Marcia Zug

Looking forward to this conference and to participating in the Reproductive Rights Update panel later today, with @lauralanesteele.bsky.social @marciazug.bsky.social @vickiringer.bsky.social, and @drshannacombs.bsky.social

Inside Silicon Valley’s Growing Obsession With Having Smarter Babies Tech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant dates or select high-IQ embryos. “They want to raise high-performing children.”

Concerning that Silicon Valley’s proposed solution to rouge AI is eugenics!

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Exclusive: Pregnant Woman in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried (Updated) The 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act allows physicians to deny care to patients whose "lifestyles" they disagree with

The unmarried have long faced discrimination, now in Tennessee that can include no prenatal care. wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...

Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants? A panel of experts repeated what one women's health expert called "MAHA talking points."

It’s like we really want to make pregnancy as unappealing as possible. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I’ve written about many transactional relationships but I always love hearing about new ones.

Musk’s High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End The billionaire’s vision of family is bad for women and children.

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It’s unclear how much monetary incentives can increase #fertilityrates but the fertility effects of making women poorer seem pretty clear.

Conclusions regarding why women decide to have or not have children are far from clear, but taking away career opportunities seems to a very bad “solution” to declining #fertility rates

You forgot the part where they also ask for a turn around time of two weeks and then a follow up two days later when you didn’t respond to their first request.

Married women could be stopped from voting under SAVE Act — Newsweek The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act could prevent many married women from being able to register to vote.

Who had “bring back coverture” on their 2025 Bingo card? apple.news/AhoYJDLI0QQa...

Republicans want child marriage ban exemption for military members New Hampshire lawmakers are considering an exception to a child marriage ban for 17-year-olds to military members.

New Hampshire proposes child #marriage ban with exception for military members. www.newsweek.com/republicans-...

Trump Admin Trashes DEI...Then Orders DEI For Trad Wives — The Daily Beast A Transportation Department memo reveals a plan to “give preference... to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.”

#Marriage has long come with many benefits now apparently better transportation options will be one of them .https://apple.news/AnxCSOI0NR6Ss-a8nR2JsYg

So true. In South Carolina it is tradition to name your kid the mother’s maiden name regardless of gender. Hopefully my kids don’t follow it ( wouldn’t wish that on my future grandkids) but every year my classes are full of Lawsons, Smiths, Harpers etc.

Great explanation of the birthright/indian exception debate.