Parenthood

Native American Heritage Month Began Before November for This Wisconsin Community

Mary Annette Pember

Community members created the Madeline Island Jingle Dress Project in the spring of 2018 to immerse Native and non-Native people in the history of the island.

On ‘Native Election Night,’ I Know My Mother Would Have Been Proud

Mary Annette Pember

While covering the midterms from Minnesota, I couldn't help but feel the pride my mother would have felt had she lived to see this day.

Trump’s HHS Reverses Course on Including Hormonal Birth Control in Title X Grants (Updated)

Katelyn Burns

Last year’s Title X funding announcement introduced grant criteria focused on natural family planning.

Racism Kills: What Community-Level Interventions Can Do About It

Miriam Zoila Pérez

One such program is a school-based model in Portland, Oregon, called 3 to PhD.

Trump Administration Moves to Restrict Birth Control Benefit and Abortion in Post-Midterm Attack

Katelyn Burns

The release of the finalized birth control benefit rules had been anticipated by advocates since news broke last month that finalized versions had been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Too Often, Quality of Life for Endometriosis Patients Is Dictated by Their Financial Resources

Rewire News Group Staff

The endometriosis advocacy organization Endo What? is working to change that with a number of efforts.

Pennsylvania Mural Highlights Migrants Who Were Traumatized in ‘Family Prison’

Renée Feltz

Members of the Shut Down Berks Coalition will join the muralist in Harrisburg today for a rally to close the detention facility. The art project comes just as President Trump moves to hold asylum seekers in “massive cities of tents."

This Week in Sex: How a Lesbian Couple Literally Made a Baby Together

Martha Kempner

The new procedure is a cheaper alternative to in vitro fertilization. And in other news, women are applying entrepreneurial know-how to funding fertility treatment.

The Effects of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Are Starting to Show in Preterm Birth Rates

Erika Stallings

New research suggests the current political environment is having a negative effect on the pregnancies of people in the United States born outside the country.

Bob Bland: Working Moms, Running in Midterms, Are the Nation-Builders We Need

Bob Bland

We’ve heard that the 2018 midterms are bringing a women’s wave into office. But they’re also bringing with them a mother’s wave—and all of us, as well as our children, will stand to benefit.