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Topic: maternal health

Clara Sharp, left, and Sonja Watley, right, both doulas and co-directors of the company Ahavah Birthworks, visit expectant mother Claire Littleton, center, who is on Medicaid, at her home in north Minneapolis on Wednesday, January 13, 2016. (Photo by Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Medicaid cuts are maternal health crisis

Allison Carmen
A woman, who chose to remain anonymous, talks to Doctor Audrey (R) before recieving an abortion at a Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 14, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Infant deaths keep rising after Dobbs

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The GOP has an infant abandonment issue

Amanda Marcotte
A pregnant woman in the foreground as the unrecognizable doctor shows her an ultrasound (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

Being Black and pregnant in the South

Lauren Sausser - KFF Health News
Empty wooden crib (Getty Images/Alexey Emelyanov)

Why infant mortality is on the rise

Nicole Karlis
A pregnant woman in the foreground as the unrecognizable doctor shows her an ultrasound (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

Allow midwives to save lives in Alabama

Stephanie Mitchell, Avital Norman Nathman
New mom closes her eyes as she kisses her baby's hand. (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

FDA approves postpartum depression pill

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Nicotine patch, chewin gum and ecigarette (Getty Images/pixinoo)

Why e-cigs may help pregnant people quit

Nicole Karlis
Stressed mother and her baby (Getty Images/SolStock)

Reframing the "mommy brain" narrative

Nicole Karlis
Pregnant woman sitting in bed (Getty Images/NataliaDeriabina)

Alcohol changes baby's face shape: study

Nicole Karlis
Stressed mother and her baby (Getty Images/SolStock)

Don't blame the depressed mothers

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Dry Roses In Vase On Table (Getty images / Lyn Pereyra / EyeEm)

Mother's Day is gaslighting

Alison Stine
A pregnant woman receiving an ultrasound (Getty Images/Antenna)

Racism a factor in premature births

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
(AP Photo/Al Goldis) (AP)

9 ways racism impacts maternal health

Roberta K. Timothy - The Conversation
(Getty/tatyana_tomsickova)

A C-section saved my life, and my baby’s

Elizabeth Noll
Gabrielle Union; Michelle Obama (AP/Rob Grabowski/David Edwards)

Changing the conversation on infertility

Rachel Leah
(Getty Images)

Having a baby is costly and confusing

Simon F. Haeder - The Conversation
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-554806p1.html'>effe45</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Preventing deaths of new and expecting

Nina Martin, Robin Fields - ProPublica
(Getty/piranka)

The loneliness of motherhood

Julia Bainbridge - The Lonely Hour

Inside Manila's chaotic baby boom

Justine Nagan

Katie McDonough
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?submitter=6865&searchterm=baby%20birth'> Carolina K. Smith MD .</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Katie McDonough
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