Health/Sexuality

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One Year After Dobbs: Minnesota Abortion Providers Speak

It’s scarier [now] for patients and for providers — there are targets on our backs, but we’re committed to meeting people’s needs.

  • 05/24/2023
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What Can Feminists Make of the Eugenicist History of Abortion?

How free is the choice to have an abortion when disability is imagined to mean the end of potential?

  • 05/24/2023
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Post-Dobbs: Editor’s Letter and TOC

“A patient said to me, ‘You’ve given me my future back.’ When somebody says that to you, how do you not keep going?”
— Tammi Kromenaker, clinic director at Red River Women’s Clinic in Moorhead

  • 05/24/2023
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Exploring Sex and Aging

Good sex is about being good at communication. It’s not about how big anything is or where you put it.

  • 05/24/2023
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All the Force in Her Gut

A post-Roe world isn’t quiet

  • 05/24/2023
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Reproductive Rights at the Capitol

Lawmakers were busy this session, introducing and passing a record number of laws related to protecting reproductive freedom and gender-affirming health care in Minnesota.

  • 05/24/2023
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Tapestry: My abortion was…

“Being able to make the decision then created the person I am today.”

  • 05/24/2023
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Insights About Menopause and Aging Bodies

“My passion is about helping aging women, for those 30 to 50 years that we have beyond the reproductive age, to be as vital and purposeful as we possibly can be. And to be visible — we are often forgotten as we age and this is a time for us really to be visible.”

  • 04/24/2023
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Three Human Rights Bills Signed Into Law

Protesters for and against three social issue bills gathered near the Capitol’s Senate chambers on Friday April 21, 2023. Photo

  • 04/22/2023
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A Conversation About Reproductive Freedom

Several states are passing legislation designed to protect patients and doctors who are choosing inclusive reproductive care. Minnesota’s Reproductive Freedom Defense Act is one of those bills. HF366 passed the House and is awaiting a Senate hearing. This is what it would do in MInnesota.

  • 04/11/2023
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Commentary: “Florida”

April 5, 2023 — When I read Isabella Thoulouis’ brave and introspective article, “Out of a Box” — in which

  • 04/05/2023
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School-Based Clinics Empower Teens

Adolescent-centered health care entails directly educating the patient on their health needs, rather than providing that guidance exclusively to the parent or guardian.

  • 03/30/2023