This video highlights the historical dangers of pregnancy and childbirth for women, noting that in medieval Europe, 1 in 3 ...

This blog discusses events in Call the Midwife Season 13 Episode 3. The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author. In these days of global and political chaos, I am making a ...

Despite what some natural birth enthusiasts might imply, there was never a time when women gave birth without pain, according to this eloquent account from historian Inglis (Milk of Paradise).

This work tells the story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. It details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti ...

On its face, The Icon and the Idealist is not a book about abortion. Thanks to advances in technology and medical knowledge, Americans have become accustomed to an ideological separation between ...

The female pelvis may become too narrow for vaginal childbirth, meaning that caesareans could become the only option for delivering babies. At least, that’s the claim made by a research team last year ...