affordable care act
OTC Birth Control Pills: Answering Attacks on Access
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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
Scientist Who Mapped U.S. Zika Risk Now Working on Awareness App
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“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
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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
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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
When Your Employer Knows You’re Pregnant Before You Do
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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
Let’s Stop States from Shackling Female Prisoners in Childbirth
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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
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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.
Commentary
U.S. Takes Baby Step in Helping Pregnant Women, New Moms
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Join me in applauding the government-appointed panel’s recommendations about pregnant women, new moms and depression. But let’s also notice the questions they raise about ongoing barriers that women face. And let’s review some risks that did not get covered.
Health & Science
Patriarchy Is the Only Way to Explain Pregnancy Politics
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We are witnessing dazzling advances in fertility treatments. But why, as we teeter on the brink of uterus transplants, are women catching more flak at pharmacies for just trying to fill a birth control prescription? And why is there not a single law about male fertility?
Maternal Health
National Initiative Tackles Rising U.S. Maternal Deaths
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It starts with a focus on such preventable killers as obstetric hemorrhage, preeclampsia and blood clot embolisms. “The goal is that every hospital in the country should implement maternity safety bundles; a standard set of best practices,” says a doctor leading the effort.