Rent-a-womb in India fuels surrogate motherhood debate
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Jyoti Dave is pregnant, but when the 30-year-old gives birth in March the baby will not be taken home to bond with her other child, but will instead be handed over to an American couple unable to conceive.
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A survey suggests two out of three GPs believe women should be able to get an abortion within 14 weeks.
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Those left out of India's rapid economic boom are feuding over entitlements under the country's overburdened affirmative action system
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An Indian minister proposes that all pregnant women register with the government  and get permission if they want an abortion.
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Thirty-five years after Roe v. Wade, a debate is still raging -- over which side is responsible for the drop in abortions
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A Chinese neurosurgeon arouses controversy for using cells from aborted foetuses to help cure patients affected by spinal and brain damage.
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An Indian court's refusal to allow a terminally-ill patient to donate his organs triggers a legal debate.
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India's drive to adopt a western economic model is threatening those who make their living from the jungle.
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LISBON, Feb 8 (IPS) - Just when those in favour of legalising abortion in  Portugal were faltering in the polls, a hair-raising campaign  against voluntary termination of pregnancy could backfire against  the anti-abortion cause, instead of winning over more supporters.
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The parents of a  baby at the centre of a right-to-life battle claim doctors are trying to hasten her death.
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(11-19-2004) - New research bolsters a growing body of evidence that an increasing proportion of women in the industrialized world are choosing to give birth by Caesarean section when there is no clear medical need.
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Police in India arrest the owner of a clinic near Delhi on suspicion of illegally aborting female foetuses.
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The restoration of a blind woman's sight using foetal tissues is likely to spark ethical debate, say scientists.
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In the complex, expensive and emotionally charged world of fertility treatment, doctors are sounding a call to arms to reverse the soaring rate of multiple births.
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Pregnant women should be offered an alternative to caesareans if they are facing breech births, experts say.
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Text of report by Afghan independent Ariana TV on 15 December  [Presenter] A number of residents of the Tora Bora area of Nangarhar complain that stillborn babies in the area are disabled and defective.
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Nearly 70,000 women, almost half of them  in Asia, die from unsafe abortions each year despite government  pledges made a decade ago to improve human rights and  reproductive health, researchers said Wednesday.