Women’s Health

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Julia Craven

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The J&J Vaccine Pause Is Science Working Like It’s Supposed To

Mary Harris

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How Police Killings Might Be Affecting Preterm Birth

Julia Craven

March 30, 2021 4:01 PM

Will This Vaccine Debacle Help Us Realize Why Abortion Access Is Such a Big Deal?

Dahlia Lithwick

March 16, 2021 6:39 PM

Argentina to Legalize Abortion After Landmark Vote in the Conservative Catholic Country

Elliot Hannon

Dec 30, 2020 10:33 AM

The Women the Pro-Choice Movement Left Behind

Mary Harris

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Why Did It Take a Sterilization Scandal to Retrigger Our Outrage Over ICE?

Aviva Shen

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Unpacking the Explosive Allegation That a “Uterus Collector” Is Terrorizing Immigrant Women

Dahlia Lithwick

Sept 15, 2020 6:41 PM

It’s Too Hard to Get Oxycodone After Giving Birth

Erica Goldblatt Hyatt

Aug 27, 2020 5:47 PM

Age 35 Isn’t a Fertility Cliff. Why Do We Think It Is?

W. Spencer McClelland

Aug 17, 2020 5:45 AM

John Roberts’ Stealth Attack on Abortion Rights Just Paid Off

Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern

Aug 07, 2020 6:24 PM

The Supreme Court Sidelines Women in Favor of Religious Bosses

Dahlia Lithwick

July 08, 2020 2:59 PM

The Supreme Court Can Only See Certain People’s Suffering

Dahlia Lithwick

May 06, 2020 6:08 PM

For Pregnant Women Who Are Scared of Hospitals Right Now, Is Switching to Home Birth Better?

Emily Oster

March 29, 2020 4:19 PM

Are We Calculating Maternal Mortality Correctly?

Chavi Eve Karkowsky

Jan 07, 2020 2:11 PM

How Scientific American Ended Up at the Center of a Massive Twitter War

Susan Matthews

Dec 03, 2019 6:34 PM

My Extreme Form of Morning Sickness Was Terrible. Not Being Believed by My Doctors Was Worse.

Casey Kleczek

Nov 04, 2019 5:45 AM

Breech Babies Don’t Always Require C-Sections

Christine Henneberg

Oct 16, 2019 5:45 AM

There’s One Good Reason to Share Period App Data: Medical Research

Shannon Palus

Sept 17, 2019 1:43 PM

Are You Kegel-ing Correctly?

Shannon Palus

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