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Minority Health: Its Importance Here and Now
In April 2001, the National Minority Quality Forum, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded to eliminate health disparities, launched National Minority Health Month. The next year, it received...
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STD Awareness: Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Pregnancy
Every month since January 2011, we’ve been sharing installments of our STD Awareness series, and each month, we’ve encouraged you to protect yourself from sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) by using...
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Motherhood: A Prenatal Guide
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! Becoming a mother is a wondrous event. It is also a lifelong commitment to another special human being, your child. To provide your new baby with the best start in life, taking care...
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Book Club: Woman Rebel – The Margaret Sanger Story
Now that comic books have become the source material for blockbuster movies, the oft-told story of the maligned and misunderstood superhero should be a familiar one, even to many who have never read a...
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Over 90 Percent of What Planned Parenthood Does, Part 23: Preconception...
Welcome to the latest installment of “Over 90 Percent of What Planned Parenthood Does,” a series on Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona’s blog that highlights Planned Parenthood’s diverse array of...
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What Is Preeclampsia?
The following post comes to us via Jon Brown, a journalism student at Arizona State University, and Planned Parenthood Arizona intern for the spring semester of 2015. Prenatal care is important for a...
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World Prematurity Day: A Time to Reflect on the Importance of Prenatal Care
The following guest post comes to us via Edna Meza Aguirre, regional associate development director for Planned Parenthood Arizona. Edna is a native Tucsonan, bilingual and bicultural. She received her...
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STD Awareness: What Does “Congenital Syphilis” Mean?
Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that causes syphilis Congenital syphilis, for centuries a leading cause of infant mortality, is often thought of as an antique affliction, relegated to history books —...
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Pro-Choice Friday News Rundown
The wingnuts over at the Center for Arizona Policy are almost always behind every single awful anti-choice bill in on our state. This time’s no different. Senate Bill 1367, if passed, would require...
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What’s in a Name: Repealing the Affordable Care Act
Supporters drop off petitions and rally at Rep. Martha McSally’s Tucson office, March 15, 2017 As this post goes to press, word has come that Speaker Paul Ryan has pulled the American Health Care Act,...
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July 11 Is UN World Population Day
The following guest post comes to us via Esteban Camarena, a graduate student at the University of Arizona. He is currently in Brazil doing field research on politics and public health policy. He can...
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Brothers in Arms, Part 1: Racist Anti-Abortion Rhetoric from the Restell...
Newspaper illustration of Madame Restell in jail, February 23, 1878 This article is our first installment in a series that explores the historical and contemporary links between racial intolerance and...
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Learning About Alcohol and Drug-Related Birth Defects
The week of May 14 is Alcohol and Drug-Related Birth Defects Awareness Week. According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence: About 20% of pregnant women smoke cigarettes, 12% drink...
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Sound Science and Unsound Ideology: Sixty Years of Obstetric Ultrasound
Ultrasound image used in an anti-abortion billboard in Ireland, 2012. Photo: The Vagenda For decades now, ultrasound technology has been a fixture in the journey from pregnancy to parenthood. It has...
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Maternal Mortality: A National Embarrassment
Americans spend more money on childbirth than any other country, but we’re not getting a good return on our investment. Less than a century ago, approximately one mother died for every 100 live births...
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Meet Our Candidates: Athena Salman for State Representative, LD 26
The time to fight back — and fight forward — for reproductive justice is fast approaching. The stakes are high in this year’s state election, with candidates for governor, secretary of state, attorney...
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STD Awareness: The Syphilis Outbreak’s Youngest Victims
Arizona is officially in the midst of a syphilis outbreak that in 2018 claimed the lives of 10 infants. That’s the most babies to die of congenital syphilis in the state’s recent history. In addition...
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When Miscarriage Is a Crime
The following post comes to us via Ava Budavari-Glenn, a political communications major and a nonprofit communications minor who is entering her sophomore year at Emerson College. She is a writer whose...
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