Word: pregnant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Women and Infants HIV Transmission Study (WITS) will examine the frequency of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus' transmission to fetus and its effect on the health of pregnant women and on the outcome of pregnancy, researchers said. The project will also chart the development of the disease in children...
BOSTON--Just hours after a pregnant woman and her husband from the suburbs were shot in a robbery attempt that outraged the city, a young Black man was shot in the neck and pronounced dead on arrival at a city hospital...
...hand right-to-lifers another reversal on the very day the Florida session ended. After voting for eight straight years to ban Medicaid funding for abortions except when the mother's life is in danger, the House voted 216 to 206 to allow payments for poor women who become pregnant through rape or incest. Twenty-six House members who opposed such funding in 1988 changed sides...
...again." Democrats might even prefer a veto. After being outmaneuvered in recent weeks on tax cuts and the American flag, they relish the prospect of watching Bush explain why he rejected federal help for poor women facing a horrible predicament. "This isn't about teenagers getting pregnant in a car at the drive-in movie," says a top aide to the House Democratic leadership. "This is about rape and incest and poor women...
Obstetricians agree that care for high-risk patients needs to be expanded, but many object to the "less is enough" approach for healthy pregnant women. They stress the need for frequent visits. "These women have a zillion questions on their mind," explains Dr. George Malkasian, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "The earlier you answer those questions, the earlier you catch any problems...