The Pill for Men

Catherine Pearson for Huffington Post: “Indeed, male birth control is a key focus of the Future of Contraception Initiative, which kicks off Saturday and is sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Researchers will be grappling with safe, real…

Dukes Puts ‘Em Up Again

Martha Burk for Huffington Post: “Remember Dukes v. Walmart, the case that the Roberts Supreme Corporate Court threw out last summer (after 11 years of slogging through lower courts) because the company claimed it was too big to be sued for sex discrim

FDA says Yaz and other next-generation birth control drugs appear to increase blood clot risk

Matthew Perrone for the Republic: “Safety concerns with the popular Birth control pill Yaz increased Thursday as federal Health scientists reported that the Bayer drug and other newer Birth control treatments appear to increase the risk of dangerous bloo…

Karl Rove vs. the Koch Brothers

Kenneth P. Vogel for Politico: “Karl Rove’s team and the Koch brothers’ operatives quietly coordinated millions of dollars in political spending in 2010, but that alliance, which has flown largely under the radar, is showing signs of fraying.”

Womb for hire

Pabitra Mukhopadhyay for Aid Netherlands blog: “Though surrogacy as an assisted procedure to get a human baby is a debated issue worldwide with enough loose moral, ethical, social and geo-political strings, in India surrogacy arrangements continue to be…