What: Singer Olivia Rodrigo is on tour and living up to her promise to bring awareness to reproductive healthcare—at a concert this week in Missouri, attendees could get emergency contraception pills and cards with QR codes that provided abortion access information. Missouri banned abortion after Roe fell.
Why it matters: It’s a lot more than wearing a pin for a cause.
Source: Variety
A profile of Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, a family medicine doctor and owner of a clinic in Arizona that performs abortions.
“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.’”
70% did not associate using marijuana with any negative side effects, even though it can be associated with preterm labor and low birth weight
At one point during the campaign RFK Jr. backed a national abortion ban, and he regularly spreads debunked conspiracies about childhood vaccines.
Combing through the data to explain why most late term abortions happen (hint: it’s fetal anomalies and not convenience.)
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.
The head of Donald Trump’s transition team was on CNN last night, and he spent a lot time praising RFK Jr.’s debunked theories that childhood vaccines cause autism.
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
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.
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.
An analysis of over 18,000 adults found that signs of sleep apnea are correlated with a higher chance of having dementia, especially among women.
An essay from Rachel Manteuffel on her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment that manages to be funny while also tackling the wrenching choice to have chemotherapy or not after a mastectomy.
The New York Times analyzed over 600 speeches (!!!) from Donald Trump on abortion and shows visually just how much his rhetoric has changed.
There were millions of people who voted against abortion bans *and* FOR the man who put those bans in motion.
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
MAGA might dismiss this as a troll, but it’s always a joke until it’s not.
Women with type 2 diabetes who got a GLP-1 medication were less likely to develop new fibroids than women who just took metformin, a diabetes medication.
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.
Sharing the stories of women who have had fibroids removed without pain medication or endometriosis symptoms ignored for years.