Abortion is still legal & there is at least one clinic in every state.
It would become illegal in about half.
One in four women in the U.S. get an abortion.
Most would still find a way. Those who are poor are less likely to be able to.
w/ @sangerkatz nytimes.com/2022/05/03/ups… Just three other countries have rolled back abortion rights in the last three decades, as the Supreme Court is considering: Poland, Nicaragua and El Salvador. 59 have expanded them. w/ @sangerkatz nytimes.com/2022/01/22/ups…

Fauci on pediatric vaccine timing, talking to @apoorva_nyc: Pfizer plans to submit data late Sept/early Oct, Moderna a month later. Then, IF the FDA “deems this is an emergency situation for children,” it could authorize by EUA. If all goes as expected, <12 vaccines in November. Are vaccines worth the risk, since kids are at lower risk of severe Covid? Fauci tells @apoorva_nyc yes, just look at pediatric ICUs right now: “you do not want your child to get infected, not only because they may get severe disease, but there may be long-lasting effects”

What parents are doing with their kids this school year has become contentious. But it's worth keeping in mind that for parents of young kids right now, THERE ARE NO GOOD CHOICES. Everyone has been left to figure it out for themselves (& made to feel guilty for whatever they do) When schools closed, no structural supports arose in their place to help parents. That leaves it to each individual family to figure out a solution in an impossible situation. This isn't new. The United States has always left it to individual parents to figure it out.

Female doctors are more likely than other female professionals to have children — and much more likely to keep working after they do nytimes.com/2019/08/21/ups… The reasons — including the rise of hospital shift work, group practices that enable doctors to substitute for one another, & a generation that wants more work-life balance — could offer lessons for other professions. nytimes.com/2019/08/21/ups…

I have been writing about gender and work for a long time. But reporting this suddenly made a lot of things click: nytimes.com/2019/04/26/ups… Women are now as educated and prepared for big careers as men. But it's those women who have the biggest gender gaps in seniority & pay. It turns out it's because something else changed, which has nothing to do with gender: nytimes.com/2019/04/26/ups…

I did this story because this fact has continued to amaze me: Today, mothers who work outside the home spend THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME on interactive child care as stay-at-home mothers did in the 1970s. nytimes.com/2018/12/25/ups… And reporting it, I quickly realized that I wasn't alone in thinking that this parenting thing is a lot harder than it used to be. Turns out it is! So many of the things parents think they should do today, from lessons to exclusive breastfeeding to constant teaching, are new.