What: Natural products are having a moment, but that doesn’t mean they’re easy to make. Vogue dives into the challenges associated with truly all-natural beauty products, including waiting until ingredients are in season.
Why it matters: It’s good to know how the real stuff should be made.
Source: Vogue
The Washington Post has more horror stories of women getting turned away from the ER because they are pregnant, and extreme state abortion bans have scared providers.
Senate Democrats called out Republicans for proposing a federal pregnancy database.
One of the women, Sunni, told viewers that “she was craving information when she was planning her abortion. ‘This is the video I was looking for.’
I think that most women remember, and may even still have that book on their shelves, What to Expect When You’re Expecting. …Well, there’s no equivalent of that for women over 40. I wrote this book saying to myself, how about what to expect when you expect to live past 40?
Digging into menopause, and specifically how “the medical field is failing menopausal women.”
A progressive group, Campaign for Accountability, sent letters to state attorneys general in Idaho, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
A new book covers how cardiovascular care for women was nonexistent for decades, starting with Wiliam Osler, the physician who in 1889 created the residency model still in use today.
An analysis from the Society for Family Planning found that every month about 8,000 women living in states with strict abortion restrictions got abortion pills via mail by the end of 2023.
Medicare sometimes won’t pay for additional breast scans, like an ultrasound or MRI, for women with dense breast tissue, even though mammograms can miss tumors in those situations.
The third time was the charm for Arizona state House Democrats, who got three Republicans to join them in repealing the 1864 total abortion ban that was set to go into effect in the coming weeks.
Veterans and active military members are only eligible for fertility care if they can prove their infertility was caused by their service
Nearly 60 percent said they “can just live with” discomfort caused by health issues if they’re not debilitating (!!!)
An article from Duke’s Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy says it is “the first to evaluate new and existing laws criminalizing abortion…”
Olivia Munn talks about her cancer diagnosis, and the decision to fully remove her uterus and ovaries, despite wanting to have more children.
An essay from Lucy Pasha-Robinson opens with one of the most gripping depictions of endometriosis pain I’ve ever read.
It’s not just about avoiding counterfeits, providers need training to know where the forehead artery is, for example, or how to treat potential complications.
Louisiana’s legislature is considering making the abortion pill medications the same as narcotic drugs, criminalizing the “possession of two medications used to induce abortion without a prescription, with punishments including prison time.”
Three political science professors surveyed over 1,300 Americans about pregnancy dating.
Supreme Court justices seemed split mainly along ideological lines during oral arguments over a federal requirement that hospitals provide emergency care to stabilize a patient, including abortions when necessary.
The so-called clinics promote “abortion pill reversal,” which doesn’t have medical or scientific evidence to back it up.