All posts tagged "Obstetrics"

LANSING, Mich. — The number of births recorded in Michigan last year is expected to be the lowest annual total since World War II, a development that highlights concerns about the state's aging population and ability to attract young people and businesses that seek to employ them. The state tallied 100,853 live births in Michigan in 2022, according to provisional data obtained by The Detroit News and confirmed Wednesday by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The last time Michigan reported fewer births in a year was 1940, 82 years earlier, when there were 99,106 live births. ......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jessica Babler, a nursing student at Research College of Nursing in Kansas City, Missouri, is tired of being vilified for wanting to provide abortions, which she views as health care, to her patients. Babler hopes to be an OB-GYN nurse and practice in Kansas, but she said the Kansas Legislature’s continued efforts to limit abortion — even after Kansans overwhelmingly rejected a constitutional amendment which would have restricted or banned abortion in 2022 — have caused her to reconsider where she wants to practice. For Babler, a state’s laws on abortion, which will decide w......

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Last Easter, Jill and Mark Hartle were looking forward to their dream coming true: the birth of their first baby. “We were so excited to learn that we were expecting our first baby and little girl that we would name Ivy Grace Hartle,” Jill Hartle said. “This is what we’ve always dreamed of.” But after learning that their baby had a rare heart defect and would die soon after birth, Jill Hartle said the state of South Carolina “turned its back” on them. “This state made our excruciating decision (to terminate pregnancy) that much more stressful because not only could MUSC (Medi......

TOPEKA, Kan. — Abortion providers in Kansas will soon face additional criminal penalties if they do not provide care to infants “born alive” in an abortion after lawmakers approved the first anti-abortion bill since voters overwhelmingly opted to retain the state-level right to the procedure last year. The Kansas Legislature voted Wednesday to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of the bill, which goes beyond existing federal law protecting infants “born alive” in abortions to create new criminal penalties. The House voted 87-37 to and the Senate voted 31-9 Wednesday override the veto on the “bor......

Kansas abortion providers may soon have a new set of rules promoted by anti-abortion groups to abide by less than a year after voters overwhelmingly opted to retain access to the procedure in the state. As abortion rights advocates sat in the House gallery with signs about last year’s vote, the Kansas House voted Wednesday to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto on three anti-abortion bills. One requires providers to notify patients a medication abortion is reversible — though that isn’t proven. Another imposes new criminal penalties if a provider does not care for an infant “born alive” during an......

TOPEKA, Kan. — For the first time since Kansas voters upheld the state right to an abortion, Kansas lawmakers sent a bill on the topic to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s desk. The Kansas House voted 86 to 36 Tuesday to pass a bill requiring physicians to provide care to infants “born alive” during an abortion and report data to the state when it happens — even as abortion providers and medical experts say it does not happen. Kelly has consistently expressed support for abortion rights and has vetoed new regulations in the past, but the House and Senate both approved the legislation with more tha......