Sima Michaels Dembo

Sima Michaels Dembo is a health care consultant and writer. She was formerly Director of Children’s Services at Volunteers of America Los Angeles. She previously served as Associate Director and Public Policy Director at the California Family Health Council, a Title X grantee.

Michele Bachmann’s Miscarriage and the Miscarriage of Justice

Sima Michaels Dembo

If the personal is political, it seems it would extend that women’s own experiences with miscarriage would lead to sympathy for those facing similar losses. But as Bachmann talks about her miscarriage, she promotes policies that result in miscarriages of justice.

Memo to the Far Right: You Can’t Have it Both Ways

Sima Michaels Dembo

The right's fixation on the fetus, which starts at conception and ends at birth, denies the science of how to avoid or delay pregnancy in the first place and fails to confront the complexities of raising children in particularly difficult circumstances.