Latest Pregnancy and childbirth News

Georgia disbands current maternal mortality committee over leaked abortion information

Nov. 21, 2024 19:52 PM EST

Georgia's top health official dismissed all members of a state committee that investigates pregnancy-related maternal deaths after a committee member presumably released information about two such deaths. In a letter first reported by ProPublica and dated Nov. 8, state public health...

Health advocates in Africa worry Trump will reimpose abortion 'gag rule' governing US aid

Nov. 20, 2024 00:09 AM EST

EPWORTH, Zimbabwe (AP) — Carrying her infant daughter, 19-year-old Sithulisiwe Moyo waited two hours to get birth-control pills from a tent pitched in a poor settlement on the outskirts of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. The outreach clinic in Epworth provides Moyo with her best shot...

Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including an explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy

Nov. 18, 2024 22:29 PM EST

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A state judge on Monday struck down Wyoming's overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy in line with voters in yet more states voicing support for abortion rights. Since 2022, Teton...

Judge strikes down Wyoming's abortion bans, including an explicit prohibition on pills to end pregnancy

Nov. 18, 2024 20:33 PM EST
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Judge strikes down Wyoming's abortion bans, including an explicit prohibition on pills to end pregnancy.

They fled war in Sudan. Now, women in refugee camps say they’re being forced to have sex to survive

Nov. 16, 2024 00:33 AM EST

ADRE, Chad (AP) — Crossing into Chad, the 27-year-old thought she'd left the horrors of Sudan's war behind: the bodies she ran over while fleeing, the screams of girls being raped, the disappearance of her husband when gunmen attacked. But now she says she has faced more suffering — being...

Women suing over Idaho's abortion ban describe dangerous pregnancies, becoming 'medical refugees'

Nov. 12, 2024 19:32 PM EST

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Four women suing over Idaho's strict abortion bans told a judge Tuesday how excitement over their pregnancies turned to grief and fear after they learned their fetuses were not likely to survive to birth — and how they had to leave the state to get abortions amid fears that...

A pregnant woman sues for the right to an abortion in challenge to Kentucky's near-total ban

Nov. 12, 2024 17:18 PM EST

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A pregnant woman filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to restore the right to an abortion in Kentucky in the latest challenge to the state's near-total ban on the procedure. The suit, filed in state court in Louisville, claims that Kentucky laws blocking abortions...

Megan Fox is expecting a baby with Machine Gun Kelly

Nov. 11, 2024 19:46 PM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are expecting to grow their family. Fox announced her pregnancy in a social media post Monday. She appeared in a photo covered in black ink while holding her baby bump and another of a pregnancy test that said “Yes.” ...

Abortion rights advocates win in 7 states and clear way to overturn Missouri ban but lose in 3

Nov. 06, 2024 13:43 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in Missouri cleared the way to undo one of the nation's most restrictive abortion bans in one of seven victories for abortion rights advocates, while Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota defeated similar constitutional amendments, leaving bans in place. ...

Voters back Nebraska's ban on abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy and reject a competing measure

Nov. 06, 2024 04:10 AM EST

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska voters supported a measure Tuesday that enshrines the state’s current ban on abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy in the state constitution, and they rejected a competing measure that sought to expand abortion rights. Nebraska was the first state to have...