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Illinois hospital failed to alert authorities in womb-cutting murder case
Police and Illinois' child welfare agency say staff at a Chicago-area hospital didn't alert them after determining that a bloodied woman who arrived with a gravely ill newborn had not just given birth to the baby boy, as she claimed. Clarisa Figueroa is charged with ...
Missouri's Republican-led Legislature passes eight-week abortion ban
Missouri's Republican-led House on Friday passed sweeping legislation designed to survive court challenges, which would ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. If enacted, the ban would be among the most restrictive in the U.S. It includes exceptions for medical emergencies, but not for pregnancies ...
U.S. pregnancy-related deaths are up, especially among minorities
Pregnancy-related deaths are rising in the United States and the main risk factor is being black, according to new reports that highlight racial disparities in care during and after childbirth. Black women, along with Native Americans and Alaska natives, are three times more likely to ...
Judge blocks Trump rule barring tax-funded clinics from referring patients to abortion providers
A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday blocked a Trump administration rule that would prohibit taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from referring patients to abortion providers, according to the state attorney general. The preliminary injunction bars enforcement nationwide of a policy that was due to ...
World's smallest surviving baby boy, born in Nagano weighing same as an apple, ready to go home
The world's smallest baby boy, who was born in October in Nagano Prefecture weighing as much as a large apple, is now ready for the outside world, his doctor said Friday. Ryusuke Sekino was delivered via emergency caesarean section at Nagano Children's Hospital in Azumino ...
Only for 'naughty girls': Stigma lingers after South Korea abortion ban overturned
South Korea is set to legalize abortion after a decadeslong ban was struck down, but women's rights campaigners have warned those who undergo the procedure will still be "punished in the eyes of society." In a landmark verdict last week, a South Korean court ruled ...
A woman was arrested Monday for attempted murder over the abandonment of a newborn baby in a toilet bowl, after giving birth in a convenience-store bathroom in Saitama Prefecture, police said. Yuria Moriizumi, 24, delivered the baby girl in the bathroom of the store in ...
Japan to draft law to tighten control on gene editing of fertilized human eggs
The move is being prompted by the controversial CRISPR technology, which might lead to the creation of “designer babies” and a host of ethical conundrums.
South Korean court strikes down decades-old law banning abortion
In a landmark ruling over a law that campaigners say puts women at risk, South Korea's Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered the country's decades-old abortion ban to be lifted. South Korea remains one of the few industrialized nations that criminalizes abortion, except for instances of ...
When Cecile Eledge offered to carry a baby for her adult son and his husband, they thought she was kidding — and that her doctors in the family's Nebraska hometown would balk at a 61-year-old woman serving as a surrogate for a gay couple. But ...
Japan warns firms not to fire pregnant foreign trainees, as interns fear impact on work status
The warning came ahead of the launch of a new visa program that will allow the entry of more workers to address serious labor shortages.
Private clinics get Japan medical body's OK to do prenatal tests for chromosome irregularities
The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology's (JSOG) executive board has decided to allow obstetrician-gynecologists who run private practices to conduct blood tests on pregnant women to detect possible chromosome abnormalities such as Down syndrome in their fetuses. Currently, 92 hospitals, mostly large ones, have ...
