>>BY JANET COLM With legislators focused on reducing access to reproductive health, it is far too easy for them to overlook a slew of other...[Read More]
Tag Archives: health
>>BY JANET COLM The night of Sept. 5, 1996, just as Hurricane Fran made landfall on Bald Head Island, a young woman living outside of...[Read More]
>>BY TIFFANY FRYE What’s the difference a law can make? How about $70,000 in families’ pockets? Autism advocates have new hope that a bill mandating...[Read More]
>>I have a confession: I’m not as green as I should be. I don’t drive a hybrid (but my CR-V gets good gas mileage!); I...[Read More]
>>The few times a week that I have to stop at the grocery store with one or both of my children – after swearing the...[Read More]
>>BY TIFFANY FRYE The North Carolina Legislature is considering SB 297, which, if passed, will criminalize prenatal use of narcotics. A similar bill was passed...[Read More]
>>BY SARA LANG When I was pregnant, I hated the frequent appointments with my obstetrician. I wanted to just focus on the healthy development of my baby,...[Read More]
>> Oh man, did you see that Jimmy Kimmel bit last week about vaccines? The one where all the doctors use curse words and make...[Read More]
>>BY JENNIFER BRICK I pulled a student into the hallway while her classmates read silently. At the beginning of the year, she had been sweet,...[Read More]
>>Remember way back in 2012 when, in a fit of stubborn pique, NC lawmakers refused to establish a statewide insurance marketplace? And then remember last...[Read More]