Pitiful history of women’s health: No strategy, no sense, no wonder it’s a shambles

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Pitiful history of women’s health: No strategy, no sense, no wonder it’s a shambles

By Orna McGinn
mannequins [Image: Paul Campbell on iStock]
It was only a last-minute about-face that saw a women’s health strategy included in the new Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act [image: Paul Campbell on iStock]

Orna McGinn gets to the heart of the matter with a damning critique of long-held negative or dismissive attitudes towards women’s health

Our pesky wombs which leak and sag, our tendency to shred and tear, the irritating way we fall pregnant without really meaning to! Our ovaries emptyin