Songs for Our Reproductive Lives: A Playlist for Birth, Abortion, Adoption, and About Everything Else
Who knew that Beyoncé made a song about miscarriage and Everlast made one about abortion stigma?
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- Songs for Our Reproductive Lives: A Playlist for Birth, Abortion, Adoption, and About Everything Else
- Congress Needs to Step Up and Defund ICE’s Barbaric Abuses Against Pregnant Women
- How This DC Birth Center Is Building the ‘Answer for Black Women’
- Some States Ignore Black Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates. Not New Jersey.
- Twerking While Pregnant: Joie Chavis Is Not Going to ‘Shake That Baby Out’
- Oklahoma Has a New Law Banning the Shackling of Pregnant Women. Will It Make a Difference?
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Congress Needs to Step Up and Defund ICE’s Barbaric Abuses Against Pregnant Women
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How This DC Birth Center Is Building the ‘Answer for Black Women’
The District of Columbia has the highest infant mortality rate of any capital city in the developed world, but Ward 5's Family Health and Birth Center is showing what it might take to improve the health and wellness of Black women and children.
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Oklahoma Has a New Law Banning the Shackling of Pregnant Women. Will It Make a Difference?
One woman who was shackled during labor while incarcerated worried that officers may not be held accountable when it came to the new law. "They just don’t always follow [the rules] and they don’t view you as a person,” she said.
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Twerking While Pregnant: Joie Chavis Is Not Going to ‘Shake That Baby Out’
When the choreographer posted her response to a dance challenge online, social media critics accused her of jeopardizing her pregnancy. They need to get a grip.
On ‘Girls Like Me’ and Queering YA Books: A Q&A With Author Nina Packebush
A former pregnant and parenting young person, Packebush spoke with Rewire.News about the influences on her debut young adult novel, including real-world hardships and the communities that sustain queer youth.
Congress Needs to Step Up and Defund ICE’s Barbaric Abuses Against Pregnant Women
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Biology, Funding, and Ego Slow Quest for Male Birth Control
In a field packed with methods for women, researchers are still struggling to close this persistent contraception gap.
