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Sasha Sagan talks to actor TROIAN BELLISARIO (Pretty Little Liars, Life on Mars) about a tradition older than our species, and the unusual and slightly terrifying way Troian once experienced it.
We’ll also hear from professor and author RANDI HUTTER EPSTEIN (Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank) about the often strange and disturbing history of the tradition.
Reading Time: 3 minutes The side effects of the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade are causing a ripple of issues that could cost people their lives. And I’m not talking about attempting a self-induced abortion, despite the popular clothes-hanger imagery, or about how an untreated ectopic pregnancy basically means death. No, I mean women who are being denied […]
Reading Time: 10 minutes When my Grade 5 class went through Ontario’s reproductive health curriculum in the mid-1990s, the boys and girls were separated, and received remarkably different lessons. Along with the basics of our changing bodies, I and the girls were shown how to use condoms through a banana demonstration, and told how important protection would be when […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes Every time I think I’ve seen the lowest that opportunists can go, they reach a new nadir. It’s like they’re all in a competition or something. Today, Lord Snow Presides over the most distasteful grifting attempt I’ve seen lately: the selling of false miracles to desperate people trying to conceive.
Reading Time: 4 minutes I know, that’s a strong statement, but hear me out. If you’re arguing against abortion and you want to bring in facts, you should… um… use actual facts.
Reading Time: 2 minutes As if it’s not bad enough that Texas’s maternal mortality rates have doubled in the last few years, the state is aiming another kick at women’s reproductive rights. This one could literally disenfranchise them.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The sad story of American women’s health revolves around misguided morality-based policies that punish the powerless, to the point of taking their lives. I’m looking at you, Texas.
Reading Time: 3 minutes As a narrative scholar, I’m all about collecting the experience narratives of medical providers as well as those receiving medical care. This is especially the case with abortion.
Reading Time: 6 minutes The trauma that can occur during a normal hospital birth might have long-lasting consequences for a mother’s psychological & sexual health.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Spoiler: we as a society benefit when women’s specific health needs are understood, and policies to address these needs are implemented.
