Modern maternity care often falls short in providing the steady, attentive support that birthing women need and deserve.

Synthetic opioids hijack the mu-opioid receptor with such potency that withdrawal becomes intolerable: bone pain, vomiting, ...

The fact that medical professionals seldom ask women whether they served in the military upon assigning them a diagnosis is just one of the reasons why many female veterans fail to receive the ...

For victims and survivors of domestic violence, a safety plan is more than just a strategy—it is a lifeline. The year 2025 is shaping up to be one like no other. We are navigating uncharted waters, ...

In most U.S. states, the minimum marriage age for minors that have parental consent ranges from 12 to 17 years old. Headlines are sprouting everywhere about new court cases which may endanger Roe v ...

Up to 90% of women sentenced to prisons in the US are survivors of sexual and physical violence, either in childhood, adulthood or both. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently announced her ...

It is no accident that Black women are being disproportionately affected by Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce. In the past 120 days, approximately 300,000 Black women have been forced out of the ...

On his very first day in office, President Donald Trump fired Admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman in American history to lead a branch of the armed forces. She was evicted from her residence with ...

As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...

In the two years since the Roe decision was overturned, a great deal of ink has been spilled discussing new restrictions to abortion and other means of curtailing women’s reproductive choices. But now ...

Last week, while most Americans were commemorating the Memorial Day Weekend, honoring military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces, a mother of three girls would become ...

HILLSDALE, N.J. (WOMENSENEWS)–Some of the most famous TED Talks are from recognizable names — Monica Lewinsky, Elizabeth Gilbert, Al Gore – but others are from girls like Caitlin Haacke and Sophie ...