(CNN) — The Supreme Court appeared divided after over an hour of arguments Wednesday concerning a controversial Louisiana abortion access law that critics say will leave just one doctor in the state to perform the procedure. Key justices indicated that they could be poised to uphold the law that is similar to a Texas law the Court struck down […]
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(CNN) — It’s rare to have one child born on a Leap Day. But two? The lightning struck twice for Lindsay and Dane Demchak. Lindsay first gave birth to their son Omri on February 29, 2016. Their daughter Scout joined the family last weekend. Her birth date: February 29, 2020. “Deep down I wanted it […]
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(CNN) — The battle over abortion rights made its way to the Senate floor on Tuesday when Republicans — helmed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — brought two longstanding bills with little chance of passage up for votes before the chamber. The bills, which both failed and have been introduced annually over the past […]
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Jennifer Gobrecht always knew she would be a mother someday, but her birth experience was one she couldn’t have imagined. She learned as a teen she was born without a uterus. For her body, pregnancy and birth were impossibilities. Now, Jennifer is the mother of the second baby in the United States to ever have […]
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As a pair of identical twin girls entered the world, they were greeted in the delivery room by two people who had been there before: Tara and Tori, the identical twin nurses working in their delivery room. After a serendipitous turn of events, the twin nurses at Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center in Athens, Georgia […]
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A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Georgia’s controversial ban on abortions from going into effect in January. The law, House Bill 481, is one of the nation’s most restrictive measures, outlawing the procedure as early as six weeks into pregnancy, when a fetal heartbeat is detected. That can come before many women know they’re pregnant. It includes […]
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A transgender man who gave birth with the help of fertility treatment lost his legal fight to be registered as the child’s father, rather than its mother, in the UK High Court on Wednesday. Born female, Freddy McConnell transitioned to become a man and was legally recognized as male when he became pregnant in 2017, […]
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Eighteen years after the 9/11 terror attacks, little Christina Brown brought some joy — and excitement — to this somber day in history. Doctors at a Memphis-area hospital delivered the baby girl by C-section at 9:11 p.m. on Wednesday, September 11. When the nurses placed her on the scales, they called out, “Oh my gosh, […]