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Through the Reproductive Justice Program, NAWHERC works with a national, broad-based, and diverse coalition of Native American, women’s health, and civil liberties organizations to move forward an Agenda to protect our health and Human Rights. NAWHERC has brought to the forefront the issue of Indian Health Service’s lack of standardized sexual assault policies and protocols
By Vanessa G. Sánchez, Searchlight New Mexico In New Mexico, midwives have been part of the maternal health landscape since before statehood, rooted in Indigenous and Hispano traditions and the work of curandera-parteras — traditional Hispanic midwives. For centuries, these healers and midwives were the main maternity providers. More than 800 parteras practiced around the […]
New Mexico embraces midwifery more than most. Midwives are involved in roughly 1 in every 4 New Mexico births.
A bill that would have forced the outing of trans students introduced by two California Republican legislators is dead for the year after the chair of the Assembly’s education committee opted not to schedule it for a hearing.
A bill that would have forced the outing of trans students introduced by two California Republican legislators is dead for the year after the chair of the Assembly’s education committee opted not to schedule it for a hearing.