Opinion: Protect the health of pregnant people and their children by including them in research
Imagine having to make this decision: Your health care provider recommends that you take a specific medicine for an illness or condition but then tells you it hasn’t been tested in people like you. Do you take the medication, or refuse it?
That’s the position the 3.5 million women who give birth each year in the U.S. are in when being counseled about taking medicines.
