Human reproduction

Google pledged to stop tracking user visits to abortion clinics shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, which killed off the United States’ largest federal abortion protection. The measure aimed to protect abortion seekers from prosecutors, especially in the 14 states where abortion is now banned. Roughly 18 months later, Google has not followed through on its promise, according to a new study from Accountable Tech, and the company still tracks visits to abortion clinics.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to…

Scientists in the United Kingdom and the United States have created synthetic human-like embryos without the need for eggs or sperm. While the embryo does not have a brain or heartbeat, scientists are hopeful that it will shed light on the cause of miscarriages and genetic diseases.A Mononykus Hunts In ‘Prehistoric Planet’The research team is using the synthetic embryos, in part, to discover why some pregnancies do not continue after the first 14 days of fertilization. “We know remarkably little about this step in human…

Photo: Brent Hofacker (Shutterstock)Scientists in Spain have perhaps finally settled an important debate: Men really can be “growers or showers.” The team examined data from hundreds of men and found that their penises fell along a spectrum of added length during erection. The urologistsdidn’t uncover any factors associated with having either type of penis, though, and the largest proportion of men were somewhere in the middle.The research was conducted by urologists in Madrid, Spain. They were earnestly interested in…

Image: Getty Images (Getty Images)An investigation has found at least nine websites that offer the abortion pill are selling buyers’ data to Google and other third parties, making buyers susceptible to possible charges in states that have crafted legislation making abortion illegal. The investigation was conducted by ProPublica, which found that of the 11 websites it looked into, the online pharmacies Abortion Ease, BestAbortionPill.com, PrivacyPillRX, PillsOnlineRX, Secure Abortion Pills, AbortionRx, Generic Abortion…

As TikTokers published offers to help abortion seekers and privacy experts gave advice on period tracking apps, Dr. Josh Trebach worked urgently to bring attention to a 19-year-old he described on Twitter as vomiting in his emergency room. The patient had taken the herb Rue to try to abort a fetus because they no longer had access to a safe, legal abortion method. Now they were now at risk dying or, at the very least, developing serious health issues. Fortunately, the 19-year-old wasn’t real.Trebach, an emergency medicine…

Photo: Esteban Felix (AP)A group of data journalists have uncovered evidence that Facebook is collecting sensitive personal information about people who visit the websites of so-called crisis pregnancy centers—clinics that are notoriously dedicated to pressuringpeople out of getting abortions while aping healthcare providers that do offer them.Journalists at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting reported Wednesday that Meta had declined to answers questions about the data it collects from the imitation…

Googling “abortion clinic near me” or “abortion pill” in several U.S. states yields misleading results, according to a new report from the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).The researchers surveyed the first page of Google search results in a select group of 13 states that have some of the strictest anti-abortion policies in the country. They found that 11% of the 445 recorded search results led to anti-abortion centers, not actual clinics offering abortion care. About a quarter of all sponsored…