How can our heritage revolutionize our future?
By offering options.
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When I first began researching women’s reproductive agency over two decades ago, I had no way of knowing I would one day be a mother of two daughters who might not feel safe visiting an emergency room. Who might be denied any say in how many children they have. Who might be criminally prosecuted for pursuing their own health and happiness.
This is the world that we, in America, and millions of others around the globe, currently inhabit.
But it isn’t our only option.
My book, Once Upon a Womb, taps into my deep cultural and investigative expertise, as an anthropologist, to tackle the urgent issue of women’s reproductive health. Around the world, millions of people have long used medicinal plants to shape women’s fertility. Yet in modern medicine these alternatives are little researched, lesser known and, quite frankly, feared. As maternity care deserts spread like a fungus across America and worldwide access to medicalized fertility care continues to shrink, the health and lives of more and more people are being threatened by this ignorance. Once Upon a Womb is a 90,000-word non-fiction book that punches through the fear to explore how humanity’s rich tradition of herbal fertility management can change our lives. The stories it shares aren’t just enlightening. They show how embracing medicinal plants can revolutionize reproductive health care by increasing access, quality, privacy, autonomy, safety and equality.
Stay tuned for updates and excerpts!