Congratulations!! You're pregnant!! You go in for your ultrasound and, wow...you are the 1 in approximately 200,000 mothers who is expecting conjoined twins. How about that? They share a kidney, liver, and lung, and lower intestine but everything else is developing separately ( Read more... )

Have you ever had someone openly suggested you an abortion?

This happened to me twice today, the first one was some random lj user in a community and the second one was a close family member.

If your teenaged/grown daughter accused her father/your husband (assume they are the same in this case) of impregnating her and her father insists that he is innocent, whose side would you take?
What if she had an abortion and there is no way to get DNA testing to prove/disprove the paternity?

Inspuired by this.

(also, on an unrelated note, someone ( Read more... )

A pro-choice women's health clinic (think Planned Parenthood) is the only local option for crisis pregnancies. They're looking for a volunteer to offer breastfeeding information and support ( Read more... )

So after going through a long debate in the last thread It sparked this question for me ( Read more... )

You have an opportunity to be an advocate for at risk pregnant ladies. Many of the ladies are low-income and most have minimal education. The demographic includes recent immigrants with language barriers, teenagers, and unmarried women. Some of them have substance abuse issues.

Your position would be to educate them about breastfeeding and the ( Read more... )

In partial-birth abortion (PBA), also known as Dilation and Extraction (D&X), the woman's cervix is dilated, and the fetus is partially removed from the womb, feet first. The surgeon inserts a sharp object into the back of the fetus' head, removes it, and inserts a vacuum tube through which the brain is extracted. The head of the fetus contracts at ( Read more... )

If a woman is pregnant with high-order multiples due to fertility treatment, should she abort some of the babies so that she can breastfeed more easily?

"Now available in the U.S. is the Pink or Blue Early Gender Test ($240), an at-home kit that purports to determine a fetus's sex from a pinprick's worth of the mother's blood as early as seven weeks after conception. Convienient, particularly for couples who 'always wanted a girl' or in ethnic communities that value sons over daughters, as the test ( Read more... )

Would you conceive with the express purpose of aborting in order to give your living child the embryonic stem cells that would save their life?