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Pregnant care home worker called 'pathetic' by her boss for needing a five-minute break

She has been awarded £25,000 by a tribunal

Wales Online

R Kelly's marriage to Aaliyah exposed – Faking age to hide pregnancy

Rapper R Kelly, who has been jailed for 30 years for sex abuse crimes, married late singer Aaliyah when she was 15 in 1994 – there are also claims the singer was pregnant, too

Daily Mirror

Pregnant woman gobsmacked to learn she's expecting TWO sets of twins at the SAME TIME

Ashley Ness, 35, from Massachusetts, USA, struggled with infertility for years and was shocked to learn that she was pregnant with two sets of identical twins. The chances of such a pregnancy are 70,000,000 to one.

Daily Mirror

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The Roe ruling is not about states’ rights. It’s about power and control

It’s tempting to blame rightwing evangelicals for what happened last week – but big business also benefits from our loss of autonomy

The Guardian - US

Best maternity leggings to see you through your pregnancy in comfort

High or low-waisted, which leggings are right for you?

Evening Standard

Lauren Conrad reveals she had an ectopic pregnancy

Reality TV star says access to reproductive healthcare saved her life

The Independent UK

Is an ectopic pregnancy abortion legal? Overturn of Roe v. Wade opens states to decide

FORT WORTH, Texas -- The overturn of Roe v. Wade leaves the decision of whether abortion is legal or not up to the states to decide. Concerns on what restrictions this will place on life-threatening cases have been voiced by medical professionals and local Texans alike.

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‘I couldn’t have the baby’: Honduras’s poor suffer most from draconian abortion laws

Thousands of women and young girls living in poverty are forced to turn to a deadly illegal trade – risking jail and their lives

The Guardian - UK

Texas nurses say ban on abortion is merely the start of the health problems women will face

Health workers caring for pregnant women now face a bewildering array of legal questions.

The Texas Tribune

'Gain a child, lose a tooth': old saying holds true for women in northern Nigeria

Childbearing has an impact on the health of women, and the impact grows with the number of times a woman has been pregnant for longer than 24 weeks. Pregnancy and breastfeeding put energy demands on a woman and can cause permanent changes to a mother’s health.

The Conversation

Abortion laws in Scotland and what they mean for thousands of women across the country

With the recent overturning of the constitutional right to abortion in America, the conversation this side of the pond has turned to our own laws surrounding abortion.

Glasgow Live

A growing number of women give birth at Catholic hospitals, where they do not receive the same reproductive health options – including birth control – provided at other hospitals

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion, access to birth control has taken on new urgency. By moving the decision about abortion access to states, the fall of Roe v. Wade means that it will be even more important for people to be…

The Conversation

Alia Bhatt slams news coverage around her pregnancy: ‘I am a woman, not a parcel’

‘We still live in [a] patriarchal world’

The Independent UK

Genetic screening results just got harder to handle under new abortion rules

Ann was 15 weeks pregnant with her fourth child when the results of her prenatal genetic test came back last August. The test suggested that her daughter, whom she and her husband planned to name Juliet, was missing one of her two X chromosomes — a condition called Turner syndrome…

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The Times of India

Mom-to-be Alia Bhatt’s trainer gives tips to ease menstrual cramps

The newlywed couple, Alia and Ranbir announced their first pregnancy on Monday through an Instagram post. The actress seemed to be in a hospital getting her ultrasound done with her husband by her side.

Evening Standard

‘The Roe v Wade news is devastating’ — seven deeply personal stories from London women who’ve had abortions

Sharing abortion stories has become a form of protest following last week’s announcement in the US. Katie Strick speaks to seven women about what having an abortion really means — and why it’s never the ‘easy choice’

Daily Mirror

Pregnant woman called 'pathetic' for needing 5-minute break while working New Year's Day

Anna Burns has been awarded nearly £25,000 in a discrimination case after a judge ruled her "bullying" colleagues at Tralee Rest Home thought she was failing to pull her weight while pregnant

Tribune News Service

Missouri AG can prosecute abortion ban violations. Could patient data aid enforcement?

Six minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision striking down Roe v. Wade, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt posted a photo of himself signing a legal opinion to trigger the state’s abortion ban.

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Reason

I Anticipated Chief Justice Roberts's Lonely, Failed Saving Construction of Roe

I held the essay in reserve, waiting to see what would happen in oral arguments, but decided not to use it.

The Conversation

Anti-abortion pregnancy centers will likely outlast the age of Roe – here's how they're funded and the services they provide

Experts predict increased economic hardship now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.

Evening Standard

Anne McElvoy: Democrats must box smart if they are to turn the tide on Roe vs Wade

Any non-celibate woman in her fertile years knows the anxiety about an unexpected positive pregnancy test — from disquiet to shock and panic if the barriers to having and bringing up a child are forbidding. From the moment of a positive test, a woman’s options are changed.

Axios

Defining "life-threatening" can be tricky in abortion law exceptions

The murky wording of some of laws could create confusion and put pregnant women's lives at risk, experts say.

WEKU

Emergency contraception pills are safe and effective, but not always available

To best protect against unintended pregnancy, emergency contraceptives like Plan B or Ella need to be taken within five days of unprotected sex, but a large number of pharmacies don't stock the pills.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: It now falls on states like Maryland to uphold women’s right to choose

By striking down Roe v. Wade which has for nearly five decades protected the right of women to terminate pregnancy, the U.S. Supreme Court has not only turned its back on legal precedent and many of their own personal pledges to uphold Roe as “settled law” made during U.S. Senate…

The Times of India

How to tell if your water is breaking during pregnancy

Water breaking is associated with the breaking of the amniotic sac, before the birth of a baby. The amniotic fluidis the liquid that surrounds the unborn baby during pregnancy. The fetus floats in this fluid. This fluid also does the work of cushioning the fetus and it keeps increasing as…

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