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Tammy Myers, of Grand Rapids, and her husband had their second and third children — a set of twins, born through surrogacy in 2021 — after Myers was diagnosed with breast cancer six years earlier and was no longer able to carry a pregnancy to term.
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Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2024
Government forcing women to carry their pregnancies to term because life starts at conception is a law in many red states.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2024
The study, published in the journal Science, shows that throughout a typical nine-month pregnancy, carrying a baby to term takes an average of nearly 50,000 dietary calories.
—Kristina Behr, Parents, 31 May 2024
Women’s lives are at stake, rape victims are forced to carry to term their assailant’s evidence, and children are forced to give birth.
—Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
The ways that states across the country are denying bodily autonomy differ from the ways 20th-century Ireland did, and yet, all too frequently here, someone’s parent, sibling, or lover is deprived of life-saving or life-sustaining medical care, or forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term.
—Maggie Doherty, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
The thought of a rape victim carrying an attacker's baby to term breaks Madison Sanders' heart.
—Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2024
If both platonic parents are biologically connected to the child, including carrying the fetus to term and being present at the time of birth, they can both get listed on the birth certificate.
—Allison Hope, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
Advocates argue that some women have also fallen through the cracks as the number of women who have been forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term as a result of the ban remains unknown.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2024
Government forcing women to carry their pregnancies to term because life starts at conception is a law in many red states.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2024
The study, published in the journal Science, shows that throughout a typical nine-month pregnancy, carrying a baby to term takes an average of nearly 50,000 dietary calories.
—Kristina Behr, Parents, 31 May 2024
Women’s lives are at stake, rape victims are forced to carry to term their assailant’s evidence, and children are forced to give birth.
—Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
The ways that states across the country are denying bodily autonomy differ from the ways 20th-century Ireland did, and yet, all too frequently here, someone’s parent, sibling, or lover is deprived of life-saving or life-sustaining medical care, or forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term.
—Maggie Doherty, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
The thought of a rape victim carrying an attacker's baby to term breaks Madison Sanders' heart.
—Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2024
If both platonic parents are biologically connected to the child, including carrying the fetus to term and being present at the time of birth, they can both get listed on the birth certificate.
—Allison Hope, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
Advocates argue that some women have also fallen through the cracks as the number of women who have been forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term as a result of the ban remains unknown.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
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“To term.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20term. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
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