MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama woman who was sentenced to 18 years in prison ...

The lung float test has been used determine if a baby was born alive or not. Experts say it has "questionable value." ...

The Marshall Project is a nonprofit newsroom covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for our newsletters to receive all of our stories and analysis. It often starts with suspicion: Why didn ...

An Alabama judge on Tuesday vacated the conviction of a woman sentenced to 18 years in prison for the death of her unborn ...

Brooke Shoemaker was convicted in 2020 of chemical endangerment of a child resulting in death. She was just granted a new trial.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At 26 to 35 weeks’ gestation, women with chronic hypertension had lower stillbirth and perinatal death risks ...

Correction: The text has been updated to reflect that the SHINE for Autumn Act has already been introduced in the Senate. As mothers of stillborn babies, we know the horror of giving birth to a dead ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Congress is one step closer to prioritizing stillbirth ...

The floor opened up and swallowed her whole. A deafening silence. A sensory overload. Megan Maynard remembers everything about the 48 hours leading up to her daughter Violet's death – stillbirth, at ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. At her baby shower in the summer of 2019, Ava Jones’ smile ...

Half of all stillbirths result from pregnancy complications, such as a woman going into labor too soon, or abnormalities of the placenta, a new analysis of the causes of stillbirths finds. On the ...