Bodily Autonomy & Consent

Bodily Autonomy & Consent
Why Your Birth Plan Is A Paper Tiger And Why Hospitals Know It
I once attended a dinner party where a woman named Claire described her birth plan as a binding lega... [...]

Bodily Autonomy & Consent
The High Cost of Doing Absolutely Nothing While the Clock Ticks
I am currently hunkered down in a clinic lobby that reeks of synthetic citrus and a very specific ki... [...]

Bodily Autonomy & Consent
The Ghost of Your Husband Is Hiding in the Exam Room
Most people assume the legal ghost of coverture - that hideous notion that a wife is merely the prop... [...]

Bodily Autonomy & Consent
The Hospital Room is Not a Courtroom: My Friend Julianne and the Right to Say No
I was sitting in a hospital cafeteria three years ago with my friend Julianne - a woman who possesse... [...]

Bodily Autonomy & Consent
The Mathematical Cruelty of the Scale: Why Your BMI is Not a Fertility Forecast
I once spent three hundred dollars on a consultation just to have a doctor named Dr. Aris tell me I... [...]

Bodily Autonomy & Consent
Your Daughter, Her Doctor, and the Legal Labyrinth (I Once Lost My House Keys in a Corn Maze, But This Is Worse)
I was sitting on my porch last Thursday when my neighbor Arthur - a man who still uses a flip phone... [...]

Bodily Autonomy & Consent
The Hospital Gown Paradox and the Secret Exams You Never Requested
I was sitting in a sterile waiting room last month, wearing a garment that was essentially a paper n... [...]

Bodily Autonomy & Consent
The Sharp Scissors Sarah Never Invited to Her Party
I was ensconced in a particularly grimy booth at a coffee shop last Tuesday with my cousin Sarah - a... [...]
