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Children whose mothers smoked at least a pack of cigarettes a day while pregnant are more susceptible to nicotine addiction, according to a study by a Harvard scientist...
...study reviewed about 1,200 interviews asking pregnant women about their smoking habits. The scientists then followed up with the women’s children—now adults with an average age of 29—to determine whether there was any association between their exposure to nicotine in the womb and their current smoking habits...
Previous studies have linked smoking while pregnant with a number of other adverse effects, including low birth weight, higher incidence of miscarriage and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome...
Depending on the method used, emergency contraception can reduce a woman’s risk of becoming pregnant from a single act of intercourse by between 75 and 99 percent. It works similarly to regular birth control pills; it contains the same hormones and likewise prevents ovulation or fertilization of an egg. If fertilization has already occurred, the hormones prevent the egg from implanting into the uterus—which is the medical definition of pregnancy. Although research over the past 30 years has shown that the morning-after pill is safe and effective, the many barriers to obtaining...
This concern couldn’t be more paternalistic. If a woman wants to prevent becoming pregnant, it’s her prerogative to have every medically viable preventative measure available to her. And given the 30 years of research devoted to this issue, the prediction that this policy change would encourage a lazy reliance on the morning-after pill is just plain inaccurate. According to Dr. Felicia Stewart, a member of the University of California, at San Francisco’s Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy, there is no evidence that increased access to emergency contraception makes...