An Etowah County woman who claimed she was forced to give birth without any medical help in a jail shower settled a federal civil rights lawsuit against the county, jail officials and doctors this ...

PORTER, Texas -- Within an hour of waking up on Oct. 5, a Porter woman had already given birth to her second son, alone in her living room. Ashley Darville called 911 that morning and dispatcher ...

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.

Access to anonymous childbirth services — currently available in only two medical institutions nationwide — is essential for ...

A woman who did not realise she was pregnant has described giving birth alone at the beauty parlour where she worked before cutting her baby's umbilical cord with eyebrow scissors. Bryony Mills-Evans ...