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Stories & Conversations

Mortality

lana Goldhaber-Gordon reflects on her profoundly different emotional experiences of pregnancy and miscarriage in the U.S. and in Israel ten years later.

Stories & Conversations

Self-Compassion versus the Patriarchal Pharmaceutical Industry

XY advocates for kindness toward ourselves -- and for more research on menstruation that centers women instead of profit and patriarchy.

Stories & Conversations

My Late-term Abortion

Gretchen shares her experience of having an abortion in the second trimester, after learning the fetus had a life-threatening defect. Her example…

Stories & Conversations

Extreme Pain from an IUD

SD discusses her experience with severe pain after insertion of a copper IUD.

Impact & Influence

Proceedings from the Harvard Conference on Women and Health, 1975

The 1975 Conference on Women and Health brought together nearly 2,500 women from across the United States and Canada.

Where We Stand

Why Our Bodies Ourselves Backs Single-Payer Health Care

All of us have the right to high quality, accessible health care.

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July 2023 Newsletter

This issue examines the centrality of contraception and abortion to equality for women.

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December 2023 Newsletter: Looking Back at 2023

This newsletter looks back at the many awards, publications, and other accomplishments that our content experts garnered in the past year. Two new…

Media Coverage

Interview with Amy Agigian on the Need for Access to Health and Sexuality Information

Executive Director Amy Agigian was a guest on the live talk radio show “About Education” (on AM1290 and simulcast on FM 96.9 in Santa Barbara,…

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A Message from the Founders of Our Bodies Ourselves

As we approach the 53rd anniversary of the first edition of our book, we are thrilled to celebrate the launch of Our Bodies Ourselves Today!

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Welcome to Our Bodies Ourselves Today!

Welcome announcement from 2022 for Our Bodies Ourselves Today, a unique and trustworthy guide to your body and sexuality for women, girls, and…

Resources

Reproductive Coercion

A fact sheet on reproductive coercion, a form of intimate partner violence, to help us better recognize it and respond to it.

Resources

An Overview of Endometriosis

This video provides a general overview of endometriosis and the menstrual cycle, focusing closely on the personal story of Noémie Elhadad.