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I'm a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, currently covering children 0-5 and early education in California. Before joining the newsroom in 2019, I worked as an NYPD-credentialed member of the New York City press corps, writing stranger-than-fiction stories of crime and culture for VICE, the Wall Street Journal and the Village Voice, among others. A Bay Area native, I'm a graduate of UC Berkeley and Columbia, and a proud Jewish mother.
Modern obstetrics has largely turned its back on the large and growing number of disabled women who get pregnant.
Disabled people get pregnant and give birth at the same rates as nondisabled ones. But their outcomes are often far worse, and modern medicine has largely turned its back on them.
Though disabled women now get pregnant and give birth at the same rate as nondisabled ones, modern medicine has largely turned its back on them.
LA Times reporter Sonja Sharp shares "three things I wish nondisabled parents would learn from disabled parents like us."
While parents of disabled children are more seen and supported than ever, disabled parents remain marginalized, stigmatized, and invisible.
