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 […]
Category: Maternal health
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 […]
How states prosecute pregnant people even without abortion bans
An ocean of uncertainty surrounds dozens of new state-level abortion bans and how they’ll be enforced following last month’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion that overturned […]
One of Alabama’s few abortion providers is also working to open the state’s first birth center
The morning after the leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe v. Wade, Dr. Yashica Robinson woke up, opened her eyes and […]
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 […]
Much of the South quickly cuts off new moms from Medicaid, but change could be coming (Explainer)
If you’re a pregnant person in most Southern states, there’s a better than average chance that your prenatal checkups, delivery and other healthcare are covered by Medicaid. […]
Georgia factory worker, fired after miscarriage scare, sues employer
Seven days after Georgia mom Kaytiara McAlister learned she was pregnant, that pregnancy cost her job, according to a new federal lawsuit.. McAlister claims she was fired from her job at a manufacturing center […]
New moms face suspicion over error-prone drug screens
Christen Townsend didn’t know it yet, but she was in danger of losing custody of the baby that hospital staff were prepping her to deliver. […]