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Wave of Anti-Abortion Bills Advance in the States

NEW YORK -- Dozens of bills are advancing through statehouses nationwide that would put an array of new obstacles - legal, financial and psychological - in the paths of women seeking abortions. The tactics vary: mandatory sonograms and anti-abortion counseling, sweeping limits on insurance coverage, bans on abortions...

South Dakota Governor Signs Controversial Abortion Bill

PIERRE, S.D. - South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a law Tuesday requiring women to wait three days after meeting with a doctor to have an abortion, the longest waiting period in the nation. Abortion rights groups have already said they plan to file a lawsuit challenging the measure, which also requires women to...

Opinion: Defund Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood has been misleading Congress and American taxpayers for many years. I know -- I was part of the deception. For eight years I worked at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas, and for two of those years I was the clinic's director. Here are the ways Planned Parenthood is deceiving the public -- and...

Prenatal Blood Test Shown to Detect Down Syndrome [VIDEO]

NEW YORK -- Scientists in Europe report they were able to diagnose Down syndrome prenatally by giving a simple blood test to pregnant women, an approach that might one day help them avoid the more extensive procedure used now to detect the condition. The preliminary report published online Sunday in the journal Nature...

From New York to Midwest to South, Abortion Battle Heats Up

NEW YORK -- It was only a single billboard, raised high above the streets of Manhattan, with a photograph of a black little girl and the kind of message the city's residents don't often see: "The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb." The ad was sponsored by a Texas-based anti-abortion group, which...

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Live Action Planned Parenthood 'Sting' Videos Are Heavily Edited

The anti-abortion activist group Live Action released two videos this week of Planned Parenthood staffers discussing sex-selective abortions with actors posing as patients, but a side-by-side analysis of one of the edited videos and the original, unedited version of it shows that parts of the conversation were...

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Joe Nichols, 'The View': Singer and Wife Heather Share Baby Joys and Challenges

Joe Nichols and his wife, Heather, struggled through several years of infertility before they welcomed baby girl Dylan River Nichols on April 17.

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Pre-Partum Blues: Why I'm A Little Sad About Having a Baby (Even Though I've Always Wanted To Be A Mom)

First off, let me make this clear: at 41, I am profoundly grateful that I am about to become a first-time mother.

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Sex-Selective Abortion Ban Sponsor Said It Might Be "Fatal" To Roe V. Wade

Supporters of the Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act (PRENDA) have cast it as a civil rights measure.

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Sex-Selection Abortion Ban Vote: GOP Measure Fails In House

House Republicans have voted against legislation to make it a federal crime to carry out gender-based abortions.

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06/02/12 Gender selection abortion represents new level of evil Source: Spencer Daily Reporter - Spencer IA A bill to outlaw abortions based on the unborn child's race or gender died Thursday in the United States House, where it failed to get the two-thirds vote it needed to pass.
06/02/12 Get ready to battle! Source: The Mount Airy News - Mount Airy NC Surry County music lovers will want to make plans now for the inaugural Battle of the Bands performance to benefit the Legacy Center of Mount Airy. The event will get under way at 4 p.m. on June 9 at Fisher River Park's amphitheater in Dobson, and is expected to continue until around 7:30 p.m., according to organizer Brooke Worsley.
06/02/12 Sex-selective abortion ban rejected by House Source: News-Medical.Net The House on Thursday voted down a bill that would have banned abortions based on the sex of a fetus.
06/02/12 Congress moves to curb gender selective abortions Source: The Brainerd Daily Dispatch - Brainerd MN On Thursday, May 31, a vote in the House of Representatives failed to gain 2/3 vote to ban gender selective abortions in the United States.
06/02/12 Bishop rails against moral crisis Source: Irish Independent The Bishop of London has hit out at promiscuity, abortion and divorce reaching "epidemic" levels.

Background on obstetrics

Obstetrics (from the Latin obstare, "to stand by") is the medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy (prenatal period), childbirth and the postnatal period.

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