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#fertility

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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"The elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance team — a group of six epidemiologists, data analysts and researchers — shocked public health experts and IVF advocates who said they had felt encouraged by President Donald Trump’s comments supporting access to the infertility treatment."

nbcnews.com/health/health-news

NBC News · CDC's IVF team gutted even as Trump calls himself the 'fertilization president'By Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
#healthcare#ReproductiveHealth#ReproductiveJustice
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Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦

Canadian gynecologists concerned social media is reshaping perspectives about effective contraception methods
“The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada issued a statement last fall outlining its concerns about social media influencers promoting fertility tracking apps as substitutes for hormonal contraception”
#Contraception #Fertility #Canada #FactsMatter
theglobeandmail.com/canada/art

The Globe and Mail · Canadian gynecologists concerned social media is reshaping perspectives about effective contraception methodsBy Kristy Kirkup
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Acta Sociologica

📣 New paper 🚨
In "Frontiers of self-realisation. How (un)certainty and imaginaries shape fertility intentions in Italy and Norway", against the backdrop of low-fertility, Giacomo Bazzani, Lars Dommermuth, Trude Lappegard and Daniele Vignoli study fertility intentions and uncover a new type of children imaginary as ‘choice, pleasure, and social anchor’.

doi.org/10.1177/00016993241300

#sociology #fertility #demography
@sociology @academicchatter @DemRes @demography

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Dave Rahardja

Today marks my 100th day of messing around with a period-tracking app. I’m a uterus-less cis man, but I’ve been pressing random buttons on this app because I want to add just a tiny bit of noise to their data signal, in case they ever get corralled by this godforsaken government into snitching on pregnancies or periods.

It costs me very little attention. I let the app send me notifications, and every time it does, I press random buttons on the calendar. That’s it.

You can do the same. Put some noise in there. Throw a handful of sand in the gears every few days.

An app screenshot saying “It’s your 100th day with us Manda”
#surveillance#fertility#forcedBirth
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CBC Canada

Report calls for IVF, better financial support for N.L. fertility services
The review into Newfoundland and Labrador’s current fertility services calls for IVF and fertility preservation to be offered within the province, as well as better financial support for patients.
#fertility #medicine #finance #report #NewfoundlandandLabrador #News
cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundlan

Continued thread
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Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦

The open access paper is here 👇
“Significantly fewer abortion patients report using effective methods of contraception around conception while also reporting an increased use of fertility awareness-based methods”
#Reproduction #Contraception #Fertility

srh.bmj.com/content/early/2025

BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health · Self-reported contraceptive method use at conception among patients presenting for abortion in England: a cross-sectional analysis comparing 2018 and 2023Background Recent media attention has been given to an apparent shift away from hormonal methods of contraception. While an increase in fertility awareness-based or ‘natural’ family planning methods is reported in the grey literature, there are no robust data to determine any such trend in the UK. Methods We compared self-reported contraceptive use at conception among patients presenting for abortion at British Pregnancy Advisory Service from January to June 2018 (N=33 495) and January to June 2023 (N=55 055) using chi-square (χ2) tests of association. Results Reported use of fertility awareness-based methods of contraception around the time of conception increased from 0.4% in 2018 to 2.5% in 2023 (p<0.001). In contrast, use of hormonal methods of contraception decreased from 18.8% in 2018 to 11.3% in 2023 (p<0.001) and use of long-acting reversible contraception fell from 3% to 0.6% (p<0.001). Those reporting using no contraception at the time of conception significantly increased by 14% (p<0.001) when comparing data from 2018 (55.8%) with data from 2023 (69.6%). Conclusions Significantly fewer abortion patients report using effective methods of contraception around conception while also reporting an increased use of fertility awareness-based methods. Further research is needed to understand the reasons for this change. Data are available upon reasonable request. Data were derived from routinely collected information during the BPAS consultation process.
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Longreads

“She barely grasps that by now her eggs may have been used to create children she’ll never know. One side walked away with the gift of life; the other got a one-time payment. The fertility industry sells this as a win-win.”

@bloomberg (Subscription required.)

bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-fe

Bloomberg · The High Price of Fertility: Tracking the Global Trade of Human EggsBy Natalie Obiko Pearson
#Longreads#Fertility#Health
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