Criminalising pregnant women who drink is a ploy to restrict their freedom

Rebecca Schiller: If the UK apes the US and punishes pregnant women, we will be heading towards a dystopia akin to that in The Handmaid’s Tale

FGM: two young women who woke up world and forced politicians to act

Fahma Mohamed in UK and Jaha Dukureh in US have led global debate on female genital mutilation and movement to end it

Scott Lemieux: Want evidence that Republicans have allies on the bench? Look no further than the Bush appointees who hate Obamacare

Activists hail study, which will assess how many US women are at risk, as 'a great success for everyone who has fought for this'

When Leslie Jamison wrote a collection of personal essays she was inundated with notes from strangers longing to share their stories in return

Jessica Valenti: In between the lines of the supreme court's decision on contraception coverage is an obsession with female purity

The Obama administration's healthcare act allows insurers to push transaction fees onto doctors, who are calling for changes

Federal and state healthcare exchanges still have a long way to go before they're ready to handle another enrolment

Software will gather and store health-related data and offer integrated control for 'smart home' devices like lighting

Thomas J Dart: How to fund real treatment, instead of turning would-be patients into expensive inmates