Davis said she’d told her doctor on more than one occasion that she was opposed to inducing labor early. Eventually, she reached her ...

Maude Callen, a Black nurse-midwife, delivered more than 800 infants across the South Carolina Lowcountry starting in the 1920s, when ...

These days, there’s not even an ultrasound machine in this rural county 60 miles south of Columbia, much less an obstetrician.