Culture & Conversation Maternity and Birthing
“Every day I’m balancing my decision to help patients and not abandon my fellow physicians with my instinct to protect myself and my children at all cost.”
It's now impossible to get a legal abortion in Texas, thanks to the Fifth Circuit's latest ruling. The long-term consequences could be even more devastating.
The American Civil Liberties Union is fighting unenforceable anti-choice city ordinances as they spread across the United States.
The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed the urgency for paid leave benefits, as a survey suggests parental leave is more common at reproductive rights organizations than in the U.S. workforce at large.
“Not enough conversation is happening around how we transport patients and our volunteer networks that exist around the country.”
It’s asymptomatic people who may hold the most urgent lessons for a maternal care system that is scrambling to reinvent itself during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ultimately, no partnered sex act is ever without some aspect of physical or emotional risk—but when it comes to coronavirus transmission, there are ways to reduce risk and still have fun.
Sex education is education—and if you’re braving math, science, and history to help your kid with their lessons, you should do the same for sex ed.
"The effect [of the COVID-19 outbreak] on people accessing abortion care is considerable, especially in those states that have limited access."
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's COVID-19 abortion ban would mean almost every county in the state will be more than 100 miles away from the nearest U.S. facility providing care.
Will the hospital be short-staffed? Will my prenatal appointments be canceled? Will my infant be exposed to COVID-19?
"I was terrified about doing this book," said author Karen Blumenthal. "I was afraid that there wouldn't be interest, especially at that level, that schools would have problems with it."
We celebrate the activists who have been on the front lines—and pushed boundaries—in the fight for collective liberation.
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A punitive bill based on anti-choice myths about later abortion care has been sent to the Wyoming governor to sign.
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