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Bolden, a Cambridge resident, left high school in 1992 because she was pregnant. She promptly signed up for welfare and has been receiving checks ever since...
When Ricky found out his girlfriend was pregnant, he wanted to help support her but had no income and no diploma, so he started selling drugs...
...girlfriend applied for YouthBuild but was turned away because she was pregnant...
Testing is, of course, already commonplace. As many as 9 out of 10 pregnant women in the U.S. submit to some prenatal screening. Typically, this involves sampling the mother's blood--so-called serum-alpha-fetoprotein testing to seek out telltale proteins that may indicate spina bifida, neural-tube defects or Down syndrome--or looking directly at the fetus with ultrasound scans. For women over 35, doctors usually recommend more invasive procedures in which actual fetal cells are gathered from the womb's amniotic fluid (amniocentesis) or placenta (chorionic villus sampling...
...October a 24-year-old woman who had been comatose for more than three years gave birth to a baby girl. It was only a few days before the delivery that the staff at the woman's nursing home in Lawrence, Mass., even discovered that she was pregnant. Under the circumstances, the pregnancy had to have been the result of rape; yet the woman was uniquely unable to name her assailant. If she couldn't speak, however, the blood of her daughter could. Shortly after the baby's birth, the police drew a sample of the infant's blood, then...