To Reverse the Maternal Health Crisis, We Must Break the Cycle of Distrust
Nicole* remembers a lot about the birth of her first child: the contractions coming one after the other, hearing his first cries, the joy of holding him in her arms for the first time. She also...
View ArticleFor Black Undocumented Immigrants, Cost May Be Major Barrier to Maternal Care
Prudence Powell says that being a Black immigrant mother in the United States requires incredible resilience, and sometimes that means “suffering in silence.” The Philadelphia resident experienced this...
View ArticleMeet the Federal Agency Helping to Criminalize Pregnant Migrants
This is the first article in a Rewire.News series on the treatment of pregnant migrants under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy. Read the second article in the series here. The U.S....
View ArticleOB-GYN Says U.S. Marshals Service Is Shackling Detained Pregnant Migrants
This is the second article in a Rewire.News series on the treatment of pregnant migrants under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy. Read the first article in the series here. For some...
View ArticleThe Century-Old ‘Science Fiction’ Behind Ohio Rep’s Bill Covering Nonexistent...
Ohio Rep. John Becker (R) drew widespread criticism last week for an anti-abortion bill that would allow insurance coverage for the “reimplantation” of an ectopic pregnancy into the uterus—a treatment...
View ArticleImmigration Officials Push Health-Care Providers to ‘Clear’ Pregnant Migrants...
Multiple times a month, U.S. Border Patrol arrives at Banner-University Medical Center Tucson with “noticeably pregnant women,” according to an OB-GYN resident who works there. The hospital’s obstetric...
View ArticleStructural Racism in Medicine Worsens the Health of Black Women and Infants
The United States has one of the most abysmal maternal health records among industrialized nations, and Black women bear a disproportionate share of the burden. U.S. women are two to three times more...
View Article‘You Don’t Even Treat Animals the Way I Was Treated’: Pregnant and Incarcerated
Tuesday Olson had just learned she was pregnant when she was arrested and jailed for failing to appear in court for a traffic violation in Durango, Colorado. She was immediately worried about not being...
View ArticleMiscarriage and Abortion: Both Are Pregnancy Losses, but Only One Is...
For many, the roller coaster that is the year 2020 started when the whole nation went on lockdown in March. Mine began in February, when I experienced my first miscarriage. I will never forget the...
View ArticleI Wanted a Child. Instead, I Had Three Abortions.
I didn’t want to have an abortion. I wanted to have a child. But during my first pregnancy, the fetus got stuck in my left fallopian tube, where it could never grow into a baby. So they injected me...
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