FDA To Consider New Form of Emergency Contraception

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

Less than a decade after the rush to make the “morning after pill”, known as Plan B, more widely available to women to prevent “unplanned pregnancies,” the failure of the drug now has the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considering a new emergency contraceptive that studies show could be more effective in preventing pregnancy.

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Vatican Condemns Plans to Inseminate Woman with Sperm from Comatose Man

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer

Vatican officials are denouncing the plans of a controversial Italian doctor to artificially inseminate a woman with the sperm of her comatose husband who slipped into unconsciousness just as the couple was planning to conceive.

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