Prenatal Health, Labor and Delivery

The Business of Being Born: Eeeww! Ricki Lake Naked and Squirming!

More Midwife Strife

The state Health Department is investigating a controversial home-birth advocate—again.

Letters to the Editor

"Conflating the loss of a hiking trip with the loss of people's livestock and homes isn't amusing."

Malpractice Assurance

A 4-year-old is dead, and the doctor who erred is still allowed to practice. No wonder liability insurance is driving up health care costs.

Letters to the Editor

"Thomsen blasts the M's for trading Cirillo for worthless players. Does sabermetrics have a way to trade a .205 hitter for good players?"

Letters to the Editor

"Just as women have the right to choose whether or not to give birth, they have the right to choose where and how their babies are delivered. . . . "

Birth Rights and Wrongs

There's no stronger advocate for natural childbirth than uncompromising midwife Debra O'Conner. But a tragic pregnancy and a state investigation of her practice reveal a clash of values: At what point should midwifery yield to medical intervention?

Media on Fallowed Ground

There's no stronger advocate for natural childbirth than uncompromising midwife Debra O'Conner. But a tragic pregnancy and a state investigation of her practice reveal a clash of values: At what point should midwifery yield to medical intervention?

Is it really so bad?

In Misconceptions, Naomi Wolf takes on modern childbirth and motherhood and doesn't like what she sees.

Letters

Rebirth

Letters

Keelhauled

Birth Control

When did the movement to empower pregnant women to make informed choices turn into a guilt-laden cult?