Category Archives: Reproductive Health

What Every Red State Resident Should Know about Birth Control Options

Posted on March 27, 2023 by Valerie Tarico

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Some birth control options are 100 times more reliable than others. Continue reading →

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Men Should Be Able to Express Opinions and Feelings about Abortion

Posted on March 19, 2023 by Valerie Tarico

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I don’t see any way to deny the validity of male voices in abortion conversations without broadly trashing the human capacity to empathize and perspective-take and wrestle with moral questions. Continue reading →

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Abortion isn’t the Only Part of Women’s Healthcare That Just Lost Half a Century

Posted on February 18, 2023 by Valerie Tarico

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Leading with a diaphragm that will fail 1 in 5 women during a single year over an implant that will fail 1 in 2000 leads to less reproductive empowerment, not more. One might think of it, in fact, as a form of stochastic coercion; you don’t know who is going to get forced by contraceptive failure into a baby they didn’t want, but you know for sure that someone will. Continue reading →

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Men are More Than Allies When It Comes to Abortion Rights

Posted on November 12, 2022 by Valerie Tarico

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Abortion access—or lack thereof—affects the lives of men almost as much as the lives of women. Why are we treating men as mere allies? Allyship used to mean people who shared a mutual interest or who faced a common threat, … Continue reading →

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Fall of Roe Podcast: Abortion Hypocrisy and Christianity – A Conversation Between Valerie Tarico and Chris Charbonneau

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Valerie Tarico

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I usually hate listening to my interviews, but even I enjoyed this one. Chris Charbonneau is a forty-year reproductive rights leader. Her handprints are on virtually every important innovation in the Planned Parenthood sphere for decades. That includes them spinning … Continue reading →

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