Word: birthed
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...summer of 1964, a willowy but pregnant 20-year-old singer named Joan Anderson arrived in Toronto from her native province of Saskatchewan to face a painful decision. Penniless and afraid to tell her parents, she gave birth as a charity patient at a local hospital to a blue-eyed baby girl she named Kelly Dale. The father, a student who had accompanied her to Toronto, was out of the picture, so Joni hastily married folk singer Chuck Mitchell, hoping to make a home for her baby. "I kept trying to find some kind of circumstance where I could stay...
...told her she was adopted. Asked in an interview with Toronto's City TV why they waited so long, Kilauren said, "Because they loved me. They wanted me to be comfortable." Pregnant with her own child, she filed an application with a public agency to find out who her birth mother was. Then she waited. And waited. Finally, this January she received a brief "nonidentifying" description of her mother. She was a folk singer born in the prairie town of Saskatoon, of Norwegian-Scottish descent, who suffered polio as a child. Encouraged by friends who had heard of Mitchell...
Ireland cited landmarks such as the voting rights act, the recognition of both birth control and abortion as constitutional rights and increased rights for gays, lesbians and bisexuals as examples of progress...
...also cited what she called a "direct frontal attack" on Roe v. Wade in Congress--a proposed ban on partial-birth abortions--as evidence that the government is making a "real effort to roll back our rights...
...Pregnant women, steer clear of smoke. Exposure to PASSIVE SMOKE--even small amounts--can significantly increase the odds of giving birth to a baby whose lungs don't function properly. The damage begins in utero when chemicals from cigarette smoke cause less oxygen to go from mother to fetus...