What: In an essay shared in honor of National Infertility Week, writer Lisa McCarty tells her arduous, ten-year journey to having two children. It included four embryo transfers and four miscarriages to have her second child.
Why it matters: It’s a reminder of how challenging the process can be, and how far science has to go in understanding reproductive health.
Source: Today.com
The New York Times has an obituary for Kris Hallenga, who died from breast cancer this week at age 38.
American support for abortion reached its highest level ever, with 63% of people saying abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
TikTok is cracking down on creators who focus on weight loss, restricting content about “restrictive diets, ‘using medication or supplements for weight loss or muscle gain,’ or promoting weight loss products” to users who are 18 and up.
Erin Hirshberg writes a devastating but beautiful essay on having a stillbirth at 36 weeks
A deep dive worth spending your time on describing the reporter’s journey getting diagnosed and surgical treatment for endometriosis.
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?
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.
Olivia Munn talks about her cancer diagnosis, and the decision to fully remove her uterus and ovaries, despite wanting to have more children.
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.”
For the second year in a row the number of applicants to residency programs dropped in states that have abortion bans in place.
An article from Duke’s Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy says it is “the first to evaluate new and existing laws criminalizing abortion…”
The CDC formally warned doctors Tuesday about counterfeit Botox that has sickened 22 people across 11 states.
Writer Lisa McCarty tells her arduous, ten-year journey to having two children. It included four embryo transfers and four miscarriages.
a deep dive on why hospitals are closing OBGYN units throughout the country, and the answer isn’t the fall of Roe making obstetrical care legally dangerous. It’s far simpler than that: money.
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.
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.
Nearly 60 percent said they “can just live with” discomfort caused by health issues if they’re not debilitating (!!!)
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.
An essay from Lucy Pasha-Robinson opens with one of the most gripping depictions of endometriosis pain I’ve ever read.