Pregnancy Test: An Interview with Karen Weingarten
Lara: How did you get interested in researching the history and culture of the pregnancy test? Karen: I’ve been writing about the...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Apr 7, 2021
The problem with 'bereavement' leave after pregnancy loss
Last month New Zealand broke new ground with a national policy of "Bereavement Leave" following miscarriage. This is a welcome...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Oct 6, 2020
Pregnancy and Miscarriage on Social Media
New Metaphors to Make Miscarriages Easier to Talk About, and Easier to Bear For someone who has been trying for a pregnancy, it is...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Jan 27, 2020
The emergence of the home pregnancy test
With the arrival of cheaper and more user-friendly home pregnancy tests in the 1980s, women were able to confirm their pregnancies...
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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
- Jan 1, 2020
How Did We Get Here? An Interview with Lara Freidenfelds (by Shannon Withycombe)
Lara Freidenfelds’s new book, The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America, explores the history of pregnancy...
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Lara Freidenfelds
- Dec 31, 2019
Making Room for Miscarriage
After I miscarried my first pregnancy, I quickly realized that I needed a historical perspective to make sense of this shockingly...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
- Oct 21, 2019
Women Breaking the Silence on Miscarriage
I am glad to see so many women willing to break the silence on miscarriage. I am a historian, and I spent 15 years researching my...
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Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
- Jul 23, 2019
Journey Into Mothering with Historian Sarah Knott
In Mother Is a Verb, Sarah Knott takes her reader on a historian’s journey into motherhood. It is a sort of train travelogue, riding...
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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 16, 2018
Washington Post op-ed: What Michelle Obama’s Miscarriage Teaches Us About Modern Pregnancy
“In her new book, “Becoming,” Michelle Obama reveals that she miscarried her first pregnancy, and went on to conceive her two daughters...
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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)
- 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)
- Aug 18, 2015
Yes, We Should Tell about our Miscarriages on Facebook
Recently, Mark Zuckerberg joyfully announced on Facebook that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a daughter. More solemnly,...
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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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