Lara: How did you get interested in researching the history and culture of the pregnancy test? Karen: I’ve been writing about the...

Last month New Zealand broke new ground with a national policy of "Bereavement Leave" following miscarriage. This is a welcome...

New Metaphors to Make Miscarriages Easier to Talk About, and Easier to Bear For someone who has been trying for a pregnancy, it is...

With the arrival of cheaper and more user-friendly home pregnancy tests in the 1980s, women were able to confirm their pregnancies...

In the decade and a half that I spent researching my book “The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America,” I...

Lara Freidenfelds’s new book, The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America, explores the history of pregnancy...

After I miscarried my first pregnancy, I quickly realized that I needed a historical perspective to make sense of this shockingly...

I am glad to see so many women willing to break the silence on miscarriage. I am a historian, and I spent 15 years researching my...

In Mother Is a Verb, Sarah Knott takes her reader on a historian’s journey into motherhood. It is a sort of train travelogue, riding...

Last week at a Vatican conference on abortion, Pope Francis “argued that children who were not expected to live long after birth deserved...

“In her new book, “Becoming,” Michelle Obama reveals that she miscarried her first pregnancy, and went on to conceive her two daughters...

Quick — is your nearest hospital affiliated with the Catholic Church? This is a question I would not have been able to answer during my...

What led a Walgreeens pharmacist to deny a woman her prescription. Read the rest at the Washington Post #conscienceclause #misoprostol

The Indiana legislature claims it wants to protect unborn children and their parents. Last week Governor Mike Pence gave his blessing to...

Recently, Mark Zuckerberg joyfully announced on Facebook that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a daughter. More solemnly,...

Miscarriage rarely makes the news, except in tabloids. But last year, Virginia state Senator Mark Obenshain’s ill-advised attempt to...