Officials in Florida decided a viable unborn child has legal standing worthy of state protection. Legally, however, that ...

Khiara Bridges, a lawyer and anthropologist, has long wrestled with inequities in pregnancy outcomes between Black and White people. In her first book on the topic, Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of ...

A new maternal mental health initiative in the Sacramento region is already helping connect pregnant and postpartum women ...

Black and Latina women are 20 to 30 percent more likely to be misdiagnosed than White women in the U.S., according to a study ...

The killing this month of a 14-year-old girl in central Argentina has shocked the country, triggering a groundswell of outrage and growing demands for government action against gender-based violence ...

Women are 40 times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth in Central African Republic than in the United States, ...

For 12 years, Michelle Ndonye’s life moved with the rhythm of deadlines, meetings and neatly written to-do lists. Every morning, she walked into the office knowing exactly what needed to be done ...

City public defenders are calling for an investigation into how a handcuffed woman gave birth inside a Brooklyn courtroom as she awaited arraignment on low-level drug charges. Samantha Randazzo gave ...

In the field of reproductive medicine, there is high awareness of the quality of breast milk, neonatal indicators and risk profiles. But 20 per cent of women in the province of Québec describe ...