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Maternal Mortality: A National Embarrassment
Americans spend more money on childbirth than any other country, but we’re not getting a good return on our investment. Less than a century ago, approximately one mother died for every 100 live births...
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Sons Speak About Mom’s Abortion
“Mom, did you ever have an abortion?” It’s a simple question. Karen Thurston’s sons, Kevin and Stephen, never asked. Why would they? What would possibly make them even think to ask? Karen Thurston and...
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Due Protections: The Pregnancy Discrimination Act at 40
Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1977. Photo: Lynn Gilbert Today, Susan Struck’s political positions are nothing that would stick out in a red state like Arizona. A few years ago, she joined the chorus of...
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STD Awareness: The Syphilis Outbreak’s Youngest Victims
Arizona is officially in the midst of a syphilis outbreak that in 2018 claimed the lives of 10 infants. That’s the most babies to die of congenital syphilis in the state’s recent history. In addition...
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Ending a Wanted Pregnancy: Jacqueline’s Story
The following guest post comes to us via Jacqueline M. My name is Jacqueline. I’m 31, part of the upper-middle class, happily married to the love of my life, and I had a second-trimester abortion. My...
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Being a Parent of a Gender-fluid Youth
My child, assigned female at birth, is discovering who they are. They have been gay, straight, pansexual, and everything in between. They have been male, female, both, and neither. They go by both...
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When Miscarriage Is a Crime
The following post comes to us via Ava Budavari-Glenn, a political communications major and a nonprofit communications minor who is entering her sophomore year at Emerson College. She is a writer whose...
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Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day: Tracey’s Story
The following post comes to us via Tracey Sands, a graduate student at Arizona State University’s West Campus studying communication as it relates to advocacy. Tracey believes dialogue is an act of...
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