• In particular, we use an approach inspired by Donati's (1992) political discourse analysis and by Snow and Bedford's (1988) framing analysis to explore communication on the risk of infertility in the abortion debate, the risk of fetal abnormalities in the prenatal screening debate, and the risk of emotional deprivation and morbidity in infants in the debate on mothering practices. (bmj.com)
  • The United States expressed strong opposition against forced abortion and sterilization this week. (christianpost.com)
  • Some people think abortion should be illegal and some people think a mother should be able to do whatever she wishes. (ipl.org)
  • Not only has the government authorized the use of sterilization and hazardous contraceptives, but they also tightened up the abortion policies. (ipl.org)
  • The use of abortion to preserve the life of the mother has been widely accepted. (medscape.com)
  • Social and clinical correlates of postpartum sterilization in the United States, 1972 and 1980. (cdc.gov)
  • Early population programs of the 20th century were marked as part of the eugenics movement, with Nazi Germany's programs providing the most well-known examples of sterilization of disabled people, paired with encouraging ethnic Germans who fit the "Aryan race" phenotype to rapidly reproduce. (wikipedia.org)
  • Eugenics-based forced-sterilization law approved by Washington Governor Louis F. Hart on March 8, 1921. (historylink.org)
  • Influenced by eugenics , many Americans suspected that unmarried mothers were either morally delinquent or mentally deficient. (uoregon.edu)
  • The simple story is that Ann's mother, Maryon Hewitt, had her daughter declared feebleminded in order to take advantage of the thriving industry of eugenics-a popular plan to prevent the unfit from reproducing. (nyjournalofbooks.com)
  • 584, 71 L.Ed. 1000 (1927), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Virginia state law that authorized the forced sterilization of "feeble-minded" persons at certain state institutions. (jrank.org)
  • In 1924 the state of Virginia passed a law that provided for the sterilization of "mental defectives" and "feeble-minded" persons who were confined to certain state institutions, when, in the judgment of the superintendents of those institutions, "the best interests of the patients and of society" would be served by their being made incapable of producing offspring. (jrank.org)
  • The sterilization law failed to provide equal protection, they argued, because it singled out "feeble-minded" patients at only certain state institutions identified in the statute, while having no application to "feeble-minded" persons at other state institutions or to "feebleminded" persons who were not committed or confined. (jrank.org)
  • She is the daughter of a feeble-minded mother … and the mother of an illegitimate feeble-minded child, "Holmes wrote. (jrank.org)
  • Adolf Hitler , one of the world's most notorious eugenicists, drew inspiration from California's forced sterilizations of the "feeble-minded" in designing Nazi Germany's racially based policies. (history.com)
  • Yesterday, the Public Safety Committee of the California State Senate held a hearing to gather information on unethical and illegal sterilizations of women in the state prison system. (momsrising.org)
  • Forced sterilization" is a sterilization procedure, such as tubal ligation, performed without informed consent from the patient [3]. (ama-assn.org)
  • In some countries, transgender individuals are required to undergo sterilization before gaining legal recognition of their gender, a practice that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment has described as a violation of the Yogyakarta Principles. (wikipedia.org)
  • The idea of paying drug addicted mothers to undergo sterilisation is really quite repulsive. (pinktape.co.uk)
  • Transmission of HIV from a mother to her unborn child in the womb or during birth, or to infants via breast milk. (aidsmap.com)
  • In fact, in another presentation at the conference, Dr Ashraf Fawzy of Columbia University reported that diarrhoea and morbidity increased among uninfected infants of HIV-infected mothers in the Zambia Exclusive Breastfeeding Study (ZEBS). (aidsmap.com)
  • So investigators from Malawi, the University of North Carolina and the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) launched the BAN study, a randomised controlled trial to evaluate two interventions given to HIV-infected mothers or their infants during a 24-week period of exclusive breastfeeding. (aidsmap.com)
  • I saw a postnatal ward with seven very sick infants who were sharing three beds with their mothers because there were no cribs or cradles. (projectcure.org)
  • They endorsed policies, such as institutionalization and sterilization, designed to control reproductive behavior. (uoregon.edu)
  • This issue cuts close to home for me because my mother was institutionalized in Napa State Hospital during the 1950s, was released during the period of deinstitutionalization, and moved into public housing in the 1970s, where she experienced another form of institutionalization via the welfare system. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Many women and girls with disabilities are subjected to a more invasive, permanent, and irreversible medical procedure -- sterilization. (huffpost.com)
  • California in 2021 was the third state to approve a reparations program for forced sterilizations, joining North Carolina and Virginia. (abc-7.com)
  • Buck, her guardian, and her attorney challenged the Virginia sterilization law in the Circuit Court of Amherst County, Virginia. (jrank.org)
  • The county court upheld the Virginia law and affirmed the sterilization order, and Buck and her representatives appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, which also affirmed. (jrank.org)
  • January 2010 and November 2020, whose titles and / or births were from teenage mothers,² despite the fact that, abstracts addressed the importance of Family Planning since 1997, Federal Law No. 9,263/97, whose objective was, in the lives of teenagers and were made available free of in addition to combating old illegal practices sterilization charge and online. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the light of this, he advocated the rapid adoption of health practices to reduce the number of infections with hepatitis B virus, namely improvement of sterilization of injection equipment and medical instruments, and an increase in hepatitis B vaccination rates. (who.int)
  • The woman, known only as Ms J, became pregnant in 2006 after a botched sterilisation procedure eight years earlier. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • California had the nation's largest forced sterilization program, sterilizing about 20,000 people beginning in 1909. (abc-7.com)
  • As North Carolina becomes the first state to agree to provide financial compensation to people who suffered under government-run sterilization programs, the California Legislature is finally grappling with reports of modern-day sterilization abuse in its prison system. (momsrising.org)
  • In 1924, eugenicists were instrumental in passage of the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924, which limited the number of people from certain countries who could immigrate to the U.S. By the late 1920s they helped push through laws in twenty-four states that mandated sterilization of those who were deemed "unfit" and thus would not produce a "Better Baby. (icp.org)
  • Primarily, it was approved by wealthy, white Americans who felt that too many young women had fallen away from the Victorian concept of marriage and motherhood, and these women were unfit to be mothers. (nyjournalofbooks.com)
  • The pastor's mother was born and raised in Puerto Rico, and recounts the dark era of forced sterilizations on the island, from the 1930s to the 1970s. (chicagotribune.com)
  • State lawmakers responded by passing a law in 2014 to ban sterilizations in prison for birth control purposes while still allowing for other medically necessary procedures. (abc-7.com)
  • The mother, described by the serving high court judge as 'wicked and selfish,' had been charged with child cruelty and is now serving a five-year prison sentence. (yummymummyclub.ca)
  • They also labeled her "mentally retarded," perhaps because she was poor, African American, and living with her grandmother while her mother served time in prison. (momsrising.org)
  • James Heinrich, an OB/GYN who worked at Valley State Prison for Women, told Johnson that the cost of the sterilizations "isn't a huge amount of money compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children - as they procreated more. (momsrising.org)
  • In Chile, forced sterilization of HIV-positive women is widespread, and legal advocacy has been less effective. (ama-assn.org)
  • As this excerpt by a Minnesota state psychologist suggests, professionals worried about the public costs of female-headed families and about their ominous reproductive potential long before they agreed that adoption might be a positive option for either unmarried mothers or their children. (uoregon.edu)
  • The country that has perhaps received the most attention for forced sterilization from the media and researchers is South Africa, due to the irony of its highly progressive laws concerning women's sexual and reproductive rights [9]. (ama-assn.org)
  • The mother should have been sterilized the moment she found out she was pregnant. (speakupwny.com)
  • A mother has lost her long running battle with ACC for weekly compensation when she became pregnant after a failed sterilisation operation. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • A solo mum who became pregnant after a failed sterilisation has lost her bid for weekly compensation after an 11-year battle with ACC. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • While a teenager in San Francisco, my mother became pregnant out of wedlock and was sent back to Louisiana to have my sister, although she returned after the birth. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • In 1955 my mother became pregnant again. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • A seven-month pregnant mother in China was recently beaten and forced to abort her unborn daughter, according to human rights groups. (christianpost.com)
  • But Nuland's comment was in reference to another mother in China who is five months pregnant with her second child. (christianpost.com)
  • During the first part of the twentieth century, 32 U.S. states passed laws that resulted in the forced sterilization of more than 64,000 Americans including immigrants, people of color, unmarried mothers and the mentally ill. (history.com)
  • These techniques were applied unequally and mainly to marginalised groups of women, such as women of Roma ethnicity and single mothers. (bmj.com)
  • The model is estimated using micro data on almost 30,000 children of 7,300 Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available. (bristol.ac.uk)
  • Even when formula feed is freely provided it may not be culturally acceptable and often puts the mother at risk of having her HIV status disclosed involuntarily to her family and community and of being stigmatised. (aidsmap.com)
  • Before the statute is ruled unconstitutional by the Washington State Supreme Court in 1941, the forced sterilization of 685 men and women will be documented. (historylink.org)
  • In an attempt to combat mother-to-child HIV transmission, there has been a preponderance of forced sterilizations of HIV-positive women in countries around the world, especially those with high HIV rates [1, 2]. (ama-assn.org)
  • Although the practice conflicts with their ethical duties, many physicians still forcibly sterilize HIV-positive women in an attempt to limit mother-to-child transmission of the virus [4-7]. (ama-assn.org)
  • A magazine to encourage women in their high calling as wives, mothers, and homemakers. (quiverfull.com)
  • While at Napa, my mother, like the other women there, was completely controlled by the state. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Women experienced forms of abuse such as electroshock therapy, overmedication, forced sterilization, and sexual assault. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Not only does Heinrich assume that any children imprisoned women might have in the future would be unwanted, he justifies circumventing policies against sterilization as saving the state money - exactly the type of dehumanizing rationale that policymakers and courts repudiated more than 30 years ago. (momsrising.org)
  • Sterilization removes a person's capacity to reproduce, and is usually done through surgical procedures. (wikipedia.org)
  • Consequently, much effort has gone into providing safe instructions and guidelines for preparation and storage of PIF to prevent such infections, including appropriate cleaning and sterilization procedures and storage conditions for this heat-resistant organism. (cdc.gov)
  • Physicians performing forced sterilizations are violating not only internationally-recognized human rights, but also their duties as medical professionals. (ama-assn.org)
  • Having already adopted three children from abroad, the mother had a medical condition and had undergone elective sterilization. (yummymummyclub.ca)
  • The mentality of unmarried mothers and their children was considered a significant social problem, as well as a particular risk in adoption, during the first several decades of the twentieth century. (uoregon.edu)
  • The percentage of border-line cases (I.Q.'s 75-84) is 2.09 times as large among the unmarried mothers as among the school children-24.42 per cent as compared with 11.65 per cent. (uoregon.edu)
  • Forced sterilization of disabled adults was still legal in 1979 , four years after American public schools were required to integrate disabled children. (latimes.com)
  • But most of the children on the street in the Kamaliya district say they have never seen the sterilisation tablets. (thenewhumanitarian.org)
  • I asked some other mothers around the world who do know something about how to live: how do they help their children navigate disability in a world that's not always welcoming? (plough.com)
  • Mothers of Many Young Siblings) Web site and email digest for the support of Christian families with many small children, close in age. (quiverfull.com)
  • Maternal antiretroviral therapy (ART) or infant prophylaxis during the time of breastfeeding are equally safe and effective in reducing post-natal mother-to-child transmission of HIV, Dr Charles Chasela of the University of North Carolina Project in Lilongwe, Malawi, reported to the Fifth International AIDS Society conference on Wednesday. (aidsmap.com)
  • To prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, all the mothers were treated with a single dose of nevirapine during labour, followed by a week of twice-daily treatment with 3TC and AZT. (aidsmap.com)
  • Timothy Green, Amherst Asst. Police Chief: "That's what the child's mother noticed was the arm injury, which brought her to take the child to their own doctor, and that doctor immediately sent them to Children's Hospital for treatment. (speakupwny.com)
  • Her adoptive mother was apparently so desperate for another child that she forced her daughter to inseminate herself with internet-bought sperm. (yummymummyclub.ca)
  • Child protection was called in when the mother tried to remove the baby from the ward. (yummymummyclub.ca)
  • Dr Jaffer graduated from the College of Medicine, Baghdad University, in 1983, and received her Masters degree in mother and child health from the Institute of Child Health, University College London, in 1989. (who.int)
  • The details of what happened to my mother are sketchy, but they go something like this: she had a "nervous breakdown" and was committed to Napa State Hospital, while my sister became a ward of the court. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Although such programs have been made illegal in most countries of the world, instances of forced or coerced sterilizations persist. (wikipedia.org)
  • Breastfeeding is generally the best way of feeding a baby, but when the mother is HIV-positive there is a risk of vertical transmission of the virus to her infant. (aidsmap.com)
  • Assistant Police Chief Timothy Green says Smielecki had been living with the baby girl and her mother in their Amherst apartment, when the mom realized the infant was injured. (speakupwny.com)
  • Mother tried to stop the daughter (now a mother in her own right) from breast-feeding or bonding with the baby. (yummymummyclub.ca)
  • A graphic image of the aborted baby lying next to the mother has been posted on the Web . (christianpost.com)
  • I could feel the baby jumping around inside me all the time, but then she went still," the mother recounted to Ling. (christianpost.com)
  • It relies on the new mother feeding her baby only breastmilk for up to six months and having no periods or spotting during that time. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Immediately after delivery of a baby, the mother is monitored for at least 1 hour. (msdmanuals.com)
  • First, that every unmarried mother be given a mental test as the first step in the effort to understand her as an individual. (uoregon.edu)
  • citation needed] Much of these governmental population control programs were focused on using sterilization as the main avenue to reduce high birth rates, even though public acknowledgement that sterilization made an impact on the population levels of the developing world is still widely lacking. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tests several blood markers in the mother for risk of certain genetic diseases and birth defects. (lexmed.com)
  • A form of natural birth control for breastfeeding mothers. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The Research Bureau of the State Board of Control of Minnesota last year conducted a psychological study of a group of unmarried mothers. (uoregon.edu)
  • Forced sterilization has a profound physical and psychological effect. (huffpost.com)
  • I think of my own mom, Mengia, who loved Duane so fiercely and proudly, who still gazes at his photo every day ten years after his death with a look that says, "I got to be his mother. (plough.com)
  • A few years later, my sister died of pneumonia, and my mother remained at Napa for eight more years. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • A human rights organization called Justice Now has been working for years to document and expose the sterilizations. (momsrising.org)
  • The percentage of superior cases (I.Q.'s over 125) is 1.25 times as large among the unmarried mothers, but the group is so small that this figure is probably not significant. (uoregon.edu)
  • After leaving the hospital, the mother expressed breast milk by using a handheld breast pump that had not been sterilized before use. (cdc.gov)
  • The communities we visited needed very basic equipment and supplies such as hospital beds, blood pressure cuffs, instruments for sterilization, and essential lab equipment. (projectcure.org)
  • Because bladder sensation may be decreased after delivery, hospital staff members encourage a new mother to try to urinate regularly, at least every 4 hours. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The new mother is also encouraged to have a bowel movement before leaving the hospital. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Among other issues, the legislators and witnesses discussed the state corrections department regulation that explicitly prohibits sterilization unless "medically necessary. (momsrising.org)
  • After childbirth, a mother can expect to have some physical changes and symptoms, but they are usually mild and temporary. (msdmanuals.com)
  • As of 2013, 24 countries in Europe required sterilization for legal gender recognition and 16 countries did not provide for any possibility to change legal gender at all, which meant that transgender people could have challenges applying for jobs, opening bank accounts, boarding planes, or may not be able to do these things at all. (wikipedia.org)
  • He also calls upon them to outlaw forced or coerced sterilization in all circumstances and provide special protection to individuals belonging to marginalized groups. (wikipedia.org)
  • The husband, the mother-in-law and the sister-in-law of Indrawati have been sentenced to life imprisonment and fined Rs 10,000 each by the Additional District and Sessions Judge, Mr Raj Rahul Garg. (tribuneindia.com)
  • In Manitou, Manitoba, where her husband was a druggist, she became prominent in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union , of which her mother-in-law was provincial president. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • He presented the findings of the Breastfeeding, Antiretroviral and Nutrition (BAN) Study as a late-breaker at IAS 2009 in Cape Town - making it the fifth major study at the conference evaluating ways to make it possible for an HIV-infected mother to breastfeed her infant without passing on HIV. (aidsmap.com)