It's become more and more common because more and more women are delaying pregnancy. It's not that the cancer is getting more common, but that women are getting pregnant in their 30s and 40s,

There is no solid information that it is safe. We're just trying to do the prospective studies now,

Personally, I think it does help, that it makes a beneficial difference, but the scientific literature on the subject is very messy,

What you see in these results is that helping women avoid unintended pregnancy is not just a blue-state issue.

We know that women who become depressed during pregnancy may not take appropriate care of themselves or even make it to prenatal appointments, and there is evidence that maternal depression itself has an adverse effect on fetal and neonatal well being. While this report does not offer explicit guidelines for individual patients, the study unequivocally suggests that women taking antidepressants who anticipate pregnancy need to address with their doctors not only potential risks to their babies if they continue taking the drugs but also the risk that their disease may recur if they stop antidepressants. Only by considering both sides of this risk/benefit equation can patients make informed decisions.

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.