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The federal government is increasing funding for a program that offers families free, voluntary home visits by health professionals from pregnancy to kindergarten. The state hopes to use those dollars to fill maternal and infant health care gaps.

From June 2022 to June 2023, there were at least 210 pregnancy-related prosecutions in the U.S. Oklahoma trailed Alabama, at 68 prosecutions.

The program allows local organizations to provide home visits from nurses, social workers and other health workers to help families with prenatal care and postpartum support.

Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law intending to reduce Oklahoma’s growing maternal death rate.

A bill that would allow Oklahomans to be charged with battery against an unborn child passed another legislative hurdle.

OU Health is the first to offer a new fertility preservation option to patients whose ability to conceive might be impacted by other conditions.

Medical marijuana has been legal in Oklahoma since the passage of State Question 788 in 2018, but multiple women in the state have been prosecuted for using it since then — because they were pregnant.

Oklahoma lawmakers continue to be frustrated with a vendor hired to help pregnant women for expanded services under the state’s Choosing Childbirth Act.

The number of criminal charges brought against people for using drugs during their pregnancies is rising in Oklahoma; a trend doctors say is rooted in a misunderstanding of how drug use affects pregnancy.

In Oklahoma, pregnant women with substance use disorders can face a number of criminal charges. One new program aims to address the issue in a better way.