Latest Infertility News

In 60-year-old Tim Walz, Kamala Harris found a partner to advocate for reproductive rights

Aug. 23, 2024 13:59 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The makings of a presidential ticket began in an unusual spot six months ago: a Minnesota abortion clinic. At the time, it was a historic visit for Vice President Kamala Harris — no president or vice president had ever made a public stop at one. But the visit...

Tim Walz has described his family's IVF experience. But they used a different procedure

Aug. 21, 2024 16:54 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — In March, after an Alabama court halted in vitro fertilization procedures in the state, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz decided to speak about his struggle to have children with his wife, Gwen. The same month, his team sent a fundraising email titled “our IVF journey” sharing an...

Supreme Court keeps new rules about sex discrimination in education on hold in half the country

Aug. 16, 2024 18:18 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday kept on hold in roughly half the country new regulations about sex discrimination in education, rejecting a Biden administration request. The court voted 5-4, with conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the three liberal justices in...

She fought to become a midwife. Now she’s fighting to save mothers and their babies in South Sudan

Aug. 16, 2024 00:23 AM EDT

BENTIU, South Sudan (AP) — Elizabeth Nyachiew was 16 when she watched her neighbor bleed to death during childbirth. She vowed to become a midwife to spare others from the same fate in South Sudan, a country with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates. “If I saw...

Japan's top court orders government to compensate disabled people who were forcibly sterilized

Jul. 03, 2024 21:34 PM EDT

TOKYO (AP) — In a landmark decision, Japan’s Supreme Court ordered the government Wednesday to pay suitable compensation to about a dozen victims who were forcibly sterilized under a now-defunct Eugenics Protection Law that was designed to eliminate offspring of people with disabilities. ...

This law is a lifeline for pregnant workers even as an abortion dispute complicates its enforcement

Jun. 18, 2024 12:46 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Victoria Cornejo Barrera thought the legal helpline for workers sounded too good to be true. A month earlier, Cornejo Barrera had been forced to take leave from her job as head custodian at a South Carolina high school after she turned in a doctor's note asking to...