Commentary
What to Expect if you are Expecting during the Pandemic
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First and foremost — don’t panic. Mothers have been having babies since the dawn of time, through wars and famines and natural catastrophes.
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First and foremost — don’t panic. Mothers have been having babies since the dawn of time, through wars and famines and natural catastrophes.
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.
To honor National Midwifery Week, I ask anyone starting a family to investigate for yourself the outcomes produced by midwifery care.
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.