A group of 10 scientists is suing the publisher that retracted their studies showing the health risks associated with abortion drugs. The suit against Sage Publications, filed on Oct. 3 in the Superior Court for Ventura County, California, alleges that the researchers’ studies were retracted simply because of the scientists’ pro-life views. At the center of the lawsuit are three studies that Sage published in the scientific journal Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology (HSRME) in 2019, 2021, and 2022.

Surrogacy is globally celebrated as a generous way to give others the gift of children, but as with IVF, the language surrounding surrogacy exposes it for what it is — the renting of a woman’s body to fulfill the wants and desires of adults with little concern for the wellbeing of the child. A recent surrogacy story shared by Vogue highlights the dehumanization and trauma that are inherent in the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) — and specifically, surrogacy. Author Kate Haze from the UK shared that after welcoming one child, she and her husband struggled with infertility before ultimately deciding to ‘outsource baby baking’ to a stranger on the other side of the world in the U.S.