"That's Where Our Income Comes From": Women's Perceptions of Links Between Reproductive Struggles and Hydraulic Fracturing.

Reproductive hardship is highly stigmatized, which leads to such struggles being relegated to the private sphere. At the same time, numerous studies show links between toxic chemicals and reproductive hardship including miscarriage, infertility, and birth defects. There thus exists a disconnection between contributors to reproductive challenges and the fact that such hardship is frequently viewed as a problem.