Two millenniums ago, in the foothills of ancient Greece, the physician and philosopher Hippocrates described pregnancy in terms of bread-making. In the thousands of years since,...
Stormont Vail Healthcare is in a legal battle with the state government, alleging the Medicaid program was wrong to refuse payment for the hospitalization of a...
Fatimah Shepherd knew she was not supposed to get pregnant — not now, while her illness was acting up, and maybe never. Lupus, an autoimmune disease,...
Fifteen years after she lost her first baby to a rare and devastating birth defect, Andrea Lopez takes comfort in knowing that other Latina mothers might...
Anna Spoerre | Missouri Independent In the past year, Christian King, a doula based in Kansas City, has supported more than 40 mothers enrolled in Medicaid...
It was a first for South Amboy police Sgt. David Kales and patrolmen Mark Lewis and Paul Noble on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2000 when they helped...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill that would allow judges to sentence women who get abortions to decades in prison and could restrict the use of...
Norma Swenson was working to educate women about childbirth, championing their right to have a say about how they delivered their babies, when she met the...
The Trump administration has dismissed the few remaining health officials who oversaw care for some of the world’s most vulnerable people: more than 500,000 children and...
The United States is ending its financial support for family planning programs in developing countries, cutting nearly 50 million women off from access to contraception. This...