Pregnancy

Ohana Beginnings es una organización sin fines de lucro con sede en Utah que apoya a madres jóvenes y solteras, con énfasis en ayudarlas a ser autosuficientes mediante la educación.

Una nueva investigación del Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute muestra que siete condados de Utah no tienen un hospital con servicios de parto. Los recortes a Medicaid amenazan más zonas rurales, lo que podría afectar la salud de madres e infantes.

Ohana Beginnings is a Utah-based nonprofit that helps young, single mothers, with an emphasis on helping them become self-sufficient through education.

New research from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute shows seven Utah counties don’t have a birthing hospital. Medicaid cuts threaten more rural locations, which could impact the health of moms and infants.

Initial numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention find a small bump of 22,250 births over 2023's tally. Vermont had the lowest birth rate that year while Utah had the highest.

The lawsuit had argued that emergency-room doctors treating pregnant women had to provide terminations if needed to save their lives or to avoid serious health consequences in Idaho, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.

Utah’s incidents of domestic violence are below the national rates, but advocates say any amount of abuse is too much.

Utah has been out of federal ozone attainment standards since 2015. The director of the Utah Division of Air Quality says current mitigation efforts haven’t been effective.

The leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States — including suicides and fatalities linked to substance use disorders — stem from mental health conditions. Now a federal task force has recommended strategies to help women who are at risk during or after pregnancy.

Doctors in states with strict abortion restrictions say an increasing number of pregnant women are seeking early prenatal testing. They're hoping to detect serious problems while they still have time to choose whether to continue the pregnancy.

More and more Utahns are having fewer and fewer babies.

A new analysis from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute shows a sizable increase in parents between the ages of 25 and 29 between 2020-2021.