Rand Paul, a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky, argues his state has made Medicaid coverage of labor and delivery “too easy.” In reality paying for a pregnancy can be anything but easy.

Written by Cory Richards for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Women want out-of-hospital maternity care, and they deserve legal access to it. Yet in 23 states and Washington D.C., Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) face prosecution for serving women who do not want to give birth in a hospital.

Written by Rebecca A. Spence for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Now is the time to make women’s health an international priority. The international community demands it; the women of the world require it; and the families of the world depend on it.

Written by Rep. Yvette Clarke for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Federal law and financial incentives lead to incredibly costly and potentially dangerous multiple births through assisted reproducitve technology (ART). The law should be reworked to create incentives for having only one baby at a time through ART, which is more cost effective and safer for mothers and babies.

Written by Jennifer Rogers for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Thousands of pregnant women are placed on bed rest each year, in an attempt to ensure a healthy pregnancy and healthy baby. But bed rest can literally drive a family into poverty.

Written by Amie Newman for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Nebraska’s misleadingly named “Women’s Health Protection Act” was enjoined by a court in August. Stopping that law was a victory. But Nebraska is not done with its attacks on women’s rights.

Written by Susan Yanow for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Seventy percent of women in California’s prisons are non-violent offenders. Why are we shackling them during pregnancy, labor, and delivery?

Written by Dr. Carolyn Suffrin for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

A woman comes into a hospital, in labor, refuses to pre-consent to a c-section, and has her baby whisked away under charges of child neglect?

Written by Amie Newman for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

The movie 12^th and Delaware was set in Florida, but fake clinics are rife everywhere. NARAL Pro-Choice California Foundation’s investigation, Unmasking Fake Clinics, reveals what happens to women in crisis pregnancy centers in California. 

Written by Alexa Cole for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

In the past four years, more than 20 women in Alabama have been prosecuted for no other reason than that they tried to continue their pregnancies while struggling with addiction. 

Written by Alexa Kolbi-Molinas of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.