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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...

Cyclops Baby Born in India Only Survives 1 Day

By Marc HartzmanMar 24th 2011 – 7:46AM
mid-day.com

mid-day.com

A baby boy with one eye in the center of his forehead and no nose was born in India last week. He survived only one day. Doctors were shocked when they delivered the infant by cesarean section from the 34-year-old mother, Veena Chavan. Dr. Ashok Anand, professor of gynecology at the hospital, told reporters, "The child...

Wave of Anti-Abortion Bills Advance in the States

Mar 23rd 2011 – 4:50PM
Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images

Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images

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

Mar 22nd 2011 – 1:13PM
Doug Dreyer, AP

Doug Dreyer, AP

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

Mar 8th 2011 – 5:00AM
AP

AP

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...

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Breastfeeding: Why Do So Many Moms Fall Short Of Their Goals?

Jun 04th 2012 - 12:08AM

Sarah's breastfeeding difficulties began in the hospital.

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Trial Opens For Suit Against Costner Over BP Deal

Jun 03rd 2012 - 04:17PM

The actress was spotted heading to the gym on June 1.

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National Guard Says Breastfeeding Mothers Were Wrong

Jun 02nd 2012 - 11:24AM

The Washington Air National Guard says two nursing mothers were wrong to be photographed in uniform while breast-feeding their babies.

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Why Facebook's New Millionaires May Be Headed For Divorce

Jun 02nd 2012 - 03:29AM

The idea that Facebook "causes" divorce has been widely reported, with fear-mongering research decrying that 20 percent of splits in the United States -- and roughly 33 percent in the United Kingdom -- involve the social network.

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PHOTOS: What You Missed This Week

Jun 01st 2012 - 06:01PM

The actress was spotted heading to the gym on June 1.

reproduction News From the Web

  • 06/04/12 Khanh Hoa native father of more than 100 children Source: Thanh Nien - Vietnam Tong Phuoc Phuc took his wife to hospital to deliver their first baby in 2001.
  • 06/04/12 Barely One in Ten Women Is Knowledgeable About HIV/Aids Source: AllAfrica Health According to the research carried out by the Southern Sudan Centre for Census, Statistics & Evaluation (SSCCSE), Ministry of Health (MOH) of household survey 2010, barely one out of every ten women in South Sudan has a comprehensive knowledge about how to prevent HIV/AIDS from transmission.
  • 06/04/12 Letter: Support breastfeeding Source: The Commercial Appeal - Memphis TN Although Time magazine's recent article "Are You Mom Enough?" was primarily about attachment parenting, it drew attention to extended breastfeeding with its provocative cover image of a mother breastfeeding her nearly 4-year-old son.
  • 06/04/12 THE BIG READ: Would men be up to it? Source: Times Live - South Africa One of his responses was on rights, and how no right in the constitution trumps another.
  • 06/04/12 Infographic unveiled: Top Ten GMO Foods to Avoid Eating Source: NaturalNews.com (NaturalNews) We here at NaturalNews.com pride ourselves in providing our readers with the most valuable, up-to-date news and information on a wide range of health-related issues, but we especially like to discuss nutrition because so much of our health depends on what we put in our bodies - and what we don't put in them.

Background on reproduction

Reproduction (or procreation) is the biological process by which new "offspring" individual organisms are produced from their "parents".

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