ORLANDO, Fla. — Each year, tens of thousands of pregnant women travel to the United States just to give birth. It’s what’s called “Birth Tourism.” The topic has taken center stage as President Donald ...

Birth alerts are notifications sent by children’s aid societies to hospitals when they believe a newborn may be needing protection You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...

Saskatchewan will stop issuing “birth alerts,” a controversial practice Indigenous leaders have long called discriminatory. The province becomes the latest Canadian jurisdiction to scrap the system, ...

Indigenous women traumatized by birth alerts continue to be haunted by them long after the alerts were first entered into the health-care system, says Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-Kwe) — and she's ...

New Brunswick has become one of the last provinces to end its use of birth alerts, a controversial practice that involves alerts being sent to hospital authorities to make them aware of “potential ...

WINNIPEG — The Province of Manitoba has announced it will end the controversial practice of birth alerts and will instead referring vulnerable mothers and their children to social services and ...

The B.C. government is ending a practice that allowed hospitals to inform child-welfare agencies of possible safety risks to infants at birth without the consent of parents. Katrine Conroy, the ...