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Tokophobia is a significant fear of childbirth. [1] It is a common reason why some women request an elective cesarean section. [3] Factors often include a fear of pain, death, unexpected problems, injury to the baby, sexual problems and a lack of self-belief of the capacity to birth a child. [4]
Two Texas women have filed federal complaints against hospitals that reportedly denied them lifesaving treatments for ectopic pregnancies, causing them both to lose one of their fallopian tubes.
One plaintiff who was denied an abortion after her daughter was diagnosed with anencephaly became ill on the witness stand as she detailed her harrowing pregnancy, Alex Woodward reports
According to news reports, hospital staff waited until they were certain the woman’s life was in danger before they induced labor, via the approval of an ethics committee. She blames her ...
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Texas Alliance for Life in monthly news releases has highlighted that between 1 in 10 "medical-necessity" abortions have been recorded in Texas each month since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Wade ...
Press Women of Texas (PWT) is an association of Texas women journalists which was founded in 1893. PWT is an affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW). PWT was involved in more than just supporting women in journalism; the organization advocated many causes, including education, preservation of library and archive materials and supporting scholarships.
Eight more women have joined a lawsuit filed by five women against the state of Texas, where, they say, abortion laws prevented them from terminating their pregnancies despite life-threatening ...