What: The start of a new year often means new laws, and in New Jersey it means pharmacists can offer birth control pills without a prescription.
Why it matters: As state Sen. Shirley Turner put it – “It’s safe, it’s been in effect for 50 years, and there seems to be no problem with women taking contraceptives…So they don’t need to really go to a doctor just for a prescription. And when you do that, of course, you’ve got to pay. So it costs more money.”
Source: Gothamist
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.
One of the main recommendations is bringing mental health care into “all relevant perinatal settings.”
The FDA approved a new antibiotic to treat urinary tract infections in women, although the drug has been used in Europe for more than 40 years.
Digging into menopause, and specifically how “the medical field is failing menopausal women.”
The Washington Post’s Leana Wen takes on the menopause study that led to millions of menopausal women getting little to no medical treatment for their symptoms.
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.
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.”
A progressive group, Campaign for Accountability, sent letters to state attorneys general in Idaho, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
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?
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.’
Veterans and active military members are only eligible for fertility care if they can prove their infertility was caused by their service
An article from Duke’s Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy says it is “the first to evaluate new and existing laws criminalizing abortion…”
A deep dive worth spending your time on describing the reporter’s journey getting diagnosed and surgical treatment for endometriosis.
Examining the never-ending allure of menstruation being tied to the cycles of the moon.
Writer Lisa McCarty tells her arduous, ten-year journey to having two children. It included four embryo transfers and four miscarriages.
Florida’s state health care agency tried to push back on the fact that many women do not know they are pregnant at six weeks gestation, since it is only two weeks after a missed period for a woman on a very regular menstrual cycle.
The AP has the dystopian details on what pregnant women face in America after Roe: “One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in.”
Shalene Gupta reminds us that unequal pay “is not the only way inequality manifests” among men and women in the workplace.
The story of cognitive neuroscientist Liz Chirastil, who made herself a guinea pig in her own experiment by getting 26 MRIs throughout her pregnancy and for two years after.
American support for abortion reached its highest level ever, with 63% of people saying abortion should be legal in all or most cases.