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Kirti Singh states that dowry is widely considered to be both a cause and a consequence of son preference, and this may lead to girls being unwanted, sex selective abortion, female infanticide or abuse of female children. [144]
[12] [97] [98] In the UK, guidelines of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists state that "Women should be advised that abortion is generally safer than continuing a pregnancy to term." [99] Worldwide, on average, abortion is safer than carrying a pregnancy to term. A 2007 study reported that "26% of all pregnancies worldwide are ...
The following is a partial list of definitions as stated by obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopedias: . Major OB/GYN textbooks. The National Center for Health Statistics defines an "abortus" as "[a] fetus or embryo removed or expelled from the uterus during the first half of gestation—20 weeks or less, or in the absence of accurate dating criteria, born ...
Preventing unintended pregnancy would save the public over 5 billion dollars per year in short-term medical costs. [21] Savings in long-term costs and in other areas would be much larger. [21] By another estimate, the direct medical costs of unintended pregnancies, not including infant medical care, was $5 billion in 2002. [73]
Couples whose first child is a girl are allowed to have a second child. [4] Even when exceptions were made to the One-Child Policy if a couple had a female child first, the baby girls were still discarded, because the parents didn't want the financial burden of having two children. They would continuously do this until they had a boy. [citation ...
A bill advancing through the Iowa Legislature would increase the jail time for another person ending a pregnancy without the pregnant person's consent and changes state code to reference an ...
Indian authorities often arrest groups who do for pregnancy tests. India's gender ratio—900-930 females for 1,000 males—reflects its attitude towards girls. Males are breadwinners and girls burdens in all socioeconomic classes. Males get healthier diets and better access to medical treatment than girls. [28] [vague]
The 30-year-old had experienced an amniotic fluid embolism, which according to the Mayo Clinic, is “a rare condition that happens when the fluid that surrounds the baby during pregnancy, called ...