The show that focuses on technology's twisted effects couldn't figure out something pretty simple: the difference between emergency contraception and medication abortion.
"If we are asking people to be the voice, be the face, we’re asking them to be kind of brave and courageous when they talk about these things ... And that’s empowering."
Her experiences of grief, trauma, and the hard work of resistance—and the tolls they took—are a valid and necessary portion of the conversation about Black maternal health and well-being.
We may have gained unprecedented political power, literary accolades, and foundation that truly matches our skin tones, but we are still at the bottom of too many health indicators and too many ladders to social and economic mobility to call 2017 a win.
Sexual contact, outside of penetrative sex, can spread HPV too. Young women are missing opportunities, even in OB-GYN clinics, to be vaccinated against contracting HPV. And are seven words really banned from the CDC?
Vasquez's supporters in El Salvador and internationally see these events as a referendum on the ability of Salvadoran courts to serve the interests of justice, especially for women living in poverty.
There's more awareness of how many U.S. women die during or after pregnancy, but it's time to include self-harm in both public and private discussions.