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John Chassar Moir (1900–1977)
By: Dorothy Haskett, Patsy Ciardullo
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
John Chassar Moir lived in Scotland during the twentieth century and helped develop techniques to improve the health of pregnant women. Moir helped…
ObstetricsPregnancyErgot AlkaloidsHemorrhageVagina
Barry Morris Goldwater (1909–1998)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Oct 28, 2016
Barry Morris Goldwater was a Republican Arizona Senator and US presidential candidate in the twentieth-century whose policies supported the women's…
Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966ContraceptionPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaWomen's rights
Estrogen and the Menstrual Cycle in Humans
By: Brendan Van Iten
| Published: Jun 22, 2016
Estrogen is the primary sex hormone in women and it functions during the reproductive menstrual cycle. Women have three major types of estrogen:…
Menstrual CycleOral contraceptivesEstrogenEstradiolEstrone
Charles Robert Cantor (1942- )
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Jun 11, 2015
Charles Robert Cantor helped sequence the human genome, and he developed methods to non-invasively determine the genes in human fetuses. Cantor…
Human Genome ProjectDNAfetal developmentFetusEmbryos
Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia (1974- )
By: Patsy Ciardullo
| Published: Apr 13, 2015
Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia is a nonprofit organization that began in 1974 as a joint endeavor by Reginald and Catherine Hamlin and the Addis Ababa…
OrganizationHamlin, CatherineAddis Ababa Fistula HospitalVesicovaginal FistulaFistula
Diethylstilbestrol (DES) in the US
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Mar 23, 2015
Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is an artificially created hormone first synthesized in the late 1930s. Doctors widely prescribed DES first to pregnant…
DiethylstilbestrolDiethylstilbestrol--Side effectsDiethylstilbestrol--CarcinogenicityPregnancyEstrogen
Whitner v. South Carolina (1997)
By: Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Nov 30, 2014
In the case Whitner v. South Carolina in 1997, the South Carolina State Supreme Court defined the concept of a child to include viable fetuses. This…
LawEmbryosReproductive RightsPregnancyAbortion
"Transfer of Fetal Cells with Multilineage Potential to Maternal Tissue" (2004), by Kiarash Khosrotehrani et al.
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Nov 14, 2014
In 2004, a team of researchers at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, investigated the fetal cells that remained in the…
CellsStem CellsMaternal-Fetal ExchangeFetal cells from maternal bloodFetus
Retinoids As Teratogens
By: Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Feb 28, 2014
Vitamin A (retinol) is an essential vitamin in the daily functioning of human beings that helps regulate cellular differentiation of epithelial…
RetinoidsVitamin A in the bodyTeratogenicity testingAbnormalities, HumanTeratogenic agents
Stenberg v. Carhart (2000)
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Jan 28, 2014
In Stenberg v. Carhart, the US Supreme Court ruled on 28 June 2000 that a Nebraska law banning partial birth abortions was unconstitutional. Though…
LawDilatation and extraction abortionAbortionPregnancyEmbryos