Word: womb
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...figured she would return to school, finish her education and then go back to the business of having babies. Her body figured otherwise. At 39, after several failed attempts to get pregnant, she learned that while she was in school an ovarian failure had triggered premature menopause. Although her womb was perfectly ready to carry a fertilized egg to term, her depleted ovaries could no longer provide...
...abortion even if it did. Alarmed to learn of the many third-trimester abortions performed after six months, under milewide exceptions for vague reasons of mental health, Democratic Senator Thomas Daschle introduced a bill that would have banned all abortions in which the baby could have lived outside the womb, which these days means after about 23 weeks. Yet Republicans preferred to cling to their own doomed bill rather than give up a potent political issue or accept Daschle's exception to the ban for women whose pregnancies could cause "grievous physical injury"--even though that closes the mental-health...
Indeed, pro-life groups had begun attacking the commission's conclusions even before they were released. When word leaked out earlier in the week that it might allow human- cloning research as long as no cloned embryos were implanted in a womb, the panel was immediately attacked by John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe of the American Life League. The commission was permitting, he said, "two separate grave evils": the creation of a cloned human embryo and its destruction in the lab. As he put it, "This means it is O.K. to clone as long as you kill...
When it comes to treating children with HIV and AIDS, physicians are often forced to practice hand-me-down medicine. There are 275,000 adults living with HIV in the U.S. and only 4,500 HIV-positive youngsters under age 13--most of whom were infected in the womb. Children are not just smaller, cuter copies of adults. Their immune systems are not yet fully developed. Their brains are more vulnerable to HIV. When they get sick with AIDS, many of them deteriorate more rapidly than adults. They need treatments tailored to their size and condition. "But pharmaceutical companies...
...Women who have had TUBAL STERILIZATION, now hear this. If you wind up conceiving (which is rare), you face a 30% risk of an ectopic pregnancy--in which the egg implants outside the womb. One-sided pelvic pain and unusual vaginal bleeding are symptoms. Don't ignore them...