Fertility Tracking Must Be Grounded in Evidence and Reproductive Justice

About this episode

Chelsea Polis discusses fertility awareness-based methods and their implications for reproductive justice.

Fertility awareness-based methods (FABMs) are different approaches to tracking fertility and identifying which days someone is most likely to conceive if they are having sex without contraception. These include features such as tracking one’s menstrual cycle, basal body temperature, and cervical mucus, among others. Chelsea Polis, Principal Research Scientist at the Guttmacher Institute, sits down to talk with us about different FABMs, their effectiveness, advantages, and disadvantages, and w...

People in this episode

Host: Jennie Wetter

Guest: Chelsea Polis

Topics covered

• fertility tracking
• reproductive justice
• FABMs
• menstrual cycle
• health

Keywords

• fertility awareness
• tracking fertility
• menstrual cycle
• basal body temperature
• cervical mucus

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Guttmacher Institute

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