"Girl rights exist to solve the many problems that you didn’t realize you had, such as 'too much bodily autonomy,' the epidemic of 'male loneliness' (this is your problem to solve, ladies!), and being 'under-babied' (our cool, totally not creepy term for when you have fewer children than we want you to have!)."
#satire #women #CivilRights #VotingRights #WomensHealth #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #mifepristone #fertility #immigration
“The demo we need to deal with is men,” says Molly Murphy, a longtime campaign strategist and top pollster with Impact Research. “We tell men the best thing to do is stay out of it, and the message being telegraphed is this isn’t for you. They are with us on the issue, but they don’t know how it impacts them or how dire the situation is.”
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a71086121/men-for-abortion-rights/
#healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #abortion #USpol
"Within two years of its initial distribution, more than a million American women were taking it. Monumental social change followed. Researchers have linked the pill to later marriages and greater educational attainment and labor force participation among women. It also played a part in the sexual revolution of the 1960s and ’70s."
#healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #PublicHealth #FamilyPlanning #contraception
The pill helped give birth to modern America. Known by one simple word, the revolutionary oral contraceptive — approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 66 years ago this month — didn’t just prevent innumerable pregnancies. It gave women new freedom, forever changing family life and society. It disentangled sex from procreation, allowing women to control their own fertility for the first time. But the pill has spurred backlash. Many states outlawed contraceptives in the early ’60s. Catholics were also urged not to use it. Much more recently, concerns about contraceptives have been growing in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to end the constitutional right to abortion.
"Certified professional midwives deliver babies in homes or birth centers. Rather than attend nursing school — which many can’t afford — they earn a nationally recognized certificate by attending at least 55 births and demonstrating their knowledge. Nurse-midwives more often deliver babies in hospitals or clinics than in patients’ homes."
#healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #midwives #licensure #RuralHealth #WomensHealth
Some states bar professional midwives from attending home births if they don’t have a nursing license. Their advocates say laws to allow midwife licensing would make home birth safer and more accessible, plus help address a maternity care shortage.
"The head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Marty Makary, is resigning after a rocky tenure that drew months of complaints from health industry executives, anti-abortion activists, vaping lobbyists and other allies of President Donald Trump."
https://apnews.com/article/fda-trump-makary-kennedy-vaccines-drugs-ef151784342c48cca3b91a829d615b5e
#healthcare #PublicHealth #FDA #PrescriptionDrugs #ultraprocessed #ReproHealth #mifepristone #vaping #ecigarettes #USpol
Marty Makary is resigning as President Donald Trump's Food and Drug Administration head. The surgeon and health researcher's tenure had drawn complaints from health industry executives, anti-abortion activists and other Trump allies. Trump said Tuesday that Makary “was having some difficulty” but ”he’s going to go on and he’s going to do well.” Makary came to the attention of Republican operatives as an outspoken critic of COVID-19 health measures during the pandemic when he appeared frequently on Fox News Channel. But at the FDA, Makary failed to win the staff's confidence after mass layoffs, leadership changes and a series of controversies in which the agency’s scientific principles appeared to be overridden by political interests.
"Two years after Florida's six-week abortion ban went into effect, an OB-GYN with over 30 years of experience says he thinks the restrictions have taken a toll on pregnancy care — regardless of whether patients are seeking to terminate."
#healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #prenatal #miscarriage #abortion #WomensHealth #obstetrics #florida
"Tamiru can think of countless times where a midwife has saved the life of a mother or a child. And he's become concerned that there aren't enough midwives for all the women delivering babies. His concern is backed up by the numbers."
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/05/g-s1-119984/midwife-midwives-childbirth
#healthcare #GlobalHealth #midwives #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #MaternalHealth #USAID #ForeignAid #ForeignAssistance
#SCOTUS restores access to #abortion pill by mail - for now
2 drugmakers filed emergency appeals to a Friday ruling from the 5th Circuit in New Orleans reinstated a requirement that #mifepristone, can only be picked up in person.
"...jettisoning hormonal treatments also means losing their benefits. Decades of research indicate that the hormones used in contraceptives, menopause care, and IVF are safe for the large majority of people. Hormonal IUDs and birth-control pills are highly effective, especially compared with more MAHA-aligned fertility-awareness methods."
#healthcare #ReproHealth #contraception #FamilyPlanning #menstruation #periods #hormones #WomensHealth
"Two companies that make the abortion drug mifepristone asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to hit pause on Friday’s lower court ruling that cut off telemedicine access to the pills nationwide, including in states where abortion is legal."
#healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #courts #SCOTUS
Bich Nguyen
Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴
