3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (682+ words) Abortions have risen to the highest number on record and half of women who have them are mothers. There were about 277, 000 abortions in England and Wales in 2023, up by 11 per cent on the year before, according to annual figures published…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (578+ words) Training for NHS midwives will be overhauled to tackle a "national emergency" of racism, which means black women are three times more likely to die in childbirth. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), which regulates the profession, is introducing mandatory…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (821+ words) Women's deaths during pregnancy, labour or soon after giving birth are at the highest level for two decades despite the NHS receiving dozens of recommendations to act on life-threatening symptoms. An investigation by The Times shows the NHS was issued…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (462+ words) Are women really being bombarded with "pro-mummy propaganda? I don't recall seeing any before I decided to have'a child, and since my son was born 16 months ago positive depictions'of motherhood have felt thin on the ground. Which is why I…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (478+ words) A woman who became pregnant after having sex with identical twins within four days of each other has been told it is "not possible" to work out who is the father using DNA testing. One of the twins was registered…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (621+ words) Women who have been investigated or jailed for illegal abortions since the Victorian era will be pardoned and have their cases wiped from police records under landmark legislation. The Crime and Policing Bill, which will decriminalise abortion in England and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (533+ words) O'Connor, 48, said she received a message from Meta telling her that her post was deleted for breaching its "nudity guidelines. It also included a note on "freedom of expression, stating: "We want you to share freely with others. We only…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (332+ words) During my time as health secretary, nothing caused me more anguish than the repeated failures in NHS maternity care: the avoidable deaths of babies and mothers, the anguish of families who trusted the system and the reports that exposed the…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (273+ words) Maternity care is one of the great achievements of the modern age. A century ago, in the course of 100, 000 births, some 4, 000 babies and 430 women died. Now, the figures are 300 and eight. Yet in Britain this success has been overshadowed by…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (957+ words) Families whose babies had "signs of life" may have wrongly been told they were born dead in order to prevent an inquest, a review into NHS maternity services has found. The NHS is "incentivised" to record deaths as stillborn because…...