California programs are doubling down on efforts to eliminate the medical system's structural racism and support the state's Black women and infants, who face abysmal maternal and infant health outcomes.
At least 40 percent to 80 percent of parents in the United States with intellectual disabilities will lose custody of their children to the state.
No Black woman, regardless of her income, education, or any other factor public health practitioners traditionally think of as protective, is immune to this problem.
“If [the personhood movement] succeeds, the people who get pregnant are going to lose their fundamental rights… to privacy, to equality, to due process of law.”
After years of hearing about the importance of seeking help and accepting treatment for postpartum depression, it never occurred to me that a doctor would be more concerned about the level of antidepressants in my milk.
Progressive organizations are pressuring Republican leaders to pause judicial nominations, while signs suggest Republicans intend to double down on stacking the judiciary with Trump judges.
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