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    India is trying to reduce maternal mortality without engaging with a key contributor: suicide

    India has made enormous strides in reducing maternal mortality. But that success has exposed a largely unaddressed phenomenon: high rates of suicides around the time of childbirth.
    by Disha Shetty

    Co-published with Scroll and Health Policy Watch

    Financial Pandemic: For a refugee in crisis-hit Lebanon, even buying bread is a struggle 

    Zahwa Ashwah, a widow in her sixties, lives in a refugee camp in Lebanon, where food and fuel prices have soared since a 2019 economic crisis. She and her family now struggle to afford enough to eat.
    Related:
    - As living costs spiral in Kenya, a mother sacrifices to spare family from ‘dire times’
    - ‘Sri Lanka is not a country for poor people now’
    - Lima woman fights to feed her community as food prices soar
    by Katherine Pangonis

    How a network of college students is preparing for post-Roe campuses

    One drop-off at a time, college students are arming themselves with preventive emergency contraception — which could soon be one of the last legal chances to stop a pregnancy.
    by Erica Hensley

    Co-published with Reckon

    The mental health crisis facing Black mothers in the South


    ​​ Research on maternal and infant deaths disparities is now catching up to what many Black women already know: The difference in outcomes is not because of race, but racism. Black mental health advocates and providers in the South are using their own pregnancy-related tragedies to help a community heal.

    Related: Why deaths by suicide often go uncounted in states’ maternal mortality studies
    by Erica Hensley

    Co-published with Reckon

    ‘The smoke enters your body’: A toxic trash site in Kenya is making women sick

    As rubbish piles up on a vast dumpsite, the women who sift through it for their livelihood are suffering reproductive health problems that scientists say have been overlooked.

    Related: Air pollution’s impact on women’s health is not getting the attention it needs, scientists warn
    by Moraa Obiria, Louise Donovan

    Published in partnership with VICE World News and the Nation

    Violent crime victims in New York struggle to access funds due to them

    A state fund designed to help the targets of physical attacks only reaches a small fraction of the people who need it most.
    by Jessica Washington

    Co-published with THE CITY

    Financial Pandemic: As living costs spiral in Kenya, a mother sacrifices to spare family from ‘dire times’

    With food prices soaring to over 12% over the past year, the economic repercussions of the pandemic are being heavily felt across Kenya. Women are particularly vulnerable.
    by Agatha Gichana

    Co-published with the Nation

    Financial Pandemic: 'Everything is harder now'

    Asencia Tuamana, 55, started “Bello Horizonte,” a communal kitchen, in September 2020 to share resources during a nationwide lockdown that left millions of Peruvians with no income. She serves as many as 140 people during the week — even as rising costs make her daily work increasingly more difficult.
    by Jimena Ledgard

    Co-published with Nation

    ‘We have to fight back.’ Afghan women are losing their hard-won right to work under the Taliban

    Afghan women's participation in the workforce rose steadily in the 20 years after the Taliban were ousted from government. Since they returned to power, those gains have been rapidly eroding. Now activists fear a new edict mandating the burqa in public could destroy them altogether.
    by Zahra Nader

    Co-published with TIME

    The draft abortion ruling that shook the states

    While the Supreme Court justices before now contorted themselves to find common legal ground on this most controversial of issues, the leaked draft opinion that would overturn the landmark abortion decision in Roe V. Wade was anything but mealy-mouthed. But what should we make of all of this? Does this unofficial, unauthorized document even matter? Here are five ideas to keep in mind as we continue to make sense of what has happened and of what may lie ahead.

    New York prepares to become an abortion safe haven

    In the wake of a leaked decision by Justice Alito gutting abortion rights, New York state lawmakers have introduced measures to expand access for the expected influx of abortion seekers.
    by Jessica Washington

    Co-published with THE CITY

    ‘I can’t keep this baby’: Pregnant Ukrainian refugees struggle to get abortion care

    Poland has become a place of refuge for millions of women fleeing war in Ukraine. It also has some of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws, posing a major challenge to refugees with unwanted pregnancies. Some have survived rape, others simply cannot imagine taking on the responsibility of a child while their futures are so uncertain.
    by Hanna Kozlowska

    Co-published with The Cut

    Deaths by suicide often uncounted in states’ maternal mortality reviews

    The U.S. maternal mortality rate in 2020 reached a high never before seen since tracking began. But most states aren’t counting suicides and overdoses as a part of their formal pregnancy-related death review, which means the maternal mortality rate could be even higher.
    by Erica Hensley

    Co-published with Reckon

    Air pollution's impact on women's health is slipping under the radar, public health experts warn

    Evidence is clear that air pollution is linked to higher rates of miscarriages, pregnancy complications and stillbirths, affecting women’s reproductive health. But public health experts say that air pollution’s impact on women's health is not getting the attention it needs.
    by Disha Shetty

    Co-published with Scroll and Health Policy Watch

    Analysis: Where democracy falters, so do reproductive rights

    Reproductive rights don’t exist in a vacuum: They are inextricably linked to democratic institutions, with threats to one reinforcing threats to the other. As countries like Poland, Brazil, Hungary, and the United States face threats to their democracies, so do the women of those countries face threats to their reproductive rights.
    by Hanna Kozlowska

    Co-published with Foreign Policy

    DA won’t drop charges against Manhattan woman charged with murder who says she acted in self-defense

    Tracy McCarter won a small concession from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Monday in a case alleging she murdered her estranged husband. But the DA’s office stopped short of dropping a murder charge for an act she says was in self-defense.
    by Jessica Washington

    This story was co-published with THE CITY.

    Do police help or hurt domestic violence survivors? New York City council members take a stand

    Tiffany Cabán and Mercedes Narcisse plunge New York City’s legislature into a fierce debate dividing domestic violence advocates about the role of law enforcement in getting help for survivors.
    by Jessica Washington

    Co-published with THE CITY

    The South’s abortion battle has a new front: telemedicine

    A new bill making its way through the Georgia statehouse would criminalize access to abortion pills by telemedicine — a common, safe, easy way to end early pregnancies that the federal government first allowed last year.
    by Erica Hensley

    Co-published with Reckon

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