Reproductive and Sexual Health

Change at every level—from federal policy to individual action—can support Black birthing people in the U.S.

The ruling is another attempt to interfere with the delivery of evidence-based healthcare and control pregnant people’s bodies.

In post-Roe America, the potential overturn of the FDA’s approval of the abortion medication mifepristone looms as the latest threat to abortion access—jeopardizing telemedicine advances that helped make self-managed abortions a reality even for women living in areas where abortion is severely restricted.

Spanning 7 countries, a major piece of global maternal health research found that a low-cost, widely available generic antibiotic can prevent life-threatening sepsis during childbirth in women delivering babies in low- and middle-income countries.