A 20-year-old Australian says she had just 17 hours' notice before giving birth, after unknowingly carrying a baby for 38 ...

It can be difficult to decide whether to expedite birth when a woman in the final stage of pregnancy perceives less fetal movements.

6 weeks pregnant ultrasound While there’s no official 6-week ultrasound for medical purposes, your care provider might refer you to have an ultrasound around the time you’re 6 weeks pregnant.

Medication abortions can be safely performed as early as the fourth week of pregnancy, researchers reported on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Health Rounds: Medication abortion also safe before 6 weeks of pregnancy The results of a large trial found that very early medical abortion was just as effective and safe to perform, even in ...

Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound in an embryo's cells that will eventually become the heart at around six weeks into a pregnancy.

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge on Monday struck down the state’s abortion law, which took effect in 2022 and effectively prohibited abortions beyond about six weeks of pregnancy. Fulton County ...

A Georgia judge on Monday struck down the state's abortion law, which effectively prohibited abortions beyond about six weeks of pregnancy.

Iowa's hotly contested six-week abortion ban officially is in effect. Enforcement of the state’s so-called "fetal heartbeat" law went into effect at 8 a.m. July 29 after the Iowa Supreme Court ...

More: What is a 'fetal heartbeat?' What you should know about Iowa's new 6-week abortion bill The law requires doctors to perform an abdominal ultrasound on a patient seeking an abortion.