Valerie Tarico
Valerie Tarico, PhD, was a fellow with Sightline Institute. As a psychologist and author, she researches and writes on reproductive empowerment, gender roles, religious fundamentalism, and the intersection of all three. Find her articles here.
Valerie Tarico
Valerie Tarico
Cascadia and the End of Roe
Oregon and Washington can support women who come here needing abortions and can lead the way on state-of-the-art reproductive healthcare and contraceptive options that have had abortion on the decline for decades anyway.
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Almost 1 Percent of Washington Newborns Go through Withdrawal from Opioids
The scale of North America’s epidemic of heroin, oxy, and other opioids is staggering. Some 2.5 million people in the ...
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Family Planning Kick-Starts Prosperity
Cascadia is known for mountains and salmon, technology, and modern urban gateways to Asia. But wellbeing is marred by economic ...
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Would you like to have a kid in the next year?
In contrast with Europe and Canada, the Pacific Northwest faces an epidemic of surprise pregnancy. Northwest women say that almost ...
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The Colorado Family Planning Miracle
Most businesses would jump at the opportunity to invest a dollar that saves them $5.85 over the next three years ...
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How Northwest Families Can Arm Themselves Against Zika
The Cascadia region is low on the Zika list, with only a handful of cases to date. Currently, neither of ...
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Sustainability Between the Sheets
When Meika Hollender’s dad, superstar green entrepreneur Jeffrey Hollender, first brought up the idea of founding a condom company together, ...
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Birth Control? There’s an App for That
Given that 82 percent of teen pregnancies are unintended, it should come as no surprise that sexual health advocates are ...
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Back to the Future
More than 80 percent of teen pregnancies are accidents. A girl with other hopes and dreams—or maybe a girl who ...
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Stand by Me
No one birth control method fits everyone, but today young women have better options than ever before. Across the United ...
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Say Anything
A young woman sits in an examining room, waiting for her medical provider. The provider arrives and picks up the chart. “I ...
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Bring It On
When Plan B emergency contraceptives became available without a prescription, I sent my teenage daughter, Marley, and her friend Amanda ...
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