AP Health - Women's health

A California panel is considering if the chemical in marijuana that produces a high should be declared a risk to pregnant women and require warnings

The Supreme Court has left in place a Kentucky law requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before abortions

The Supreme Court has left in place a Kentucky law requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before abortions

ATLANTA (AP) — When just a teenager, Safira Z Yasin said she "died on the table" during the birth of her first child in 1993. After being resuscitated, she woke up with a tube down her throat...

Scientists are developing a once-a-month birth control pill that would gradually release the drug over the course of weeks

A New York lawmaker wants to ban virginity tests in response to the controversial remarks made recently by the rapper T

Lawmakers in Slovakia are scheduled to debate a proposed law that would compel women seeking an abortion to first have an ultrasound and listen to the heartbeat

Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor is vetoing a bill that would prohibit abortions because of a prenatal Down syndrome, a day after it passed the Republican-controlled Legislature

A group of conservative lawmakers in Ohio has introduced a bill to outlaw abortion outright

A Virginia doctor accused of performing unnecessary surgical procedures on his patients has been ordered held without bail while he awaits trial