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 ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes on the benefits of birth control, a practice which does not interfere with the pleasures of the unfit but saves society from their reduplication. By signing up, you ...

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, ...

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 controversial practice that social services contact health officials when there are potential safety risks to infants, without the parents’ consent. The practice, known ...