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28 Days or 40? Here’s How Long Your Cycle Is Really Supposed to Be

By Robin Berzin — 2018

Despite what many of us have been told, the reality is that a person’s menstrual cycle doesn’t always fit into a neat and tidy 28-day rotation.

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What to Expect at Work When You’re Expecting

Legal protections against pregnancy discrimination are one thing. Actual feelings of security are another.

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Roxane Gay
2021
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The Legitimate Children of Rape

Writing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Dr. Felicia H. Stewart and Dr. James Trussell have estimated that there are twenty-five thousand rape-related pregnancies each year in the United States.

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Andrew Solomon
2012
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Medical Progress, Social Progress, and Legal Regression

Both anti-abortionists and disability activists have sometimes suggested that women should defer to “nature” and have whatever baby they conceive. The bioethicist William Ruddick calls this the “ ‘hospitality’ view of women.

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Andrew Solomon
2013
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How to Cope with Eating Disorders During Pregnancy

Eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED) most commonly emerge during adolescence or young adulthood and disproportionately impact females.

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Lauren Muhlheim
2019
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Latham Thomas Is a Woman on a Mission

She says attention needs to be paid to ending systemic racism throughout all of Black people’s lives—as well as in their safety in birth. And given Latham’s line of work, that last piece is a topic that’s particularly important to her.

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Tonya Russell
2020
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