Nancy Mace is introducing a resolution expressing support for IVF — but it doesn't do anything to actually protect the procedure

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Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina at the Capitol on October 10, 2023.
Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina at the Capitol on October 10, 2023.

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A former Democratic senator may face legal trouble after she claimed a GOP congressman impregnated a 20-year-old staffer

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Former Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana.
Former Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota said there was a rumor that Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana impregnated a staffer.

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Carnival canceled a woman's ticket and refused to refund her because she was 26 weeks pregnant: report

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carnival luminosa
A woman was denied boarding on the Carnival Luminosa as she was in her second trimester, per 9News.

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Anti-abortion group Let Them Live to pay $10,000 it never gave to women who agreed not to terminate pregnancies

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Pro-life protesters in Washington DC.
The group's founders have deep connections to the conservative movement.

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A Texas supreme court justice campaigned on his wife's decision to carry a high-risk pregnancy they knew might kill her

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9 Texas Supreme Court justices pose for a photo in their robes
Texas Supreme Court justices.

The Supreme Court of Texas

Women were promised thousands of dollars to cancel their abortions. The group they trusted didn't always pay up.

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An illustration of a clock, pregnant women, hands, money, and ultrasounds

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Tara couldn't afford to keep the baby.

It was fall 2021, and she and her husband were "totally broke and really struggling," she said.

Woman says she 'feels great' after using IVF to give birth to twins at 70 years old. Doctors say the birth was irresponsible.

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Pregnant woman cradles her stomach in the hospital.
A pregnant woman gave birth to twins at 70 years old.

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One couple packed up an RV and drove 1,300 miles to give birth in Virginia to escape the high Black maternal mortality rate in Texas

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Mimi Evans and her baby
Mimi Evans took an RV from Texas to Virginia to give birth

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A human embryo grown in a lab without a sperm or egg could be a revolutionary new way to test medicines that may help prevent miscarriage and genetic diseases

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The top sphere contains the part that will become the embryo itself, capped by the amnion; the bottom sphere is the yolk sac; the interface between them is a critical structural feature of human embryonic development. The two spheres are encapsulated by a cellular layer that will become the placenta.
Scientists built the model embryo, imaged here. The outer ring is the placenta forming.

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Space tourists will probably have sex up there, but they shouldn't get pregnant, researchers warn

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banana stuck in donut hole against starry galaxy space background
Space sex could be on the horizon.

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