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Maternal health

  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
    The Big Read
    How a warmer world is making pregnancy riskier

    Some scientists argue that the link between increasing heat and adverse maternal outcomes is quietly becoming a public health emergency

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  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    MPs vote to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales

    Women would no longer face a criminal prosecution for ending their pregnancy after 24 weeks

    Activists from pro-choice group ‘Abortion Rights’ gathered near the House of Commons on Tuesday as MPs voted
  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    FT Magazine
    A young couple paid for a luxury maternity home. Then it suddenly closed

    In China, consumers often have little recourse when things go wrong. This time they investigated

    A young mother sits on a sofa next to a professional nanny, who has a baby balanced on her knee and a bottle of milk in her hand. The photograph has been taken in a post-partum confinement centre in Shanghai – a place where young new parents can book in for a month and learn how to look after their baby with 24-hour support. A crib, complete with clothes and nappies, sits in the background
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump says he will vote against abortion rights in Florida

    Comments set to throw renewed spotlight on issue Democrats have targeted Republican presidential candidate over

    Donald Trump
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Undue Burden — the reality for women in post-Roe America

    Shefali Luthra sympathetically documents the harrowing human consequences of curtailing the right to abortion

    A woman in a mult-coloured tabard escorts another woman into a building. Over the door is a sign that says ‘no judgement, just care’
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    MPs in push to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales

    Women’s rights campaigners optimistic parliament will support one of the amendments to criminal justice bill next week

    Women’s rights campaigners protesting in Westminster
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    Reproductive rights
    Arizona court bans almost all abortions in Trump-Biden swing state

    Decision in crucial 2024 presidential election battleground comes as Democrats hope restrictions will energise voters

    Abortion rights supporters marching in Tucson, Arizona, after the US Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 to overturn Roe vs Wade
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Republican Party US
    Alabama lawmakers vote to protect IVF after controversial court ruling

    Move comes amid nationwide backlash to Republican efforts to restrict reproductive rights

    A person wears a sticker reading ‘Fight for Alabama families’
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    News in-depthUS politics & policy
    IVF ruling puts reproductive rights back at heart of US politics

    Alabama judgment that frozen embryos are ‘children’ follows Supreme Court’s overturning of abortion rights

    A human embryo nine days after fertilisation
  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
    Jayasree K Iyer
    There are far too many avoidable deaths in childbirth

    The global health community — together with pharmaceutical companies — must prove they take maternal rights seriously

    María Hergueta illustration of a mother holding a baby swaddled in white, standing in a hot-air balloon afloat up in the air
  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    Low-cost health measures could drive big fall in maternal mortality, says report

    Lives of 2mn mothers and babies could be saved by 2030 with small innovations in care, says Gates Foundation

    A doctor checks up a pregnant woman at a government hospital in Amritsar
  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    Reproductive rights
    US regulator approves first over-the-counter birth control pill

    Food and Drug Administration’s decision is significant development in nationwide battle over reproductive rights

  • Saturday, 17 June, 2023
    Women's health
    Calls for reform of UK abortion laws after woman jailed for late termination

    Campaigners demanding decriminalisation plan to march from Royal Courts of Justice to Westminster on Saturday

    Pro-choice supporters demonstrate in Parliament Square in London against the US Supreme Court’s intention to overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade law
  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    Republican Party US
    Republicans risk voter backlash as they advance attacks on abortion

    Tough restrictions such as those passed in Florida are proving unpopular with the wider public

    Three members of the Women’s March group protest in support of access to abortion medication outside the Federal Courthouse in Amarillo, Texas
  • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
    Roe vs Wade
    Demand for morning-after pill rises in US as abortion restrictions spread

    Sales of Plan B emergency contraception jump while those of birth control pills and condoms fall, analysis shows

  • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
    Roe vs Wade
    US regulator moves to expand access to abortion pills

    FDA will let pharmacies dispense medication after Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to tighten restrictions

    Protesters in New York after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade
  • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
    Reproductive rights
    US considers first over-the-counter birth control pill

    Companies ask regulator to expand access as some states clamp down on abortion

    Birth control pills on a counter
  • Friday, 26 August, 2022
    Healthcare
    Nigeria and Ghana’s health systems stand in contrast

    Africa’s largest economy has some of the worst outcomes in the world

    African nurses inspecting medical supplies sent by drone
  • Saturday, 6 August, 2022
    Eli Lilly & Co
    Eli Lilly says Indiana abortion ban will shift jobs out of its home state

    Pharmaceutical company says new legislation will hinder its ability to attract diverse talent

    Eli Lilly’s headquarters in Indianapolis
  • Saturday, 6 August, 2022
    US midterm elections
    ‘This time feels different’: Kansas abortion win stokes Democratic hopes

    Reproductive rights move up party’s agenda after surprise win in deeply conservative state

    A cheering crowd at a primary party in Kansas
  • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
    Reproductive rights
    Kansas voters reject anti-abortion amendment to state constitution

    Resounding victory for pro-choice campaign in first test of public opinion after Supreme Court ruling on Roe vs Wade

    A ‘Vote No’ sign on display outside a polling station in Olathe, Kansas
  • Sunday, 31 July, 2022
    News in-depthRoe vs Wade
    US abortion pill boom raises legal and ethical questions

    Telehealth providers are stepping in to fill treatment gaps caused by the overturning of Roe vs Wade

    Anti-abortion supporters rally on July 26 in Indiana
  • Monday, 25 July, 2022
    OutlookPatti Waldmeir
    Michigan prepares for ballot to decide on abortion

    In overturning Roe vs Wade, the Supreme Court is forcing states to settle the issue

    Abortion rights demonstrators march and hold placards
  • Sunday, 10 July, 2022
    Reproductive rights
    Economic fallout from abortion bans will hit the poor hardest

    Research shows denying access worsens inequality and creates financial hardships for women and their families

    An abortion rights demonstration in Los Angeles
  • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
    Roe vs Wade
    ‘Safe haven’ Illinois braces for surge in abortion demand

    US state has seen an influx of women seeking the procedure

    A protest rally in Chicago in response to the US Supreme Court’s decision to reverse Roe vs Wade
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