What: Extreme Republicans are holding up a government funding bill and insisting a food program for women and children that has been funded for decades not get a budget increase this year, despite increasing food prices.
Why it matters: Millions of pregnant and postpartum women and their children could start losing this vital assistance and go hungry as a result. One eye-popping statistic: “Roughly half of all infants born in the United States receive [these] benefits.”
Source: New York Times
While around 80% of Medicaid patients paid nothing for labor and delivery, 60% of people on commercial insurance paid $1,000 or more out of pocket.
A study looks at which birthing position (i.e. lying down, standing up) women prefer most in labor, measured in part by which women report the highest levels of satisfaction with their labor.
A deep dive on the queen of menopause, Dr. Mary Claire Haver, and her push to get more women treatment for menopause symptoms.
Kidney disease in women has nearly tripled in the past 30 years, with type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure as some of the leading causes.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is concerned about low fertility rates in the country, a hobby horse he shares with billionaire Elon Musk and Trump VP candidate JD Vance.
Eliza Barclay has a reported essay on her experience with several muscle injuries in her 40s
One organization got requests for 5,000 pills in less than 12 hours. They typically ship 9,000 pills in an entire month.
The New York Times analyzed over 600 speeches (!!!) from Donald Trump on abortion and shows visually just how much his rhetoric has changed.
At one point during the campaign RFK Jr. backed a national abortion ban, and he regularly spreads debunked conspiracies about childhood vaccines.
Sharing the stories of women who have had fibroids removed without pain medication or endometriosis symptoms ignored for years.
A deep dive on drinking and examining why people reacted far more swiftly to the news that smoking causes cancer than they have for alcohol—especially breast cancer.
70% did not associate using marijuana with any negative side effects, even though it can be associated with preterm labor and low birth weight
This is a story that captures the moral challenges and nuance that arise when you mix the law and pregnancy.
There were millions of people who voted against abortion bans *and* FOR the man who put those bans in motion.
“They said ‘we think it’s very inappropriate for you to say so.’ I said ‘Why? I’m president, I want to protect the women.’”
What: The New York Times combs through VP Kamala Harris’ record on abortion from her days as a prosecutor, finding an “unwavering conviction” that women
Experts explaining that the global drop in fertility rates is partly a product of women having children later in life.
Josseli Barnica was excited to be pregnant with her second child but suffered a miscarriage at 17 weeks. Instead of helping the miscarriage progress, doctors let her suffer for 40 hours because her fetus still had a heartbeat.
Breaking down cravings during menstrual cycles, and how some small studies have shown the foods we crave may be driven more by culture than by biology.
Last year, the same agency got fierce criticism for saying menopausal woman should get talk therapy