Two clinics challenging Iowa’s new law banning abortions when a heartbeat is detected urged a state judge Friday to rule in their favor on summary judgment rather than take the case to trial.
Read moreBrazilian doctors are reporting the world’s first baby born to a woman with a uterus transplanted from a deceased donor.
Read moreChina’s government ordered a halt Thursday to work by a medical team that claimed to have helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies, as a group of leading scientists declared that it’s still too soon to try to make permanent changes to DNA that can be inherited by future generations.
Read moreA case involving an Idaho doctor accused of using his own semen to artificially inseminate a patient will move forward despite statute-of-limitations concerns, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Read moreFrench President Emmanuel Macron is facing criticism from mothers with big families both at home and abroad for comments he made about women and fertility in Africa.
Read moreA Romanian judge failed Thursday to persuade the European Court of Justice that her months-long absence from work on parental leave should have been considered work so that she could also take paid annual leave.
Read moreA mall security guard found vindication at Europe’s highest court on Wednesday in her bid for acknowledgement of the special risks she would face if made to work night shifts while breastfeeding.
Read moreAn Eighth Circuit panel on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a Satanist’s challenge to Missouri abortion laws based on her religious beliefs, finding she lacked standing because she wasn’t pregnant when she sued.
Read moreA new abstinence focus at the White House inspired pushback from Planned Parenthood this year, but numerous affiliates of the organization learned Thursday afternoon that they made the list for upcoming Title X grants.
Read moreWomen who became pregnant while taking Alesse birth control pills, which have since been recalled, brought a failure-to-warn class action on July 5 against Pfizer Canada and Wyeth Canada in British Columbia Supreme Court.
Read moreSuggesting that human carriers of the Zika virus experience pregnancy loss more commonly than previously thought, researchers reported new findings Tuesday involving monkeys.
Read moreUnitedHealth Group will go to trial over class action claims that it violated the Affordable Care Act by refusing to cover breastfeeding services for new mothers, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read morePlanned Parenthood affiliates sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday over its efforts to impose an abstinence-only focus on its Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program that has served more than 1 million young people.
Read morePlanned Parenthood faced a steep battle Thursday as a Trump-appointed judge heard its challenge to new federal grant rules that emphasize abstinence over contraception.
Read moreA Michigan judge heard arguments Wednesday morning over the status of several frozen embryos and whether a guardian should be appointed as a former couple continues to battle over their custody.
Read moreAn Iowa judge on Friday agreed to issue a temporary injunction barring enforcement of the state’s newly enacted fetal-heartbeat law that critics say would outlaw almost all abortions in the Hawkeye State.
Read moreWomen trying to get pregnant again after a miscarriage should make sure to get enough vitamin D, a new study published in The Lancet recommends.
Read moreFour women on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of an Idaho law that invalidates an adult woman’s living will if she is pregnant.
Read moreMissouri lawmakers passed a bill Thursday that bars corrections officers from shackling pregnant prisoners through their third trimester, during labor and two days after delivery, and the measure will now go to embattled Governor Eric Greitens.
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