As women learn they are pregnant and what their pregnancy options are, we often hear questions like: “When does the baby’s heart start to beat? When does she get fingernails? When will I feel her kick? How do I find out how far along I am? When is it too late for an abortion?
ABORTION: HOW LATE IS TOO LATE?First these photographs of a foetus in the womb caused public disquiet over when a termination should be allowed. Then last week Tory leader Michael Howard's comments to Cosmopolitan magazine threatened to push the issue on to the election agenda. Cynical politic...
"It is heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the truth, but for a narrative created out of lies," Ms Combs wrote. "To bear witness to what seems to be like a public lynching of my son before he has had the opportunity to prove his innocence is a pain too unbearable to...
Online abuse is as old as the internet. Being anonymous encourages people to say things they'd never say in public and push the boundaries of accepted behavior because they feel they won't be held accountable. Distance adds to the problem. It's a lot harder to pull out all the stops w...
but also for his part in the decision to have an abortion when Kat became pregnant early in their relationship. This decision was shaped both by Kat’s boyfriend and his family’s aspirations that he should go to university and her own desire to not “walk into my mum’s shoes” – tha...
public speech about abortion is no longer rare. What was silence has become an uproar. The new back alley is a flight you can’t afford to a state where abortion is legal, or a hospital room where you’re left to bleed out because your miscarriage is too late to be legally assisted ...
EC is not the same as RU-486 (mifepristone), anabortionpill. EC keeps a pregnancy from happening. It doesn't causean abortionormiscarriageor harm a developing embryo. In fact, EC won't work if you're already pregnant. How does emergency contraception work?
Well, my parentsfailedfor me. Too late now. But I have not had any more children since then. And I don't plan on it, which I actually got my tubes tied to prevent it from ever happening. One is enough for me. Gwen If there’s another chance, if you could start all over again...
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) has been linked to worse perinatal outcomes relative to spontaneous pregnancy, including increased rates of preterm delivery and low birth weight 1, 2, 3. It is unclear if this is an effect of the infertility itself, maternal age, laboratory techniques includi...
Privacy concerns by providers have been a barrier to disclosing patient information for public health purposes. This is the case even for mandated notifiable disease reporting. In the context of a pandemic it has been argued that the public good should supersede an individual's right to privacy....