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What to Expect if you are Expecting during the Pandemic

By: Michelle Collins, PhD | March 22, 2020

First and foremost — don’t panic. Mothers have been having babies since the dawn of time, through wars and famines and natural catastrophes.

Commentary

Unbearable: Trump’s Travel Ban Against Women of Child-bearing Age

By: Editors at Women's eNews | January 27, 2020

Officers are empowered with broad discretion to deny women visas to travel to the US because of their bodies and their natural ability to have babies.

Birth

Call the Midwife, If You Can

By: Michelle Collins | September 28, 2019

To honor National Midwifery Week, I ask anyone starting a family to investigate for yourself the outcomes produced by midwifery care.

affordable care act

OTC Birth Control Pills: Answering Attacks on Access

By: Dr. Daniel Grossman | July 24, 2019

If we want to truly make birth control pills accessible to everyone who wants them, one essential step will be to make them available without a prescription.

Zika virus
Mosquito on a blue blanket

Scientist Who Mapped U.S. Zika Risk Now Working on Awareness App

By: Mallory Locklear | July 25, 2016

“Most of us in the U.S. are lucky to be in the periphery,” says Kacey Ernst, an epidemiologist. “But of course with sexual transmission it doesn’t matter where you live.”

Miscarriage

My Miscarriage Is Often Too Painful to Discuss, But I Still Need to Know You Care

By: Ana Aparicio | July 7, 2016

I never imagined sharing my very personal story in this way, but I decided to contribute to the small and growing, though long overdue, discussion and awareness about miscarriage. Don’t let parents handle it alone.

Pregnancy

Call in the Doula: When Your Pregnant Students Need More

By: Anna Limontas-Salisbury | May 31, 2016

The Brooklyn Library’s young adult literacy program includes workshops on stop-and-frisk policing, urban farming and HIV/AIDS. But we needed to offer more to young women with unexpected pregnancies and lots of concerns.

health data
Positive pregnancy test

When Your Employer Knows You’re Pregnant Before You Do

By: Jaclyn M. Jensen and Craig M. Klugman | May 17, 2016

While health data analytic companies promise to use technology to help individuals and employers make better decisions for their health and their bottom line, your privacy is more important than the small benefits provided.

Incarceration
Prison bars

Let’s Stop States from Shackling Female Prisoners in Childbirth

By: Joan Cook | May 15, 2016

Most of the women who are being subjected to this degrading and dangerous practice have already undergone enough trauma. We need the help of Congress and the Department of Justice to stop this “birthing barbarism” in the 28 states that still allow shackling at some or all points from the second trimester through postpartum recovery.

Michigan

In Flint, Pregnant Women Must Be Worrying

By: Catherine Cubbin, Carol M. Lewis, Ph.D. and /Por Alison Bowen | February 22, 2016

Being essentially forced to give birth to children prenatally exposed to dangerous lead poisoning can be considered systemic reproductive coercion, and with this, the crimes against Flint families increase.

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