.

March 2025 Issue

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A Possible Substitute for Mifepristone Is Already on Pharmacy Shelves

January 23, 2025

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Aspiring Parents Have a New DNA Test to Obsess Over

Kristen V. Brown

January 15, 2025

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Dear Therapist: How Do I Deal With My Hostile Sister?

December 23, 2024

A fallen Christmas tree separates family members.

What Is This ‘Post-Birth Abortion’ Donald Trump Keeps Talking About?

Greer Donley and Jill Wieber Lens

October 17, 2024

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They Were Made Without Eggs or Sperm. Are They Human?

Kristen V. Brown

October 8, 2024

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‘That’s Something That You Won’t Recover From as a Doctor’

October 2024 Issue

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Christian Parents Have a Blueprint for IVF

Sushma Subramanian

August 23, 2024

Embryo selection for in-vitro fertilization (IVF), light micrograph

The Anti-abortion Movement’s Attack on Wanted Pregnancies

Melissa Jeltsen

March 7, 2024

A black and white photo of a family facing away from the camera, with a cut-out where a child should be in its fathers arms

I Don’t Know If I Can Call Myself a Mom

February 8, 2024

A drawing of a mother and her baby, split apart by a painting of the sky

The Most Mysterious Cells in Our Bodies Don’t Belong to Us

Katherine J. Wu

January 3, 2024

a black and white image of a pregnant belly, next to a DNA helix

Nobody Told Me About ‘Mom Feet’

December 6, 2023

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Why So Many Accidental Pregnancies Happen in Your 40s

Rachel E. Gross

November 14, 2023

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An Awkward Evolutionary Theory for One of Pregnancy’s Biggest Complications

Katherine J. Wu

October 16, 2023

A black-and-white image of two people holding each other intimately, with a positive pregnancy test superimposed on top of them

A Genetic Snapshot Could Predict Preterm Birth

August 26, 2023

A pregnancy scan next to a photo of vials of blood

The Succession Plot Point That Explained the Whole Series

May 31, 2023

Shiv and Tom from "Succession" sitting in the back of a car in a scene from the show's finale

Pregnancy Shouldn’t Work Like This

Katherine J. Wu

March 6, 2023

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Book Recommendations

What to Read When You’re Expecting

Annie Midori Atherton

January 27, 2023

A mother looks at her newborn baby's feet

Please Don’t Call My Cervix Incompetent

Rachel E. Gross

January 25, 2023

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Pregnancy Is a War; Birth Is a Cease-Fire

Katherine J. Wu

October 14, 2022

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I Tried to Keep My Pregnancy Secret

Anya E. R. Prince

October 10, 2022

Illustration of a baby in utero made out of zeros and ones

The Strange Audacity of Faking a Big Life Moment

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

August 31, 2022

A pregnant person's silhouette

American Motherhood

August 1, 2022

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America In Person

The Risk and Opportunity of Online Fertility Groups

July 22, 2022

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