2A. Gynecology and Obstetrics. General Issues. Menstruation, Menopause, Pregnancy, etc.
[This section covers Menstruation. For Period Poverty,
see Section 15, Women and Poverty, Homelessness, Period Poverty.]
… it is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.
― Sarah Weddington, A Question of Choice
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The Big Push for Midwives Campaign
"... represents tens of thousands of people in the U.S. who support increasing access to Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs), community birth and out-of-hospital maternity care. We push for more birth options in America with CPMs, who provide affordable, quality, community-based care that is proven to reduce costly and preventable interventions, as well as decrease the rate of low-birth weight and premature births."
https://pushformidwives.org/
Larissa.Health [Germany and international]
"... a midwife-led, midwife-strengthening platform, putting maternal health on a sustainable path."
https://larissa.health/index
With Woman
“… birth workers and activists, focused on the pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding concerns of women. Sex-based language is important due to sex-based oppression.”
https://with-woman.org
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Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers — and before it can be his, it is hers alone. She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.”
― Margaret Sanger
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19 States Attorneys General. “Comments opposing the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed rule, HIPAA Privacy Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy."
Letter to Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Re: RIN Number 0945–AA20, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, HIPAA Privacy Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy, 88 Fed. Reg. 23506 (Apr. 17, 2023)
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/657773029-Mississippi-AG-opposes-reproductive-care-privacy-rule.pdfRobert Bradley. "Husband-coached childbirth (1996)." (2026)
https://archive.ph/XpzMk
Tanya Gold. "The deadly omertà of childbirth: Why aren't women allowed to talk about how dangerous reproduction can be?" [2020]
https://archive.ph/S5jMA
Lynn Goldstein and Marty Abrams. “The overturning of Roe v. Wade undermines the right to privacy.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/R14OX
Judith Green. “Health care is a human right.” [2020]
https://archive.ph/wip/b0c0L
Thom Hartman. “Is the right to contraception about to end in America?” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/8OQ5y
Larissa.Health [Germany]. "What it means to be pregnant in prostitution." [n.d.]
https://archive.ph/rJ3vH
Danielle Letenyei. “Chicago businessman Barre Seid's net worth may be in the billions.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/P8dsO
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Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.
— Emmelie Pankhurst
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Abigail Shrier. “Inside Planned Parenthood's gender factory: An ex-reproductive health assistant speaks out.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/wip/ZFMZp
Vanitha N. Sivalingam, W. Colin Duncan, Emma Kirk, Lucy A. Shehard, and Andrew W. Horne. "Diagnosis and management of ectopic pregnancy." [2011]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3213855/
Victoria Smith. "How disastrous births haunt women: Mothers are still mocked for wanting control.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/G1lzd
Tessa Stuart. “The Catholic Church is bankrolling a nationwide assault on women’s rights.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/tCQlI
Supreme Court of the United States. "Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et.al. v. Jackson Women's Health Organization et.al., Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit." [2021]
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf
Peg Tittle. “Sterilization: The personal and the political.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/emMzY
Alex Turner-Cohen. “Margaret Atwood draws parallels between The Handmaid’s Tale and US after Roe v Wade overturned.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/mwL0s
Jessica Valenti. "This group asked obgyns to sign a sexual purity pledge." [2026]
https://archive.ph/qXoG9
Jessica Valenti and Kylie Cheung. "A Georgia Hospital turned her in, Now she’s charged with murder: It's not a crime to take abortion pills, it's not a crime to lose a pregnancy." [2026]
https://tinyurl.com/yufcpy8c
Brett Wilkins. "Texas abortion ban turned one woman's pregnancy Into a 'dystopian nightmare.' [2022]
https://archive.ph/Fv8u9
Poppy Wood. "Protesters march through London demanding overhaul of Victorian abortion laws after Carla Foster sentencing: Labour MP Stella Creasy told i[news] that the significant turnout to the march ‘shows women aren’t prepared to accept to the possibility of prosecution hanging over their right to choose.’"
https://archive.ph/wip/UzpAP
The World Bank. “Menstural health and hygiene.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/VZLUe
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They’re not pro-life. You know what they are? They’re anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don’t like them. They don’t like women. They believe a woman’s primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state.
― George Carlin
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Wendy J. Murphy, JD. "Here’s why Roe overturn is “devastating” for women." [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/ZICUF VIDEO
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Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can’t take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can’t take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.
― Faye Wattleton
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Elinor Cleghorn. Unwell women: Misdiagnosis and myth in a man-made world. [2021] BOOK
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646468/unwell-women-by-elinor-cleghorn/
Lydia Reeder. The cure for women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the challenge to Victorian medicine that changed women's lives forever. [2024] BOOK
https://lydiareeder.com/the-cure-for-women-overview/
Naomi Wolf. Vagina: A new biography. [2012] BOOK