Peggy Malone walks the quiet halls of Crozer-Chester Medical Center, the Pennsylvania hospital where she’s worked as a registered nurse for the past 35 years, […]
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Faith-based maternity homes ‘create a haven’ in states with strict abortion laws
CHILTON COUNTY, Ala. — At the end of a gravel road that runs through a wooded property in Chilton County, Alabama, a plain white two-story […]
Moms For Liberty shakes up local school boards, eyes next election cycle
As Moms for Liberty has worked to elect sympathetic school board candidates, board takeovers have replayed in school districts across the country, from California to Colorado, Florida to New York.
Birth centers have never been more popular, but struggle to remain viable. How some midwives are changing the system.
Despite their popularity, many birth centers face uncertain futures, even in states with robust community support. Here’s how centers have fought closure – and won.
A Black-owned birth center welcomes first baby as state considers regulations that would shut it down
Her choice of a birth center sits at the center of a growing statewide fight over how and where people can safely give birth.
Midwives, birth advocates in Alabama prepare for a fight as state tries to shut them out of birth centers
In late summer, a small band of midwives gathered beneath Montgomery, Ala.’s towering Mothers of Gynecology monument and a sky that threatened rain. The monument’s […]
This midwife is building Alabama’s first freestanding birth center
Deep in the Alabama Black Belt, the tiny town of Gainesville (population: 163) hugs the banks of the Tombigbee River not far from the Mississippi state […]
After its rural hospital closed, this community tried a new approach to healthcare
The only hospital in rural Pickens County, Ala., closed its doors for good just two weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. It was March 2020. The west Alabama county sits […]
Young Southerners create their own ‘magical community’ in rural Alabama town
Sarah Cole, 32, is relaxing on the front porch swing with her partner, Robert Fitzpatrick, when her phone buzzes. It’s a text from their friend, Tim Higgins, inviting them over. Tim […]
Looking for Alabama’s elected Republican women
Terri Collins was a North Alabama banker with no political experience when the state GOP leadership came calling. Click here to read the rest of the story at ReckonSouth.com.