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The supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe has created a vast new public health crisis, as abortion bans complicate once-standard care for pregnant women

While people consider deleting period tracking apps and worry about interstate travel restrictions, most pregnancy-related criminalizations start in a much simpler way: with a report from a health care provider.

When I wrote two weeks ago that medical care after miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy is not abortion, I received a lot of emails from people who remain confused about how the reversal of Roe v. Wade will affect health care provided to women in those difficult and tragic circumstances.

“I want to promote and raise awareness around IVF as it’s not something to feel ashamed of."

MERRILLVILLE, Indiana — As Republican senators held a press conference Wednesday to announced an abortion bill, Jody Madeira, professor of law at the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University Bloomington, said her first reaction was confusion.

Every year around the world, 295,000 women die due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Seven in 10 of these maternal deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. These deaths are usually caused by excessive bleeding, infection, high blood pressure, obstructed labour and abortion. Many are preventable, especially when pregnant women can…

The actor and her husband, Michael Fassbender, have a baby son

One ongoing cause of COVID-related anxiety is its impact on pregnancy and pre-term birth. Studies are all over the shop, but some trends are emerging. 

"I had to do six pregnancy tests before I believed them"

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina law that has been on the books for decades, which bans most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, could soon be reinstated after it was blocked under the landmark abortion rulings that were recently overturned by the Supreme Court.

Though it was clear from the start Mary Rose Madigan’s new relationship was different, she didn’t comprehend the gravity of her feelings until a visit to a bulk-billed medical centre