âSuch a Personal, Private Thingâ: Rethinking the Home Pregnancy Test
The home pregnancy test has long been lauded for giving women privacy and autonomy. But thatâs not the case for everyone who takes it.
A tactile home pregnancy test could be a welcome change for woman who are blind or visually impaired.Credit.The&Partnership
Published Dec. 22, 2020Updated Jan. 27, 2021
âI felt like the information belonged to me, and I shouldnât have had to share it with anyone else.â
â Sarah Clark, an author, on taking pregnancy tests
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The first time Sarah Clark learned she was pregnant, it was her friend who told her the news. But it wasnât because Ms. Clark, 40, was too nervous to read the results of her at-home pregnancy test. It was because she couldnât read the results. Ms. Clark is blind. Born without sight in her left eye, Ms. Clark lost her vision completely when she was 20 after an injury caus