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 […]
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‘Shell game’: When private equity comes to town, hospitals can see cutbacks, closures
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, […]
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.
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. […]