Health/Sexuality

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

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

“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

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

A post-Roe world isn’t quiet

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.

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

“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.”

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

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.

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

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