Women’s Health

Judith Herman’s seminal book “Trauma and Recovery” created a template for her field. Three decades later, she’s published a follow-up to explain how survivors’ needs are still misunderstood.

The stigma surrounding menstruation may have had severe consequences for research into reproductive health.

Titus Kaphar’s film, featuring Serena Williams, shows how frightening it can be to become a mother in the United States, especially for people of color.

Eunice Cho, a senior staff attorney at the A.C.L.U., discusses the dangers that immigrant women face at poorly run detention facilities.

The legal scholar Mary Ziegler discusses Roberts’s emphasis on precedence, and explains how the Court’s decision isn’t an unequivocal victory for freedom of choice.

We may be looking at a future in which increasing numbers of those seeking abortions in states with more draconian laws will have to travel elsewhere to obtain them.

The Reproductive Health Act will remove barriers for women seeking to get abortions in New York. But some wish it could have gone further.