The first television advert for abortion services in the UK is to be aired next week, prompting anger from anti-abortion groups.

The median age of women giving birth in New Zealand is now 30 years, with Gisborne producing some of our youngest mothers, figures out today show.

She may be an "All-Black", but a baby's links to rugby stardom are no help in paying an unexpected bill of more than $12k for her health care.

The Morells' son on was the result of a mix-up at a fertility clinic in which another woman was implanted the couple's embryo.

Compared to other mammals, humans produce low numbers of viable sperm.

A pregnant Bernice Mene wears nothing but a hibiscus and a smile on the cover of this week's New Zealand Woman's Weekly.

Painful parenting can be avoided if good habits are adopted.

It is tempting to laugh at the idea that male partners of pregnant females experience some of the symptoms of pregnancy.

The swine flu virus is being blamed for a leap in the number of pregnant women dying in New Zealand and Australia.

Men believe they suffer the same symptoms of pregnancy as their partners, according to a new survey.

A 27-year-old woman hid the body of her baby boy born in a Christchurch park at the end of a secret pregnancy.

Anti-abortion doctors are challenging new Medical Council guidelines covering the way doctors who object to abortion must deal with patients.

I'm hoping that women negotiate what they want in the workplace and get it this year.