Reproductive Health

Pacific Standard spoke with Blanca Cuevas, the director of a reproductive health non-profit based on the island.

• By Caitlin Cruz

Abortion rights activists comfort each other outside the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 9th, 2018, after senators rejected a bill that would have legalized abortion.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Abby Norman's new book chronicles how her endometriosis diagnosis unfolded alongside the medical disbelief around her chronic, debilitating pain.

• By Caitlin Cruz

The fights women of color face for reproductive rights remain sidelined (and sometimes, made invisible) in what is now the establishment story: There is Roe, and everything after.

• By Melissa Gira Grant

Two potentially sweeping Supreme Court cases set the stage for a seismic shift in the battle over abortion and contraception.

• By Nina Martin

New research suggests fracking damages the reproductive health of both sexes.

• By Madeleine Thomas

Advocates argue that safe haven laws prevent mothers from abandoning their newborns, but the policy abandons mothers upon dropoff.

• By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Political opposition to needle exchanges, reproductive health services, and other public health fixtures has helped create an outbreak in Scott County, Indiana.

• By Noah Berlatsky

A new focus on reproductive health services for adolescents and young men might be what it takes to get them to see a primary care physician more regularly—not to mention the other obvious benefits.

• By David L. Bell

The side effects are significant, but mostly people feel fine afterwards.

• By Francie Diep

A new report details the rapid growth of Catholic health care networks, and the questions and concerns that have attended it.

• By Nina Martin