Trump administration eviscerates maternal and child health programs https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/maternal-child-health-cuts #Trumpadministration #Reproductiverights #Fertilityproblems #USpolitics #Pregnancy #Children #Society #USnews #Gender #Health #Family #Women #IVF
Here To Be Human
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/here-to-be-human/
"The elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance team — a group of six epidemiologists, data analysts and researchers — shocked public health experts and IVF advocates who said they had felt encouraged by President Donald Trump’s comments supporting access to the infertility treatment."
"The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday in a case over whether states should be able to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, which comes amid a wider push from abortion opponents to defund the nation’s largest abortion provider."
Pregnancy, Birth And Recovery: FitNest Mama
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-fitnest-mama-podcast/
"Wyoming no longer has a clinic offering procedural abortions. Now, patients are traveling hundreds more miles to neighboring states for care....A new state law, pushed by abortion opponents, placed strict requirements on the clinic, including getting its physicians admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and making extensive renovations."
"The United States is ending its financial support for family planning programs in developing countries, cutting nearly 50 million women off from access to contraception.
This policy change has attracted little attention amid the wholesale dismantling of American foreign aid, but it stands to have enormous implications, including more maternal deaths and an overall increase in poverty."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/health/usaid-contraception-cuts.html
In #Republican's eyes, a #woman not surviving #pregnancy is simply "survival of the fittest" playing out. The mother obviously wasn't very strong.
Leaving the strongest mothers behind to stay permanently #pregnant, barefoot, and in the kitchen.
#USpol #HandmaidsReality
RE: https://mastodon.social/users/jeffjarvis/statuses/114273864901078702
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1746/ Pregnant Women Face Lower Odds of Long COVID #BrainResearch #COVID19 #Health #LongCOVID #neurobiology #Neurology #Neuroscience #Pregnancy #UK #UnitedKingdom #WeillCornellUniversity
A retrospective study of over 72,000 U.S. women found that those who were pregnant when they contracted Covid-19 had a lower risk of contracting long COVID than those who were not pregnant (16% vs. 19%). Some subgroups were at higher risk.
Summary: https://neurosciencenews.com/long-covid-pregnancy-neurology-28540/
Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57849-9
"Alabama cannot prosecute doctors and reproductive health organizations for helping patients travel out of the state to obtain abortions, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
Alabama has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, and in 2022 its attorney general, Steve Marshall, a Republican, raised the possibility of charging doctors with criminal conspiracy for recommending abortion care out of state."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/us/politics/alabama-abortion-prosecution.html
'Tee oder Kaffee' ist mir egal, aber ich gebe in Homeshootings den Personen gerne eine Tasse in die Hand, damit sie etwas für ihre Hände und vielleicht auch ein Grund haben, warum sie gerade an der Stelle im Raum verharren
Anna Katharina, #Kiel 2018
The Midwife Memos
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-midwife-memos/
Exposure to secondhand smoke during pregnancy more than doubles the risk of placental abruption, according to a study by a team from Tohoku University. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/31/japan/science-health/research-secondhand-smoke-pregnancy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #smoking #passivesmoking #health #pregnancy #tohokuuniversity #surveys
And the open access article in Science Advances
#Pregnancy #ReproSci #ObGyn #Science
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr7922
“Several measurements — including a marker for inflammation and several indicators of blood health — settled but did not return to their pre-conception levels even after 80 weeks”
#Pregnancy #ReproSci #ObGyn #Science
Pregnancy’s true toll on the body
“in the first month after birth, 47% of the 76 indicators stabilized close to their pre-conception values. But 41% of the indicators took longer than 10 weeks to stabilize.”
#Pregnancy #ReproSci #ObGyn #Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00959-7
CDC campaign that highlights patients' perceptions, experience, and satisfaction with healthcare, and ESPECIALLY related to pregnancy and maternal (and infant) health.
Available for the nonce at https://www.cdc.gov/hearher/campaign-resources/social-media.html #pregnancy #womenshealth #healthcare
"Critics, meanwhile, told lawmakers that Senate Bill 31 doesn’t go far enough to protect women facing pregnancy-related medical emergencies and even quietly resurrects 160-year-old laws that could be used to criminalize those who have undergone an abortion or have helped those who receive an out-of-state abortion."
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/27/texas-abortion-bill-senate-31/
"A New York county clerk on Thursday blocked Texas from filing a legal action against a New York doctor for prescribing and sending abortion pills to a Texas woman.
The unprecedented move catapults the interstate abortion wars to a new level, setting the stage for a high-stakes legal battle between states that ban abortion and states that support abortion rights."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/health/new-york-texas-abortion-shield-law.html
