Embryologist Ric Ross holds a dish with human embryos at the La Jolla IVF Clinic in California. The Tennessee House voted down a bill that would have made clear that Tennessee’s abortion ban does not ...

Tennessee is poised to become the first, and only, Southern state to codify protections for IVF and birth control into law. (Credit: Alicia Peters from Unsplash) In a legislative session dominated by ...

Birth control and in-vitro fertilization treatment in Tennessee is already legal. House Bill 533 codifies those protections and doe not prevent lawmakers from regulating IVF in the future. Still, 11 ...

In a legislative session dominated by the GOP supermajority's conservative agenda, Tennessee lawmakers this spring took the unusual, bipartisan step of protecting certain reproductive rights.

It’s a weird time to talk about contraceptives. Here's what the debate is missing.