The Sixth Circuit refused Tuesday to reinstate a Kentucky law that would require physicians to perform a so-called fetal demise procedure before a standard second trimester abortion, ruling the law imposes a significant burden on women seeking abortions.
Read moreA train conductor sued the New York City Transit Authority and the supervisor she says sexually assaulted her at work while she was pregnant, in Kings County Court.
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U.S. births continued to fall last year, leading to the fewest number of newborns in 35 years.
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Dialing in from the hospital, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made no secret of her disapproval of the government Wednesday for standing in the way of women’s access to free birth control.
Read moreAn appeals court in California ruled that a woman lacked standing to pursue a tort claim against a tissue storage facility for the loss of her deceased husband’s sperm, which was extracted while he was in a coma. The donor’s intent controls the use of gametic material, and the woman did not prove that her husband wanted her to conceive a child with his sperm posthumously.
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The callers were in tears. One by one, women in homes across rural Zimbabwe had a pleading question: When would family planning services return?
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union and others accuse U.S. Border Patrol of mistreating a pregnant asylum seeker from Guatemala, who – while waiting to be processed for deportation – gave birth while standing against a garbage can at the border patrol station.
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For 10 days after giving birth to her first child, the mother was not allowed near him after she tested positive for coronavirus, for fear of infecting her newborn.
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You either love him or you hate him, but was a woman’s discontent following the 2016 election of President Donald Trump enough to affect her unborn child?
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Nigerian police have rescued 24 babies and four expectant mothers from an illegal maternity home in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt, a spokesman said Thursday.
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South Korea’s birth rate hit a new low Wednesday as authorities announced barely 300,000 babies were born last year in the nation of 51 million people.
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A South African inquiry into the forced sterilization of dozens of HIV-positive pregnant women said Monday that their rights had been breached, and called for government action.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit on Thursday once again blocked Mississippi’s persistent efforts to usher in some of the nation’s most sweeping abortion restrictions, striking down a controversial ban on abortions once a fetal heartbeat has been detected – around six weeks of pregnancy.
Read moreThe Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the lower court improperly found that a divorced woman could keep embryos created by her and her former partner, finding that the embryos should have been donated to another couple under the terms of a contract both parties signed at the fertility clinic.
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The Trump administration unveiled a new visa rule Thursday in an effort to stop pregnant woman from traveling to the U.S. so their children can be born American citizens.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to again take up a dispute over whether religious groups are exempt from the requirement that health insurance plans cover contraception.
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The wife of Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang says she was sexually assaulted by an obstetrician while she was pregnant with the couple’s first child.
Read moreA Hong Kong airline forced a Japanese woman to take a pregnancy test before allowing her on a flight to a Pacific island popular with mothers seeking U.S. citizenship for their babies.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced new financial incentives to encourage Russians to have more children to boost the population.
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