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NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce U.S. Stillbirth Rate

by Duaa Eldeib

September 25, 2025, 10:30 am EDT
Texas Overhauls Anti-Abortion Program That Spent Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars With Little Oversight

by Cassandra Jaramillo and Jeremy Kohler

July 10, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women

by Cassandra Jaramillo, Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Ziva Branstetter

November 20, 2024, 5:00 am EST

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NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce U.S. Stillbirth Rate

by Duaa Eldeib

September 25, 2025, 10:30 am EDT
“We Want to Save This Investment”: Advocates Race to Secure Maternal Health Funding Before It Runs Out

by Cassandra Jaramillo

August 8, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Texas Overhauls Anti-Abortion Program That Spent Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars With Little Oversight

by Cassandra Jaramillo and Jeremy Kohler

July 10, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

by Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Andrea Suozzo

July 1, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.

by Andrea Suozzo, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

July 1, 2025, 4:55 am EDT
Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion

by Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Andrea Suozzo

May 7, 2025, 4:20 pm EDT
Thousands of Families Experience Stillbirth. Three Moms Tell Their Stories in a New Documentary.

by Nadia Sussman, Liz Moughon, Duaa Eldeib, Margaret Cheatham Williams and Lisa Riordan Seville

March 20, 2025, 8:00 am EDT
Before a Breath: America’s Stillbirth Crisis

by Nadia Sussman, Liz Moughon, Margaret Cheatham Williams and Lisa Riordan Seville

March 20, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes

by Jeremy Kohler

March 5, 2025, 5:00 am EST
Georgia Won’t Say Who’s Now Serving on Its Maternal Mortality Committee After Dismissing All Members Last Year

by Amy Yurkanin

March 4, 2025, 6:00 am EST
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths

by Amy Yurkanin

November 21, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women

by Cassandra Jaramillo, Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Ziva Branstetter

November 20, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Una mujer de Texas murió después de que el hospital dijera que sería un “delito” intervenir en su aborto espontáneo

por Cassandra Jaramillo y Kavitha Surana

November 1, 2024, 10:00 am EDT
A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital

by Cassandra Jaramillo and Kavitha Surana

October 30, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
The Failure to Track Data on Stillbirths Undermines Efforts to Prevent Them

by Irena Hwang, Sophie Chou and Duaa Eldeib

July 2, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
Bill to Fund Stillbirth Prevention and Research Passes Congress

by Duaa Eldeib

June 12, 2024, 7:00 am EDT
Kristi Noem Said She Is Proud to “Support Babies, Moms, and Families.” Her Record Shows Otherwise, Critics Say.

by Jessica Lussenhop

May 20, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
What to Know About the Roiling Debate Over U.S. Maternal Mortality Rates

by Robin Fields

April 5, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder

by Duaa Eldeib

October 7, 2023, 5:00 am EDT
Hospitals in Two States Denied an Abortion to a Miscarrying Patient. Investigators Say They Broke Federal Law.

by Kavitha Surana

May 19, 2023, 5:00 am EDT
Churches’ Role in Local Election Prompts Calls for Investigations

by Jessica Priest

May 16, 2023, 6:00 am EDT
What You Need to Know About Stillbirths

by Adriana Gallardo and Duaa Eldeib

May 3, 2023, 6:00 am EDT
How Abortion Bans Are Impacting Pregnant Patients Across the Country

by Ziva Branstetter

March 29, 2023, 12:10 pm EDT
Federal Study Calls U.S. Stillbirth Rate “Unacceptably High” and Recommends Action

by Duaa Eldeib

March 23, 2023, 5:00 am EDT
Doctors Warned Her Pregnancy Could Kill Her. Then Tennessee Outlawed Abortion.

by Kavitha Surana, photography by Stacy Kranitz

March 14, 2023, 5:00 am EDT
Minnesota May Chart Its Own Path Dealing With Anti-Abortion Counseling Centers

by Jessica Lussenhop

February 28, 2023, 6:00 am EST
Tennessee Lobbyists Oppose New Lifesaving Exceptions in Abortion Ban

by Kavitha Surana

February 24, 2023, 6:00 am EST
Here’s What States Are Doing to Abortion Rights in 2023

by Megan Rose

February 8, 2023, 6:00 am EST
Lawmakers Pledge to Fight for Comprehensive Action on Stillbirths

by Duaa Eldeib

February 2, 2023, 6:00 am EST
Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google

by Jennifer Gollan

January 18, 2023, 5:00 am EST
What to Know About Cellphone Radiation

by Peter Elkind

January 4, 2023, 5:00 am EST
She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.

by Duaa Eldeib

December 27, 2022, 6:00 am EST
Pregnant? Here’s What You Need to Know About NIPTs

by Adriana Gallardo, Anna Clark and Mariam Elba

December 17, 2022, 9:00 am EST
They Trusted Their Prenatal Test. They Didn’t Know the Industry Is an Unregulated “Wild West.”

by Anna Clark, Adriana Gallardo, Jenny Deam and Mariam Elba

December 6, 2022, 6:00 am EST
After a Stillbirth, an Autopsy Can Provide Answers. Too Few of Them Are Being Performed.

by Duaa Eldeib

November 29, 2022, 6:00 am EST
She Wanted an Abortion. A Judge Said She Wasn’t Mature Enough to Decide.

by Lizzie Presser, photography by Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt for The New York Times

November 29, 2022, 5:00 am EST
“We Need to Defend This Law”: Inside an Anti-Abortion Meeting With Tennessee’s GOP Lawmakers

by Kavitha Surana

November 15, 2022, 12:00 pm EST
Her Child Was Stillborn at 39 Weeks. She Blames a System That Doesn’t Always Listen to Mothers.

by Duaa Eldeib

November 13, 2022, 5:00 am EST
Minnesota Set to Become “Abortion Access Island” in the Midwest, but for Whom?

by Jessica Lussenhop

August 25, 2022, 6:00 am EDT
“God, No, Not Another Case.” COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn’t Have to Happen.

by Duaa Eldeib

August 4, 2022, 6:00 am EDT
Her Ex-Husband Is Suing a Clinic Over the Abortion She Had Four Years Ago

by Nicole Santa Cruz

July 15, 2022, 5:00 am EDT
How Missouri Helps Abortion Opponents Divert State Taxes to Crisis Pregnancy Centers

by Jeremy Kohler

June 6, 2022, 5:00 am EDT
“This Was Not a Surprise”: How the Pro-Choice Movement Lost the Battle for Roe

by Alexandra Zayas

May 3, 2022, 2:00 pm EDT
One Major Reason the U.S. Hasn’t Stopped Syphilis From Killing Babies

by Caroline Chen

November 16, 2021, 5:00 am EST
Babies Are Dying of Syphilis. It’s 100% Preventable.

by Caroline Chen, photography by Talia Herman, special to ProPublica

November 1, 2021, 5:00 am EDT
Cómo investigamos las tasas de mortalidad de los bebés extremadamente prematuros en los hospitales de maternidad más grandes de este estado

por Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth

April 1, 2021, 1:01 pm EDT
No One in This State Is Officially Tracking the Quality of Care in Neonatal Centers

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth

March 31, 2021, 2:45 pm EDT
The Two Hospitals Have Similar Infant Death Rates — Until You Look at Extremely Premature Babies

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth

March 30, 2021, 5:00 am EDT
She Made Every Effort to Avoid COVID-19 While Pregnant. Not a Single Thing Went According to Plan.

by Annie Waldman

May 5, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Lo que significa el coronavirus para un embarazo, y otras cosas que deben saber las madres embarazadas y nuevas

por Nina Martin

March 23, 2020, 12:56 pm EDT