Walk through the aisles of any American drugstore, and you’ll eventually encounter the home pregnancy test section. Because of the […]
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Walk through the aisles of any American drugstore, and you’ll eventually encounter the home pregnancy test section. Because of the […]
What happens when the person who delivers most of the babies in her community is arrested? This is a tale […]
I was born seven weeks after my mother found out she was pregnant. I was not a medical miracle — […]
Last week at a Vatican conference on abortion, Pope Francis “argued that children who were not expected to live long […]
I began reading Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos on my own due date, desperately trying to keep busy […]
On the morning that my daughter-in-law went into labor, a small bird crashed into our apartment window and lay dead […]
Wendy Kline has delivered a new addition to the history of childbirth in America. In her engaging and well-researched book, […]
In 1995, I was sixteen and experiencing the excitement of my first real love. As if out of a 1990s […]
For the last decade, I’ve been reading and writing about other women’s pain. Contractions lasting 72 hours. Feverish deliriums after […]
In 1866, a young man in Crestline, Ohio, visited Dr. J. Stolz to ask the physician for help. Mr. B’s […]