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ICE separated nursing mom from infant, toddler, against its own rules, advocates say

  • Anita Wadhwani

Five human rights organizations are seeking the immediate release of a breastfeeding mother with a pending asylum claim, who was detained in May by immigration agents at her home in Nashville as she was putting her two young children into a car to get to a doctor’s appointment. In a formal complaint filed Wednesday with […]

Missouri

Missouri maternal deaths remain mostly preventable, sixth state report finds

  • Anna Spoerre

From 2019 to 2023, 340 Missourians died while pregnant or within a year after pregnancy. Of those, 108 deaths were classified as pregnancy-related — meaning caused or aggravated by the pregnancy itself — and nearly 80% of them were preventable. The findings were part of the sixth annual Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review, published this month by […]