To fully relieve Black women of their burdens in the United States would require the dismantling of the racist, sexist, and capitalistic structures that plague the country—a formidable challenge, to say the least. Yet, we can chip away at those structures through fighting for these solutions.
New Jersey Democratic lawmakers are about to restore family planning funding, more than $50 million of which was cut by former Gov. Chris Christie over seven years.
When it comes to conversations on trans birth and parenting—when they exist at all—the vast and complex nonbinary community doesn't tend to be as visible.
Across the country, judges are sending more and more people, including pregnant women, to prison—particularly in the wake of the opioid crisis and other criminalization measures. But can prisons really provide an environment for safe and healthy pregnancies?
Part of what drew Dr. Katie Bast to transgender health care was that she could relate to what her trans patients said about wanting to live a more authentic life.