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About half of all U.S. births are covered by Medicaid, which means decisions about delivery practices under this part of the Affordable Care Act could ripple far and wide. The American College of Nurse Midwives is assessing all 277 marketplace plans.
Just a few months ago both these women led very different lives. But now they live side by side in a refugee camp and provide a glimpse of the human toll of the bloody conflict in the world’s youngest country.
Yasmine El-Mehairy left a high-profile job to create a website to help mothers in Arab countries, says Nafeesa Syeed in this excerpt from the book “Arab Women Rising.” Little did she realize she’d have to carve out her own path.
Older female celebrities who seem to get pregnant easily can mask the real struggles involved, especially since the public rarely learns if they had the help of fertility treatments, says Tanya Selvaratnam in this excerpt from “The Big Lie.”
The Judean desert was full of perils and hardship for a 9-month pregnant Jewish woman struggling to reach Bethlehem for the Roman census. We follow that same female trek of endurance in our watch over Syrian refugees in Jordan, U.S. women in maternity wards.
Chicago will train its police officers to better respond to cases of domestic violence. Also this week, a new study indicates that almost two-thirds of female journalists face harassment.
The women’s health movement of the 1960s and 1970s transformed the doctor-patient relationship and yielded the novel concept that women can take control of their own health, says Laurie Edwards in this excerpt from “In the Kingdom of the Sick.”
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On Nov. 13 Rita Henley Jensen, Women’s eNews’ founder and editor in chief, appeared at the New York City Government Committee on Health hearing to share our findings on New York City’s high maternal mortality rates. This is a copy of her testimony.
Read on to learn or review the ways the ACA will dismantle costly gender discrimination in health insurance and benefit millions of American women when its major provisions take effect next year.
Images of pregnant women have become eroticized as they have become more mainstream, says Kelly Oliver in this excerpt from “Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down.” Media attention to pregnant celebrities has also created a new cult of motherhood.