Religious “Freedom” Is Trumping Our Safety
Pharmacists with extremist religious views are refusing to fill prescriptions for safe, legal medication like Misoprostol, which helps ease complications from miscarriage—putting people’s lives at risk.
Women’s Health
What Has Been Making My Kids So Sick?
Exposure to the chemical chlorpyrifos, which is in flea bombs, may have caused birth defects in the writer’s children. Now she’s fighting to uncover the truth to protect other families.
Is Our Anger Making Us Sick?
In this exclusive excerpt from her new book, ‘Rage Becomes Her,’ author Soraya Chemaly looks at the way rage—expressed and suppressed—may affect women’s health.
We’re Becoming a Nation Without Doctors
What will happen for our aging population and women's health care when we face a shortage of primary care physicians?
Transvaginal Mesh Is Ruining Women’s Lives
The surgical procedure, to correct pelvic organ prolapse, has left thousands of women in pain, injured, and even disabled. If only their doctors warned them.
Birth Needs a #MeToo Reckoning
The last thing a person giving birth should have to worry about is being violated or abused by a medical practitioner. And yet, it’s more common than you think.
Why Are More Women Dying by Suicide?
The suicide rate among women has increased exponentially for the past 20 years. The burden of trying to do it all just may be the culprit.
“Natural Family Planning” Is Not Actually Birth Control
By taking Title X money from health providers to fund anti-abortion fake health centers, the government is trying to change the very meaning of contraception.
Why We Need ‘Our Bodies Ourselves’ Now More Than Ever
The classic guide to sex and sexuality is going out of print at a time when women’s bodies are under attack. Will the disappearance of this resource lead to a public health crisis?