Tag: Pregnancy and Childbirth
Who Will Help Care for Texas’ Post-Roe Babies?
ARGYLE, Texas — Two days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a 27-year-old woman delivered her…
Why Deleting Your Period Tracker Won’t Protect Your Privacy
In May 1972, the Chicago police raided a high-rise apartment where a group called the Jane Collective was…
Payment Data Could Become Evidence of Abortion, Now Illegal in Some States
Digital payments are the default for millions of women of childbearing age. So what will their credit and…
In Light of Roe v. Wade Ruling, Men Share Their Abortion Stories
Two years ago, Matthew Markman, a software salesman in California, and his wife, who was 20 weeks pregnant,…
How an Abortion Ban Trapped a Tourist on Malta
Andrea Prudente, a 38-year-old photographer who lives near Seattle, and her partner, Jay Weeldreyer, expected their trip to…
Poland Shows the Risks for Women When Abortion Is Banned
PSZCZYNA, Poland — It was shortly before 11 p.m. when Izabela Sajbor realized the doctors were prepared to…
11 Families in Senegal Welcomed Newborns. A Fire Left Them Devastated.
TIVAOUANE, Senegal — The baby boy did not yet have a name.He was only a day old on…
When Motherhood Is a Horror Show
“The Baby” is clever to convert this mode into comedy, though the mood soon darkens. At first, Natasha’s…
More Kids? After the Last Two Years? No Thanks.
For other older parents, the changes wrought by the pandemic helped clarify their limitations, in ways that were…
Inside a Maternity Hospital in Ukraine as War Grinds On
As artillery shells fall, pregnant women are delivering prematurely, being shuttled in and out of bomb shelters or…
My Daughter Is Having Sex With Her Best Friend. Must I Tell Her Mom?
I am an anesthesiologist at a busy multisurgeon plastic-surgery practice. One of the surgeons has started offering a…
With Remote Work, Women Decide Who Knows They’re Pregnant
For the past nine months, I have been pregnant. But I have not — for the most part…