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Pregnancy

67 stories published since 2013

Why Giving Birth Is Safer in Britain Than in the U.S.

‘If You Hemorrhage, Don’t Clean Up’: Advice From Mothers Who Almost Died

Lost Mothers

The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth

The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth

Reliving Agent Orange: What The Children of Vietnam Vets Have To Say

Alabama Lawmakers Limit Drug Prosecutions in Pregnancy

The Most Important Abortion Case You Never Heard About

How Some Alabama Hospitals Quietly Drug Test New Mothers — Without Their Consent

Take a Valium, Lose Your Kid, Go to Jail

U.S. Bishops Take Aim at Sterilization

This Alabama Judge Has Figured Out How to Dismantle Roe v. Wade

The Personhood Movement

Judge Throws Out Murder Charge in Mississippi Fetal Harm Case

A Stillborn Child, A Charge of Murder and the Disputed Case Law on 'Fetal Harm'

At a Catholic Hospital, a Dispute Over What a Doctor Can Do – and Say

California Poised to Broaden Access to Abortions