Pregnant and Poor

Abe Aboraya, a Health News Florida reporter based at WMFE in Orlando, has been selected as one of seven journalists in the country for a year-long…

A controversial new "fetal assault" law in Tennessee punishes pregnant women who abuse drugs. The new law is intended to encourage mothers-to-be to seek treatment, but it can also scare women.

There is a seven-county stretch in North Central Florida -- an area larger than Puerto Rico -- where every county health department has gotten out of…

The Florida Department of Health wants Sarasota County to privatize its prenatal care in the next three years. And that has its southern neighbors worried…

Most county health departments no longer offer services to pregnant women. But on Florida’s Space Coast, the opposite is true: The county health…

Xavier Francesco Medlin is only 11-days-old and detoxing from prescription drugs. His mother Hillary Medlin gazes down on him as she gives him a bottle,…

Florida is one of only three states where county public health departments employ obstetricians for pregnant women.It’s a legacy of the 1990s, when…