Midwifery is a specialized practice, involving years of training, a tender bedside manner and plenty of patience to help women birth children in the privacy of their own homes. This week, a Katy-area ...

A hard-to-miss demonstration for protecting birth control rights was set up at Philadelphia's City Hall on Friday morning. Nonprofit group Americans for Contraception has been touring a giant ...

State Sen. Liz Bennett speaks Monday during a news conference as part of a campaign to protect the right to contraception at Greene Square in downtown Cedar Rapids. Also pictured in the background ...

KATY, Texas, April 19 (UPI) --A Texas midwife braved flooded streets by using a unique flotation device to make her way to the birth center. Cathy Allen Rude of Katy Birth Center in Katy, Texas shared ...

After her Katy, Texas neighborhood flooded last week, midwife Cathy Rude hitched a ride on an inflatable swan to deliver her patient's baby. In the 24 years she has been a midwife, Cathy Rude has ...