Alabama’s ‘Pretty Cool’ Plan for Robots in Maternity Care Sparks Debate
Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News It sounds like something from a science fiction novel, but Alabama officials’ plan to...
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The Big Beautiful Bill? A Big Bad Blow to Maternity Care
Grassroots midwives and community birthworkers are fighting to protect Black and Indigenous maternal health, while Congress threatens to gut it....
how weight stigma in maternity care harms larger-bodied women and their babies
According to a study from the United States, women experience weight stigma in maternity care at almost every visit. We...
Experts raise concerns over maternity provision for pregnant women in UK prisons
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Senior midwives and researchers with experience in criminal and social justice are among those calling for...
American Maternity Care Is in Crisis. Abortion Bans Are Making It Worse.
When will the antiabortion movement turn its attention to saving babies?Participants in the Women’s March in front of Trump International...
Pregnant women can’t find doctors in growing maternity care deserts
The number of pregnant women forced to travel farther to deliver their babies — or go without prenatal care entirely...
Maternity care in rural areas is in crisis. Can more doulas help? : Shots
Bristeria Clark (center) at the graduation ceremony for Morehouse School of Medicine's first class of rural doulas, called perinatal patient...
