With the arrival of cheaper and more user-friendly home pregnancy tests in the 1980s, women were able to confirm their pregnancies earlie...

In the decade and a half that I spent researching my book “The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America,” I dis...

Lara Freidenfelds’s new book, The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America, explores the history of pregnancy a...

After I miscarried my first pregnancy, I quickly realized that I needed a historical perspective to make sense of this shockingly unexpec...

It was not that long ago that “test tube babies” only existed in science fiction. I remember my shock when, in 2007, one of my students a...

I am glad to see so many women willing to break the silence on miscarriage. I am a historian, and I spent 15 years researching my forthco...

What happens when the person who delivers most of the babies in her community is arrested? This is a tale of two midwives, separated by n...

Last week at a Vatican conference on abortion, Pope Francis “argued that children who were not expected to live long after birth deserved...

“In her new book, “Becoming,” Michelle Obama reveals that she miscarried her first pregnancy, and went on to conceive her two daughters b...

Quick — is your nearest hospital affiliated with the Catholic Church? This is a question I would not have been able to answer during my tw...

What led a Walgreeens pharmacist to deny a woman her prescription. Read the rest at the Washington Post #conscienceclause #misoprostol

In December of 2016, I wrote an essay for Nursing Clio called Nurse-Midwives are With Women, Walking a Middle Path to a Safe and Rewardin...

I would call it a “pet peeve,” but the stakes are higher: I can’t stand policy arguments based on inaccurate or misrepresented historical...

In childbirth politics as in all politics, extreme viewpoints make the news, and sensible centrists are ignored. A couple of years ago, R...

“What makes a mother real?” asks writer and performer Alice Eve Cohen in her newly-published play, What I Thought I Knew. In 1999, Cohen ...

The Indiana legislature claims it wants to protect unborn children and their parents. Last week Governor Mike Pence gave his blessing to ...

This week I had the pleasure of interviewing historian Jessica Martucci at length about her new book, Back to the Breast: Natural Motherh...

Recently, Mark Zuckerberg joyfully announced on Facebook that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a daughter. More solemnly, h...