Amber Vayo 6/13/24 Amber Vayo 6/13/24

Maternity care deserts: politics, policy, and (Un)Wellness

Maternity Care Deserts are a public health problem compounded by bad policy.

Amber Vayo 6/6/24 Amber Vayo 6/6/24

Guns, Misogyny, and Maternal Mortality: State Sanctioned Violence Against Women

Amber Vayo 5/30/24 Amber Vayo 5/30/24

Maternal Mortality and the Data we don’t have

Amber Vayo 5/24/24 Amber Vayo 5/24/24

Medical Mistrust as a public health problem

This article tells the story of Astrid, one of the many “near misses” in the US maternal mortality crisis and explores how mistrust, fueled by childbirth experiences, could be contributing to the maternal mortality crisis.

Amber Vayo 2/22/24 Amber Vayo 2/22/24

Alabama, IVF, and Why i ran out of cuss words

The Alabama Supreme Court has just made embryos people. By following the scientifically and legally invalid framework of fetal personhood, the Cotton State is helping the Christian Right limit the reproductive rights of everyone in this country and are making it harder for families who want to have children to do so.