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5 exercises that can prevent (and relieve!) pregnancy pain  toggle caption Footage: Expecting and Empowered. Video: CJ Riculan/NPR

A teenage girl and her boyfriend are facing criminal charges in North Carolina after allegedly attempting to self-manage her abortion using pills. She was reportedly 31 weeks pregnant when she took the medication. At that stage of pregnancy, the medication induced labor and she gave birth, presumably without medical assistance. The state charged her with…

Every birth in Virginia produces a record. The record is precise. It is also incomplete

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker lifted the lid on their two-year-old son Rocky Thirteen

GAUR, Nepal (AP) — The young mother’s breath had grown ragged. Inside her mud home in rural Nepal, she hunched over in agony, pain pummeling her pregnant belly, her swollen legs scarcely able to support her

This capacity statement explains our approach to delivering health, nutrition, and water, sanitation and hygiene programmes and how this work is helping girls and their families

A woman with a sight impairment said she felt “disempowered” after not being able to access her own medical records easily during her pregnancy

The growing push for so-called “equal protection” legislation is reshaping the legal landscape of abortion bans across the country—and Kentucky is at the center of that shift

A midwife crisscrosses Alabama to care for pregnant women and deliver babies. It’s an important profession as maternity deserts expand across the U.S., according to the latest March of Dimes report. Maria Fabrizio/NPRhide caption

The planned closure of a maternity unit has added extra stress to pregnancies, mothers-to-be have said