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20-Week Abortion Ban Advances in West Virginia Senate
As pro-choice protesters gathered outside the West Virginia Senate chamber on Tuesday, the Senate Health and Human Resources Committee amended and voted to advance a controversial bill to ban abortion...
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Businesses Must Improve Their Family Policies—For ‘Distressed Babies’ and All...
Policymakers across the country are starting to strengthen their support for a range of pro-family policies, including flexible schedules, paid sick days, and paid family leave. The New York State...
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Legal Wrap: Protections for Pregnant Workers Advance in States, But Where’s...
Legal Wrap is a weekly round-up of key legal reproductive rights and justice news. It’s not that often we report on Republicans and Democrats working together on policy proposals that actually help...
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Sex-Selective Abortion Bans Highlight Faultlines in the Reproductive Rights...
On March 5, the South Dakota house passed a bill that would ban abortions based on the sex of the fetus, otherwise known as “sex-selective” abortions. State Reps. Stace Nelson (R-Fulton) and Don Haggar...
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What We Know About Three-Parent In Vitro Fertilization
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public meeting in late February to consider experimental new techniques that would modify human eggs or embryos in an attempt to allow women with severely...
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Mississippi Senate Amends 20-Week Abortion Ban, Making It an 18-Week Ban
The Mississippi Senate has amended a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks’ gestation, moving the cutoff to 18 weeks. HB 1400, which had already passed the state house, will now return to the...
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How Melissa Harris-Perry Is Sparking a National Conversation About Fertility...
Last month, on Valentine’s Day, professor and MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry announced the newest arrival to her family, a daughter affectionately known in public as “Baby Girl Perry” or #BabyNerd....
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Stoking Fire: Doulas as ‘Birth Ambassadors’
When Emme Dague Amble was 37 weeks pregnant with her first child, she went into labor. Her account of this experience is included in Birth Ambassadors: Doulas and the Re-Emergence of Woman-Supported...
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Stress Kills: Economic Insecurity and Black Women’s Maternal Health Outcomes
This piece is published in collaboration with Echoing Ida, a Strong Families project. Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the War on Poverty, a set of legislation and programs...
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Successful Home Visit Program for Mothers and Infants Lacks Long-Term Funding
There’s little on which Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives agree, but questions and testimony delivered Wednesday in the vast and well-appointed hearing room of the Ways and...
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Alabama Extends Waiting Period for Abortion, Advances Other Anti-Choice Bills
On Wednesday, the Alabama state legislature gave final approval to a bill that would extend the waiting period for having an abortion from 24 to 48 hours, as three other anti-choice bills, which passed...
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Murder Charges Dismissed in Mississippi Stillbirth Case
On Thursday, a Mississippi judge dismissed the murder charge against Rennie Gibbs, the young woman who faced life in prison after she delivered a stillborn baby. Gibbs, now 24, was 36 weeks pregnant...
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How Virginia’s ‘Conscience Clause’ for Genetic Counselors Could Set a...
In August 2011, Liz Read-Katz was living in Texas, nearly 20 weeks pregnant, and was, in the words of the testimony she supplied to Planned Parenthood Advocates in Missouri, “ecstatic but scared as...
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Panel Recommends Low-Dose Aspirin Regimen for Women at Risk of Preeclampsia
New recommendations suggest that pregnant women at risk for preeclampsia should take a low-dose aspirin every day during their second and third trimester. The recommendations come from the U.S....
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Tennessee Legislature Passes Far-Reaching Bill That Could Make Pregnant Women...
The Tennessee state legislature gave final approval Wednesday to a bill that allows women to be charged with assault if they have a pregnancy complication after using illegal drugs. Advocates argue...
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It’s Time to Repeal State Advance Directive Laws That Discriminate Against Women
Read more of our coverage on Marlise Munoz’s case here. The recent Marlise Munoz case should be a call to action for anyone who believes that pregnant women and their families deserve respect. In this...
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Is Preventing Surrogacy Feminist? No, It’s Anti-Choice
This January, the Kansas Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee held a hearing on a bill that would make surrogate parents, gestational carriers, and anyone who assists them liable to up to a...
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Florida Legislature Passes Fetal Homicide Bill
The Florida Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to HB 59, known as the “Unborn Victims of Violence Act,” which will make it a separate crime to kill or injure a fetus during a crime against a...
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South Carolina 20-Week Abortion Ban Advances to Senate Floor
On Wednesday, a South Carolina senate committee advanced a 20-week ban on abortion that was already passed by the state house. The bill was amended to address some of the most pressing concerns from...
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Having a Severely Premature Baby Strengthened My Support for Every Woman’s...
When I was 24 years old I got pregnant. My husband and I weren’t “trying” to get pregnant, but we weren’t trying not to either, and we were both very happy when we got the news. I was young, and it...
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