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She Used Drugs While Pregnant. Should She Be in Prison? After having a stillbirth, Adora Perez was charged with murder
New York Magazine’s The Cut
New Mexico now offers free childcare for all. Here’s how parents and teachers made it happen
The Guardian
‘I’m not afraid. Let’s do it’: the Arizona abortion clinic testing the limits of the state’s ban
The Guardian
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The Guardian
The Bad Guy List: Inside the whisper network of sex workers organizing to stop serial killers before they strike
Cosmopolitan
Before Roe, a Baptist Preacher Performed Abortions in Secret. Now He’s Helping Texans
Mother Jones
The Face Of The Opioid Crisis Is Changing,
And Treatments Need To Catch Up
Women’s Health
Joleen Nez: A Death in Custody
The Nation
How to Kill a Rural Hospital
The Nation

The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’, The Guardian

The Navajo Farmer Taking a Traditional Approach to Making Baby Food, The Guardian

‘It could feed the world’: amaranth, a health trend 8,000 years old that survived colonization
The Guardian

The Indigenous cafe using native cuisine to help its chefs fight addiction, The Guardian

For decades, welfare laws kept Native American families together. Will the supreme court end them?, The Guardian

“We’re Creating Miscarriages With Medicine”: Abortion Lessons From Sweden, The Nation

Argentina’s Decades-Long Fight to Legalize Abortion Ends in Victory, The Nation

New Mexico: Here’s What the Largest Female Legislative Majority in US History Can Accomplish, Mother Jones

The Long, Scary History of Doctors Reporting Pregnant People to the Cops, Mother Jones

“Use Crisis Smartly”: A dispatch from the first abortion center in Poland, Lux Magazine

Second Trimester Taboo: Abortion Pills Are More Important Than Ever, and Safe Far Later Than Most People Know, Lux Magazine

Battle for Breastfeeding: A Debate Rages in Georgia Over Who Can Teach Parents to Nurse, Lux Magazine

Rapid Rise in Syphilis Hits Native Americans Hardest, KFF Health News/NPR

Rising Malpractice Premiums Price Small Clinics Out of Gender-Affirming Care for Minors, KFF Health News/TIME

As Transgender ‘Refugees’ Flock to New Mexico, Waitlists Grow, KFF Health News/CBS News

Doctors created a primary care clinic as their former hospital struggled, KFF Health News/CBS New

After Trump cuts, seeds sit in the warehouse, High Country News

A mom was charged with child neglect for using medical marijuana while pregnant. The Arizona case could set a precedent, The Washington Post

Less than 1 percent of America’s lactation consultants are Indigenous. For these women, it’s a way to empower their communities. The Washington Post

Protesters Say Tear Gas Caused Them to Get Their Period Multiple Times in a Month, Teen Vogue

Wafa Ghnaim Uses the Traditional Craft of Tatreez to Preserve and Share Palestinian History, Vogue

They Asked for PPE and Got Body Bags Instead—She Turned Them Into a Healing Dress, Vogue

Kim Blalock Took Lawfully Prescribed Pain Killers During Pregnancy—And Was Charged With A Felony, Elle

Material Acts: Chilean Embroiderers Record Memory Stitch-by-Stitch, BitchMedia