Dangerous Childbirth Practices Persist in Europe
When Clara Massons was in labor with her son, a midwife climbed onto her bed and pushed down on Massons’ belly, saying she was helping to deliver her baby.
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California Mulls Labeling THC a Risk During Pregnancy
More than three years after California voters broadly legalized marijuana, a state panel is considering whether its high-inducing chemical, THC, should be declared a risk to pregnant women and require warnings.
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Frontier Pilots, Flight Attendants Slap Airline With Discrimination Suits
The airplane lavatory was hot and cramped, and pilot Shannon Kiedeowski barely had enough time to pump breastmilk before her next flight. She had been flying planes for Frontier Airlines since 2002 without an issue, until she had her first child in 2010 and a second in 2013.
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Killer Whale Grandmothers Improve Survival Rates for Grandchildren
Killer whale grandmothers that no longer reproduce can help their grand-offspring survive longer, according to a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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High Court Refuses Check on Kentucky Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Rules
The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a Kentucky law that requires doctors to show and describe ultrasound images to patients seeking abortions.
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Federal Workers to Get 12 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
The Senate’s top Democrat said Sunday that congressional leaders have reached a “real breakthrough” to give 12 weeks of paid parental leave to millions of federal workers, as part of the annual defense policy bill.
Read moreFed Up, South Korean Women Swear Off Men
A growing number of South Korean women are banding together to reject rigid patriarchal norms and vowing never to wed, have children or even date and have sex.
Read morePolice: Slain Woman Looked Up Husbands Upset With Pregnancy
A suburban St. Louis woman whose husband is charged in her death had looked up “what to do if your husband is upset you are pregnant” on her cellphone before she went missing last month, according to search warrants.
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Hot Weather Linked to Rise in Early Childbirth
Hot weather can cause a spike in the number of babies being born early, a phenomenon that may harm infant health and is likely to get worse as temperatures climb due to climate change, scientists said Monday.
Read moreJPMorgan Chase
A federal judge approved a $5 million class settlement, with $50,000 in expenses, to JPMorgan Chase Bank employees who complained that the bank gives new fathers only up to two weeks of paid parental leave, but 16 weeks to mothers.
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‘Designer Babies’ a Long Way Off, Geneticists Say
While incredible progress has been made in the field of genetic engineering for embryos over the past 25 years – discovering how to screen them for inherited diseases caused by genetic mutations – researchers revealed Thursday it will be a long time before would-be parents will be able to order designer babies.
Read moreFamily-Planning Grants
A D.C. Circuit panel dismissed as moot an appeal over changes to federal family-planning grants that prioritized abstinence over contraception, since the Trump administration dropped the changes while the case was being briefed.
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Boy or Girl? US Parents Go Too Far in Gender Reveals
A plane crash in Texas, a deadly explosion in Iowa, a massive fire in Arizona — elaborate baby gender reveal parties, a growing trend among parents in the U.S., have taken a nightmarish turn.
Read morePrescription Drug
A woman filed a federal class action against Amag Inc., claiming its high-priced drug Makena (hydroxyprogesterone caproate) did not prevent pre-term birth, as advertised, causing her baby to die shortly after birth.
Read more67-Year-Old Becomes China’s ‘Oldest New Mother’
A 67-year-old woman has given birth in China, a hospital said Monday, with the parents claiming they are the country’s oldest couple to conceive a baby naturally.
Read moreBorn out of Wedlock and Forced Into Servitude: an Irish Story
His first memory finds him walking for the first time beyond the walls of the big gray building where he’d been locked up since birth. He’s 4½ years old. He had never seen an automobile. He had never seen a dog.
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Ireland Wrestles With Cruel Legacy of Church-Run Children’s Homes
The ground underfoot seems to emit an eerie cry. It’s here where the bones of potentially hundreds of children lie in a mass grave inside a sewage tank on the former site of an institution for children of unwed mothers once run by nuns.
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France OKs Bill Legalizing IVF for Lesbians, Single Women
France’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill that aims to give single women and lesbian couples legal access to in vitro fertilization, egg freezing and fertility medication.
Read moreAir Pollution Linked to Increased Risk of ‘Missed’ Miscarriage
Pregnant women exposed to air pollution have an increased risk of miscarriage in the first trimester, according to new research released Monday.
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Arizona Politician Charged With Human Trafficking
An Arizona elected official ran a human smuggling scheme that promised pregnant women thousands of dollars to lure them from a Pacific Island nation to the United States, where they were crammed into houses to wait to give birth, sometimes with little to no prenatal care, prosecutors say.
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