BACKGROUND: As a baby grows in its mother's womb, it gets heavier and starts to press on the cervix. Normally, a woman's cervix opens with the beginning of labor after about nine months, but in some ...

An induced abortion is when a pregnancy is intentionally ended through a medical procedure. When people talk about abortion, they’re usually referring to induced abortion. Induced abortion care can ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Even though about a million women a year experience a ...

Tabitha Crowe said she woke up around 4 a.m. one Thursday in August covered in blood. She was visiting her parents in southern Louisiana when she started miscarrying her first pregnancy. She said her ...