A real smile spread across my face, the kind I could not have manufactured five years earlier if my life depended on it.

“We expanded into three new states this month,” I said.

“Last week alone, our legal advocacy team reviewed more than forty disputed medical files — women whose partners had tried to restrict their reproductive choices, or manipulate their health records, or bury the truth of their own bodies under paper.

We caught things, Sarah.

Real things.

And we’ve partnered now with twelve regional university hospitals to put transparent, multi-party lab verification in place, so that no single person can ever again quietly decide which version of a woman’s results her doctors get to see.”