pregnancy

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• SOURCE: Patheos
  6/27/2022
  

  Who Will Now Bear Costs of Crisis Pregnancies?

  by Daniel K. Williams

  "Perhaps neither Roe nor Dobbs represents a fully Christian way to distribute the human costs associated with crisis pregnancies.  And therein lies a dilemma for Christians who want to preserve human life and are unhappy with the results of Roe as well as the likely results of Dobbs."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/23/2022
  

  When the Constitution Was Written, Abortion was a Choice Left to Women

  by Lara Friedenfelds

  "Before the 19th century, civil society regarded abortion as a private medical matter for married women, and a problem in need of occasional discipline when it was a sign of extramarital sex."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/17/2021
  

  Early Pregnancy Testing Required Sacrificing Rabbits

  Women have always had an interest in detecting pregancy as soon as possible; the development of tests for pregnancy hormones involved fugitives from the Nazis and unfortunate rodents who were autopsied in early tests. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/17/20
  

  Eugenics is trending. That’s a problem.

  by Caitlin Fendley

  Any effort to slow population growth must center on reproductive justice.

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  1/30/20
  

  The surprising history of “pregnancy portraits”

  For centuries British artists edited baby bumps out of their work. Why?

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• 10/11/19
  

  The History Briefing on Pregnancy Discrimination: What Historians Had to Say About This Week’s News

  by Isabella DelPino

  How historians discussed pregnancy discrimination this week. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/12/19
  

  It’s time to stop viewing pregnant women as threats to their babies

  by Kathleen Crowther

  How Georgia is continuing a centuries-long tradition, and why it must stop.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/8/19
  

  Sarah Knott Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages

  Knott, a professor at Indiana University, uses her own path to motherhood, which includes a miscarriage and two successful pregnancies, as the scaffolding for her engaging and pleasingly radical “unconventional history” of this subject. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/9/19
  

  The key to lowering America’s high rates of maternal mortality

  by Melissa Reynolds

  Health-care providers have forgotten the central lesson of two millennia of gynecology.