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USAGE: "The 31-year-old woman went for an ultrasound to check on her 11-week-old fetus and was stunned to find out she had two. Doctors believe it's a rare case of superfetation--a big word for what [the mom-to-be] said was a big shock...
...discrimination. With boys being viewed as culturally preferable, the practice of female infanticide - which had been common before 1949 but was largely eradicated by the 1950s - was resumed in some areas shortly after the one-child policy went into effect. The resulting gender imbalance widened after 1986, when ultrasound tests and abortions became easier to come by. China banned prenatal sex screening in 1994. Nonetheless, an April study published in the British Medical Journal found China still has 32 million more boys than girls under the age of 20. The total number of young people is a problem as well...
...course, anti-abortion activists have worked hard to make the issue more intimate. Nebraska is the latest state to debate what activists call "window to the womb" laws, which require that women be shown an ultrasound of the fetus before going ahead with an abortion. The Missouri Senate just passed a bill that would require doctors to talk about a fetus' development and its ability to feel pain. Opponents of "informed consent" laws that talk about fetal pain warn that doing so just causes the woman pain, and call it emotional blackmail. But there is no denying that the battleground...
...waffle • On a spoon • On a frying pan • On a cinnamon roll • On a danish (this may be the same as the aforementioned cinnamon roll. Unclear) • On a fish stick • On a cat • On a moth • In an ultrasound (creepy) • In some salsa • On a grape • In a cellphone pic • On a turtle shell • In a vat of spumoni ice cream • We didn't even mention the man who's convinced that he can see the Virgin Mary in the leg wound likely suffered when...
...patients to be aware of the added risk that maternal obesity places on the developing baby. Doctors should not only advise women who are planning a family to try to maintain their recommended weight, but also ensure that those who are already pregnant receive proper nutrition and thorough ultrasound screening. "It's important to remember that these adverse effects only affect a low percentage of obese women," says Rankin. "But there are certain things that could be put into place to protect women and their babies if they are thinking of having a family...