Janell Green Smith, 31, was determined to reduce racial disparities in maternal health care. Her family hopes her legacy will ...

The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals has ruled that the state health department has the authority to license and regulate ...

Svalbard, where births and burials are forbidden, is the northernmost settlement in the world and is home to people of many ...

Read why Svalbard, a remote Norwegian town near the North Pole, bans birth and death in the region. Visa-free living, polar ...

Travel influencer Radhika recently visited Svalbard, where dying and giving birth are prohibited, and shared a video of her time there.

The 74 reports thousands of immigrant students are leaving LA Unified Schools due to fears from increased ICE raids and ...

The Free Birth Society advised pregnant women to avoid doctors and midwives, with deadly consequences. The bigger tragedy is the brutal system the women were so desperate to flee.

A very small, but passionate, group of parents are advocates for a type of unassisted birth known as "free birth." Here's why ...

California lawmakers passed a new law to ease birth centers to operating outside hospitals. California lawmakers passed a new law to make it easier for birth centers to operate outside hospitals.

I have been reading exposés about the free birth movement for nearly as long as I have been covering women’s health. The movement’s adherents are women who give birth without trained medical ...

A small but growing number of pregnant women are choosing to give birth without any assistance from a midwife or doctor, trusting instead in influencers’ tales of the “euphoria” of a “free birth”. A ...

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