In last night’s election, abortion care was threatened on the ballot in three states. Alabama and West Virginia passed two ballot measures that restrict abortion […]
Easy access to women’s health care, particularly through Planned Parenthood, has mattered to me throughout my teen and adult years. When first I became sexually […]
After years of missing work due to extremely painful menstrual cycles, Planned Parenthood provided me with an IUD that drastically improved my life. I don’t […]
My patient told me she was going to die if she stayed pregnant. She wasn’t being dramatic. She had almost died in her previous pregnancies. […]
As a family doctor, I’m privileged to get to take care of all types and ages of people. When it became apparent that the mom […]
I grew up in the Midwest. My mother had a child when she was in her teens, and from a very young age she talked […]
I recently cared for a woman named Ann who had rheumatic heart disease. Ann had had surgery to replace two of her heart valves and […]
Early in my medical career, I was the physician attached to a military squadron. One of my female sailors was raped by a fellow sailor. […]