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One study of 24 health-related apps found 19 shared personal data with third-party sources, who could then transfer the information to hundreds of other companies. (Mad Fish Digital / Creative Commons)

BY MICHELE GILMAN | Menstrual data and period tracking has already become a lucrative industry for apps. Selling private and personal reproductive health data to companies has created income for many fertility apps.

The availability of this data already poses a unique threat to the lives of all people with uteruses, but in a world without Roe the risk of this data becoming a weapon for the anti-abortion movement. They have been known to use such data to influence decision making and reproductive choices. In order to keep this vital data out of their hands action needs to be taken to provide protection and safe alternatives for menstruators.

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BY ROB OKUN | Exacerbated by the news that this summer the Supreme Court is poised to overturn half a century of precedent by declaring Roe unconstitutional, men must leave the sidelines in this national reproductive rights emergency. The stakes are too high to simply declare that abortion is a “women’s issue.”

For decades, men in increasing numbers have followed women’s lead in challenging gender-based violence and promoting gender equality—so why are we stuck when it comes to abortion? Men must understand that denying access to safe abortion is a form of gender-based violence. Controlling women’s reproductive choices is state-sponsored control over a woman’s body. If we speak out against all other forms of violence against women, we must speak out against this form of violence too.

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BY PAULA BRATCHER RATLIFF | For each child they have, mothers get a 5 to 10 percent pay cut on average. Meanwhile fathers get a 6 percent pay bump per child.  As the primary caregiver in many households—33 percent of married working moms have identified themselves as their children’s sole care provider—many women have been forced to choose between their kids and their careers.

What will it take for employers to account for the heightened responsibilities of moms in the workplace?

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As we stare down the barrel of a Roe v. Wade overturn, providers are filling abortion access gaps with telehealth and medication abortion. So, what do you need to know about abortion pills? How do they work? How long has medication abortion been available? Is it safe? (The answer’s yes!) Is it legal? (Yes!) Is it effective? (Extremely.)

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