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Man Pleads Guilty in Ohio Gunpoint Abortion Case
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- A man charged under an Ohio fetal homicide law with trying to force his pregnant girlfriend at gunpoint to get an abortion pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted murder, weapons and abduction counts. Dominic Holt-Reid pulled a gun Oct. 6 on girlfriend Yolanda Burgess, who was three months pregnant, and forced her to drive to an abortion clinic, police said. Burgess, who was 26 at the time, did not go through with the procedure but instead passed a note to a clinic employee, who called police. Prosecutors had brought their case against Holt-Reid using the state's 1996 law that ...
Teen Fakes Pregnancy for High School Project [VIDEO]
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Washington Teen Fakes Pregnancy as School Project
By not in system - AOL NewsTOPPENISH, Wash. -- A high school student who faked her pregnancy for six months as a social experiment stunned a student assembly this week by taking off the belly bundle. Only a handful of people knew that 17-year-old Gaby Rodriguez wasn't really pregnant, including her mother, boyfriend and the principal, according to the Yakima Herald-Republic. They helped keep the secret from some of her siblings and her boyfriend's family and students and teachers, all as part of a senior project on stereotyping. Before the revelation, she asked several students and teachers to read quotes ...
Lesson From Ivory Coast: How to Give Birth During a War
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsTwo weeks ago, Julie Esse, about nine months pregnant, looked as if she could become another tragic footnote in Ivory Coast's bloody conflict. Instead, her story -- with its twist ending -- turned out to be something O. Henry might have written, with a title about two bags of Type O negative blood and details about scary guys brandishing Kalashnikovs and machetes. Esse, 35, a hat and accessories designer, began having what she thought were contractions on April 6, the morning after a mortar blast tore a hole in her family's Abidjan apartment during the siege to capture Laurent Gbagbo, who ...
Friend: Killing Pregnant Kentucky Woman, Stealing Baby Was Plotted
By David Lohr - AOL NewsKathy Michelle Coy, the Kentucky woman accused of murdering 21-year-old Jamie Stice and kidnapping her newborn son, may have spent more than six months plotting the alleged crime, according to a friend of the victim. "Jamie fell in her trap," Stice's close friend Ashley Nicole told AOL News. "She [allegedly] kidnapped her, killed her and then cut her baby out of her. I'm still in shock. It is unimaginable." According to Nicole, Coy, 33, friended Stice on Facebook and told her that she was from an agency that helps pregnant women and could help get her clothes for her baby. She also told ...
Police: Suspect Charged in Death of Pregnant Woman
By not in system - AOL NewsBOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- The infant son of a pregnant woman slain this week is in good health at a Kentucky hospital. Bowling Green Medical Center spokeswoman Doris Thomas says the infant boy was in stable condition on Friday. Police have charged 33-year-old Kathy Michelle Coy in the death of the mother, 21-year-old Jamie Stice. The hospital reported what they called a "suspicious birth" involving Coy on Wednesday. Kentucky state trooper Jonathan Biven says police interviewed Coy at the hospital. Biven says that information led police to a wooded area where they found Stice's body. Coy is ...
Couple Beats Medical Odds by Conceiving Two Sets of Identical Twins [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsA North Carolina couple has astonished the reproductive medical community by beating incredible odds and conceiving two sets of identical twins. ABC reported the story of Miranda and Josh Crawford of Charlotte, N.C., who became parents to a baby girl born in 2009 after one round of in-vitro fertilization. A year later, when Miranda was 33, they turned to IVF a second time. As in the first attempt, Miranda's doctors transferred just two embryos, considered the optimal number of embryos for a woman under 35 undergoing IVF. About six weeks later, after two ultrasounds, what the couple hoped ...
Cyclops Baby Born in India Only Survives 1 Day
By Marc Hartzman - AOL NewsA baby boy with one eye in the center of his forehead and no nose was born in India last week. He survived only one day. Doctors were shocked when they delivered the infant by cesarean section from the 34-year-old mother, Veena Chavan. Dr. Ashok Anand, professor of gynecology at the hospital, told reporters, "The child must have possibly suffered from cyclopia." mid-day.com This baby boy born in India with only one eye and no nose died 24 hours after birth. A sonogram during Chavan's 32nd week of pregnancy revealed the baby was hydrocephalic, meaning water was accumulating on ...
Wave of Anti-Abortion Bills Advance in the States
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Dozens of bills are advancing through statehouses nationwide that would put an array of new obstacles - legal, financial and psychological - in the paths of women seeking abortions. The tactics vary: mandatory sonograms and anti-abortion counseling, sweeping limits on insurance coverage, bans on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. To abortion-rights activists, they add up to the biggest political threat since the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 that legalized abortion nationwide. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images Demonstrators march along Constitution Avenue toward the ...
South Dakota Governor Signs Controversial Abortion Bill
By not in system - AOL NewsPIERRE, S.D. - South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a law Tuesday requiring women to wait three days after meeting with a doctor to have an abortion, the longest waiting period in the nation. Abortion rights groups have already said they plan to file a lawsuit challenging the measure, which also requires women to undergo counseling at pregnancy help centers that discourage abortions. Daugaard, who gave no interviews after signing the bill, said in a written statement that he has conferred with state attorneys who will defend the law in court and a sponsor who has pledged private money to ...
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