It was once a test conducted by doctors, requiring an appointment for an office visit. So in the mid-1970s, with the invention of the home pregnancy test, a woman’s path to finding out if she was ...

A 31-year-old woman from Tennessee is being charged with first degree attempted murder for allegedly attempting to self-abort a pregnancy that was about six months along. Murfreesboro Police report ...

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Karen Weingarten teaches in the English Department at Queens College, City University of New York. Her book Pregnancy Test was published in March 2023 with Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series. By the ...

The objective of the study was to determine the association of home visiting with subsequent pregnancy outcomes. Of 1516 participants, 1460 were matched 1:1 to a comparison mother (n=2920). After ...

A prototype of the Predictor pregnancy test (left) and the test as it went to market in the late 1970s (right). Bonhams Today, many women take it for granted that they can determine whether or not ...

When it hit shelves in the 1970s, the Predictor pregnancy test, made by Organon Pharmaceuticals, went for $10. On Tuesday, the auction house Bonham’s sold the original prototype, along with the first ...