But despite this being commonly discussed, scientists haven’t really studied it. Liz Chrastil, an associate professor of neurobiology and behavior at the UC Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of ...

Adriana Smith’s body was kept on life support for 16 weeks so her fetus could gestate. Abortion politics don’t capture the ...

A pregnant brain-dead woman in Georgia was kept on life support until her fetus was viable. Experts say it raises ethical and legal questions.

The 31-year-old nurse was removed from life support after the birth of her son, Chance. She had been kept alive to carry the ...

Brain-dead Georgia mother Adriana Smith to have public funeral after being kept on life support due to pregnancy.

Georgia’s abortion legislation, known as the LIFE Act, bans the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy and was a decisive ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

Researchers suggest that hormones produced during pregnancy, such as testosterone and estrogen, may have significantly ...

Adriana Smith’s story has highlighted the impact of Georgia’s restrictive abortion laws. Her premature newborn remains in the ...

Smith turned 31 on Sunday. Her baby, named Chance, was delivered early Friday morning by emergency C-section, weighing 1 ...

National concern was raise over whether the baby of a Georgia mother, declared brain dead, would survive. But he is alive and ...