When Margaret Atwood sat down to write “The Handmaid’s Tale” in the early 1980s, she stopped working on it many times because she thought that the plot seemed too “far-fetched,” as she wrote in The ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? In 1994, a dozen black women at a pro-choice conference in Chicago came up ...

The following outlines aspects of the female reproductive system, including the internal and external organs, the menstrual cycle, the egg, and reproductive hormones. The menstrual cycle is a monthly ...

Journalists and scholars explore the issue at every level, from the movement that took down Roe to the human stories of women who had abortions, and those who were denied. By Mattie Kahn Mattie Kahn ...

In “Reproductive Wrongs,” the classicist Sarah Ruden traces efforts to exert political control over family planning back 2,000 years. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed ...

The female reproductive system includes organs that produce hormones like estrogen and progesterone. Ovaries release one mature egg each month during ovulation. Fallopian tubes transport the egg from ...

The female reproductive organs include several key structures, such as the ovaries, uterus, vagina, and vulva. These organs function in fertility, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth. The ...

New research has mapped the cell types that specialise to form reproductive organs in both sexes, identifying key genes and signals that drive this process. The findings offer important insights into ...