Word: pregnants
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...barrio to reach out to the ghetto's endangered women. Texas mothers, particularly Hispanics, are among the least likely in the U.S. to receive early prenatal care. So Mahon has been arming volunteer moms with information to help them save their neighbors' babies. The volunteers not only persuade pregnant women to seek prenatal care but also find them food, get them to a doctor and help them locate jobs and housing. Their aid forms a safety net of community support...
...Fiesta Mart, the noisy, pinata- bedecked hub of the neighborhood, Mahon stops to urge a security guard to bring his wife to a Madres meeting. Then she walks over to Edith Espinoza, who is wrapping food under a blinking red neon light trumpeting FRESH TORTILLAS. Espinoza, about eight months pregnant, knows Mahon but doesn't know English. So, with some help from the store manager, she informs Mahon that she is going to the hospital the next day for amniocentesis. "No problema for me?" asks Espinoza, her eyes dark with worry. "No mal," Mahon reassures...
...volunteer mom knows this dark secret all too well. She has survived her own tormented marriage, but a teenage friend has a boyfriend who beats her. "No man that hits you loves you," the volunteer told her. But the advice did not take hold, for her friend, now pregnant, is back with the boyfriend. So the volunteer is determined to get her friend the prenatal care she never got. "I'm going to show her that she doesn't have to go through it, not alone," she says. " 'You want to have a healthy baby, hold it in your arms...
...view [of HRPAL] is that progressive legislation should offer alternatives to the pregnant woman, in the form of prenatal care and other programs," Hanlon said. With such programs, she said, fewer women would turn to abortion...
...roll of the genetic dice, the odds were only 1 in 4 that such a child would have the right tissue type. And there were other daunting obstacles. Abe, 44, would have to undergo an operation to reverse a vasectomy done 16 years earlier, and Mary faced becoming pregnant...