If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Yesterday, Republican Vice-President candidate Sarah Palin announced that her unwed 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant.
Palin says that her daughter is planning to marry the baby’s father, and says “we’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby [...]
The Conservative government currently in power in Canada announced plans to introduce legislation that would make it a separate crime to kill or injure a fetus when committing violence against a pregnant woman. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson also stated, rather emphatically, that the law would be worded in such a way that “leaves no [...]
This is a horrible story. But it’s also a wonderful story.
On Monday, August 18, 2008, a woman in Israel went into premature labor at 23 weeks of pregnancy. Finding no pulse in the fetus, and with the mother hemorrhaging, doctors performed a surgical abortion–a c-section–apparently to save the mother’s life. The baby girl weighed just [...]
The rates of pregnancy among US teenagers have dropped from 1990 to 2004, according to a recent report by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. Pregnancy rates among women below 20 years old was 15% in 1990 but dropped to 12% in 2004. Abortion rates also dropped by 24% during this period.
However, preliminary statistics [...]
When Jodie Percival, 25, became pregnant for the third time while on the pill, she and fiancee Billy Crampton made the agonizing decision to abort at 8 weeks. Jodie is a carrier for a gene which causes tumors to grow on the kidneys of an unborn baby. She had already lost a son [...]
