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Four years at Yale costs $180,000. Here is how senior Aliza Shvarts planned to conclude hers: The art major would repeatedly artificially inseminate herself, then induce miscarriages, which she would record on video. She would build a four-foot-wide plastic cube and wrap it in layers of plastic. Between the layers would be Vaseline mixed with blood from the miscarriages. She would hang the cube at an exhibition and project video of the miscarriages onto four of its sides. "This piece," Shvarts wrote in the Yale Daily News, "is meant to call into question the relationship between form and function as...

Too much caffeine during pregnancy may increase the risk of miscarriage, a new study says, and the authors suggest that pregnant women may want to reduce their intake or cut it out entirely. Many obstetricians already advise women to limit caffeine, though the subject has long been contentious, with conflicting studies, fuzzy data and various recommendations given over the years. The new study, being published Monday in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, finds that pregnant women who consume 200 milligrams or more of caffeine a day — the amount in 10 ounces of coffee or 25 ounces of tea...

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a married man they say caused his girlfriend to miscarry twice by slipping her an abortion drug. Manishkumar M. Patel, 34, of Appleton, was expected to be charged Thursday afternoon. The woman already had a 3-year-old child with the man, who was married to someone else, Outagamie County sheriff's Capt. Michael Jobe said at a news conference. She became pregnant two more times, but miscarried in December and September, he said. Apparently suspecting she had been slipped mifespristone, the abortion pill also known as RU-486, the woman had a blood sample sent to...

Monday, October 01, 2007 Here is request for prayers that just came to me from a friend here in Illinois – She was asked to pray for the sister of one of her friends. Her story is she was expecting her first child, but miscarried. Then she went into deep depression – which she’s been in for months now – has been treated using several methods of treating clinical depression – but still has not improved. Also she is now @21 weeks pregnant with her second child. Her doctor said the only thing to do regarding this second pregnancy, is...

160 Healthy Babies Lost for Every 50 Down’s Cases Detected with Amniocentesis By Hilary White LONDON, August 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The risks of amniocentesis to the unborn child have long been known but now a new analysis by a British doctor has shown that using the tests in seek-and-destroy missions for Down's syndrome and other genetic abnormalities results in the deaths of hundreds of healthy babies every year in Britain. Dr. Hylton Meire, the retired physician and author of texts on ultrasound, calculates that for every 50 children with Down's Syndrome successfully identified and killed by abortion, 160 non-affected...

SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom, August 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A National Health Service hospital lied to the mother of a miscarried baby, saying that they had cremated her child's body, when it was actually being stored in their pathology lab.33-year old Lisa Bertelsen from Millbrook, Southampton wanted to have a memorial ceremony for her baby that she naturally miscarried in December of last year. The hospital contacted her to say that they still had the child's remains after preserving the body for sixth months. In an interview with UK's Daily Echo, Bertelsen stated, "We were going to have a blessing...

Fincher Guilty In Machine Gun Case Friday, January 12, 2007 3:37 PM CST It took a jury just under five hours to find Hollis Wayne Fincher guilty of owning illegal machine guns and a sawed-off shotgun. Closing arguments in federal court in Fayetteville wrapped at mid-morning and the case went to the federal jury about 10:30 a.m. The jury returned its verdict about 3:20 p.m.

Thinness 'poses miscarriage risk' Women who are very underweight before they become pregnant are 72% more likely to miscarry in the first three months of pregnancy, a study suggests. A London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine team looked at 600 women who had miscarried and 6,000 whose pregnancies continued past 12 weeks. They found that eating fruit and vegetables, and also chocolate, daily helped reduce the risk of miscarriage. Those classed as underweight had a body mass index (BMI) under 18.5. While we still don't have all the answers, these findings are going to help women who want...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A team of British doctors has released the results of a new study showing that women who have an abortion run a higher risk of having a miscarriage in a subsequent pregnancy. The study also showed that women using in-vitro fertilization have higher miscarriage risks as well. The doctors, affiliated with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the reasons behind the increased miscarriage risk were vague. However, they confirmed that women who had had a previous abortion experienced a 60 percent higher risk of having a miscarriage in another pregnancy. Women using the...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A team of British doctors has released the results of a new study showing that women who have an abortion run a higher risk of having a miscarriage in a subsequent pregnancy. The study also showed that women using in-vitro fertilization have higher miscarriage risks as well. The doctors, affiliated with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the reasons behind the increased miscarriage risk were vague. However, they confirmed that women who had had a previous abortion experienced a 60 percent higher risk of having a miscarriage in another pregnancy. Women using the...

Help Freepers; Some dear friends just lost their baby due to miscarriage. I want to help them but being a single male I am clueless. Help please!

The lingering distress, sadness and guilt brought on by an induced abortion is worse than that of a miscarriage and decreases much more slowly as time goes on, according to a five-year study of Norwegian women published yesterday. In the aftermath of abortion, women "experienced more mental distress long after the event -- two and five years afterwards -- than women who had a miscarriage," the researchers reported. Along with "high levels" of anxiety and feelings of guilt and shame, the women who had voluntarily ended their pregnancy also "had to make efforts to avoid thoughts about the event," the...

Dyer, IN - A man whose wife is charged with fatally beating their two young sons with a ten-pound weight says they were a normal, happy family until she suffered a miscarriage about two years ago. Robert Lopez and other family members and neighbors say Magdalena Lopez had been suffering from mental illness in recent months before nine-year-old Antonio Lopez and two-year-old Erik Lopez were found dead Tuesday night in the family's home. Lake County prosecutors have charged 30-year-old Magdalena Lopez with two counts of murder. A police report said that as officers approached the house in the suburban town...

Michael Jackson's lawyer said today that the pop star is going to be more cautious from now on and not let children into his bed anymore because "it makes him vulnerable to false charges."Thomas Mesereau Jr. said he is convinced that the "King of Pop" never molested any child...but added that he will always be a target because of his "love of children" from people who want to line their pockets with his money.Jackson has been out of sight since being declared not guilty on charges of molestation. But his Web site triumphantly is declaring "innocent" and ranks his acquittal...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That § 32.1-264 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:... When a fetal death occurs without medical attendance, it shall be the woman's responsibility to report the death to the law-enforcement agency in the jurisdiction of which the delivery occurs within 12 hours after the delivery. A violation of this section shall be punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Debra Lynn Poirier, with daughter Jesyka, 9, addresses a news conference at Queen's Park yesterday in which she described her miscarriage and the subsequent loss of the fetus by hospital staff. An empty urn sits atop a bedroom cabinet in the St. Catharines home of Debra Lynn Poirer and Leo Rochon. It was supposed to contain the ashes of their son, miscarried during the 17th week of pregnancy, earlier this month. But in a tragic mix-up, St. Catharines General Hospital somehow lost the fetus, even though staff were aware of the parents' intentions to have a cremation and funeral service."Losing...

Woman believes beating was attempt to kill unborn child Oklahoma City police are looking into whether the father of an unborn child is responsible for beating and robbing his expectant ex-girlfriend. The 19-year-old woman says she thought she was meeting her ex-boyfriend at a parking lot on south Rockwell late Friday night. Instead she was greeted by a masked gunman who took her purse and ordered her on the ground. He then kicked her repeatedly in the stomach. She managed to get away and call police. When they returned to the scene, they found the victim’s ex-boyfriend and arrested...

JUBILANT Annette Quinlan yesterday hugged her little miracle — a baby girl born despite the mum’s body trying to REJECT the tot in the womb. Annette — victim of a rare medical condition — endured 14 years of heartache as she suffered NINETEEN miscarriages. But she and husband Alan were helped by pioneering medical treatment after refusing to give up their dream of one day having a child. Annette, 42, beamed as she cradled precious 3lb 4oz daughter Niamh and said: “I wanted a baby so much. “I’ve always been the sort of person who perseveres. I just won’t give...

When Illinois Governor George Ryan reached the line "I will no longer tinker with the machinery of death" at Northwestern University last Saturday, announcing his decision to commute the death sentences of 167 inmates of Illinois's Death Row, his audience leapt to their feet and applauded. Now, think about that. Why would people cheer the news that 167 convicted murderers would no longer be at risk of execution? If those present were convinced that innocent men were on Death Row, they might reasonably be relieved that a grave miscarriage of justice had been averted. But they would also know that...

op law enforcement officials in Texas and at the Justice Department in Washington were aware of the hateful treatment of black people caught in a drug sting gone haywire in the small panhandle town of Tulia, but no one bothered to do anything about it. The fact that a monstrous, racially motivated miscarriage of justice was occurring, that innocent people had been wrongfully accused and that entire families were being ruined did not prompt anyone to intervene. "Certainly we're concerned in any case about fair justice," said Tom Kelly, a spokesman for the Texas state attorney general, John Cornyn. But...

Cherie Blair suffers miscarriage 07.08.2002 10.14 am LONDON - Cherie Blair, wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, is recovering today after suffering a miscarriage. The 47-year-old lawyer was taken to a London hospital on Tuesday (NZT) and was kept in overnight after treatment. She is now recovering at their Downing Street home. A Downing Street spokesman confirmed the Blairs had delayed the start of their holiday in France. "This follows Mrs Blair's admission to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital last night (Monday) for an operation after a miscarriage," he said. The spokesman said Mrs Blair had an operation under...