healthcare access

Preventative healthcare is a pain in the ass.

If you could get your period to last only 20 minutes, would you?

When I found myself facing an unwanted pregnancy, and after having spent the good part of two years pregnant, I knew right away that I would have an abortion.

My therapist of six months — let’s call her L — was letting me go. It was so subtle that I wasn’t even sure what was happening; I had to ask.

Even though in the U.S., abortion is a safe and legal option, conservative lawmakers in my state have made sure that among the hundreds of regulations restricting access to legal abortion, restricting the mere mention of it in public schools is up at the tippy top.

Modern technology is creating a work-around for the hassle of getting birth control — and putting it right on your phone.