Please note that this article deals almost exclusively with the healthcare needs of cis women, and does not address the needs of trans women, trans men, or intersex people. It also does not address the differences in healthcare and medical treatment across the racial spectrum. While these are vital topics very worthy of discussion, they…

This is a question that keeps coming up time and time again as we continue to wade through the waters of women’s health. Now the obvious answer is “Yes, someone can believe in whatever ideas they want to, regardless of how well they line up or how severely they contradict one another.” But the underlying…

No, for the very last time, you are not paying me to have sex. Most of you probably remember several years ago when Rush Limbaugh declared that Sandra Fluke was a ‘slut’ who wanted taxpayers to pay her to have sex. Fluke was making the case for contraceptives to be covered by healthcare, which would…

Two studies have come to light in the past year that have made a splash in women’s health. And the controversy they’ve generated has opened a door into the hushed history of birth control… The Studies 1. What Women Have Been Saying All Along The first resulted in data that simply showed that depression was…