A Texas appeals court blocked a hospital Friday evening from removing 17-month-old baby Tinslee Lewis from life support, allowing her mother to take a challenge of the state’s controversial 10-day rule to trial.
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A photo of 14-month-old Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, son of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is being shopped around to tabloids according to a complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday by the royal couple.
Read moreFugitive Chinese national Chao Chen was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for his role in a birth tourism scheme involving visa fraud that allowed women to come to the U.S. to give birth so their children would have U.S. birthright citizenship.
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U.S. births continued to fall last year, leading to the fewest number of newborns in 35 years.
Read moreAn Israeli district court on Monday convicted a Jewish extremist of murder in a 2015 arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents, a case that had sent shock waves through Israel and helped fuel months of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
Read moreDemocratic Governor Andy Beshear vetoed a bill passed by Kentucky’s Republican-dominated Legislature that would have required doctors to provide life-saving care to infants who survive failed abortions.
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For 10 days after giving birth to her first child, the mother was not allowed near him after she tested positive for coronavirus, for fear of infecting her newborn.
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French food giant Danone said Friday it is asking parents to alert the company if they find any worm larvae in packages of its Gallia powdered baby milk, after a couple reported that their three-month-old had regurgitated a parasitic worm.
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Nigerian police have rescued 24 babies and four expectant mothers from an illegal maternity home in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt, a spokesman said Thursday.
Read moreThe Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the conviction and death sentence of Stephon Lindsay, who confessed to brutally murdering his 21-month-old daughter with a hatchet. He claimed he killed his child because his god told him to. The court rejected his argument that he lacked the capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct.
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A baby in China’s epidemic-hit Wuhan city has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus just 30 hours after being born, Chinese state media reported Wednesday.
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The mother of a 1-year-old baby and Texas’ Republican attorney general and governor implored a state appeals court Tuesday to halt a hospital’s plans to take her off life support.
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The Kentucky Senate passed a bill on Monday that would require doctors to provide life-saving care to infants who survive failed abortions, with the bill now destined for the state’s House of Representatives.
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The plight of baby kangaroos and koalas orphaned by Australia’s bushfires has prompted a sewing frenzy in France, where an appeal for cloth pouches for the animals has reaped thousands of contributions.
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Texas’ governor and attorney general asked a state appeals court Friday to stop a hospital from removing an 11-month-old girl from life support over the objections of her mother, arguing the state’s 10-day rule is unconstitutional.
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A former nurse who spent the last three decades in prison for the murder of a 15-month-old girl was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to killing another young child in 1981.
Read moreIndian police have sealed a private hospital and charged staff for manslaughter after a newborn baby was mauled to death by dogs inside an operating theatre, an investigator said Tuesday.
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A Texas judge ruled Thursday a hospital can remove an 11-month-old girl from life support over the objections of her mother, based on the state’s 10-day rule.
Read moreThe past year’s population growth rate in the United States was the slowest in a century due to declining births, increasing deaths and the slowdown of international migration, according to figures released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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