"Republican state legislators unveiled a new effort on Friday to derail the health care network that has helped people in Texas continue accessing abortion years after the Lone Star State banned the procedure. The...bill targets tech companies that allow patients to order abortion pills online and nonprofit funds that help them travel out of state for care..."
#goodnews #health #food #wellness #pregnancy
Natural Compound in Grapes and Berries May Aid in Fertility, Resveratrol Study Shows
Beyond Expectations
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/beyond-expectations/
Positive Birth Australia
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/positive-birth-australia/
"Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told reporters on Capitol Hill that she was so troubled about Weldon’s vaccines stance that she shared her concerns with the White House, and she was not surprised that his nomination had been pulled."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13/dave-weldon-vaccine-skeptic-cdc-00228884
When Spanish colonizers established a town in the mountains of Bolivia in the 1500s, they might have expected to expand their communities by having babies, but they could not. While Indigenous folks raised families, not a single child of European descent was born for decades. It was all down to the lack of oxygen at altitude, which the settlers were not genetically adapted to deal with. @KnowableMag reports on how scientists are now studying this to see if they can help pregnant people whose bodies are struggling to provide enough oxygen to their fetuses, at any altitude.
"Less than a year later, St. Luke’s is the one major institution — other than advocacy groups — standing in the way of restrictions on emergency abortion care in Idaho, a state with one of the most absolute abortion bans in the country."
https://www.propublica.org/article/st-lukes-hospital-idaho-abortion-ban
"But those new rules were reversed in January after nearly two dozen states sued the Biden administration to block separate parts of the measure aimed at protecting LGBTQ students from discrimination. In January, a federal judge struck down the changes, which tossed out the expanded protections for pregnant and parenting students, too."
Pregnancy changes the brain forever
"She likened this process [of shrinking brain] to Michelangelo chipping away excess marble to reveal David."
TLDR: Grey matter shrinks, white matter expands.
Source: Science News 2025-01-01
Headline: The Trump Administration Has Made 150 Million American Workers Newly Vulnerable to Workplace Discrimination
Source: Center for American Progress
From the article: "Essentially, all employees and job seekers, a total of approximately 153 million Americans, benefit from the protections the EEOC provides. The Equal Pay Act—a law requiring equal pay for equal work that the EEOC enforces—covers virtually all employers, while other laws enforced by the EEOC apply to all but the smallest employers. Whether they work in the private sector or for the government, practically all employees and those applying for jobs are protected by the EEOC against illegal employer actions" (Annotations removed for clarity)
#EEOC #EqualEmploymentOpportunityCommission #AcceptanceMatters
#Discrimination #Disabled #Ableism #ADA #Elderly #Ageism #Minorities #PeopleOfColor #Racism #Gender #Sexism #Pregnancy
#SexualOrientation #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQDiscrimination #LGBTQIAPlus #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Transgender #TransgenderDiscrimination #Queer #Intersex #Asexual #NonBinary
#HumanResources #Recruiters #TalentAcquisition
#USPolitics #ThePoliticsOfHate #ThePoliticsOfGreed
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https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administration-has-made-150-million-american-workers-newly-vulnerable-to-workplace-discrimination/
Progress is being made in creating an environment in which female members of local assemblies in Japan can balance political activities with childbirth and child-rearing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/07/japan/politics/female-assembly-members-children/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #women039sissues #localgovernment #pregnancy
"Researchers scanned the brains of dozens of women in the weeks before and after childbirth and found that two brain areas involved in the processing and control of emotions increased in size in women who developed symptoms of postpartum depression.
The results...constitute some of the first evidence that postpartum depression is associated with changes in the brain during pregnancy."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/health/postpartum-depression-brain.html
'New research warns that vaping during pregnancy isn't as safe as many believe - nicotine, toxic aerosols, and oxidative stress could put newborns at risk for lifelong lung issues'.
@newsmedical.bsky.social
#ECigs #Pregnancy
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3921/14/3/262 https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250227/Vaping-while-pregnant-isnt-harmlesse28094study-uncovers-risks-to-newborn-lung-health.aspx?utm_source=news_medical_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=women_s_health_newsletter_5_march_2025
"The Trump administration is dropping a yearslong legal battle with Idaho over the right to an abortion in a medical emergency one day ahead of a major hearing — reversing its stance in one of the highest-profile cases it inherited from the Biden administration."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/04/trump-emergency-abortions-00211399
More women in Japan are turning to egg freezing as an increasing number of companies and municipalities offer financial assistance programs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/05/japan/society/egg-freezing-pregnancy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #pregnancy #invitro #women039sissues #health
"Black and Hispanic people paid more in out-of-pocket costs for maternal care than Asian and white people with the same commercial insurance, a new study published in JAMA Health Forum found.
Why it matters: Black mothers in the U.S. face a pregnancy-related death rate that is more than three times the rate for white mothers. About 80% of these deaths are preventable."
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/maternity-costs-racial-ethnic-differences-study
And the open access paper in Science Advances.
#ReproSci #Pregnancy #MedMastodon #Science
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr4074
