Missouri 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.
Read moreWeeks before her due date, Cassandra Forrester received word that she was positive for the Zika virus. The Maryland woman wants damages now from a public health lab that misinformed her months earlier she was negative.
Read moreFertility researchers published a study Thursday that found a correlation between lower pregnancy chances and depression in the male partner.
Read moreA federal judge who restored federal funding last month for teen-pregnancy prevention groups expounded on her decision Friday, saying that the government’s silence in slashing the grants at issue spoke volumes.
Read moreMedical providers that rely on public funding to offer family-planning services fired off twin federal complaints Wednesday, calling out the Trump administration’s new focus on abstinence education as hopelessly unsound.
Read moreA study released Tuesday offers the first evidence that chemicals found near fracking sites can damage the immune system, even as the United States and China jockey for world domination in the shale gas production market.
Read moreA federal judge said Thursday he may hold a bench trial to resolve a proposed class action accusing UnitedHealth Group of violating the Affordable Care Act by failing to cover breastfeeding services for new mothers.
Read moreFor Kate, the wait is over. The Duchess of Cambridge gave birth Monday to a healthy baby boy — a third child for Kate and Prince William and fifth in line to the British throne.
Read moreA federal judge Thursday ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated grants awarded for teen pregnancy prevention programs.
Read moreA couple who lost eggs because of a freezer meltdown at a Cleveland fertility clinic is seeking a wide-ranging legal declaration that an embryo is a person, as they seek damages in a separate class action.
Read moreA DNA sample sent to Ancestry.com in 2017 led to the filing of a federal lawsuit Friday, as it was discovered that a fertility doctor allegedly used his own sperm to inseminate a patient in 1980.
Read moreThe Supreme Court signaled Tuesday it would strike down a California law that requires pregnancy centers to advertise abortion services.
Read moreEmployment discrimination cases involving gross negligence can result in an award of punitive damages under New York City’s anti-discrimination law, the Second Circuit confirmed Friday.
Read moreOhio cannot make it illegal to abort a fetus diagnosed with Down syndrome, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the law violates fundamental constitutional rights established 45 years ago in the landmark ruling Roe v. Wade.
Read moreA woman whose frozen eggs were destroyed in an equipment malfunction has filed a class action lawsuit, accusing a San Francisco fertility clinic of failing to safeguard the frozen eggs and embryos of hundreds of patients.
Read moreOff-site monitoring of a fertility clinic in a Cleveland suburb failed to alert staff to rising temperatures in a storage tank that destroyed hundreds of eggs and embryos, several couples claim in class-action lawsuits.
Read moreA federal judge in Georgia dismissed a Texas couple’s complaint against a Georgia sperm bank, though the sperm donor was not a highly educated man, as promised, but a mentally ill college dropout with a criminal record.
Read moreThe Trump administration has adopted a new strategy for how it issues tens of millions of dollars in federal family-planning grants, giving preference to groups that stress abstinence and making it harder for Planned Parenthood to do business.
Read moreAn Illinois appeals court revived a lawsuit accusing Motorola of “willful and wanton misconduct” that caused numerous employees’ children to suffer severe birth defects in utero from their fathers’ exposure to toxic chemicals at its semiconductor plants.
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