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Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom released an ad on Sunday showing Alabama police forcing young women to undergo pregnancy tests. “Alabama’s abortion ban has no exceptions for rape or incest. Now, Republicans are trying to criminalize young women’s travel to receive abortion care. We cannot let them get away with this,” Newsom said on X as he shared the video.

The market for oral contraception is being turned upside-down as Perrigo has begun shipping Opill to thousands of retail stores nationwide, to be sold as the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the U.S. The FDA approved Opill July 2023 as an OTC birth control option. Perrigo did not publicly release sales projections for the product, and The Motley Fool reported last July that the company is “quite unlikely” to generate $110 million per quarter—the value needed to “make a significant dent” in overall company revenues. The current U.S. prescription birth control pill market is likely worth about $3 billion...

A pregnant Walgreens employee wasn’t allowed to leave work to see her doctor when she began spotting blood, according to a newly settled federal lawsuit. Her manager refused to let her go until someone could fill in for her — but then said “she could not find a replacement for her” at the store in Alexandria, Louisiana, the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says. Now, Walgreens has agreed to pay $205,000 to settle the lawsuit accusing the company of pregnancy and disability discrimination, the EEOC said in a March 15 news release. The company is required...

The Biden administration is preparing to run the 2024 election on abortion. With a miserable economy and failure on every side, that is the one thing still left for the Democrats to run on. But no generation has ever had less use for abortion than this one. After the end of Roe v. Wade, Democrats warned of a decline in abortions, what they failed to mention was that abortions had been declining long before the Supreme Court decision. After Roe v. Wade first came on the scene, abortions shot up all through the 80s and hit a peak in 1990...

A new report suggests vaccine mRNA does not remain at the injection site following vaccination but can “spread systemically” to the placenta and umbilical cord blood of infants whose mothers are vaccinated during pregnancy.(KwangSoo Kim/Shutterstock)In a peer-reviewed pre-proof accepted for publication in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, researchers presented two cases that demonstrate, for the first time, the ability of COVID-19 vaccines to penetrate the fetal-placental barrier and reach the inside of the uterus. Additionally, researchers detected spike protein in placental tissue, indicating the bioactivity of the mRNA in reaching the placenta.Researchers vaccinated two pregnant women with mRNA...

Can Men Actually Experience Pregnancy Symptoms? Since men can’t become pregnant, it’s natural to wonder whether men can actually have pregnancy symptoms, such as morning sickness, and if so, why do men get pregnancy symptoms?

A federal judge called a recent Illinois law “stupid” that targets maternal health care centers and sidewalk counselors for expressing their pro-life message after he blocked enforcement of the statute. Judge Iain D. Johnston of the Western Division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois made the characterization in a formal preliminary injunction order (pdf) dated Aug. 4, the day after he orally issued his ruling from the bench finding the law was unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed July 27, is National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NILFA) v. Raoul. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, a...

Donning a T-shirt with the message “Say NO to child support #ProChoiceMen,” pro-life advocate AJ Hurley trolled the Women’s March on Saturday in Washington, D.C. to expose abortion activists’ hypocrisy. Hurley posed as a male abortion activist at the march, using a megaphone to shout phrases like “Your body, your problem!” and “Keep your womb off my wallet” at the crowd. His stunt was part of Live Action’s new satirical video series #ProChoiceMen. The Women’s March supposedly focuses on rights and protections for women, but Hurley’s protest exposed how its support for abortion does the opposite. According to Live Action,...

A British mom of three was sentenced to more than two years in prison for aborting a baby while about eight months pregnant. Carla Foster, 44, was terrified her estranged partner would find out she became pregnant while seeing two other men in late 2019, according to a court report by StokeOnTrentLive. She repeatedly lied to get abortion pills that were only available online due to loosened restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court was told.

The California legislature is considering a bill redefining “infertility” to include male homosexual partners.The bill, an amendment to the state’s health insurance called SB 729, redefines infertility as “a person’s inability to reproduce either as an individual or with their partner without medical intervention.” The proposed law changes infertility from a medical condition that can be treated to a status that would encompass everyone but particularly the alphabet people.Freshman state senator Caroline Menjivar (D.), who coauthored the bill with Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks (D.), said: “It will ensure that queer couples no longer have to pay more out of pocket to...

Just over a month after Tori Bowie, the champion American sprinter who won three medals at the 2016 Olympic Games, was found dead in her Florida home at age 32, a medical examiner reportedly found that she died from complications of childbirth. Bowie’s autopsy, performed by the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office of Florida, revealed that she was “undergoing labor” when she died, according to a copy of the report obtained by TMZ Sports. The athlete was roughly eight months pregnant, and was carrying a “well developed fetus,” according to USA Today Sports, which also reviewed the report. Her death...

What if technology could eliminate the need for anyone to go through pregnancy and childbirth to have a baby? This article is an installment of Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every Thursday morning by subscribing here. It takes nine months for a fertilized egg to develop into a roughly 7-pound baby, and during that time, the person carrying the baby gets to feel the miracle of life growing inside them. They can also expect to experience a slew of unpleasant side effects, from nausea and vomiting...

A new solution, known as E-MOTIVE, could provide a major breakthrough in reducing deaths from childbirth-related bleeding, according to a landmark study. Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH)—defined as the loss of more than 500 mL of blood within 24 hours after birth—is the leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide. The study, which involved more than 200,000 women in four countries, found that objectively measuring blood loss using a simple, low-cost collection device called a "drape" and bundling together WHO-recommended treatments—rather than offering them sequentially—resulted in dramatic improvements in outcomes for women. Severe bleeding—when a woman loses more than a liter of blood...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a pro-life law Friday that makes it abundantly clear that the state abortion ban does not stop doctors from providing medical care to pregnant mothers. Although Lee and others have said the abortion ban already had a clear exception to protect mothers’ lives, abortion activists’ lies about pro-life laws are still prevalent, resulting in unnecessary fear and confusion among doctors. So Tennessee lawmakers passed state House Bill 883 this spring to clarify that doctors can use their “good faith medical judgment” about when to act to protect a pregnant mother’s life or prevent a major...

‘So, these are monsters, and there's no way to avoid concluding that they're focused on disrupting human reproduction,’ the author conceded about the manufacturers of the COVID jab. 'It’s ‘a bioweapon and… we're under attack.’ ... In an extraordinary speech synthesizing several “headline” discoveries from analyses of thousands of Pfizer documents, Dr. Naomi Wolf presented how the COVID “vaccine” enterprise intentionally sought to not only “disrupt and impair human reproduction” but “attack” and “kill” large numbers of people, particularly in the West. Wolf, a lifelong Democrat, addressed the conservative citadel of Hillsdale College in March, confessing that events over the...

High blood pressure disorders during pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of thinking problems later in life, according to a study. Researchers found that those with these disorders had a higher risk of cognitive problems in later life than those who did not have high blood pressure during pregnancy. They also found that those with preeclampsia, which is high blood pressure that develops halfway through pregnancy and usually involves the kidneys and other organs, may have an even greater risk of cognitive decline later in life, compared to those with gestational high blood pressure, a condition with high blood...

A pregnant Florida woman charged with fatally shooting a mother of three in an Uber last year is arguing to be let out of jail because her unborn child hasn’t committed a crime. In an unusual legal argument, attorneys for Natalia Harrell, 24, filed a motion on behalf of her fetus, asserting that it shouldn’t be behind bars without being charged with an offense. “The State has placed the unborn child in such inherently dangerous environment by placing the unborn child in close proximity to violent criminal offenders,” the filing asserts. Harrell’s child, it argues, is receiving inadequate pre-natal care...

In 2010, Bill Gates famously articulated a four-part equation to reducing the world’s carbon output. Seemingly bizarrely, his first component was reducing the population — through vaccination. “The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about nine billion,” bemoaned Gates in his now infamous TED Talk. “Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10% or 15%.” Until recently, I thought this must have been a gaffe. After all, how could vaccines reduce the world’s population? Well, enter the COVID jabs – if...

Promoting SARS-CoV-2 genetic vaccination in Pregnancy is an unprecedented ethical breachDr. Thorp is a Board-Certified Obstetrician Gynecologist and Maternal Fetal Medicine Physician with over 43 years of obstetrical experience. While serving as a very busy clinician his entire career he has also been very active in clinical research with about 200 publications. Dr. Thorp is an extremely busy clinician and researcher. He has seen over 22,800 high risk pregnancies in the past three years. He has served as a reviewer for major medical journals, has served on the Board of Directors for the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine, and also...

A woman's mercury level during pregnancy is unlikely to have an adverse effect on the development of the child provided that the mother eats fish, according to a study. The researchers also found that it does not appear to matter which types of fish are eaten because the essential nutrients in the fish could be protective against the mercury content of the fish. The more important factor was whether the woman ate fish or not. This contrasts with current advice warning pregnant women not to eat certain types of fish that have relatively high levels of mercury. Although it has...