Latest Prenatal care News

Two Mississippi Delta health centers awarded competitive federal grant for maternal care

Oct. 07, 2024 11:36 AM EDT

Two federally qualified health centers in the Delta will receive a total of $3.6 million over four years from the federal government to expand and strengthen their maternal health services. Federally qualified health centers are nonprofits that provide health care to under-insured...

Missouri judge says abortion-rights measure summary penned by GOP official is misleading

Sep. 05, 2024 19:30 PM EDT

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge ruled Thursday that an anti-abortion GOP official used misleading language to summarize a ballot question designed to restore abortion rights in the state. Cole County Circuit Judge Cotton Walker threw out a description of the amendment as...

Advocates seek rewrite of Missouri abortion-rights ballot measure language

Sep. 04, 2024 18:44 PM EDT

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge will rule Thursday on whether the Republican secretary of state's official description of an abortion-rights amendment on November's ballot is misleading. At issue is a proposed amendment to Missouri's Constitution that would restore...

America is trying to fix its maternal mortality crisis with federal, state and local programs

Sep. 04, 2024 10:08 AM EDT

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — At the site of a race massacre that reduced neighborhoods to ashes a century ago, where murals memorialize a once-thriving “ Black Wall Street,” one African American mother strives to keep others from dying as they try to bring new life into the world. Black...