Policy
This 2022 Supreme Court decision overturned Roe v. Wade and returned primary authority over abortion regulation to individual states.
What is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization?
Passed in 1972, this US law banned gender based discrimination in federally funded education programs and expanded opportunities for girls in sports and academics.
What is Title lX?
The demographic of women who disproportionately suffer from maternal mortality in the US
Who are Black Women?
This term describes the movement for fair and just access to reproductive health and the right to parent safely.
What is Reproductive Justice?
This monthly biological process involves the shedding of the uterine lining, resulting in vaginal bleeding in people of reproductive age.
What is a Period/Menstruation?
WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) is a federally funded program providing food, breastfeeding support, nutrition education, and healthcare referrals to low income pregnant women, new mothers, and children up to this age.
When is 5 Years Old?
In the 1840’s this group of people were truly responsible for the advancement of modern Gynecology.
Who were Enslaved Black Women?
This birth complication, characterized by severe bleeding during or after childbirth, is the leading cause of maternal deaths globally.
What is Postpartum Hemorrhaging?
This unethical 20th century US study in Alabama notoriously withheld treatment from Black men with syphilis, shaping long-term medical mistrust among minoritized communities.
What was the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
This 1960 FDA approved contraceptive gave SO many women new control over family planning.
What is the Birth Control Pill?
This proposed amendment to the US Constitution prohibits gender based discrimination, but has never been formally adopted (despite the ¾ requirement being met)
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
This organization, founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916, became a major US provider of reproductive health services.
What is Planned Parenthood?
This medical advancement dramatically reduced maternal deaths from postpartum infection in the mid 1900's.
What are Antibiotics?
This Cold War era campaign in the United States targeted and removed thousands of LGBTQIA+ federal employees over fears they were security risks.
What was the Lavender Scare?
This sexually transmitted virus attacks the immune system and can be passed from mother to baby during pregnancy or breastfeeding.
What is Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)?
This 1993 law requires the inclusion of women and minorities in clinical research.
What is the The NIH Revitalization Act?
Women’s Health became established as a field in the United States during this decade.
When were the 1990's?
Of total global maternal mortality rates, this percentage occurs in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs).
What is 90%?
Approximately this many women and girls have experienced Female Genital Mutilation worldwide.
How many is 200 Million women and girls?
For people living with endometriosis, the average time between symptom onset and diagnosis is characterized by this range in years.
What is a delayed diagnosis between 4 to 11 years?
This legislative provision in US federal law prohibits the allocation of federal funding to pay for abortions, except when a woman's life is in immediate danger.
What is the Hyde Amendment?
These immortal cancer cells, taken without consent in 1951, became foundational to modern biomedical research.
What are HeLa cells?
This pregnancy complication is marked by high blood pressure and signs of organ damage, often involving the kidneys, usually developing after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
What is Preeclampsia?
Modern health disparities are often explained using this framework, which connects social stigma and discrimination to health outcomes of marginalized communities.
What is the Minority Stress Theory?
This common sexually transmitted virus is responsible for causing nearly all cases of cervical cancer. (It's prevented with a vaccine you have all received!)
What is Human Papillomavirus (HPV)?