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Breast-Feeding Is Good for Mothers, Not Just Babies, Studies Suggest

New York Times 23 November 2015 Breast milk may provide the ideal nourishment for an infant, but two recent studies are putting a different spin on the bottle-versus-breast debate, suggesting it is mothers, and not just babies, who may have much to gain from breast-feeding. One study found that breast-feeding may help protect women from
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Born at 23 weeks, Tia-Jane is fighting on

Stuff co.nz 15 November 2015 Tiny Tia-Jane’s super-human fight for life started when she put her foot in it. Her mother, Wellingtonian Alysha McVeigh, went into labour only 22 weeks and five days into a pregnancy that was her only chance of a child. Tia-Jane’s chances were remote because  there were still two days to
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India Wants to Ban Birth Surrogacy for Foreigners

New York Times 28 October 2015 The Indian government says it wants to prevent Indian women from becoming surrogate birth mothers for foreigners, according to an affidavit filed Wednesday with the Supreme Court. The filing represented the latest development in a recent push to regulate an industry that has been booming in India. Estimates of
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Pregnancy centre helps mums in time of need

Bay of Plenty Times 18 October 2015 When Shana Bainbridge found out she was pregnant with her seventh child, the love and support of Pregnancy Choice Centre volunteers helped ease the shock. Miss Bainbridge is one of the 420 women helped by the Pregnancy Choice centre since it opened its doors on October 16, 2013
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Tauranga abortion clinic keeps licence

3News 2 October 2015 A Tauranga abortion clinic can continue providing medical abortions in early pregnancy, after a judge largely dismissed a legal challenge from Right to Life. The anti-abortion group went to the High Court in Wellington in June arguing the Abortion Supervisory Committee wrongly granted the Tauranga Family Planning Clinic a limited licence
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Abortion Survivor Gives Powerful Testimony Before Congress

Most babies’ births are met with balloons and tiny embroidered socks, hugs and tears of joy. Not Gianna Jessen’s. During a congressional hearing Wednesday, Jessen, an abortion survivor, shared with members of Congress the heartbreaking story of her own birth — a story that began when her mother, a 19-year-old college student was advised by
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Why parents should be told when their 15 year old has an abortion

NZ Doctor 3 September 2015 “One day my daughter didn’t come home on the bus.” Chilling for any parent. In this instance and without parental knowledge or consent, a mother’s 15-year-old daughter had been taken during school hours to another town for an abortion. This was only revealed to the family when the daughter attempted
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