Doulas and birth centers are considered part of the solution to Missouri’s ‘unacceptable’ maternal mortality crisis. But current law makes it difficult to help mothers most in need.
Next week, the court will hear arguments in a case that could restrict the use of mifepristone, which a growing number of Americans get without an in-person appointment.
Two recent reports detail the challenges they face and provide a roadmap for services that acknowledge their intersecting identities.
While Eva Burch spoke on the Senate floor about her planned abortion, almost all of her GOP colleagues found something else to do.
From maternal health to menopause, government agencies will study the health issues that emerge across a woman’s lifespan.
Although Alabama has moved to protect IVF providers, a court ruling that gave legal protections to embryos is having a ripple effect on people seeking fertility care in red states.
State law requires minors to obtain parental approval before receiving contraception. But some federal clinics were exempt from that requirement — until now.
Over the years, critics say, these laws have become another tool to criminalize Black people, LGBTQ+ people and sex workers.
While treatment is set to resume, doctors say the Alabama Supreme Court's decision may have opened a sort of Pandora’s box on the future legal landscape for IVF in the state.
IVF services in the state have been paused since a Feb. 16 Alabama Supreme Court decision that declared frozen embryos children.