This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, Reveal and Mother Jones. Amairani Salinas was 32 weeks ...

Victoria Villanueva sits outside of her home in West Lafayette, Indiana, in November 2024. Doctors gave her morphine to ease the pain of contractions during the birth of her first child in 2017. The ...

Doctors may use general anesthesia during delivery if regional anesthesia is not a suitable option. Doctors typically reserve general anesthesia for surgical deliveries, such as cesarean deliveries.

Amairani Salinas was 32 weeks pregnant with her fourth child in 2023 when doctors at a Texas hospital discovered that her baby no longer had a heartbeat. As they prepped her for an emergency cesarean ...