childbirth

In the late 1960s, Denmark implemented a brutal contraceptive policy to limit births in its former colony of Greenland, forcing thousands of teenage girls to have IDUs inserted without their consent. After decades of repressing…

Black women were more likely to die during pregnancy or soon after in every year from 1999 through 2019, compared with Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and white women. That…

AP ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report.Bowie, who won three medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro…

According to the autopsy report, Bowie was 8 months pregnant and undergoing labour at the time of her death. LOS ANGELES: Olympic medalist and former 100m world champion Tori Bowie died due to complications from childbirth, an autopsy…

Gather a group of new parents and the conversation will likely turn to their childbirth stories – ranging from the joyful to the gnarly to the positively traumatic. Birth story podcasts and websites feature a curated range of birth…

Vaginal tears in childbirth Vaginal tears are common during childbirth. They often happen when a baby's head is coming through the vaginal opening. These tears usually are a result of the head being too large for the vagina to…

Both versions of  Dead Ringers are examples of a subgenre often called ‘body horror’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In 1988, the year I was born, David Cronenberg released what was then perhaps his strangest and most affecting film…

According to the latest estimates released in a report by United Nations (UN) agencies on Thursday, every two minutes, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth. This report, Trends in maternal mortality, reveals alarming setbacks for…

As US states and nations such as Poland move towards restricting access to abortions, parts of Europe are seen as something of a safe haven for those looking to terminate pregnancies. However, a look at legislation…

Lindsay Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse at the prestigious Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, is the latest tragic and high-profile example of a mother allegedly taking the lives of her own three children. On Jan. 24,…