3+ hour, 46+ min ago  (202+ words) Stephanie Saunders" debut novel maps Arkansas"s grassroots birth control movement'Arkansas Times Thea peers further into adulthood when she meets Betsy Smith, a rather untamed frontier woman in her late 40s. Betsy"s reputation precedes her, with whispers about bootlegging and…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (349+ words) A renewed effort to erect a memorial to Arkansans" bodily autonomy on the state Capitol grounds is underway. Fundraising efforts for the first iteration of the "Monument to the Unborn" " a million-dollar living wall of plants " failed to thrive, sending…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (419+ words) Clinging tight to its rock-bottom ranking in maternal health and mortality, Arkansas earned an odious new superlative this week. With Wisconsin lawmakers" bipartisan 95-1 vote to extend Medicaid coverage to new mothers for a full year postpartum, Arkansas is now the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1325+ words) Michelle Patton of Bentonville had a plan for the birth of her first child. She wanted a natural birth without induced labor, an epidural or a Cesarean section unless medically necessary, she said. But when her blood pressure spiked almost…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (867+ words) We at the Arkansas Times tend to get excited when the Little Rock Zoo welcomes newborns to the family;when we learned the zoo is currently home to more than a dozen baby and juvenile critters, we felt compelled to…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (314+ words) A Northeast Arkansas hospital system will expand a program for pregnant patients on Medicaid a year after launching it, according to a Monday news release from St. Bernards Medical Center. The program for low-income women with high-risk pregnancies aims to…...