Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
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Little is known about the financial burden of stillbirths nationwide.
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Listeria infection in pregnant women can cause miscarriages or stillbirths.
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No differences were found in stillbirths and neonatal mortality rates.
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It can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths in pregnant women.
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It can even cause stillbirths and miscarriages in pregnant people.
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In women, a listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths.
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Stillbirths the week before the due date, the week after.
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In pregnant women, Listeria infections can cause miscarriages and stillbirths.
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It can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
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Listeria infections can cause pregnant women to have miscarriages and stillbirths.
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It can also lead to miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
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The data included approximately 373 million live births and 200,000 stillbirths.
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The bacteria can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
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This produced eight live births—three male, five female — and four stillbirths.
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The researchers speculate that this might contribute to stillbirths in some instances.
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It also said three pregnancy losses (including miscarriage, stillbirths and terminations) had occurred.
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What's more, there were 30 syphilis-related stillbirths, the highest number since 20163.
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Pregnancies too, I mean stillbirths, miscarriages can happen if moms get the measles.
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Congenital syphilis is associated with serious health consequences, like stillbirths and neonatal deaths.
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There will be more traumatic stillbirths, and there will be more pain and suffering.
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It can cause miscarriages and stillbirths and babies that live are often severely disabled.
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Listeria has been known to cause miscarriages, stillbirths and premature delivery in pregnant women.
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The lost pregnancies include miscarriage, stillbirths and terminations with evidence of the birth defects.
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And pregnant women may even suffer stillbirths or miscarriages if they have the infection.
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Some racial and ethnic groups are at higher risk for stillbirths and newborn deaths.
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Even more direct confirmation might be possible if researchers paid closer attention to stillbirths.
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But what happens when their 24-year-long marriage is plagued by miscarriages and stillbirths?
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Nigeria has the world's highest rate of stillbirths after Pakistan - one in every 23 pregnancies.
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There were also three times as many stillbirths due to congenital syphilis compared with 2016.
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This risk steadily rose, reaching roughly 03 stillbirths for every 20,22 pregnancies by 22019 weeks.
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The study also tracked how many pregnancies ended in miscarriages, stillbirths, abortions, or maternal deaths.
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Three stillbirths have been attributed to syphilis and 13 of the infected were pregnant women.
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And prior studies have estimated that fewer than half of stillbirths are evaluated by autopsy.
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The women suffered miscarriages and stillbirths at a rate 32 times that of the national population.
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In fact, untreated maternal depression has been associated with preterm births, stillbirths, and low birth weight.
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Twins should be delivered at 37 weeks to minimize stillbirths and newborn deaths, the researchers conclude.
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"I don't know if devices like these would actually reduce the number of stillbirths," Dr. Stotland says.
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One doctor told us that in 50 percent of late-term stillbirths, parents never get an explanation.
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And in pregnant women, the microbe is known to cause miscarriages and stillbirths, according to the FDA.
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About 241% of stillbirths are associated with prolonged pregnancy worldwide, the study authors note in their report.
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Stillbirths occur when a mother with untreated syphilis transfers the bacteria to a child during pregnancy or delivery.
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Compared with waiting for labor to begin, induction was associated with fewer perinatal deaths, stillbirths and cesarean sections.
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You see, there are 24,000 stillbirths in the United States every year, and millions more among your worldwide users.
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Left untreated, these diseases can have severe long-term consequences, including pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, stillbirths, and organ damage.
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Although some people might suffer only short-term symptoms, Listeria can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths for pregnant women.
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The economic burden of stillbirths — deaths after 2328-weeks gestation affecting nearly 22014 percent of deliveries — often goes unnoticed.
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Untreated STDs can lead to infertility, ectopic pregnancies, stillbirths, and a heightened risk of HIV, according to the CDC.
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"This is considered to play a role in the stillbirths and poor outcomes after delivery," Thangaratinam said by email.
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Eight of the women in the study have delivered babies, including the two stillbirths and two who appeared healthy.
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From what I understood through an interpreter, pregnancies eight, nine and 10 resulted in two stillbirths and a miscarriage.
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As children waddled around the house, the women spent over an hour recounting painful memories — miscarriages, stillbirths, difficulties conceiving.
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Women have been convicted of murder and imprisoned when they suffered miscarriages, stillbirths or pregnancy complications, the groups says.
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Dozens of Salvadoran women who had stillbirths or miscarriages have been convicted under the law, with two more on trial.
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These doulas work with women who are experiencing any kind of complication in their pregnancy, including miscarriages, stillbirths and abortions.
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We do not yet know how to predict which pregnancies will result in stillbirths, microcephalic babies, or perfectly healthy babies.
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The rates decreased substantially between 1970 and 2016, from 41.5 stillbirths per 1,000 live births to just 13.1 per 1,000.
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There was also no increased risk of birth defects when the researchers included other factors like stillbirths and induced abortions.
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Women have been accused of inducing abortions when in fact they suffered miscarriages, stillbirths, or pregnancy complications, the CDFA says.
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Because the disease can be asymptomatic in pregnant women, many more cases of abnormalities and stillbirths may have been misidentified.
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There were also fewer stillbirths with labor induction: one in this group compared with 10 in the expectant management group.
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Meanwhile, reproductive health advocates say that laws punishing people for stillbirths or miscarriages can be used to restrict abortion too.
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According to the state report, officials are most concerned about an uptick in the number of stillbirths due to congenital syphilis.
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But how much the risk of stillbirths or newborn deaths increases with each additional week beyond full term hasn't been clear.
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From weeks 40 to 23, the risk of stillbirths increased 64% compared with delivery at 37 weeks' gestation, the study found.
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Stillbirths were also more likely among infants who were large for their gestational age for mothers with both types of diabetes.
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However, delaying delivery to 38 weeks gestation led to an additional 8.8 deaths per 1,000 due to an increase in stillbirths.
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Prosecutions for pregnancy loss invariably target the poorest, most marginalized people in society, including those who suffer unintended miscarriages and stillbirths.
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"It seems the judicial system is starting to understand that stillbirths are not crimes, they are obstetric emergencies," Guillen told CNN.
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One limitation of the study is that it only included data on live births, not miscarriages or pregnancy terminations or stillbirths.
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Researchers analyzed 512 stillbirths from 2006 to 2008 from 59 hospitals in five states: Utah, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Georgia and Texas.
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Listeria is especially harmful to pregnant women, as it can cause miscarriages, stillbirths, premature delivery, or life-threatening infection of the newborn.
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The study wasn't a controlled experiment designed to prove whether or how specific factors might directly cause stillbirths among women with diabetes.
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Boyd and colleagues examined data on more than 1 million women who had babies or stillbirths in Denmark from 1978 to 2012.
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He makes the case that worse air quality leads to premature deaths, an increase in illnesses, more stillbirths and higher hospital spending.
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Glen Mola, one of the nation's most senior medical specialists, blamed supply chain failures for a resurgence of stillbirths in Port Moresby.
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Until a decade ago, latent syphilis infection in pregnancy was one of the most common causes of stillbirths in Papua New Guinea.
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And there is no systematic information, not even outdated data, about miscarriages, stillbirths, abortions, maternal deaths or other pregnancy outcomes in prison.
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The analysis found that compared with waiting for labor to begin, induction was associated with fewer perinatal deaths, stillbirths and cesarean sections.
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The more dangerous coronaviruses, like SARS and MERS, can cause stillbirths and could infect breastmilk or cord blood, according to previous research.
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Thousands of women have filed grievances with the US Food and Drug Administration about unintended pregnancies, miscarriages, stillbirths, severe pain and bleeding.
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With more than 300,000 cases of all three diseases reported in the state in 2017, researchers counted 30 stillbirths resulting from congenital syphilis.
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Vazquez is among 27 women who are behind bars for abortion-related crimes who actually suffered miscarriages, stillbirths or pregnancy complications, CFDA said.
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El Salvador regularly imprisons women who suffer miscarriages and stillbirths, under the rationale that their losses could actually be proof they had abortions.
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Left untreated, syphilis can have severe complications in men and women, including causing stillbirths and newborn deaths and increasing the risk of HIV.
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Central sub-Saharan Africa's stillbirths, which exceeded 7.13 per 1,000 live births in 2016, rank as the highest regional rates on the globe.
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Wilkinson's mother died giving birth to a later child; Ann Lee suffered three stillbirths and the death of one child who survived infancy.
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It is highly infectious, and pregnant women are likely to pass it on to their babies in utero, which can result in stillbirths.
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Rights groups say they were accused of inducing abortions, and wrongfully jailed for murder, when instead they suffered miscarriages, stillbirths or pregnancy complications.
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Her letters are scattered with references to stillbirths and miscarriages, to mothers who died in labor and to infants who succumbed soon afterwards.
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Overall, pregnancies that continued 41 weeks or longer had the greatest risk of stillbirths and newborn fatalities within the first 28 days of life.
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About 25 women are in prison accused of abortion-related crimes even though rights groups say they actually suffered miscarriages, stillbirths or pregnancy complications.
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According to a 2013 study looking at 533 stillbirths in Michigan over 10 years, the average cost of losing a baby was $7,495 (±7,015).
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Researchers assessed the rates of stillbirths as well as deaths within the first 28 days after deliveries at various gestational ages after 34 weeks.
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Finland had the lowest rate of stillbirths at 1.1 per 1,000 live births, while South Sudan had the highest rate, at 43.4 per 1,000.
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Aerys became increasingly paranoid about his difficulty having children with his sister and wife, Queen Rhaella, who had a series of miscarriages and stillbirths.
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If pregnant women aren't treated for syphilis, the baby can be born with it, resulting in stillbirths, preterm birth and physical and mental disabilities.
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Genetic conditions or birth defects were responsible for about 14 percent of stillbirths, infection for 13 percent and umbilical cord issues another 10 percent.
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The rights group says scores of women have been wrongly convicted of murder and imprisoned when they in fact suffered miscarriages, stillbirths or pregnancy complications.
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The CDC wants to prevent sexual transmission of Zika, which has been linked to a devastating birth defect and possibly also to miscarriages and stillbirths.
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To assess the rise in risk, researchers examined data from 13 previously published studies that included a total of 15 million pregnancies and 17,830 stillbirths.
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But, stigmas surrounding the discussion of miscarriages, stillbirths, infertility and conscious childlessness means that motherhood and parenting can often feel like the only valid conversation.
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It can be especially harmful for children, the elderly, and those with weakened immune systems, and can even cause stillbirths and miscarriages in pregnant people.
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The researchers found that the overall number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths decreased from 37,813 deaths in 2007 to 2.23,457 in 2015, an 11.5% drop.
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According to the CDC, lead exposure can cause miscarriage, stillbirths, and infertility, and ill-health effects can pass from pregnant women to their unborn children.
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Right now, 17 Salvadoran women are in jail for up to 40 years for miscarriages or stillbirths that the state claims were really illegal abortions.
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Stillbirths may correlate with B.M.I. because it may be harder for doctors to detect fetal complications in bigger bodies as a result of technological limitations.
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The researchers found that stillbirths steadily rose with gestational age, from 0.11 per thousand births at 37 weeks to 3.18 per thousand at 42 weeks.
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Listeria contamination can be deadly for children, elderly people, and those with weakened immune systems, and it can even cause stillbirths and miscarriages in pregnant people.
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Its symptoms are similar to other food-borne illnesses, with fever and diarrhea, but in severe cases, it can cause miscarriages or stillbirths in pregnant women.
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For example, health providers denied chemotherapy to women who are diagnosed with cancer earlier in their pregnancies and even prosecutes women who have miscarriages or stillbirths.
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Although there are 24,000 stillbirths in the United States alone each year, doctors generally don't record the features of the fetuses, let alone study their DNA.
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The researchers recommend reviewing cases of stillbirths in Brazil from the last few months to see if this is an isolated incident or a red flag.
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When Stanford University researchers analyzed more than 1.1 million birth records in California, they found the overall prevalence of stillbirths to be five per 1,000 deliveries.
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Citing research from the NCBI, the magazine reported that uterus didelphys is an extremely rare condition that increases the risk of premature births, stillbirths and miscarriages.
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Syphilis alone caused an estimated 200,000 stillbirths and newborn deaths in 2016, making it one of the leading causes of baby loss globally, the research said.
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Its symptoms are similar to other food-borne illnesses, including fever and diarrhea, but in severe cases, it can cause miscarriages or stillbirths in pregnant women.
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The laws have already been used to prosecute women for attempting suicide while pregnant, for self-inducing abortion (even FDA-approved medication abortion) — even for stillbirths.
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There were five stillbirths and one neonatal death among the women who waited until week 203, compared with none in the group induced at 41 weeks.
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Women prosecuted under El Salvador's hard-line abortion laws include those who have suffered stillbirths after home deliveries as well as abortions induced because of medical emergencies.
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Fallout from American nuclear testing had made the atoll uninhabitable, but the Americans had declared it clear, despite a horrifically high rate of stillbirths, deformities and cancers.
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He points to how rates of prenatal conditions like gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia, as well as miscarriages and stillbirths, all increase as a patient's B.M.I. climbs.
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Abortion is banned in the socially-conservative Central American country, where women have been prosecuted for stillbirths after home deliveries and abortions induced because of medical emergencies.
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The infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths, and infants born with it may suffer a wide variety of serious health problems, including deformities, seizures, anemia and jaundice.
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It is the first definite proof of a potential connection between Zika and the rising number of birth defects, stillbirths and miscarriages in mothers infected with the virus.
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It can cause fatal infections for those groups, and others with weakened immune systems, according to the FDA, and can lead to miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
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Any intentional termination of a pregnancy in El Salvador can be prosecuted as a crime, including stillbirths due to home delivery or abortions induced because of medical emergencies.
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Most of the 279 women are still pregnant, Dr. Honein said, and fewer than a dozen have experienced "adverse outcomes," such as stillbirths, microcephaly or other congenital problems.
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About 20 women are in jail for abortion crimes when they suffered miscarriages, stillbirths or pregnancy complications, some serving sentences of up to 40 years, the CDFA said.
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It is 1612 in the county of Lancashire, and the young and spunky Fleetwood Shuttleworth, wife of a rich country gentleman, desperately wants a child after three stillbirths.
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Advocates fighting on behalf of women like Vásquez say that too often when women suffer miscarriages or stillbirths, officials make the case that they self-induced an abortion.
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An examination of the placenta helped find a cause in about two-thirds of stillbirths, and a fetal autopsy helped in roughly 40 percent of cases, researchers reported.
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It recorded more than 300,000 stillbirths last year, while around one in 120 women die during childbirth, according to data from medical journal The Lancet and the World Bank.
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Evelyn Hernández is one of dozens of women in the country, which bans abortion entirely, who have been accused of murder by the state after having miscarriages or stillbirths.
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The effects of Zika mimic those of rubella, some experts noted: Both cause only a mild rash in adults, but can cause stillbirths, microcephaly and eye malformations in newborns.
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However, a listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women and may become serious for young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
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If untreated, the infections can lead to long-term health effects like "neurological and cardiovascular disease, infertility, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirths, and increased risk of HIV," according to the WHO.
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Many of the 880,000 stillbirths and 1.2 million newborn deaths which occur each year in sub-Saharan Africa are linked to the mother having an infection, the study found.
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If any woman who loses a pregnancy is a potential criminal, then the government can investigate, or even potentially punish, women with wanted pregnancies who suffer miscarriages or stillbirths.
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Researchers found higher rates of stillbirths and neonatal death in planned home births when compared to low-risk hospital births, with most of the difference occurring in the transfers.
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Another 18 women remain in jail, convicted of inducing abortions, who say they were wrongfully jailed for murder, when instead they suffered miscarriages, stillbirths or pregnancy complications, Herrera said.
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The mosquito-borne virus has been linked to thousands of suspected cases of microcephaly in Brazil, and a recent study has suggested the virus may be associated with stillbirths.
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In healthy people, it can cause symptoms like high fever, severe headaches, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and can also lead to miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
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But the new study did not look at differences in stillbirths or neonatal mortality between different racial or ethnic groups -- one of the study's main limitations, according to Ananth.
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Ms. Post, who spent years petitioning the United Nations for redress, said high levels of lead among camp residents had led to miscarriages, stillbirths, premature births and developmental disorders.
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Listeria monoyctogenes can cause serious or fatal infections in children, frail or elderly, or immunocompromised people, as well as miscarriages and stillbirths in pregnant women, according to the FDA.
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Among women with a B.M.I. above 20173, the rate ranged from seven to 10 stillbirths per 1,000 deliveries — as much as a twofold increase, but still a rare event.
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The authorities have been especially harsh in a group of cases involving women who have suffered stillbirths or miscarriages late in their pregnancies before they could reach medical attention.
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That network of researchers had previously determined that complications during the birth process, including preterm labor and premature rupture of the amniotic sac, accounted for 30 percent of stillbirths.
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About 97 percent of women in the region live in countries where abortion is restricted or outlawed, and in countries like El Salvador, women are incarcerated for enduring stillbirths.
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In 2014 the Citizens' Association for the Decriminalisation of Abortion, a campaign group, petitioned the Supreme Court to free 17 women jailed following reported stillbirths or other complications of pregnancy.
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Hernández is one of dozens of women in the Central American country, which bans abortion entirely, who have been accused of murder by the state after having miscarriages or stillbirths.
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As of mid-June, Zika had spread to 60 countries, resulting in rising rates of microcephaly in newborns, other neurological effects including Guillain-Barré syndrome, and increased miscarriages and stillbirths.
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They need to minimize the risks that come with early arrivals yet still avoid the risk of stillbirths, which rises the longer multiples stay in the womb, the researchers say.
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Public health officials are particularly worried about an increase in the number of babies whose mothers are passing it to them in utero, which can cause stillbirths and infant deaths.
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Once married, the girls must bear children (a vast number are "defectives" — stillbirths and miscarriages), serve their husbands, and watch as their own daughters are conscripted into girlhoods of abuse.
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If they are left untreated, they can lead to serious and chronic health effects that include neurological and cardiovascular disease, infertility, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirths and an increased risk of HIV.
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El Salvador has a total abortion ban and activists claim that 17 other women have been wrongly convicted of aggravated homicide after having miscarriages or stillbirths over the last 18 years.
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In the small Central American country, any intentional termination of a pregnancy can be prosecuted as a crime, including stillbirths due to home delivery or abortions induced because of medical emergencies.
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Some women who endure miscarriages or stillbirths are sent to prison, such as Carmen Vásquez, who was sentenced to 30 years for aggravated murder after giving birth to a stillborn baby.
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Ko said the case suggests that the virus may be associated with stillbirths, which doctors should be looking for, especially in pregnant women who may not show signs of Zika infection.
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Poor women who suffer late-term miscarriages or stillbirths have been convicted of aggravated or attempted homicide in trials that seem to push them all down the same hall of mirrors.
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In fact, a recent study estimated that approximately 220006,2202 stillbirths annually in United States may be linked to acute and chronic exposure to ozone, based on data from 2628 to 28500.
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This figure is only based on ICE data and does not take into account cases of migrant women experiencing miscarriages or stillbirths while in custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
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A complication known as Rhesus disease, in which the blood type of a fetus is incompatible with the mother's was responsible for 10% of stillbirths in America as recently as the 1960s.
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In 1937, Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener identified another essential feature of blood, the Rh factor, which explained blood incompatibilities between certain mothers and fetuses—a leading cause of stillbirths at the time.
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In children, lead exposure can impair basic brain development, causing impulsivity, anxiety, depression, and diminished I.Q. In the elderly, it can prompt memory loss, and pregnant women can suffer miscarriages and stillbirths.
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Women prosecuted under El Salvador's hardline abortion laws, which ban the procedure in all circumstances, include those who have suffered stillbirths after home deliveries as well as abortions induced because of medical emergencies.
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Our data represents over half of all imprisoned women in the U.S. In total, there were nearly 2628 admissions of pregnant women, over 28503 live births, 22019 miscarriages, 11 abortions and four stillbirths.
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While healthy individuals may experience short-term symptoms such as a high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, a listeria infection can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
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Listeria monocytogenes, or L. mono as it's known, is a particularly nasty strain of bacteria that can cause stillbirths in pregnant women and serious health complications for the elderly and those with immune deficiencies.
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Monday's announcement comes after more than 5,000 women filed grievances with the FDA between November 993 and May 2015, complaining of unintended pregnancies, miscarriages, stillbirths and severe pain and bleeding after an Essure implantation.
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But for people who are thinking of having kids, finding out that the virus has been linked to stillbirths, problems with the placenta that may harm a developing fetus, and microcephaly can be concerning.
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Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, the company said Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
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Cortez is one of about 25 women in jail accused of inducing abortions, who say they were wrongfully jailed for murder, when instead they suffered miscarriages, stillbirths or pregnancy complications, according to the CDFA.
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In 2015, more than 5,000 women in the US reported to the FDA several problems related to Essure, including unintended pregnancies, stillbirths, debilitating pain, bleeding and perforation of their fallopian tubes, among other complications.
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There is the black market across blockade lines, for instance, and the quiet or unexpected ways this type of warfare can kill: heart attacks, stillbirths, a step on a land mine while foraging for food.
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In limited data on other respiratory outbreaks, like SARS in 2002 to 2003 and MERS, which first appeared in 193, pregnant women had a slightly higher risk of miscarriages and stillbirths, according to the CDC.
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One limitation of the study is that there were only about a dozen stillbirths – which may have been too few to detect meaningful differences in this outcome based on sleep position, the study team notes.
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"We're moderately confident that inducing women at or after 41 weeks will reduce perinatal deaths, especially stillbirths," said the lead author, Philippa Middleton, an associate professor at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.
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The study results suggest that women who have unexplained fertility problems, miscarriages or stillbirths might want to be tested for celiac disease to see if this might be contributing to these problems, Grode said by email.
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The estimate that meeting that need could help avert 67 million unintended pregnancies a year, thereby preventing the deaths of 76,000 women from pregnancy and childbirth related complications, as well as cutting stillbirths and newborn deaths.
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It means that for some people, the cost was more than $14,000, and the study found that hospital bills for people who had stillbirths were actually about $750 higher than for people who had live births.
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"These finding raise concerns that the virus may cause severe damage to fetuses leading to stillbirths and may be associated with effects other than those seen in the central nervous system," Ko said in a statement.
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There were seven stillbirths or newborn deaths in the gadolinium group compared to 9,844 in the no-MRI group, so while still rare, these outcomes were twice as common in the gadolinium group, the authors note.
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"Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages, stillbirths and fetal infection among pregnant women," a statement said.
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The law, which went into effect in 1998, is so severe that it's been unfairly used to target women who suffered obstetric emergencies, such as miscarriages or stillbirths, on the suspicion that they self-induced abortions.
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But an outbreak of the virus in Brazil has raised some concerns among the health officials who suspect the virus might cause stillbirths, placental insufficiency, and microcephaly — a birth defect that can affect the brain size of newborns.
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Nearly one in five pregnant women worldwide is infected with Group B Streptococcus (GBS), which causes stillbirths, deaths and permanent problems such as vision and hearing loss in babies, researchers found in the first global study of the disease.
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According to medical experts who testified in April, the infants had been at or near full term — between 34 and 42 weeks — and at least some were likely born alive, since one woman having six stillbirths was virtually impossible.
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She was pregnant a total of 17 times: 12 were miscarriages or stillbirths, four died in their early years (or even within minutes of being born) and her one surviving son, Prince William, died at the age of 11.
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A darling, petite young woman with a beautiful smile on the outside, Mecca's reality is a daily onslaught of pain and shame due to a completely preventable injury of pregnancy, afflicting a million women and resulting in untold stillbirths.
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has long recommended a slew of possible tests after stillbirths, but this study, published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, is the first nationwide attempt to calculate the relative utility of each.
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The randomized trial across 14 hospitals was halted early because stillbirths and newborn death were markedly higher with "expectant management" until the 242nd week of pregnancy compared to inducing labor at 242 weeks, the researchers report in The BMJ.
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The term miscarriage refers to a pregnancy that ends on its own before the 20th week of gestation; pregnancy losses after that point are generally referred to as stillbirths, which affect one percent of all pregnancies according to the CDC.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Investing in an "army of midwives" across Nigeria will cut the number of stillbirths and women dying during or after giving birth, a leading women's rights activist said ahead of the West African nation's first global conference on midwifery.
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Africa is disproportionately affected, with 65 percent of the world's stillbirths and infant deaths from GBS, though it is home to only about 13 percent of the world's population, according to the study led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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But the picture is different in Pakistan, which has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world—specifically, the highest rate of first-day deaths and stillbirths, at 40.6 per 20133,000 births, according to a 2014 Save The Children report.
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The study, published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, looked at more than 99% of US live births and stillbirths between 2007 and 2015 using data from the National Center for Health Statistics of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Right now, scientists still aren't able to confirm for sure what the link is between Zika and microcephaly, so we're a long way from finding out if the virus can cause stillbirths, and if so, just how high the risk may be.
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But an outbreak of the virus in Brazil has caused concern among health officials who suspect Zika might be responsible for stillbirths, problems with the placenta that may harm a developing fetus, and a birth defect that can affect the brain size of newborns, microcephaly.
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"The question has to be asked whether earlier delivery of diabetic pregnancies could prevent these term stillbirths, but we don't know the answer to this," said Dr. Sharon Mackin, lead author of the study and a researcher at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
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For type 2 diabetes, elevated blood sugar before conception was tied to a 2% greater stillbirth risk, while higher BMI increased the risk by 7% While most of the stillbirths happened when the fetus was premature, roughly one-third occurred when the pregnancy was full term.
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Doctors will find themselves torn between norms protecting confidentiality and the pressure to report their patients; the pressure to treat women themselves as criminals is likely to grow, intensifying an existing pattern of charging poor minority women with crimes arising from miscarriages, stillbirths or perceived risks taken while pregnant.
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The problems at the facilities that make up the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust from 1979 to 2017 resulted in dozens of stillbirths as well as the deaths of newborns and women who had just given birth, an independent investigation ordered by the government in 2017 has found.
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These cases, documented by my organization, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, include pregnant women who fell down a flight of stairs, delayed having cesarean surgery, had a home birth, used a controlled substance (including ones prescribed to them), experienced miscarriages and stillbirths or who gave birth to a baby who did not survive.
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The funeral home failed to contact or attempt to contact Brown about her daughter's final disposition, according to the complaint, which also says Wayne State contributed to the mishandling of Alayah's remains by failing to require the funeral home to present permits legally required to transfer the bodies of newborns, stillbirths and fetuses.
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We are perpetual hosts to a spirit that not even Dickens imagined, the Ghost of a Christmas That Can Never Be. In the United States there were over 23,000 stillbirths in 2013 and another 12,900 babies who died in their first week of life, according to a Centers for Disease Control report.
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Christopher Sudfeld and Wafaie Fawzi of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston point out in an accompanying editorial that global deaths among children younger than age five were cut in half between 1990 to 2015 but the world is lagging in reducing the number of stillbirths and deaths among newborns.
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February 22016 - CDC reports Zika virus in brain tissue samples from two Brazilian babies who died within a day of birth, as well as in fetal tissue from two miscarriages providing the first proof of a potential connection between Zika and the rising number of birth defects, stillbirths and miscarriages in mothers infected with the virus.
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With the aim of convincing Gottlieb to temporarily pull the device from the US market, the group presented what they've seen over the last six years of advocacy and legal battles with the device's manufacturer, Bayer — including graphic photos of broken coils implanted in uteruses, body rashes, stillbirths, dissolved fallopian tubes, and dental problems that they claim were caused by the device.
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"These findings raise concerns that the virus may cause severe damage to fetuses leading to stillbirths and may be associated with effects other than those seen in the central nervous system," Dr. Albert Ko, chair of the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health and co-author of the study, said in a press release.
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Despite assurances from anti-abortion groups that their commitment is to protecting pregnant women, not jailing them, those organizations have rarely, if ever, opposed arrests of pregnant women — whether the woman was one of the approximately one million who have an abortion, the one million who experience miscarriages or stillbirths, or one of the four million women who go to term each year in the United States.
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