Women’s health
Gently holding a baby hummingbird between her hands, Catia Lattouf says, “Hello, cute little guy. Are you very hungry?”
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has asked the state’s high court to keep Indiana’s near-total abortion ban on hold while it pursues a narrower preliminary injunction in a trial court to address the scope of the ban’s exemption allowing women facing serious health risks to obtain aborti
West Virginia’s former abortion provider is pleading with capital-area residents to keep “an open mind and an open heart” about its proposal to add a syringe service program to its offerings in the opioid-ravaged state.
Cancer survivor Linda Caicedo has scored on her debut at the Women’s World Cup as Colombia beat South Korea 2-0.
The Indianapolis Fire Department says an SUV has struck a day care van on the far east side of the city.
The Republican lieutenant governor’s race in Mississippi has turned nasty with primary elections just under three weeks away. Lt. Gov.
Women who sued Texas after saying they were denied abortions despite serious risks to their health are asking a court to step in.
Maltese lawmakers have unanimously approved legislation to ease the the strictest abortion laws in the European Union.
Federal health advisers are recommending that a decades-old birth control pill be sold without a prescription.
A federal task force is recommending that women start getting every-other-year mammograms at age 40 instead of waiting until 50. The U.S.
ATLANTA (AP) — Abortion providers in Georgia resumed performing the procedure beyond six weeks of pregnancy this week after a judge threw out the state’s abortion ban.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Nafis Sadik, a Pakistani doctor who championed women’s health and rights and spearheaded the breakthrough action plan adopted by 179 countries at the 1994 United Nations population conference, died four days before her 93rd birthday, her son said late Monday.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A lawsuit filed Monday by a Casper women’s health clinic and others seeks to block Wyoming’s new abortion ban just before it’s scheduled to take effect.
Anti-abortion activists have converged in southern New Mexico to protest relocation plans by the Mississippi clinic at the center of the court battle that overturned the Roe v.
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Anti-abortion activists from across the country converged in southern New Mexico on Tuesday to protest relocation plans by the Mississippi clinic at the center of the court battle that overturned Roe v.
The Mississippi abortion clinic that was at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s only abortion clinic pressed forward Tuesday with scheduling abortions, even as the state’s attorney general went to the Supreme Court to try to stop it.
The owner of Mississippi’s only abortion clinic says she’s sold the building and will not reopen the clinic even if a state court allows her to do so.
Dr. Thomas Dobbs has never gotten involved in political fights over reproductive health, but his name has become shorthand for a legal case that could end abortion rights in the United States.
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia bill aimed at reducing the state’s high death rate for new mothers is advancing.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Supporters of abortion rights urged legislators Thursday to scrap Republican-authored bills that would prohibit abortions based on fetal characteristics and force doctors to care for babies born as a result of botched abortions.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A new monument in Montgomery pays tribute to three enslaved Black women who were subjected to experimental surgery by a 19th century physician celebrated for advancing women’s health.
Almost instantly after most abortions were banned in Texas, Democrats were decrying the new law as unconstitutional, an assault on women’s health that must be challenged.
Almost instantly after most abortions were banned in Texas, Democrats were decrying the new law as unconstitutional, an assault on women’s health that must be challenged.
A leading rights group has offered a bleak report on women’s health care in Afghanistan. Human Rights Watch says that after nearly 20 years since the ouster of the Taliban and billions of dollars spent on infrastructure and aid, many Afghan women still have poor access to health facilities and healt
Merck is entering a new era, with sweeping changes across its executive suite and the spinoff off its women’s health and other businesses, a bid to enable both resulting companies to grow faster.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Women who use certain types of hormones after menopause still have an increased risk of developing breast cancer nearly two decades after they stop taking the pills, long-term results from a big federal study suggest.
New Trump administration rules imposing additional hurdles for women seeking abortions can take effect while the government appeals decisions that blocked them, a federal appeals court said Thursday.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal trial is coming to an end in a lawsuit challenging four Virginia abortion laws that women’s health groups say are overly restrictive and limit access to abortion in the state.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine activists launched a renewed effort Tuesday seeking to legalize elective abortions in the homeland of Pope Francis after narrowly falling short last year.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A doctor testifying Monday in a lawsuit challenging four abortion-restriction laws in Virginia said abortion is “one of the safest medical procedures that exist.”