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Story No. 387: Tina from California
My birth control also helps mitigate migraine headaches. As a self-employed person, missing work due to the pain of a migraine means losing income. I […]
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Story No. 386: Dr. Aisha from California
Throughout our medical education, we focus so much on ensuring our patients have access to contraceptives that we often forget to mention what should be […]
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Story No. 384: Dr. Tanya from California
Jenny (name changed) was a young woman in her twenties with two young children when she got pregnant again. She was so excited about her […]
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Story No. 373: Patient from California
When I was 17, I slipped up on my birth control and found myself 13 weeks pregnant. I was not in the best place in […]
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Story No. 369: Patient from California
I was passionate about my technology career and in a new and stable relationship, when I discovered that I was unexpectedly pregnant. We were using […]
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Story No. 365: Patient from California
*Trigger warning – this story discusses rape* — I’ll never forget when I was raped as a 16-year-old girl. Those memories have stayed with me […]
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Story No. 359: Christine from California
Two of my aunts died of cancer—one from ovarian and one from breast cancer—when I was a teenager. From a medical perspective, this puts me […]
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Story No. 358: Dr. Jennifer from California
A very close friend of mine announced that she was pregnant. We were so excited to hear that the first of my friends was pregnant! […]