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Story No. 294: Dr. Kanani from New York
I take care of young women and girls—8th and 9th graders—in the Bronx. They are white, black, Latina, Asian. They come from single parent homes […]
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Story No. 290: Dr. Jennefer from California
When I was in residency in California, I took care of Rita, a young Catholic mother of five. Rita was suffering from a serious heart […]
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Story No. 288: Dr. Yolanda from Washington
Maria was 15 years old. I met her after she had her first menstrual period. She bled so heavily that she had to be admitted […]
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Story No. 280: Dr. Kathleen from New York
As an obstetrician/gynecologist, I have had many patients like Jennifer (name changed), a 22-year-old Catholic mother of one. She decided to postpone expanding her family […]
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Story No. 268: Dr. Caitlin from Indiana
Just a few weeks into my new job in Indiana, I saw a twenty-three-year-old mother of a nine-month-old baby girl. She just recently was able […]
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Story No. 264: Dr. Alhambra from Pennsylvania
Lydia sobbed and clutched her rosary. Between the tears, she told me that she had been a practicing Catholic all her life. She had saved […]
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Story No. 184: Jennifer from Colorado
My mother contracted HPV when she was a young woman. She was Catholic, had one sexual partner—her husband (my father). I love my father, but […]
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Story No. 160: Dena from Colorado
In 1973, at the age of 26, I found myself pregnant. I had just broken up with my boyfriend, moved to a new town and […]