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LARA FREIDENFELDS

Historian of Health, Reproduction, and Parenting in America

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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Dec 16, 2021

    What Does It mean to Have a “Real Choice” About Abortion?

    What does it mean to have a “real choice” about abortion? I am writing this book review as the Supreme Court hears arguments over...
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    Lara Freidenfelds
    • Jan 2, 2020

    8 myths about pregnancy and miscarriage

    In the decade and a half that I spent researching my book “The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America,” I...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Jun 3, 2019

    This is Not a Culture of Life, This is a Culture of Un-Death

    Last week at a Vatican conference on abortion, Pope Francis “argued that children who were not expected to live long after birth deserved...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Nov 1, 2018

    Church Discipline and Miscarriage Mismanagement at Catholic Hospitals

    Quick — is your nearest hospital affiliated with the Catholic Church? This is a question I would not have been able to answer during my...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Jun 28, 2018

    How the abortion debate has skewed Americans’ understanding of pregnancy

    What led a Walgreeens pharmacist to deny a woman her prescription. Read the rest at the Washington Post #conscienceclause #misoprostol
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Aug 25, 2016

    Playwright Alice Eve Cohen Asks Us to Reconsider What We Think We Know about Pregnancy and Motherhoo

    “What makes a mother real?” asks writer and performer Alice Eve Cohen in her newly-published play, What I Thought I Knew. In 1999, Cohen...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Apr 15, 2016

    Enforcing Death Rituals after Miscarriage is Just Plain Cruel

    The Indiana legislature claims it wants to protect unborn children and their parents. Last week Governor Mike Pence gave his blessing to...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • May 21, 2014

    If the IUD is an Abortifacient, then so is Chemotherapy and Lunch Meat

    When I criticized Hobby Lobby for its attempts to evade the Obamacare contraceptive mandate, a friend of mine thoughtfully replied,...
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Mar 28, 2014

    Misunderstanding Miscarriage

    Miscarriage rarely makes the news, except in tabloids. But last year, Virginia state Senator Mark Obenshain’s ill-advised attempt to...
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