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How to Engage Women in Maternal Newborn and Child Health Advocacy and Services
Below is a presentation by Alice Welbourn given on May 29th, 2013 at Women Deliver on a Panel hosted by the H4+, in support of the global initiative Every Woman, Every Child, and the Inter-agency Task...
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Why a 20-Week Abortion Ban Is Unthinkable: One Woman’s Near-Death Experience
“If a woman grows weary and at last dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her only die from bearing; she is there to do it.”—Martin Luther. When Martin Luther penned his now infamous words—”let...
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One Lesson From Texas: Legal Abortion Means Nothing Without Access
See all our coverage of SB 5 here. This is such a simple concept that I can’t believe we still have to say it, but we do: The legal right to an abortion means nothing to the person who can’t get to a...
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Just Have the Baby? A New Mom Reveals Why There Is No ‘Just,’ and Not...
My husband and I just had a baby. My first two trimesters weren’t easy (though they could have been worse), and then it got harder after I had my baby. So I have a lot more to say about the many...
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Reproductive Choice Is About More Than Getting ‘Fat’—It’s About Bodily and...
Exactly the sort of person who would say “Just have the baby” read my essay about the end of my pregnancy and my son’s first month of life, and Cassy Fiano’s interpretation of my point was “pregnancy...
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For Decades, Authorities Let Rogue Abortion Provider Harm Women, Despite...
On August 13, 2010, an 18-year-old New Jersey resident arrived in a clinic in Elkton, Maryland, to undergo a surgical abortion. She was 21-and-a-half weeks pregnant, and had driven just over an hour...
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The Politics of Abortion in Latin America
In light of the recent case of Beatriz, a 22-year-old Salvadoran woman and mother of a toddler, who, while suffering from lupus and kidney failure and carrying an anencephalic fetus, was denied the...
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I Help Teenage Girls Get Abortions
On Thursday, when Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed into law a sweeping abortion measure, my heart broke for all of what my Republican uncle in Lubbock calls “my girls.” “My girls” are Texas minors seeking...
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Book Review: ‘Cracked Open: Liberty, Fertility, and the Pursuit of High-Tech...
Cracked Open: Liberty, Fertility, and the Pursuit of High-Tech Babies, by Miriam Zoll, Interlink Books, 198 pages, $20. Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader. Most of us know someone who wanted to get pregnant...
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This Week in Sex: RIP Virginia Johnson, HPV Rates Stall, and Smoking During...
This Week in Sex is a weekly summary of news and research related to sexual behavior, sexuality education, contraception, STIs, and more. Sex Researcher Virginia Johnson Dies Virginia Johnson, best...
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Plea Deal Reached in Bei Bei Shuai Prosecution
Late Friday attorneys for the State of Indiana announced they had reached a plea deal in the case of Bei Bei Shuai, the Chinese immigrant charged with murder and attempted feticide following a suicide...
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Disproven: The Myth of Infants ‘Born Alive’ After Abortions
See other pieces from RH Reality Check‘s State of Abortion series here. Review the database of state documents collected and analyzed by RH Reality Check here. Are states harboring untold scores of...
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An Abortion Story Both Radical and Ordinary
This piece is published in collaboration with Echoing Ida, a Strong Families project. For more than 20 years, the New York Times’ Vows column has shared newly hitched couples’ idiosyncratic paths to...
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CMV: The Little-Known Virus That May Endanger Your Pregnancy
When I was 22 weeks pregnant with my son, I tested positive for a primary cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. I had most likely contracted CMV during my second trimester of pregnancy, after spending time...
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‘Abortion Is Like Slavery’ and Other Offensive Anti-Choice Analogies
Just when you think anti-choice protesters have run out of ways to be as morally bankrupt as they are self-righteous and judgmental, they will surprise you. Anti-choicers in Albuquerque, New Mexico...
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No More Needles in the Stomach: New, Non-Invasive Prenatal Test Is Introduced
This summer, I sat on the beach with two new mothers and their infants and listened to them swap pregnancy and birth stories, as new mothers are wont to do. I chimed in with a few highlights from my...
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New Report Calls Attention to Abortion Policy in Ecuador
A health clinic in Ecuador treated the same 13-year-old girl for complications related to unsafe abortion three times in a single year, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch. Certainly a...
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Why Don’t More People Care About Black Maternal Deaths?
This piece is published in collaboration with Echoing Ida, a Strong Families project. In September, 19-year-old Ayaanah Gibson bled to death in her Benedict College dorm room after delivering a...
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Study: BPA Exposure May Increase Miscarriage Risk for Some Women
A new study suggests that exposure to bisphenol A (BPA)—a chemical found in hard plastics, receipts, and many canned food linings—may raise the risk of miscarriage, at least for women who already have...
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New Definitions of Full-Term Pregnancy: Why They Matter
A pregnancy is not full term until 39 weeks, according to a new set of definitions endorsed by the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine....
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