"Pushing back against the flood of harmful content requires establishing trusted sources of information and counteracting widespread misinformation and disinformation with supportive, positive, resources that are free of judgment."
- Mai Fleming, Christine Dehlendorf & April J. Bell
Scientific American, June 2024
"This is when the culture of medicine that centers providers’ perspectives over those of patients has its absolute worst impact...We are explicitly able to take away people's autonomy by refusing to remove contraceptive methods."
- Christine Dehlendorf
TIME, May 2024
"There needs to be repair and restoration of trust between health care providers and communities and patients about people’s experience of birth control methods if we are going to be able to give people information.”
- Christine Dehlendorf
Vox, May 2024
"Collectively, we must combat the disproportionate burden of death and disease from pregnancy and increase maternal health research and initiatives, such as Black Maternal Health Week, to uplift the Black communities’ health and well-being."
- Rachel Logan
Tampa Bay Times, Apr 2024
"I’m very concerned that programs will not pay adequate attention to this newfound gap in their curriculum, and therefore that their residents will not be comprehensively trained, and their future patients will be negatively impacted by that."
- Christine Dehlendorf
States Newsroom, Dec 2023
"Government officials, health care systems and providers and advocates must make it easier to get Opill and any subsequent over-the-counter birth control options by making these medications affordable, easily available, simple to use and able to be dispensed without stigma or gatekeeping."
- Mai Fleming, Christine Dehlendorf & April J. Bell
Scientific American, July 2023
"The goal shouldn’t necessarily be more planned pregnancies. It should be more pregnancies people are happy with."
- Christine Dehlendorf
Rewire, June 2023
"It's time to chart a new path forward: one that recognizes the cataclysm that Dobbs caused while still putting patient values front and center. All healthcare providers and systems must work to provide patients with every possible option, and then trust that they are the experts in their own lives."
- Christine Dehlendorf
MedPage Today, March 2023
"The PCCC measure helps narrow in on patients’ preferences, beyond just “pregnancy intentions,” to ensure they have a comfortable experience and can meet their own family planning and contraceptive goals.”
Center for American Progress, Mar 2023
"Pressuring Black women to use IUDs, implants, and other long-term contraception is reminiscent of a history in which Black women were sterilized against their consent."
- Christine Dehlendorf
KFF Health News, Nov 2022
"It's time to chart a new path forward: one that recognizes the cataclysm that Dobbs caused while still putting patient values front and center. All healthcare providers and systems must work to provide patients with every possible option, and then trust that they are the experts in their own lives."
- Christine Dehlendorf
Rewire, July 2022
“Something I have heard consistently when we’re talking about health services research is, especially because I do work with Black women, is, ‘What should they do to be better patients?’” Logan added. “I think it might fall sometimes into respectability politics — ‘Do your research beforehand,’ ‘Dress a certain way,’ ‘Speak in a certain manner.’ ... By and large, that won’t save us.”
- Rachel Logan
Los Angeles Times, June 2022