Word: childbirth
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...could handle the load. More than 90% of the patients are on Medicaid. Many have not graduated from high school. Some women must travel 90 minutes to get to the clinic, and many have no car. Outreach workers visit them monthly to provide instruction on prenatal care, proper diet, childbirth and parenting. And they even offer child-safety seats at cut-rate prices...
...than 80 million African women. Female circumcision -- the mutilation of the external genital organs -- is a centuries-old rite of passage, intended to ensure that young women become desirable wives. It frequently causes life- threatening blood loss and infection. It can also lead to painful intercourse, infertility and difficult childbirth. While often erroneously linked to Islamic scripture, it is not mandated by any religion and is practiced by people of many faiths in some two dozen black African nations, Egypt and the Sudan...
...require a parent's consent to an abortion is that there is no law requiring parental approval of staying pregnant and bearing a child, with its life-changing, lifelong consequences. There are compelling health and safety arguments against pregnancy: teenage girls are 24 times as likely to die of childbirth as of a first-trimester abortion, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute. While having a child is one part of the full and complex life of a woman, it often turns out to be the % defining, and confining, fact of a teenager's existence. Eight out of 10 girls...
SOMETIME this week, President Bush will be formally presented with the Congress-approved Family and Medical Leave Act. The President has already declared that he will veto this bill, which provides employees of large companies an assurance of three months of unpaid leave for childbirth, adoption or serious illness...
...hindsight, all the holes in Stuart's story look painfully obvious. Why did Stuart, who had been to Brigham and Women's Hospital several times before, drive to Mission Hill instead of toward his house after the childbirth class? Why did the robber not shoot him first rather than his less threatening wife? After the assailant jumped out of the car, why didn't Charles head back toward the hospital instead of driving around aimlessly? During the 13 minutes he was on the phone with the dispatcher, he could not identify any street signs or landmarks in a city where...