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That Lynn Bremer is an attorney with a good job was not enough to keep her from developing a cocaine habit. The fact that she was pregnant was not enough to make her drop it. So when her daughter tested positive at birth for the presence of drugs in her urine, health officials in Muskegon County, Mich., took the child into temporary custody. But, to Bremer's astonishment, there was more. The county prosecutor stepped in to charge her with a felony: delivery of drugs to her newborn child. The means of delivery? Her umbilical cord...
...endorse Harshbarger with one serious reservation, however. As district attorney for Middlesex County, Harshbarger prosecuted a pregnant woman for homicide who, driving drunk, got into an accident which destroyed her fetus. It was a groundbreaking case, one that has already been cited in other contexts to justify turning the "rights" of a fetus against a pregnant woman. The case--if it had been successful--would have set a dangerous precedent that, for example, might be used to justify jailing women who abuse substances during pregnancy...
...barriers to pregnancy, menopause, which shuts down the release of eggs from the ovaries, was long considered the most insurmountable. But though the ovaries may shrivel like raisins, the other reproductive organs of postmenopausal women are still viable. These women can now become pregnant using someone else's eggs, according to a remarkable report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. A team led by Dr. Mark Sauer of the University of Southern California impregnated six of seven postmenopausal women, ages 40 to 44, using eggs that were taken from younger women and fertilized with sperm from...
...women in their 40s who have not yet reached menopause but have failed to conceive. The new findings suggest that these women may be infertile not because their uteruses are too old but because their ovaries . are, and that with eggs donated by younger women their chances of getting pregnant may be as good as those of the young women themselves. The hitch is, of course, that the children developing from such eggs have the genes of the female donor and are genetically unrelated to the mother who bears them -- a fact that presents both legal and ethical problems...
...problem can be overcome in a doctor's office, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. With a tiny balloon similar to those used to clear blocked arteries, scientists were able to unclog the Fallopian tubes in 64 of 77 women, 22 became pregnant within a year. Dr. Edmond Confino, who pioneered the technique at Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center in Chicago, estimates that it could help nearly one-third of the 1 million American women who suffer from blocked tubes...