Bar pregnant foreigners from entering U.S.? Trump allies considering all options after Supreme Court defeat. - POLITICO

“Under current law, pregnant women can be barred from entry, and the president can do that under 212(f), again existing law,” said Ken Cuccinelli, who served as the deputy DHS secretary during Trump’s first term. “The State Department can bar those visas, and CBP can bar entry for those folks if the president chooses to do that.”… “

You’re not going on vacation, in an emergency, in late-term pregnancy. Those are some issues we can look at,” he said. “Because at the end of the day, it is national security.”..

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/01/after-supreme-court-loss-on-birthright-citizenship-white-house-eyes-crackdown-on-pregnant-foreigners-00984187

 

New research links prenatal exposure to Pfas to later development of PMOS

“This is another piece that fits in that larger body of evidence of these specific harms, like hormonal disruption,” said Tasha Stoiber, a senior scientist with the Environmental Working Group non-profit who reviewed the study, but was not an author...

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/19/prenatal-exposure-pfas-pmos-development-study

 

Babies exposed to air pollution during pregnancy take longer to learn to speak, research finds

A KCL study has found that exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy delayed speech development…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/29/babies-exposed-to-air-pollution-during-pregnancy-take-longer-to-learn-to-speak-research-finds

 

Michigan group spotlights Black Maternal Health Week and the risks Black women face giving birth

Danielle Atkinson, the executive director of the public policy-focused group Mothering Justice, pointed to federal data that show Black women are 3-4 times more likely than their white counterparts to die of childbirth-related complications — a disparity that persists even when factoring in things like education and income level. 

“It really speaks to the barriers, the economic barriers, the racial issues in our healthcare system and society, and how they have an effect on the lives of our people who are birthing,” Atkinson said...

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/health/2026-04-12/michigan-group-spotlights-black-maternal-health-week-and-the-risks-black-women-face-giving-birth

 

Taking Tylenol during pregnancy has no link to autism, new study finds

Trump has pushed unfounded claims of Tylenol use in pregnancy being tied to ‘a very increased risk of autism’…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/13/tylenol-acetaminophen-pregnancy-no-link-autism-latest-study

Teen birth rates hit another historical low in 2025, CDC says : NPR

"What is actually affecting the birth rates are likely lower rates of teen pregnancy overall, which is in the context of higher use of contraception and lower sexual activity for youth, and then also continued access to abortion care," she says...

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/09/nx-s1-5777587/teen-birth-rates-hit-another-historical-low-2025-cdc 

 

The Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to a Texas shelter lacking proper care : NPR

The decision was made over urgent objections from some of the administration's own health and child welfare officials, who say both the facility and the region lack the specialized care the girls need...

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/03/nx-s1-5712323/pregnant-migrant-girls-texas-shelter 

 

US company to pay $22.5m over newborn’s death after denying woman remote work

Chelsea Walsh prematurely gave birth after firm rejected work from home request in 2021 amid high-risk pregnancy…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/ohio-employer-pay-newborn-death-mother 

 

Officials ‘missed 99% of data’ on Covid vaccines before making recommendation, memos reveal

US based Covid vaccine recommendations for children and pregnant people on ideology instead of evidence, critics say…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/16/covid-vaccine-recommendation-kids-pregnant-people-data

 

Florida Courts Ordered Them to Have C-Sections — ProPublica

The similarities in their cases were striking. Both women had three prior C-sections. They had questioned the need for their previous surgeries and arrived prepared to fight for vaginal births. And both women are Black. 

They had argued that compelling them to have C-sections violated their rights to make medical decisions. Hospital staff said their medical decisions threatened the health of the fetus. It would be up to the courts to decide which one mattered more…

https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-ordered-c-sections 

 

Trump telling pregnant women not to take Tylenol may have negative effects

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/86aLSAnSjVI

 

Rx Kids launches in entire Upper Peninsula

A program that gives direct cash payments to pregnant and new mothers launched Monday across the entire Upper Peninsula. 

Rx Kids will provide U.P. mothers $1,500 while they're pregnant, and another $500 per month for the first six months of their baby's life. This is an expansion to the program, which was already available in the peninsula's eastern counties and several other communities in the state...

https://www.michiganpublic.org/health/2026-03-02/rx-kids-launches-in-entire-upper-peninsula 

 

Do not take medical advice from RFK Jr. #pregnancy #womenshealth #doctor

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W4mLWKV8UsU

 

5 ProPublica Investigations Sparking Change in February — ProPublica

The new mandated training for any doctor providing obstetric care goes over nine case studies for physicians where abortion is considered legal to protect the life of the patient. Some of the scenarios in the training are similar to instances ProPublica investigated, such as miscarriages where a patient's water breaks before term but there is still a fetal heartbeat or when someone is experiencing complications from an incomplete abortion. 

ProPublica's reporting has shown that pregnancy became far more dangerous in the state after the law took effect: Sepsis rates spiked for women suffering a pregnancy loss, as did emergency room visits in which miscarrying patients needed a blood transfusion; at least four women in the state died after they didn't receive timely reproductive care. More than a hundred OB-GYNs said the state's abortion ban was to blame…

https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-investigations-february-impact

Judges decry treatment of nursing and pregnant detainees in ICE custody - POLITICO

A Myanmar refugee, with a nursing five-month-old at home, whisked abruptly to Texas by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A Massachusetts woman in her third trimester, held under ICE's guard at a hospital after experiencing medical distress in ICE detention. An Indian national who is three months pregnant and whose weight dropped to 90 pounds while in an ICE facility. 

Federal judges are sounding alarms about the Trump administration's treatment of pregnant and nursing detainees in ICE custody — and the administration has given the courts conflicting, unclear answers about whether it is following its own policies that sharply restrict those detentions…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/18/pregnant-nursing-ice-detainees-00784683 

 

Rx Kids launches in Detroit

"It's not a pill, it's prevention. We give families a little bit of breathing room during pregnancy and infancy when money is the tightest because stress, housing instability, and hunger makes kids and communities sick," Hanna said during an event in Detroit to mark the launch...

https://www.michiganpublic.org/health/2026-02-09/rx-kids-launches-in-detroit 

 

Taliban birth control ban: women ‘broken’ by lethal pregnancies and untreated miscarriages

Women across Afghanistan describe the traumatic impact of disappearing clinics and contraception

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/29/afghanistan-taliban-women-birth-control-contraceptive-ban-lethal-pregnancies-miscarriages-violence

 

Study debunks Trump claim that paracetamol / Tylenol causes autism

Taking Tylenol drug in pregnancy does not raise chances of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability, 'gold standard' review finds…

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/16/study-debunks-trump-claim-paracetamol-causes-autism-pregnancy

 

Josh Hawley Asked “Can Men Get Pregnant?” 11 Times at Abortion Hearing – Mother Jones

Transgender men can and do get pregnant...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/josh-hawley-asked-can-men-get-pregnant-11-times-at-abortion-hearing/ 

 

PFAS in pregnant women’s drinking water puts their babies at higher risk, study finds

When pregnant women drink water that comes from wells downstream of sites contaminated with PFAS, known as "forever chemicals," the risks to their babies' health substantially increase, a new study found. These risks include the chance of low birth weight, preterm birth and infant mortality. 

Even more troubling, our team of economic researchers and hydrologists found that PFAS exposure increases the likelihood of extremely low-weight and extremely preterm births, which are strongly associated with lifelong health challenges…

https://theconversation.com/pfas-in-pregnant-womens-drinking-water-puts-their-babies-at-higher-risk-study-finds-270051