The mothers fighting back against birth intervention
During labour, women feel under severe pressure when doctors and midwives bully them into medical interventions they do not want. Louise Carpenter reports on the mothers starting to fight back
‘I think of my egg donor every day’
Egg donation is an extraordinary, life-changing gift. But what is it like for those involved? We talk to a donor, recipients and a doctor
Wobbly arms: the latest on our list of body image worries
Women are already buying underwear to control our thighs, stomachs, breasts... and now we're being sold corsets for our arms, too, Eva Wiseman reports
Life after extreme weight loss
Julia Kozerski lost half her weight in a year, but coming to terms with her new body was the real battle, as her self-portraits reveal. Emma Brockes meets her
CPS to crack down on female genital mutilation
Crown Prosecution Service announces action plan to tackle problem of offence for which there has never been a conviction
Experience: my grandmother delivered my baby
Kathy Hurst: 'I still find it remarkable that the very first person to hold my daughter was her great-grandmother'
Hundreds of Irish women forced to come to Britain for abortions
Amid pro-choice rally at Savita Halappanavar's death, activists reveal the rapes and illness forcing women to seek abortions
Unanswered questions over death of pregnant woman in Irish hospital
Denis Campbell: Inquiries now under way must establish when doctors should have realised there was a risk to Savita Halappanavar's life
A doctor on why late abortion should remain legal
Amid signs that ministers are keen to reopen the debate, Frances Marks writes about the terrible consequences of illegal terminations that she saw in the 60s – and why the law must not be changed
Why I’m having my first baby at 51
Over 50 and pregnant for the first time: Naomi Gryn on joining the growing tribe of late, late mothers