can we ever escape politics?

the trends we spotted this week that mattered most to women’s health:

💉 Can women’s health ever be apolitical? Maria Shriver called on her cousin, HHS Secretary RFK Jr., to stop turning women’s health into a partisan fight, while an economist warned that eliminating Title X funding would gut access to contraception and affect the future of women and children’s opportunities in America.

🩺 Surgery got a closer look. Studies this week highlighted that late-stage C-sections can leave poorly healing cervical scars and that mastectomy patients face worse emotional and sexual-health outcomes. The research may finally be forcing long-overdue conversations about quality of recovery, not just survival.

🧠 One step forward, one step back. Harvard’s Wyss Institute unveiled a menstrual “organ-on-a-chip,” a promising tool for modeling bleeding disorders mice can’t replicate, while the viral apple-cider-vinegar weight-loss study was retracted. 

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Meghan McCarthy

Maternie was founded in 2017 by Meghan McCarthy. Meghan has spent her career digging through information and breaking it down for readers. After spending seven years reporting on Capitol Hill, Meghan co-founded at Morning Consult, where she built and led the company's content operation. She also helped build and lead Courier Newsroom, a progressive media organization. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, and other national news outlets.