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Just a day or two after launching a politically-motivated "investigation" of Planned Parenthood, House leadership released a draft Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations bill that would effectively eliminate federally-funded family planning programs.

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I am concerned about the lack of coverage for the daily violation of women’s rights that occurs on the labor and delivery unit.

Citizen volunteers are at the front lines of a community-driven initiative for saving lives and preserving health for women in Kissidougou.

Rather than “where are the women,” we might ask: Why does much of U.S. public discourse frame Egypt's revolution through Islamophobia and why have corporate media focused mostly on men?

A long-neglected drug for relieving pain in labor may be making a comeback in the United States.

The ACLU has filed a lawsuit today claiming pregnant women on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, in South Dakota, are being pressured into undergoing labor inductions, without proper information or support.

One publication asks why more women in the United States don't have access to laughing gas during labor. 

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A study shows that expectant mothers in California may face more constrained choices in childbirth depending on whether they choose a non-profit or for-profit hospital.

Four days ago a young woman died giving birth in a bustling marketplace in New Delhi, just steps away from Parliament, and at the beginning of an international conference on maternal health. This is not acceptable.

A woman comes into a hospital, in labor, refuses to pre-consent to a c-section, and has her baby whisked away under charges of child neglect?