Historian Kathleen Crowther sees a connection between Ancient Greek philosophers studying embryos and modern day abortion restrictions. One way that manifests is in "fetal heartbeat laws" that outlaw ...

Polish researchers examining an ancient Egyptian mummy that they expected to be a male priest were surprised when X-rays and computer tests revealed instead it was a mummy of a woman who had been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ancient Egyptian priest, Hor-Djehuty, was important enough to earn himself a spiffy sarcophagus for his corpse. The only ...

Scientists have recently developed a groundbreaking pregnancy test that can detect pregnancy in skeletons buried approximately 1,000 years ago. This innovative method leverages a newly discovered ...

One way that manifests is in "fetal heartbeat laws" that outlaw abortion as soon as cardiac activity can be detected. It is often before a woman has discovered she's pregnant. In her new book, ...

The ancient Egyptian priest, Hor-Djehuty, was important enough to earn himself a spiffy sarcophagus for his corpse. The only problem for the ancient priest, however, was that he was not the corpse who ...

In a new book, Policing Pregnant Bodies, author Kathleen Crowther grapples with how very old ideas – some of them misogynistic – shape how we... Historian Kathleen Crowther sees a connection between ...

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