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...Stephanie Yarber, who received a diagnosis of premature ovarian failure at age 14, conceiving children the old-fashioned way was a life's wish. In 2003, after several unsuccessful - and costly - courses of in vitro fertilization (IVF) using her identical-twin sister's donated eggs, Yarber began looking into other options. There was adoption, of course. But there was also a riskier experimental alternative: ovarian transplantation...
...eggs and embryos, for example, and now also ovarian tissue for transplants) have increased many women's chances of pregnancy, IVF is still a time-consuming and expensive process - and one that holds no guarantees. Success rates with IVF parallel fertility rates in the general population, dramatically declining with age. After 40, success rates drop to as low as 23%, and after age 43, Silber says, pregnancy is very rare...
...every five women who has an abortion is an undergraduate living on a college campus and one out of every two women who has an abortion is college-age, the president of “Feminists for Life” reported in a speech at Harvard Law School last night. Serrin M. Foster—who became the president of the anti-abortion organization in 1994—attributed the high number of abortions in college to the lack of options that many undergraduates have, and added that most co-eds must unfairly choose between school and raising their child...
...think anyone would question whether this is an adult Web site. You go there, and you see, it’s a very adult Web site. 4. FM: So what did you find?BGE: There are many interesting patterns in this data: patterns in consumption according to education, age, cities versus rural areas, places where people are more religious versus less religious. There are patterns along all those variables. 5. FM: What surprised you about your findings?BGE: Well, one basic fact that came out here is that online adult entertainment seems to be of interest everywhere...
...constitutes homelessness. It is especially difficult to gauge homelessness among children, since many teenagers are reluctant to identify themselves as such, and evade formal counts by living independently on the streets or in vacant apartments with friends. This is compounded by the scarcity of housing options for children over age 12, particularly boys, who are typically barred from entering shelters with their mothers. So any gauge merely offers a glimpse at the problem's severity. The report's researchers based their analysis on a broad definition of homelessness that included, for instance, children living in shelters, on the streets...