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On Abortion Rights | Christine Henneberg

Nov 28, 2024 | nybooks.com | Christine Henneberg

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, friends asked me whether I was worried for my four-year-old daughter’s future, specifically her access to legal abortion. My answer: not in California, and not with an abortion provider for a mom. In the worst-case scenario, I joked, I could perform her abortion in my garage. The joke is even less funny now as I consider the implications of a second Trump presidency for the future of my work, and for girls’ and women’s reproductive freedoms.
The Return of Trump-III

Nov 11, 2024 | almendron.com | Andrew O'Hagan |Aryeh Neier |Christine Henneberg |E. Tammy Kim

Christine HennebergAfter the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, friends asked me whether I was worried for my four-year-old daughter’s future, specifically her access to legal abortion. My answer: not in California, and not with an abortion provider for a mom. In the worst-case scenario, I joked, I could perform her abortion in my garage.
Calculated Risks | Christine Henneberg

Oct 17, 2024 | nybooks.com | Christine Henneberg

Curtis Boyd was a thirty-year-old doctor not long out of training when, in 1967, a pregnant teenager named Sallie walked through the door of his private practice in Athens, Texas, and told him, “I need you to do me an abortion.” Sallie wasn’t one of his patients, but her sack dress and home-cobbled shoes told him they had “more in common than our appearances would suggest.” Like Sallie, he’d grown up down a dirt road on the rural outskirts of Athens, seventy miles southeast of Dallas.
Letter: Hospital system's stance on abortion is troubling

Oct 14, 2024 | napavalleyregister.com | Christine Henneberg

In less than four weeks, this country faces a national election that has been largely painted as a referendum on abortion rights. As a physician, I often hear variations on the erroneous belief that California has resolved the question of women’s reproductive freedom because the right to an abortion is enshrined in our state constitution. But women in California—and women in Napa in particular—do not have any such guaranteed freedom.
‘I Still Would Have Had That Abortion’ | Christine Henneberg

May 30, 2024 | nybooks.com | Christine Henneberg

Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I am starting to see women come back. They are crossing state lines for a second time, or a third. At the reproductive health clinic where I work in California, I recently met a thirty-two-year-old woman who was in tears, practically inconsolable, before her abortion. She’d had this done before, she said.
Should Everyone Who Gives Birth Get Physical Therapy?

Nov 1, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Christine Henneberg

At the busy county hospital where I did my medical residency, we cared for patients with every imaginable problem. But one part of treatment was always the same: As soon as it was deemed medically safe, a physical or occupational therapist would visit each and every patient. In the intensive-care unit, a physical therapist might assist a patient into a sitting position at the edge of the bed. An occupational therapist might help her relearn how to hold a fork after weeks of being fed by a tube.
Opinion: The FDA approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill. Here's why I'm underwhelmed

Jul 19, 2023 | drudge-report.net | Christine Henneberg

The progesterone-based ‘minipill’ Opill is, like all contraception, fallible. We don’t have an answer to that after the Supreme Court’s abortion reversal.
Opinion: The FDA approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill. Here's why I'm underwhelmed

Jul 19, 2023 | latimes.com | Christine Henneberg

(Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) Effective pregnancy prevention is a cornerstone of reproductive autonomy. The development and approval of the first birth control pill and the 1965 Supreme Court decision protecting access to it, Griswold vs. Connecticut, were watershed moments for reproductive rights. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration made the progesterone-based Opill (norgestrel) the first hormonal contraceptive approved for over-the-counter sale.
Historias de aborto

Jul 5, 2023 | la-razon.com | Christine Henneberg |Yuri Flores

Comience con una historia. Es el consejo estándar para cualquier médico que se proponga escribir, hablar o abogar en nombre de sus pacientes. Las historias cambian de opinión. Cambian la forma en que las personas piensan sobre temas que, de otro modo, se sentirían impersonales. Las historias importan. Es por eso que, en el año transcurrido desde la anulación de Roe v.
As An Abortion Doctor, I Have A Duty to Expose the Harms of Post-Roe Legislation - The New York Times

Jul 4, 2023 | nytimes.com | Christine Henneberg

Guest EssayJuly 4, 2023, 5:01 a.m. ETCredit...Illustration by Shoshana Schultz/The New York Times; photographs by Barbara Alper and Bettmann/GettyBy Christine HennebergDr. Henneberg is a writer and a doctor specializing in women’s health and family planning. Her memoir is “Boundless: An Abortion Doctor Becomes a Mother.”Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning. Start with a story.