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Given the promising research into various medical conditions that this article attributes to fetal tissue donation, it is especially disappointing that the researchers using this tissue have been so reluctant to forcefully speak out in defense of these donations.

UCSF Bixby Center has launched a free online training, An Update on Long-Acting Reversible Contraception. The training is a primer on IUDs and the contraceptive implant, and is suitable for all types of healthcare providers and support staff.

An Illinois mom was denied sterilization surgery because the hospital where she was delivering was a Catholic institution and policy dictated it couldn’t perform contraceptive procedures — something she was never made aware of throughout her pregnancy.

Ultrasound viewing by patients has no clinical purpose: it does not affect the woman’s condition or the decisions health providers make. Nevertheless, ultrasound viewing has become central to the hotly contested politics of abortion.

When a woman needs to request medical leave or a change in her job duties due to a pregnancy, her obstetrician or other prenatal care provider can help her by writing a letter to her employer. Yet there is little guidance for healthcare providers to write such notes, and some notes have been used to fire pregnant women.

Teen pregnancy is at a record low in the U.S., and a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may explain why.

Mostly lost in the intense focus on the brutally dishonest attacks on Planned Parenthood’s practices regarding tissue donation is that they are also part of an ongoing campaign to target and harass individual abortion providers and others connected with the safe and legal provision of abortion care.

According to a new study that tracked hundreds of women who had abortions, more than 95 percent of participants reported that ending a pregnancy was the right decision for them.

A Colorado family planning program was able to slash pregnancies and abortions by providing long-term birth control methods. Should that be the model for future programs?

The war on women isn’t over.