The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/womens-health/)
Following the publication of a Sun investigation on alliances within the Student Assembly, the Student Assembly’s Office of Ethics has begun a preliminary investigation into several Student Assembly members.
Private text messages showcase a plan to create a Greek life “machine” in the Student Assembly that would shape the agenda of the governing body to be favorable to fraternities and block women’s health-related resolutions.
President Martha Pollack refuses to support Student Assembly and University Assembly resolutions requesting that the University provide funds for a campus M.D. gynecologist, disappointing several S.A. members.
We are 136 current and former Cornell students. We include members of the Pelvic Pain Association of Cornell, Disability+, Graduate Women in Science, QGrads, Women’s Health Initiative, Planned Parenthood Generation Action at Cornell, PERIOD@Cornell, Women’s Law Coalition, and the Women of Color Collective, among others. We include students who suffer from pelvic pain and allies of people with pelvic pain. We are writing this letter to urge Cornell to provide funding for Cornell Health to hire an MD gynecologist. Specifically, we need a gynecologist with experience diagnosing and treating chronic vulvovaginal and pelvic pain conditions such as vulvodynia, endometriosis, PCOS, and pelvic floor dysfunction.
Planned Parenthood announced a merger with five affiliates in New York State — including the organization’s local Ithaca branch — in a move to increase access to high quality reproductive care in the state.
“Menstrual inequality is an issue that affects at least half the Cornell population every day in some way but we don’t discuss it,” Emily Wang ’20 told The Sun.