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Jordan See and Austin Benz - garbed in matching shirts depicting a sweet little cow with a Band-Aid on her tummy and pink bow on her head - chat on a recent day about an uncommon condition of which they are becoming experts: Omphalocele. When the young couple, expecting their first child, initially heard the term, "I could barely pronounce it," said See, now 28 weeks pregnant, at their Mountain Iron apartment.
President Trump made one of his more confusing slips on Friday, appearing to defy the laws of nature by insisting: "Right now, in a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be born from his or her mother's womb in the ninth month. It is wrong.
It might surprise American women to learn the process most of them have to undergo to access hormonal birth control - which requires an annual screening and a prescription from an obstetrician-gynecologist - is fairly unusual in most countries around the globe. A 2012 survey conducted by researchers at Ibis Reproductive Health and published in the journal Contraception looked at rules in 147 countries and found that only 31 percent of them required a doctor's prescription to obtain oral contraceptives.
Dozens of teen pregnancy prevention programs deemed ineffective by President Donald Trump's administration will lose more than $200 million in funding following a surprise decision to end five-year grants after only three years. The administration's assessment is in sharp contrast with that of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which credited the program with contributing to an all-time low rate of teen pregnancies.
Many of the country's most respected doctors' groups and consumer health organizations are decrying Thursday's vote in the House for a Republican health care bill , is an amended version of the American Health Care Act , a GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Within hours of the vote, many of the country's top medical organizations representing hundreds of thousands of physicians and doctors in training, made public statements and spoke out on social media.
My father was an obstetrician-gynecologist in Texas. Shortly after Roe v. Wade, until he passed away ten years ago, my father performed abortions in San Antonio, Corpus Christi, and Laredo.
As a senior medical student in 1973, the year the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade case made abortion legal in America and a political issue, I decided to specialize in Obstetrics and Gynecology.