Cindi Newman hadn’t had a pap smear in 30 years. But after her wife Nikki Marshall died of cervical cancer last year, she knew that had to change. “I thought, ‘No way, I am not going through that,’” Newman, 63, told USA TODAY, recounting Marshall’s tumultuous, years-long battle with the disease. Both survivors of sexual abuse, neither had regular pap smears, finding them “invasive and horrible…

















