Women's Health

There are 1.8 billion monthly menstruators worldwide. Better understanding the science behind period blood, as well as cultural stigma and period policy, can help menstruators everywhere break down period myths.

Centers known for discouraging clients from accessing abortions continue to receive public money, despite media reports of taxpayer funds spent on religious material and what critics call little oversight.

Reproductive health care providers say NC’s new abortion law makes it harder for patients to obtain care and for providers to offer it. Data shows a 31% decline in abortions one month after law took effect July 1.

Gov. Roy Cooper is urging the constituents of four state GOP lawmakers to demand they uphold abortion access.

After months of closed-door discussions among Republican lawmakers, N.C. House and Senate leaders announced Tuesday night that they’ve agreed to ban abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

For this summer’s WUNC Youth Reporting Institute, participants were tasked with telling stories from their communities. Reporter Parys Smith spoke with medical professionals and the women in her family about the experience of Black women in the healthcare system.

Republican leaders in North Carolina’s legislature want the state to start enforcing a 20-week abortion ban. Only a small number of abortions in North Carolina are performed after 20 weeks, but as it gets harder to obtain abortions in other states, experts say there may be more abortions later in pregnancy.

The Supreme Court heard a case Wednesday from Mississippi challenging Roe vs. Wade. BPR looks at the level of abortion access currently in Western North...

Katherine Rowland, author of The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution, says it's time for women to start having better sex.

In their budget, Republican state lawmakers proposed $2.6 million in funding for crisis pregnancy centers and anti-abortion organizations. This funding…