A new study finds that people of color often experience different treatment during and after their pregnancy than do their white counterparts in encounters with a health-care provider. Almost one-third of Black or Hispanic patients reported incidents such as receiving no response to requests for help, being shouted at or scolded, or not having their physical privacy protected. Some reported being threatened with withholding treatment or made to accept unwanted treatment. .
One in four Missourians either doesn t believe or doesn t know that using birth control pills is legal in the state. The Right Time, an initiative of the Missouri Foundation for Health that has said it s committed to expanding access to contraception, surveyed 1,000 Missourians this spring. More than half the people surveyed didn t know that emergency contraception is legal. .