The long shadow of WeightWatchers
The company couldn’t keep up with the new landscape created by Ozempic, but the diet industry is as exclusive as…
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The birth trauma taboo
Theo Clarke’s book paints a damning picture of Britain’s failing maternity services. Change cannot come soon enough.
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The legacy of “pro-life” abortion bans is death
Infant mortality rates in the US have rapidly increased since Roe vs Wade was overturned in 2022.
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The menopause industry is a murky area of women’s healthcare
There is little evidence to back up claims made about symptoms, treatment and care.
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Women and the shame of eating
Two new books show that the female appetite remains a source of danger and shame.
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Politicians ignore the Mumsnet manifesto at their peril
It is hard to read the list of policy demands and not reflect that life is getting worse for British…
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The crisis on England’s maternity wards is worse than I imagined
A new parliamentary report reveals that thousands of women across the country suffer through traumatic births.
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Abortion rights will be worse under Trump
The former president created the chaos and cruelty of America’s reproductive restrictions. And they will only intensify in a second…
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Letter of the week: Maternal responsibility
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The trauma ward
Each year thousands of women suffer the nightmare of a traumatic birth. I was one of them.
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Alabama’s IVF ruling criminalises women’s bodies
The state’s Supreme Court has decided that frozen embryos are people – with absurd consequences.
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The strange history of the pill
On the podcast Jam Tomorrow, the story of the contraceptive pill begins with American GIs stationed in England and ends…
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Jen Gunter Q&A: “I wanted to be a detective and drive around in a convertible”
The gynaecologist and author on Nancy Drew, abortion rights, and what would be a truly unforgettable episode of Mastermind.
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Who, in this Wild West of contraception, can you trust?
Whatever the method, reading the endless lists of side effects is a preventative in itself.
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Why junior doctors are right to strike
Also this week: winter travel chaos and the ongoing neglect of women’s health.
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How women were left out of the story of evolution
A radical new history argues that human society was shaped not by hunter-gatherer skills but the bodies of our female…
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Donna Ockenden: “Mothers were blamed for their own deaths”
The senior midwife on the UK’s failing maternity services.
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The Parliament Brief: NHS doctors minimise menstrual health issues, celebrities tell MPs
The journalist Naga Munchetty told the Women and Equalities Committee that she felt “gaslit” over her adenomyosis diagnosis and treatment.
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What happens when women’s pain is dismissed
The Retrievals, a new podcast from Serial, tells the disturbing story of widespread patients’ suffering at the hands of a…
Bridget Christie’s The Change and the rise of menopause media
I’d take Christie’s dark humour over Davina McCall’s washboard stomach any day. But let’s stop pretending the topic is “taboo”.
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