3 d. ago Fetus of brain dead Georgia woman kept alive due to abortion ban is growing, says family

Hospital plans to keep Adriana Smith on life support until August, when doctors will deliver baby via C-sectionThe fetus of a brain dead Georgia woman who is being kept alive to carry out her pregnancy is continuing to grow, the woman’s mother said late Monday, days after the controversial case exploded into the national news and sparked questions about the ethics of using the state’s anti-abortion law to keep a woman with no chance of recovery on life support.“He has his toes, arms, limbs – everything is forming,” the mother, April Newkirk, told the local news station 11Alive. “We’re just hoping he makes it.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Middle School teacher arrested for ‘drunken’ crash a year ago that killed a pregnant mom

The pregnant mom was remembered as a “young, loving, kind, and adventurous soul.”

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4 d. ago Pregnant Welsh woman facing deportation from Australia after spending $40,000 on 'dream life'

Sarah Maxwell, a child protection worker, and Lewis Christie, a personal trainer, have spent five years building their life together on the Gold Coast

Economics

4 d. ago Pregnant woman secretly given abortion drug by vile paramedic has justice for 'angel' baby

Stephen Doohan, from Edinburgh, is facing jail after his sick plans to terminate a woman's baby were revealed.

Society

6 d. ago Paramedic secretly gave woman abortion drug after she fell pregnant with his baby

Stephen Doohan, 33, admitted to his guilt after he gave the woman the pills after she made it clear she was intending to keep the baby, the High Court in Glasgow heard

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7 d. ago Paramedic secretly gave abortion drug to pregnant woman forcing her to miscarry

Stephen Doohan had concocted the sick plan after she told him she was having his baby. The 33 year-old - who was a Clinical Team Leader with the Scottish Ambulance Service - was married at the time.

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7 d. ago Woman suffers miscarriage after sick paramedic secretly gave her abortion drug

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Stephen Doohan begged the woman not to report him, and tried to buy her silence with gifts. He later pleaded guilty to assault, sexual assault and another charge of causing the woman to have an abortion

Events

7 d. ago Sick paramedic secretly gave abortion drug to woman pregnant with his baby

Stephen Doohan begged the woman not to report him, and tried to buy her silence with gifts.

Events

8 d. ago 'I'm 35 weeks pregnant and my husband wants to name our daughter after his first wife'

A pregnant woman has taken to social media to ask for advice after her husband asked if they could name their daughter after his first wife

Politics

8 d. ago 'Husband wants to name our baby after his first wife and his mum and sister agree'

A pregnant woman has asked for advice after her husband asked if they could name their daughter after his first wife who passed away - and even his mum and sister are involved in the situation

Politics

8 d. ago Pregnant Israeli woman killed on way to give birth in West Bank shooting attack

Tzeela Gez, who was nine months pregnant, was in a car driven by her husband when they were targeted by a Palestinian attacker late on Wednesday

Events

8 d. ago An Israeli woman on her way to give birth was killed in a West Bank attack

A woman who was nine months pregnant and on her way to the delivery room is dead after a Palestinian gunman opened fire on her car

Events

9 d. ago The Guardian view on abortion prosecutions: decriminalisation can’t wait | Editorial

The trial of Nicola Packer shows why MPs should seize the opportunity to change the law and safeguard vulnerable women nowThe Crown Prosecution Service has yet to explain why it thought that pursuing a case against Nicola Packer was in the public interest. Thankfully, jurors last week cleared the 45-year-old of illegally terminating her pregnancy. But more than four years of police and criminal proceedings have had a lasting impact on a woman already traumatised by discovering that she was 26 weeks pregnant, not about 10, when she acted. The trial dragged her private life – even her sexual preferences – into the public eye. Understandably, she called it “humiliating”. But it is prosecutors who should feel shame.Ms Packer was prescribed abortion pills in a remote consultation, due to a Covid lockdown. Prosecutors alleged that she deliberately breached the abortion time limit. Jurors believed Ms Packer, who said that she was horrified to realise how advanced her pregnancy was whe...

Events

1 week ago Woman who cut foetus from pregnant victim to 'claim' it facing death penalty

Amber Waterman, 45, pleaded guilty last year to one count of kidnapping Ashley Bush and one count of causing the death of her unborn daughter

Events

2 w. ago Malpractice season two review – relentlessly tense TV that will leave you terrified

Who would you treat first – a woman with postpartum psychosis, or a pregnant crack addict about to be sectioned? This brilliant show looks at the impossible decisions one doctor has to make that ends in tragedyTwo years ago, former NHS doctor Grace Ofori-Attah created the relentlessly tense first series of Malpractice, a tale of an A&E doctor whose errors under impossible pressure, combined with the inexperience and equal stresses of others, resulted in the death of a patient. Then things escalated. It took in topical medical subjects – primarily the creeping problem of opioid addiction – alongside social issues, including the manifold effects of the pandemic, the prevalence of burnout, the bureaucratic inefficiencies that hinder staff and patients, the institutional buck-passing and arse-covering that greet any type of mistake, and the potential for corruption that exists in any large organisation. It asked how much we should expect of people trapped in a system starved of reso...

Events

3 w. ago Teenager and man, 20, charged over crash that killed baby boy after car ploughed into pregnant woman

The victim, a woman in her 30s, had been on a pedestrian crossing when she was struck by the vehicle in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, on September 29 last year.

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3 w. ago Woman pregnant with twins following wedding fling and morning after pill mishap

Holly Firth, 29, headed to the chemist to buy a morning after pill after the wedding fling but was left shocked when she later found out she was pregnant - with twins

Politics

3 w. ago Woman pregnant after wedding fling as morning after pill fails for surprise reason

Holly Firth, 29, from Scotland, had a one-off fling at her friend's wedding. Little did she know, she'd be pregnant with twins after her emergency contraception didn't work

Events

3 w. ago AP PHOTOS: A pregnant woman under Israel's blockade in Gaza fears for her baby

Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip has made pregnancy and childbirth more dangerous for Palestinian women and their babies. It’s become worse since Israel seven weeks ago cut off food, medicine and supplies for the territory’s more than 2 million people.

Politics

3 w. ago Scots woman pregnant after wedding fling as morning after pill fails for surprise reason

She was attending a family friend's wedding when she had a romantic liaison with one of the other guests.

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