A Los Angeles clinic is offering the ultimate in designer babies. Want a son with brown eyes black hair and a dark complexion? Or a paleskinned blonde greeneyed daughter?...

My friend Kathryn Joyce has a new book out about the Quiverfull movement.The book grew out of a Nation article on the Quiverfulls, a conservative Christian movement dedicated to "building God's army" by having as many children as possible. My review copy in the mail and I can't wait to read it. Nady...

Helen Alvare from the Culture of Life Foundation writes a compelling article explaining how a mother having babies turns into an embarassing media circus. Where’s the Dignity? Mother of Fourteen Becomes’ Media’s “Octomomâ€� by Helen Alvaré, J.D., Senior Fellow in Law The headlines blared â€...

When you buy a expensive product and you do not get what you ordered, you take it back. When you give thousands to a clinic to make you a child in a dish and they screw it up, you abort . Don't you love our consumer driven society?  Cars, barbecues, refrigerators, children, just take them back or t...

  It turns out T.R. Knight isn't the only actor leaving the cast of Grey's Anatomy. Katherine Heigl is on her way out, too. [Defamer] Rihanna, who was allegedly beat-up by her boyfriend Chris Brown, has been released from the hospital but is postponing a show she's set to play in Ma...

I have posted on the Nadya Suleman matter and her having eight children via IVF. I have also done several radio interviews and have made the following points. First, this is an unregulated field and doctors can basically do just about whatever they like legally. Second, why should we be surprised? W...

The California Octuplet Story will fade soon enough. For now, I think it provides an excellent opportunity for the zoom lens on an industry that carries a great weight silently on its shoulders.From the outside, reproductive medicine might appear like a bonus-filled health care vocation: the possibi...

This is a hard one. I used to be fine with in vitro fertilization. I even gave a friend hormone shots several years back to mature several eggs at once for IVF. Then I found out the Catholic Church opposes IVF. And when the Catholic Church says something on the pro-life issue I listen. I read its re...

Filed under: Just for moms, Pregnancy & birth, Weird but true No doubt about it, having twins is a blessing -- but it can also mean a complicated pregnancy, double the bills, and more sleepless nights than you bargained for. However, these days in New York City, having twins also means something...

WE shared the CBS News coverage with you after a woman in California gave birth to octuplets last week. At first, she was anonymous. Now, more and more information is coming out, and it's raising all kinds of questions in the media and on the Internet. I'm sure there's more information to come, but ...