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Stigma Surrounds Addiction Treatment for Pregnant People in Indian Country
“Hey, guess what? I’m pretty badass and I can do this!” a client recently said to Julie Williams, program director of the Maternal Outreach and Mitigation Services (MOMs) program. Based on the White...
View ArticleRacism Kills: What Cultural Connection Can Do About It
This is the second part of a Rewire.News series on potential interventions for the health impacts of racism. Read part one here. Here is what we know: Racism is bad for your health. Here is what we’re...
View ArticleNew York Governor Cuomo Should Not Play Politics With Black Maternal Health
Shortly after the very first national Black Maternal Health Week, founded and led by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced his intentions to address high rates of...
View ArticleThe Effects of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Are Starting to Show in...
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best—they’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems...
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This Week in Sex: Hands-Free Vibrator Gets Award, Then Dissed at Vegas...
This Week in Sex is a weekly summary of news and research related to sexual behavior, sexuality education, contraception, STIs, and more. Gender Bias at a Tech Trade Show? The Consumer Electronics...
View ArticleI’m an Abortion Provider. This is What New York’s Reproductive Health Act...
On Tuesday, the 46th anniversary of landmark court decision Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the United States, New York state lawmakers passed their own historic legislation—the Reproductive...
View ArticleNative Leaders Brief Congress on Reproductive Health Priorities
A panel of experts gave a briefing to a packed room of U.S. House of Representatives staffers Tuesday in hopes of bringing attention to the reproductive and maternal health concerns of Native people in...
View ArticleWoman Detained After Obstetric Complications Released From Prison in El Salvador
Evelyn Hernández Cruz, 21, was released from the Ilopango Women’s Prison in El Salvador on Friday after 33 months of incarceration for charges of aggravated homicide after she experienced an obstetric...
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ICE Increased Risks for Pregnant Migrants in Detention. What Is the Agency...
In 2017, Olivia was apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border after migrating to the United States from Guatemala. The 24-year-old was seven months pregnant, a fact she immediately told federal immigration...
View ArticleTo 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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