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Home births, still a tiny slice of all U.S. births, rose to their highest rate in 30 years during the COVID-19 pandemic according to CDC data.

The true welfare queens aren't who we've always been told

“These are our people and there’s a demand for doulas to be paid through Medicaid – now what are you going to do about it?”

Even as their jobs, their children and their community activities stitch DACA recipients more firmly into the fabric of American society, an uncertain legal future threatens to unravel the lives they’ve built.

Three birth centers are currently in development around the state, all spearheaded by Black women. But regulations proposed by the state’s physician-led board of health are so strict that they would likely keep all three from opening, say their owners.

President Biden's long-anticipated student loan forgiveness plan is finally here, but there are still questions to be answered.

"Pulled Over/Pulled Under," a 17-minute film directed by Anissa Latham and narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Archibald, spotlights Alabama activist Callie Greer and her daughters, who were jailed for not paying traffic fines.

"Because we know people can be healed by nature, we must take better care of nature. It's reciprocal and it has everything to do with climate change.

“It’s a hard time for people, especially women and birthing persons, as our bodily autonomy feels under attack.”

Kansas voters overwhelmingly voted to protect abortion rights in Tuesday election that would have restricted abortion access in the historically conservative state.

States with abortion trigger laws are already among those with the highest teen-birth rates. Public health experts who work with girls predict these abortion bans, many of which do not make exceptions for cases of rape and incest, will increase teen births and trauma.

Reckon's guide to abortion in Ohios

Reckon’s Arizona guide to help readers in states with bans understand where and how they can still find the science-based information they need about abortion.

Reckon’s Tennessee guide to help readers in states with bans understand where and how they can still find the science-based information they need about abortion.

Reckon’s South Carolina guide to help readers in states with bans understand where and how they can still find the science-based information they need about abortion.