6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (519+ words) Now, instead of being constrained by a statutory checklist, licensed physicians may use their professional judgment in consultation with their patients. That means more people who need abortion care later in pregnancy can receive it in their home state. The…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (682+ words) Massachusetts law no longer imposes a gestational-age limit on abortion—meaning for the first time, a woman in the state can choose to end her pregnancy at any point, without a prosecutor looking over her doctor’s shoulder. Gov. Maura Healey…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (443+ words) By the time Gilda reached my office, she was worn out. The message seemed clear: This was the natural course of aging, and she should get used to the patient role. “It’s depressing,” she told me. … The system has taught…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (796+ words) I’m Candace. I’m 33 years old, from Jackson, Mississippi, and the mother of three children: a 10-year-old, a 7-year-old and a 1-year-old. Everything I do is based around my kids. Don’t invite me if my kids can’t come. They like being…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (194+ words) In this age of legal attacks on birth control access and shifting Medicaid coverage, a new online resource has emerged to educate people about the birth control methods available to them and provide them for no fee. The website FreeBC…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (923+ words) Idaho has one of the nation’s strictest abortion regimes: Abortion is generally criminalized at every stage of pregnancy, with narrow exceptions. As Winmill writes, as a direct consequence of this ban, “a woman’s body itself is conscripted into service and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (887+ words) New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a law Thursday establishing the nation’s strongest physical protections for gender-affirming care patients and providers, while expanding legal safeguards for reproductive healthcare access. The law, which passed both houses of the legislature in June,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1042+ words) I almost bought an Oura Ring at 3:12 in the morning. I was lying awake in my small D.C. apartment, my phone casting a blue glow across my face. I couldn’t sleep. Again. My mind was already racing through the work waiting…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (232+ words) Content statement: This piece includes discussions of murder, infant death and child abuse, postpartum depression and psychosis, and sanism. The case has laid bare the failures of a U.S. mental healthcare system that did not protect Clancy or her children, and…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1691+ words) Originally published by COURIER Texas on Aug. 12, 2026. “Choosing to bring new life into the world shouldn’t be a death sentence,” insisted Michelle Maloney, the San Antonio attorney working to bring justice to Texas widower Hope Ngumezi and his two young…...