Gretchen Sisson, Ph. D. is a researcher at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.  Her research focuses on social constructions of parenthood, specifically examining how poverty, race, religion, and politics shape abortion and pregnancy decision-making, teen pregnancy and young parenthood, infertility and assisted reproductive technologies, and adoption and birth/first motherhood. In our post-Dobbs world, Gretchen’s work speaks to larger ideas of reproductive autonomy and justice, and the question of how we support (or fail to support) American families on a broad scale.