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Pregnancy
Pregnancy news and analysis from The Nation
December 3, 2019
An Ohio House bill would require doctors to perform a procedure that is medically impossible—or face murder charges. Other bills just as nutty are being enacted across the country.
August 23, 2019
New reproductive technologies promise to prevent serious genetic disease. What happens if only the rich can access them?
August 12, 2019
The transition to parenthood is a critical window when parents’ mental and physical health is at risk. Paid leave can protect them—and their babies.
June 28, 2019
Under Alabama law, women are good for nothing except producing a child.
May 16, 2019
Feminist theorist Sophie Lewis’s new book looks at how rethinking pregnancy and the idea of family as forms of labor is central to emancipatory politics.
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August 20, 2018
All around the world, mothers and pregnant women are undervalued, discriminated against, and punished.
February 28, 2018
A Catholic psychologist in São Paolo tries to shame an undercover reporter into not having an abortion.
December 1, 2017
Kasey Dischman was charged with a crime for overdosing and delivering her daughter prematurely. She’s still in jail.
October 12, 2017
A complaint alleges ICE is violating its own guidelines for the treatment of pregnant asylum-seekers.
September 8, 2016
We don’t know exactly why these women died—but we know that they were poor and lacked medical care.
