Ladyparts Podcast

28/05/2020

"Evidence supporting its use specifically in women’s health is essentially nonexistent. In fact, the only article in the medical literature discussing ma*****na use for menstrual problems is from the late 1800s.

So, what we are left with is anecdotal evidence and testimonials, both present-day (Whoopi Goldberg) and historical (Queen Victoria), supporting the use of ma*****na to treat menstrual cramps."

Heard the buzz about medical ma*****na and menstrual cramps? Learn more about what we know and what we don't know about this controversial therapy.

28/08/2019

How science has seen women as men with "pesky hormones," and lots of other sad things about sexism and racism in medicine.

John Oliver discusses the roles that gender and racial bias can play in medical treatment. Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last Wee...

26/06/2019

'Here’s the picture of the leaders negotiating away birth control, maternity care and abortion. Notice anything?'

12/06/2019

I know it's more complicated than this, but I'd rather be a paid surrogate than an unpaid one!

A bill to legalize paid surrogacy in New York passed the State Senate, but has found opposition from prominent feminists, including Gloria Steinem.

19/05/2019

Feeling that New Haven, Connecticut pride with the founders of One Village Healing, a healing justice center on the podcast this month. Here's a tidbit:
“As a black woman who navigates all kinds of spaces - white spaces, male spaces - I’m really beginning to understand the importance for me as a black woman to be in healing circles with other black women, and creating space for that without being apologetic or with fear of making white people feel uncomfortable.” - Hanifa Nayo Washington

This episode is a conversation with Hanifa Nayo Washington and Thema Haida, two women healers who recently opened a holistic healing center in New Haven, Connecticut. The center is called One Village Healing and it’s a bit different from other holistic health spaces you may have been to - it runs

26/04/2019

Depressing update to the Medicaid for Indiana doulas story: the legislature took the funding out of the budget.

A bill to cover doulas under Medicaid passed the Indiana legislature and was signed into law. The money for the measure, however, was stripped out of the budget in the last days of session.

25/04/2019

In my conversation with midwife Stephanie Mitchell, we talked about how mothers who need doulas the most often can't afford them. So I was happy to find out that Indiana just passed a law extending Medicaid coverage to doulas. It's the third state to do so, after Minnesota and Oregon. Thanks to my former coworker Jill Sheridan Poulos for her reporting.

Gov. Eric Holcomb has signed new legislation to make Indiana the third state to extend Medicaid coverage for doulas.

22/04/2019

Like Stephanie (aka on Insta) says, you gon' learn today! On the new episode of Ladyparts, we talk to two midwives who have seen some things...like moms-to-be asked to sign consent forms for c-sections months before giving birth, or women left laboring unattended with a monitor on for hours...and these ladies are here to make it better. Yale Midwives Midwives Alliance of North America Physicians and Midwives

Midwives are specialists in normal physiologic birth, but only about 12 percent of babies in the US are delivered by midwives. In this episode, two midwives make the case for how better integration of midwifery into the US medical system could help lower this country's high rate of maternal mortalit