Doctors Face Charges for Failing to Report Sex Abuse
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Study: Couples Who Pay for IVF Get More Embryos
A New England Journal of Medicine study shows that couples whose health insurance covers in vitro fertilization are less likely to become pregnant than those who pay for it themselves.
Couples in the study who paid for IVF themselves had more embryos implanted at each attempt, suggesting that doctors are under more pressure to bring about a successful pregnancy if the couple is paying for the treatments. Critics say implanting multiple embryos is more likely to result in multifetal pregnancies and selective abortion.
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Texas Clinic Sued for Illegal Teen Abortion
A woman who used a fake ID to get an abortion is now suing an abortion clinic for violating Texas’s parental notification law.
Cherise Mosley filed a lawsuit against the Aaron Family Planning Clinic, in Houston, saying she used a false ID card she purchased at a grocery store to obtain an abortion when she was only 17. The suit says that the clinic should not have accepted the ID because it was stamped, “This is not a government document,” and Texas law requires that valid government documents be used to prove an abortion patient is not a minor.
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EMS Supervisor Retires Over Coerced Abortion Case
An assistant EMS chief in the District of Columbia has retired after an investigation found she pressured employees to abort.
An investigation found that Samanthia Robinson told a class of trainees they would be fired if they became pregnant their first year on the job. Three women said they subsequently had abortions. D.C.’s inspector general recommended that Robinson be disciplined, but the U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute, citing a lack of evidence of criminal intent.
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Doctors Face Charges for Failing to Report Sex Abuse
Two doctors in Bridgeport, Conn., are charged with failing to report the pregnancy of an 11-year-old they referred for an abortion.
Prosecutors say Ann Lule and Mukeshkumar Shah had reasonable cause to report that the girl, who gave birth in May, was being sexually abused. The girl and her child are now in foster care, and DNA testing will be used to determine if the child was fathered bya 75-year-old child predator who admitted having sex with the girl. The two doctors will face fines of up to $500 if convicted.
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British Star Blames Music Industry for Her Abortion
A former member of the successful British girl band All Saints has written a book saying the music industry “violated” her by forcing her to choose between her unborn child and her career.
Nicole Appleton, now part of a singing duo with her sister, writes that she had the abortion under pressure from band members and her record label, and that it led to suicidal thoughts and her breakup with the baby’s father, British recording star Robbie Williams. Friends of Williams say he was devastated by the abortion and upset that Appleton was airing the story in public.
