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Longing For Life

Tamara McClintock Greenberg | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Assisted-Reproductive-Technology, Women's Rights, Aging, Child Birth, Children, Women's Health, Advanced Medical Technology, Women's Health Issues, Fertility, Child Rearing, Fertility Treatments, Illness, Medical Technology, Fifty News
Tamara McClintock Greenberg

In current times, we are aging quite diversely. While some people can enjoy the benefits of medical technology when it comes to conceiving a child, assisted reproductive technology does not work for everyone.

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Why Families Need Health Care Reform Now More Than Ever

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maternal Health, Every Mother Counts, Maternal Mortality, Child Birth, No Woman No Cry, Home News
Christy Turlington Burns

When I set out to make a documentary film about the global state of maternal health three years ago, I had no idea just how dismal a job we were doing for our nation's families here at home. This is why we need the Affordable Health Care Act.

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Balinese Natural Birthing Center Threatened by Global Downturn

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women?S Issues, Aceh, Thought Leader, Direct Relief International, Birth Center, Robin Lim, Alisa Chazani., Women?S Health, Health, Bumi Sehat, Youth Center, New York City, Midwifery, Haiti, Child Birth, Tsunami, Haiti Earthquake, Indonesia, Stewardship Report, Balinese Maternity Clinic, Jim Luce, Postpartum Home Care, Port-Au-Prince, Bumi Sehat Bali Clinic, Global Citizen, Bali, Denpasar, World News
Jim Luce

Mid-wife and clinic founder Robin Lim is a legend in the world of women's maternity health. I have heard of her from Port-au-Prince in Haiti to New-...

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Discovery Health: Unbelievable Tales from the Delivery Room

Discovery Health | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Birthing, Child Delivery, Child Birth, Birthing Stories, Delivering a Baby, Childbirth Stories, Parenting, Childbirth, Healthy Living News

Discovery Health's hit docu-series, Deliver Me, follows the careers and personal lives of Drs. Yvonne Bohn, Allison Hill and Alane Park -- best friend...

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Caution: Pregnancy May Be Hazardous to Your Liberty

Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Feticide, Pregnancy, Self-Abortion, Child Birth, Midwives, Motherhood, Hurricane Katrina, Healthcare Reform, Politics News
Lynn M. Paltrow

If you are pregnant and clumsy in Utah, you could be charged with attempted murder, even in the first trimester.

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"My Vagina Fell Out": Woman Shares Health Horror

Sphere | Buck Wolf | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Birth, Vulva, Prolapse, Uterus, Pregnancy, Plastic Surgery, Hematoma, Cystocele, Child Birth, Health, Urethra, Reproductive Health, Women's Health, Rectum, Vaginal Prolapse, Stds, Std, Vagina, Placenta, Rectocele, Bladder, Labia Reduction, Healthy Living News

Allison Henry isn't the first to suffer from a horrifying medical condition that few women talk about. But her case was particularly bad, and she's ju...

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Afghan Midwives Step Up To Fight One Of World's Worst Maternal Mortality Rates

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maternal Death, Midwives, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Midwife, Afghan Midwife, Child Birth Rate, Afghan Women, Maternal Health, Afghan Women's Rights, Child Birth, Afghan Midwives, Health, Maternal Mortality, Advocacy, Women's Rights, World News

The war in Afghanistan may no longer be forgotten but the true victims always are. Women and children in the landlocked Asian country have continuous...

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Labor of Love: A Midwife's Memoir

Joe Antol | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cara Muhlhahn, Birth, Labor of Love, Pregnancy, Child Birth, Midwife Memoir, Midwives, Books, Oregon, Healthy Living News
Joe Antol

For Muhlhahn, birth is a transformative and poetic experience for the mother. But perhaps she forgets that it is first and foremost a transformative experience for the child.

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State Trooper Gives Traffic Ticket To Woman In Labor

The Boston Globe | Stephanie Ebbert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birth, State Trooper Ticket, Child Birth, Pregnant Woman Ticketed, State Trooper, Boston, Home News

All too often, the congested roads of Greater Boston conspire with the vagaries of childbirth to leave a mother-to-be in a car on the roadside at one ...

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