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Man Pleads Guilty in Ohio Gunpoint Abortion Case

Apr 28th 2011 – 11:28AM

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A man charged under an Ohio fetal homicide law with trying to force his pregnant girlfriend at gunpoint to get an abortion pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted murder, weapons and abduction counts. Dominic Holt-Reid pulled a gun Oct. 6 on girlfriend Yolanda Burgess, who was three months pregnant, and...

Teen Fakes Pregnancy for High School Project [VIDEO]

Apr 24th 2011 – 1:34PM
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Washington Teen Fakes Pregnancy as School Project

Apr 22nd 2011 – 4:37PM
AP

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TOPPENISH, Wash. -- A high school student who faked her pregnancy for six months as a social experiment stunned a student assembly this week by taking off the belly bundle. Only a handful of people knew that 17-year-old Gaby Rodriguez wasn't really pregnant, including her mother, boyfriend and the principal, according to...

Lesson From Ivory Coast: How to Give Birth During a War

By Dana KennedyApr 19th 2011 – 1:50PM
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Roschesli Creation

Two weeks ago, Julie Esse, about nine months pregnant, looked as if she could become another tragic footnote in Ivory Coast's bloody conflict. Instead, her story -- with its twist ending -- turned out to be something O. Henry might have written, with a title about two bags of Type O negative blood and details about scary...

Friend: Killing Pregnant Kentucky Woman, Stealing Baby Was Plotted

By David LohrApr 15th 2011 – 11:45PM
WHAS11.com

WHAS11.com

Kathy Michelle Coy, the Kentucky woman accused of murdering 21-year-old Jamie Stice and kidnapping her newborn son, may have spent more than six months plotting the alleged crime, according to a friend of the victim. "Jamie fell in her trap," Stice's close friend Ashley Nicole told AOL News. "She [allegedly] kidnapped...

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Anisa Noormohamed: Republican Propositions on Women's Reproductive Rights: A Move Toward Sharia Law?

By Anisa Noormohamed Apr 11th 2012 - 03:57PM

As Americans, we value the separation of Church and State and indeed this separation is crucial to accommodate the many varied religious beliefs of the American people.

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Ali MacLean: What to Expect if You're Expecting in Arizona

By Ali MacLean Apr 11th 2012 - 02:55PM

That is, if you have a period and you live in Arizona.

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Right Age For Marriage? Johansson Says She Was 'Way Too Young'

By The Huffington Post Canada Apr 11th 2012 - 02:33PM

Scarlett Johansson has been relatively tight-lipped about her two-year marriage and subsequent divorce from actor Ryan Reynolds, but the actress responded truthfully in a recent interview with the French edition of Elle magazine.

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Yaz Birth Control, Other Drospirenone-Containing Pills To Get Blood Clot Warning Label

By The Huffington Post News Editors Apr 11th 2012 - 11:00AM

Federal health regulators said Tuesday they are adding labeling to Yaz and other newer birth control pills emphasizing that the drugs may be more likely to cause blood clots than older contraceptive pills.

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Female Orgasm: Experts Debate The Existence Of The Vaginal Orgasm (STUDY)

By Emma Gray Apr 11th 2012 - 09:51AM

For years, scientists -- and women themselves -- have grappled with this question.

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Background on Pregnancy

Pregnancy is the fertilization and development of one or more offspring, known as an embryo or fetus, in a woman's uterus.

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