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Over Half of Women Feel their Pain is Ignored or Dismissed, Survey Reveals

“More women than men surveyed also believed the reason they haven’t received a diagnosis yet for their pain, or are taking longer to receive a diagnosis, is due to the gender pain gap (44 per cent of women compared to 24 per cent of men).”

The News Not Noise Letter: Amy Schumer “Be Relentless When FIghting for Your Health”

“The shaming and criticism of our ever-changing bodies is something I have dealt with and witnessed for a long time. I want so much for women to love themselves and be relentless when fighting for their own health in a system that usually doesn’t believe them.”

Dying to be pregnant: Local woman’s miracle story highlights deadly dangers of Black maternal health crisis

“Twilla’s kidney and liver were severely damaged. She eventually had to have dialysis three days a week. She was a new, first-time mom, barely alive herself.”

Addressing the Crisis in Rural Maternal Care

“There is a higher risk of complications and death for both mothers and babies in communities that do not have local maternity care services. Women are less likely to obtain adequate prenatal and postpartum care when it is not available locally”

How do you grieve for a child who barely lived?

“So you’re all alone without those stories. You don’t have those social scripts or cultural narratives of funerals and condolence cards and bereavement leave, and sometimes not even a birth and death certificate – all these things that help tell the story of the fact that somebody’s died.”

An LGBTQ+ Parent and a Surrogate Weigh In on the Pope’s Surrogacy Comments

“One of [the pope’s] quotes said, ‘A child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract. But I feel like the action of surrogacy is like a gift in a lot of ways.”