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What I Experienced Inside Afghanistan As It Fell
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (480+ words) How Life Changes Quickly There is no longer a way out for us. A rare breeze wafts through the typically static air, carrying something ominous. Frightened families stuff themselves and their belongings into tiny, intricately colored rickshaws, retreating into the…...
The Leading Killer of Pregnant Women in America Isn't What You Think
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (96+ words) Substack The Leading Killer of Pregnant Women in America Isn't What You Think I’ve spent years reporting from places where pregnant women die in ways the world too often doesn’t bother to count — conflict zones, displacement camps, collapsing health systems....
Who Has the Right? Inside One Surrogate's Fight After Refusing Parents'Abortion Request
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (190+ words) An Alaska nurse who is more than 36 weeks pregnant is fighting in the courts of two states to secure heart surgery for the baby boy she is carrying, after the couple who hired her as a surrogate demanded a late-term…...
Child Marriage Is Child Rape. Why Has It Been Normalized?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (841+ words) I learned that this small, freckle-faced girl was already engaged. Her impoverished parents, struggling further under the country’s plunging economy, saw no choice but to give her to a much older man in exchange for quick cash, following the custom…...
The Birth Crisis No One in Washington Will Fix
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1305+ words) An obstetrician-gynecologist in Miami-Dade County pays more in malpractice insurance each year than most Americans earn. The burden extends well beyond Florida: OB-GYNs in New Mexico pay roughly double what their counterparts in surrounding states pay, at $107,961 on average, compared…...
The Innocuous Chemicals That Could Kill Your Baby
2+ week, 6+ day ago (102+ words) Substack Maternal Dispatches with Hollie McKay The Innocuous Chemicals That Could Kill Your Baby The shower curtain hanging in your bathroom. The garden hose coiled on the back porch. The vinyl flooring under your feet. The deodorant on the bathroom…...
The Baby Formula Wars: When Science, Law, and Grief Collide
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1061+ words) Three of those babies needed surgery. All four survived. Yet their lives were changed forever. Earlier this year, a Cook County jury ordered Abbott to pay the four families $70 million. The jury found the company liable for defective design, failure…...
Looking for the Lost
3+ week, 6+ day ago (783+ words) In a muddy open field on the outskirts of Kyiv, on another snowy afternoon, a man wanders aimlessly outside a newly established evacuation medical tent. Blood-stained bandages wrap around his head and left arm. A small trail of blood follows…...
What No Amount of Field Reporting Prepared Me For: The Miracle of Life, Birthing my Second Child
4+ week, 2+ day ago (831+ words) As quickly as I felt myself falling apart, I pulled myself back together, soothed by the tiny foot I could tickle at the top of my abdomen, savoring what would be the final hours of just baby and me, two…...
Watching K-Pop Can Get You Killed in North Korea — and It’s About to Get Worse
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (212+ words) Substack Watching K-Pop Can Get You Killed in North Korea — and It’s About to Get Worse The execution was carried out at a mine. A 22-year-old man was shot by firing squad in South Hwanghae Province in 2022 — not for violence,…...