The toxins around us threaten our fertility. Black families face an outsize risk

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : While the world validated my fear of violence, my period pain - marked by ER visits, surgeries and more than 30 Aleve each cycle - was dismissed as "in my head".
41% : Meanwhile, rollbacks in Washington under the Trump administration to the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have only made it harder to conduct environmental studies and reproductive health research. Growing up, I never imagined that something invisible - something without a face or a trigger - could be responsible for my pain.

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