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An ob-gyn, a doula, and an advocate explain why it's so important for women of color, especially, to advocate for themselves at the doctor's office.

Elisabeth Johnson found out that she had a fibroid in 2010. Her periods were slightly heavier than usual, she said, so she went to the doctor and got a pelvic ultrasound. She was living in Dallas at the time. As she recalls, the doctor didn’t give her answers about how she got the fibroid — a benign tumor in her uterus — or what she could do to remove it. What she was told, she said, was that it was something that happened to mostly Black women, like herself, or Hispanic women. When she recounted the experience to her mother, she told Johnson that she and other women in their family als...

35 has commonly been cited as the upper threshold of female fertility (María Alconada Brooks/The Lily) Soo Youn 2h Christa Nader and her husband have been talking about having children for at least 10 years. As a former teacher and the founder of a nanny agency, children and child care are often on her mind. But like for so many, the timing never seemed right. She went through long stretches with no health insurance or poor coverage. It took a while for Nader and her husband to feel financially secure enough to start a family. Last year, she decided to go off birth control and start casu...