With strong stigma and lack of information, society leaves young girls to figure out reproductive health themselves.
SNL originally aired the commercial parody for Annuale – the birth control that only gave you a period once a year – in 2008, when reproductive politics were swinging wildly towards the conservative side and women's rights were squarely under attack (well, more than they usually are).
As well as providing good quality ante-and post-natal care, these midwives work to challenge damaging community perceptions about sexual and reproductive health issues.
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She could include interviews, a diagram of female reproductive organs, an ode to alternative sanitary products.
That's not the point of being queer, just as mitigated reproductive rights aren't the point of being a woman.
He chuckles as he reads how Tiens medicines are supposed to treat about a dozen different conditions each, from preventing cancer to reversing impotence to promoting "the growth of children's reproductive organs".
Did you learn something – about yourself, about the state of women's healthcare, about reproductive rights – from your experience?
And when you get closer to home – state-level offices and local races – you can see policies rolling backwards years of progress, most notably in reproductive health, gay rights and, most alarmingly, voting rights.
Kate McIntyre from Toluca Lake, California wrote: "I'm hoping that when I lace these babies up and step out, every male troglodyte who sees my feet will recognize these red shoes and know that I am dead serious about controlling my own body and making my own reproductive choices".
But she says his previous statements on women's reproductive rights are troubling.
