For one expectant mother, everything about pregnancy felt routine and reassuring, right up until the moment her heart suddenly stopped in the delivery room. Her story, echoed by other women who went ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn’t know her doomed pregnancy could kill her. Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed her a pamphlet on ...

Abortion is a procedure to terminate a pregnancy. Birth control and emergency contraception do not end a pregnancy — they prevent a pregnancy from occurring in the first place. Birth control pills and ...

Three women imprisoned in the Arizona Department of Corrections while pregnant claim their labor was induced against their will. The women say they were forced to have their labor induced, despite ...

In a recent study published in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers investigate the association between excessive weight gain during pregnancy and the subsequent risk of prolonged labor or comorbid ...