Mental health and reproductive rights are intertwined
These rights need to be linked in policy and in practice.
The road to becoming a parent can be physically, emotionally, and financially draining. I know this personally because my partner and I spent a long time traversing our own difficult path to parenthood. After five unexplained miscarriages, I finally gave birth to our now 13-year-old twins through the help of in vitro fertilization (IVF), immune suppression, group therapy, acupuncture, and use of the life-saving (and as it turns out, fertility-preserving), abortion medication—mifepristone.