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Medical reasons for inducing or performing an abortion are usually due to concerns about fetal viability or disability. These reasons include chromosomal and genetic abnormalities, [6] structural abnormalities, [7] and fetal reduction. [8] The medical reasons may also be about the ability of the mother to survive the pregnancy without injury.
Fifteen weeks into her second pregnancy, Katrina Villegas and her husband learned their baby girl had trisomy 13, a chromosomal disorder that causes severe disabilities and is usually fatal. "It's ...
[14] [better source needed] New Brunswick Minister of Health and Wellness Elvy Robichaud called on provincial residents to provide "support, education, and awareness for grieving parents who have lost children during pregnancy or shortly after birth" due to miscarriage and infant death being "a source of grief, often silent, for mothers ...
Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined in slightly different ways by several different health organizations. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines maternal death as the death of a pregnant mother due to complications related to pregnancy, underlying conditions worsened by the pregnancy or management of these conditions.
Pregnancy loss that occurs after 20 weeks of gestation is referred to as a stillbirth. Stillbirth involves the delivery of a fetus that has passed away before or during birth. Almost 1.9 million stillbirths occur each year, with unexplained stillbirths accounting for 76% of cases across the globe.
A Texas teen died after the state’s ban on abortion stopped her from getting life-saving medical care while experiencing pregnancy complications. On October 28, 2023, the day of her baby shower ...
The law also legalized voluntary termination of pregnancy for therapeutic reasons, which could be practiced under certain conditions: serious danger to the health of the woman, or strong probability that the unborn child would suffer from a particularly serious condition recognized as incurable at the time of diagnosis, as attested by two doctors;
"When they have a seizure due to the elevated blood pressure, that is what is called eclampsia," explained Dr. Tamika Auguste. Gold medalist's pregnancy-related death prompts more calls for change ...