November 2026

Most women have met the moment when the help exists and she still cannot reach it. A benefit she qualifies for and cannot navigate. A clinic ninety minutes away. This issue is about the distance between a service existing and a person receiving it, and who absorbs that distance when it does not close. Cover feature on Jennifer Christman and the two decades she has spent working in that gap. Why the real problem is rarely the one a person names first. What rural women faced before anyone built a way for medicine to reach them.