Dr. Sonja Wiley decided she wanted to have children a little later in life.
But when she tried to have a child with her husband, she suffered a miscarriage. She said she was in excruciating pain after the miscarriage, and because “Black women are just notoriously, historically stronger,” as is too often thought by medical professionals, she wasn’t given proper pain medication.
She later found out that she had endometriosis, a disorder in which the tissue that normally lines the uterus grows outside the uterus, resulting in infertility.
