pregnancy and birth
She’s on benefits and pregnant for the 14th time - so should this mother be sterilised?
Daily Mail, 1 August 2009
A misanthropic commentary by A N Wilson.
Families can sue council over birth defects
The Times (London), 30 July 2009
In the first case of its kind since the thalidomide scandal of the 1960s, youngsters born with deformities win landmark action.
Birth pains are nothing to celebrate
spiked, 23 July 2009
It was degenerate feminists, not ignorant men, who first argued that childbirth should be a painful rite of passage. By Stuart Derbyshire.
Confusion and contradictions over swine flu
The Times (London), 20 July 2009
Ministers are struggling to keep control of swine flu warnings after pregnant women are given conflicting advice.
The fearmongers preying on pregnant women
spiked, 20 July 2009
It was only a matter of time before the swine-flu scare lobby turned its attention to those who are seen as an easy target for fear: mums-to-be. By Frank Furedi.
Does the establishment want to keep you from having an epidural?
The Times Alphamummy, 13 July 2009
One of the country's most influential midwives, Dr Denis Walsh, has told the Observer that women should be prepared to withstand the pain of childbirth because epidurals carry serious risks, impede bonding and interfere with birth as rite of passage.
Woman can hold models of their unborn babies
The Times (London), 26 June 2009
Designer develops a method of using data from expectant mothers’ ultrasound scans to create life-size plaster impressions.
Number of stillbirths has fallen sharply
The Times (London), 24 June 2009
The incidence of stillbirth has decreased over the past seven years, although the risk remains highest for older mothers.
The idea of a ‘best time’ to have a baby is a joke
The Times Alphamummy, 23 June 2009
By Jennifer Howze.
Can we ever say a woman can’t choose?
Salon, 21 June 2009
It's hard for pro-choicers to admit sometimes a woman shouldn't be allowed to choose abortion -- but we have to. By Frances Kissling.
My Jamie is not a ‘designer baby’: he has given his brother a new life
Observer, 21 June 2009
The film of Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper is set to reignite the ethical debate over embryo selection. Here one family tell why they chose to have a child whose stem cells have saved his brother from a nightmare existence of transfusions and injections.
IVF blunder clinic lost another couple’s embryos
The Times (London), 17 June 2009
Couple left 'devastated' after the tube and needle transferring the embryos to the woman’s womb became disconnected.
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