When respected cultural figures discourage childbearing, childbearing tends to fall (as when MTV aired shows covering teen moms in unflattering fashion).
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Since traditional agricultural societies enabled parents to "capture" the economic rents of childbearing because families shared income, the economic returns to childbearing were large.
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When respected cultural figures encourage childbearing, the research shows, childbearing tends to rise (as when the patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church promised to personally baptize any children families had beyond two).
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But making childbearing a less forbidding experience could not hurt.
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There have been historic declines in teen pregnancy and childbearing.
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The same is true for women past their childbearing years.
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Along with rewarding childbearing, our welfare system also discourages marriage.
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Women's issues are not just about childbearing or domestic violence.
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However, our residents are obviously older and not of childbearing age.
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More than 60% of American women of childbearing age use contraception.
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I said that was because she wasn't of childbearing age anymore.
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Maternity coverage is something that a lot of actuaries tell me has done a lot to drive people out of the Obamacare markets because it creates this big bulb of costs for women of childbearing age that, due to other Obamacare regulations, ends up also being borne by people who are women not of childbearing age and men of childbearing age.
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Employers may come to expect women to postpone childbearing through egg freezing.
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After all, marriage is no longer the only acceptable context for childbearing.
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More than 10 million women of childbearing age live in New York.
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A delay in marriage can trickle down to a delay in childbearing.
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Greater gender equality and less punishing working hours would encourage more childbearing.
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Much of that happens early in people's careers, during women's childbearing years.
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It turns out that menopause affects far more than our childbearing potential.
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Women of childbearing age may have difficulty getting pregnant or staying pregnant.
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This change has the potential to affect all women of childbearing ages.
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As more years of education become necessary for economic success, childbearing is postponed.
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Women of childbearing age deserve a say in how we're treated in pregnancy.
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Polycystic ovary syndrome is a prevalent health problem among women of childbearing age.
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Every 28 to 35 days, most women of childbearing age tend to menstruate.
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These are major social losses for women—like conventional beauty and childbearing ability.
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Like Bilhah in the Bible, the Handmaid is reduced to a childbearing vessel.
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Her research also focuses on women's health, aging and transitioning from childbearing age.
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Rajneesh forced his women followers into abortions and sterilizations (he didn't countenance childbearing).
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The remaining 19 clinics serve more than 5 million women of childbearing age.
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There were six more live births for every 1,000 women of childbearing age.
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The rate had been rising for that group, as more women delayed childbearing.
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More broadly, the policy could impose new hurdles on anyone of childbearing age.
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Schumer isn't the only celeb to be presented with a childbearing vagina cake.
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But Ms. Rose assured her that doll play would promote caring, not childbearing.
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The World Health Organization recommends their use without restriction for women of childbearing age.
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It's a visceral, raw look at the physical reality of childbearing and child-rearing.
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Women of childbearing age are fearful of bearing children with deformities or behavioral abnormalities.
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After she's finished with childbearing, there's a final operation to have the uterus removed.
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Their whole hormonal profile gets optimized for childbearing, whether you want to or not.
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Welfare Rewards Childbearing Virtually all welfare programs pay substantially more if you have children.
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Childbearing, Ms. Firestone argued, should be taken over by technology, and sex distinctions eliminated.
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Like the Venus of Willendorf, Ara's female figures have large, childbearing hips and sumptuous thighs.
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By that time in your life, you are experiencing a benefit of your childbearing history.
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Mineshima believes Japan's crisis is due to a shrinking pool of women of childbearing age.
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Both surveys assessed the demographics, pregnancy status, attitudes and influences on childbearing of female residents.
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But that's exactly what women of childbearing age in Bangkok Thailand got on Valentine's Day.
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In El Salvador, for example, the government instructed all families to delay childbearing until 2018.
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Among those who have taken refuge in neighboring countries, 1.2 million are of childbearing age.
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Blue families prize equality and companionship between spouses while putting a low value on childbearing.
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Polls show that allowing abortion has broad support among South Korean women of childbearing age.
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It allowed women to delay marriage and childbearing and enter the workforce in larger numbers.
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Gone is the ban that once excluded women of childbearing age from participating in studies.
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It may also result in some firms being unwilling to hire women of childbearing age.
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Instead, she can be expected to live a traditionally subordinate life of housework and childbearing.
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Childbearing, the study estimates, accounts for 80 percent of the gender wage gap in Denmark.
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And it gives people otherwise frustrated by childbearing or adopting attempts another shot at parenthood.
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For some women, then, the highest window of ED risk overlaps with the childbearing years.
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After these revelations, "use of valproic acid in women of childbearing age decreased considerably," he said.
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Sperm freezing is just the latest trend to rise from millennials' delay in marriage and childbearing.
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And we need cultural leaders to set an example, have kids, and promote childbearing and parenting.
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For these women, the gap between pay and productivity is concentrated in their prime childbearing years.
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There's one really, really helpful supplement that women of childbearing age should consider taking: folic acid.
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"Shocked and Scared but Keeping Her Baby," blared the headline, depicting her childbearing as a scandal.
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Those clinics once catered almost exclusively to women at the older end of their childbearing years.
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You know, to feed, clothe, and shelter the people they are drafting into their childbearing army.
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Governments and employers should also make it easier for women to combine childbearing and a career.
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Young people — precisely those forgoing childbearing, the dreaded millennials — can barely keep their heads above water.
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For example, any woman of childbearing age – about 20 percent of the population – could be pregnant.
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Many are delaying childbearing to finish school and start careers, just like other American-born women.
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But for up to 10% of women of childbearing age, these symptoms signal something more serious: endometriosis.
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However, they were suddenly expected to give this up again, and instead focus on childbearing and rearing.
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Non-childbearing women are more likely to continue using their birth control than those on the Pill.
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In 2003, the Elizabeth Seton Childbearing Center in Greenwich Village, the successor to the Maternity Center, closed.
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Should a woman using her own eggs become ineligible in the final childbearing years, say, at 43?
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If so, most girls may get it in childhood and become immune before entering their childbearing years.
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The map showed regions with a higher number of women of childbearing age colored in dark pink.
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So many things can happen to a young woman to make her change her mind about childbearing.
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The overall outcome of these shifts with respect to fertility was the postponement of childbearing: mean ages at first parenthood rise again, opportunities for childbearing are lost due to higher divorce rates, the share of childless ever-partnered women increases, and higher parity births (four or more) become rare.
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In Mexico, for instance, more than 70 percent of women of childbearing age use some form of contraception.
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Specifically, it increased the birthrate by approximately four births per quarter for every 10,000 women of childbearing age.
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Up until the 211s, women tended to drop out of work once they hit their prime childbearing age.
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And that assumes that the guests, many in their childbearing years, are going to these events at all.
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And about 210 million women of childbearing age in the U.S. have used fertility treatments to get pregnant.
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"Girls' futures have already been mapped out for them: marriage in adolescence, childbearing early and often," says Patel.
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This is a very serious side effect, which means it can't be taken by women of childbearing age.
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The training starts, for most, in their mid-20s and continues into their early 30s — prime childbearing years.
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Still, he said, "It's important to focus on screening for and preventing diabetes in women of childbearing age."
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Teen pregnancy and childbearing are estimated to cost U.S. taxpayers in excess of $9 billion dollars per year.
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Would one of his lackeys be so craven as to point out that she was of childbearing age?
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My body is made for childbearing — generous hips, plenty of soft flesh for an infant to hang on to.
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Researchers use the general fertility rate to measure the changes in childbearing during a given period or over time.
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Most of the time, when people say "childbearing," they mean to remark on the size of a person's hips.
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Judges play an important role in our community – overseeing individuals' childbearing capacity should not be part of that role.
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That makes me among the one in five pregnant women who miscarries at some point during her childbearing years.
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In others women of childbearing age are often trying to get pregnant, are actually pregnant or recently gave birth.
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After my first pregnancy, I despaired of finding a suit that might cover the wreckage that childbearing had wrought.
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It was the great universal among women that they wanted to make something of their lives other than childbearing.
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As the number of women of childbearing age shrinks, so will births in a long-term trend, he said.
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Both she and James see childbearing as labor, and view abortion as people's unalienable right to abstain from it.
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Let's do some math: Each year, 11 out of every 100,163 American women of childbearing age suffer a stroke.
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Childless women and men who are beyond their childbearing years reflect on their level of satisfaction with their lives.
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The German economist Anna Raute has isolated this "opportunity cost" of childbearing as a significant factor in fertility decisions.
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To skirt the restrictions limiting participation by women of childbearing age, Dr. Scully and her colleagues recruited menopausal women.
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Researchers used data from a larger health study to estimate levels of serum PFOA in women of childbearing age.
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There is now only about one abortion for every 20163 women of childbearing age each year in the state.
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But it does not feel like a coincidence that the new phase tracks with the recent decline in childbearing.
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Aunts instruct handmaids to fulfill their childbearing duties for Commanders and their Wives, and also guard Unwomen in the Colonies.
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That is partly because people in rich countries are postponing their childbearing years; they struggle to conceive as a result.
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The fifth house is childbearing, and she had Chiron the Wounded Healer [there], which is a huge amount of pain.
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Women tend to store fat in their hips and lower body thanks to hormones and evolution, preparing females for childbearing.
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In fact, the primary childbearing custom in The Handmaid's Tale stems from a book we're all familiar with: the Bible.
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After pollution and nuclear destruction render the vast majority of women infertile, the childbearing few become Handmaids for powerful families.
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Young women today face less pressure to build their lives around marriage and childbearing than their mothers or grandmothers did.
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Another reason was the decline in births, as a result of fewer parents of childbearing ages living in the country.
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It based that percentage on the 165 million women in America, many of whom are not in their childbearing years.
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It can be a particularly difficult path for women, for whom this career pressure typically coincides with prime childbearing years.
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Its long-term societal consequences run deep, with childbearing upended for people threatened by the mosquito that carries the virus.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the number of women of childbearing age in the United States using contraceptives.
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So the state continues to recommend that children and women of childbearing age avoid eating fish from the lake altogether.
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A narrow population—women of childbearing age who have mitochondrial disorders and who want to have children—stands to benefit.
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And they observe a ban on women of childbearing age from visiting, because the shrine's deity, Lord Ayyappa, is celibate.
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Flashbacks have provided some clues: A reactionary ideologue in the years before the coup, she argued passionately for compulsory childbearing.
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Then her mother learned that one of Haylee's ovaries could be surgically removed and frozen, preserving the possibility of childbearing.
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For more than a decade, KWAT has documented hundreds of cases of trafficking for forced marriage and forced childbearing in China.
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With fewer women of childbearing age and fewer births per 235,000 women, the total number of newborns will drop as well.
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This is because they have higher fertility rates than natives and make up a growing share of women of childbearing age.
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But you work for an asshole who'd prefer a new massage chair in his office rather than benefits for childbearing employees.
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And it was rather convenient that our lifespans were short enough that we would generally die soon after childbearing age anyway.
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East Asia, which has fertility rates and incomes per person similar to Latin America's, has much lower rates of teen childbearing.
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When I turned 30, my mother started making inquires about my childbearing plans with what seemed, to me, like alarming frequency.
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Before the Affordable Care Act took effect, it was common for insurance plans to charge women of childbearing age higher premiums.
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In particular, critics have argued that covering egg-freezing and IVF effectively chains women to their desks through their childbearing years.
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It is great that assisted reproductive technology, such as IVF or IUI (intrauterine insemination), gives women options and potential for childbearing.
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There are many causes for this gap, but the increasing cost of childbearing clearly has played a role in its development.
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It would also virtually eliminate child marriage and reduce early childbearing by up to three-fourths, according to the World Bank.
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The institute attributed the drop in abortions to the declining number of childbearing-age women and the increasing use of contraception.
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Nathan, who wasn't involved in the study, also attributes rising rates of hypertension to increasing numbers of women putting off childbearing.
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The initial idea was to offer teenage girls an incentive to stay in school so they would postpone marriage and childbearing.
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Postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder affects about 2 percent of childbearing women, about twice the rate of O.C.D. in the general population.
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For instance, between the 73s and 1970s, one-third of Puerto Rican women of childbearing age were sterilized, many under coercion.
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False pregnancies are more common in developing nations where childbearing is seen as an integral part of a woman's role in society.
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One in five women of childbearing age in crisis situations is likely to be pregnant, according to the United Nations Population Fund.
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For example, many used to argue that the depressed teen birthrate might reflect the recession leading to more cautious decisions about childbearing.
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That risk peaks five years after childbirth, and then gradually declines until childbearing becomes protective against breast cancer, about 20 years later.
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National recommendations like the 21 research guidelines by the Food and Drug Administration "effectively excluded women of childbearing potential" from clinical studies.
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Researchers have started to refer to this phenomenon as the "childbearing pay gap" or "motherhood penalty," as Vox's Sarah Kliff has reported.
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He takes a complementarian view of gender, forcing women out of work to promote the "incomparably sacred duties" of homemaking and childbearing.
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The birth rate among women between the ages of 2900 and 220006, prime childbearing years, fell to a record low in 2202.
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This includes refusing to hire women or restricting their employment due to gender, or asking them about their marital or childbearing status.
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But with marriage coming later, the share of women at peak childbearing ages (20 to 2010) who are married has steadily fallen.
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The Republican vision for women's health care is coming into sharp focus — and it's a harsh reality for women of childbearing years.
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"I feel a new giddiness and wonder that I managed to pass through my childbearing years without bearing a child," she writes.
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If successful, egg freezing can enable women to delay pregnancy and remain in the work force until well beyond normal childbearing years.
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When women are mentioned in relation toHIV, the focus is often on childbearing and the risk of transmitting HIV to the fetus.
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As of 2015, Health Canada has not received any reports of serious heart-related adverse effects in anyone of childbearing age taking domperidone.
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"Now, women considering this procedure to preserve fertility and postpone childbearing have more information at their disposal," the authors write in a statement.
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The annual rate, of 3.5 abortions per 21 women of childbearing age, is only slightly lower than it was in the early 230s.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a rare, disabling autoimmune disease that damages the central nervous system and predominantly develops in women of childbearing age.
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Two in five adolescent girls are thin due to undernutrition, which is a particular concern given many girls begin childbearing in their teens.
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When measured in terms of women of childbearing age per facility, however, abortion clinics are scarcer in Missouri than in any other state.
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Women may also face extra scrutiny from the FDA, which has rules around the inclusion of women of childbearing age in clinical trials.
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The idea is that men have the same career gap as women, and the career slippage among women of childbearing age is reduced.
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Compared to men, women who train their senses can discriminate far subtler differences in smell — particularly if they're of childbearing age, research shows.
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Her mother, whose beauty and career were not to be destroyed by childbearing, had adopted a pretty baby girl from her home province.
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has said for years that IUDs are a great choice for women regardless of childbearing status.
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"Whether it's [from] childbearing or just aging, hormones change," she says, and when they do, you're more susceptible to another round of pimples.
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Just as the effects of global warming slowly rear its ugly head, childbearing as a financial decision will cost us in the end.
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Now, about half that number die each year, but AIDS is still the leading cause of death for women in their childbearing years.
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According to a Yale University study published in July, career ambition is not the major factor that impels many women to delay childbearing.
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Under a new program, doctors in the state ask women of childbearing age whether they want to become pregnant in the next year.
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That same year, NewYork-Presbyterian's Allen Hospital eliminated most of its midwifery services, and then later, the Morris Heights Childbearing Center also closed.
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In September of last year, the Indian Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to block women of childbearing age from entering Sabarimala.
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According to our report, across the world, marriage and childbearing currently depress women's employment rates, while they have the opposite effect on men.
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Girls who contract Zika are believed to be immune when they reach their childbearing years, meaning they cannot give birth to microcephalic babies.
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Because your target population is women of childbearing age and pregnant women, where there's the highest bar [for safety] set by the FDA.
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When women are mentioned in relation to HIV, the focus is often on childbearing and the risk of transmitting HIV to the fetus.
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At State Farm, women who have recovered from depression related to childbearing and have no history of other depression may also avoid higher premiums.
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In Malaysia, the mourner is supposed to be postmenopausal, because the journey to the underworld is considered too dangerous for women of childbearing age.
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"The next frontier is to explore the procedure's potential in delaying childbearing among health women, not just cancer patients," Oktay says in a statement.
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Akihito's most immediate heirs are two middle-aged sons with wives past childbearing age, who between them have had three girls and one boy.
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And when I say caregiving, I mean not only childbearing and child-rearing, but also care for the elderly and care for the sick.
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As the average age of marriage rises and couples push childbearing into their mid- or even late 30s, they become increasingly vulnerable to shocks.
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In the early 1980s Pakistan's fertility rate was 6.4 (meaning that a woman could expect to have that many children during her childbearing years).
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Certainly, maximum childbearing is not an outcome we seek – countries with the world's highest fertility rates are mired in poverty and face many challenges.
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Now that research incorporates postmenopausal women, which is an improvement yet still leaves many unanswered questions about how drugs affect women of childbearing age.
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Political parties have included generation-specific pledges in their platforms, ranging from grant-in-aid college scholarships to more daycare for the childbearing cohort.
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Couples are expected to have children shortly after getting married, so women who want to delay childbearing have a strong incentive to delay marriage.
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That includes about two million women of childbearing age, and it could result in tens of thousands of babies born with devastating birth defects.
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In addition to what Virginia Tech scholar Ariel Ahram calls "statecraft," the group also marks and grows its territories through forced marriage and childbearing.
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Turns out only one of the above factors was associated with women of childbearing age getting insufficient sleep and that was—womp—having kids.
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Two women in the southern Indian state of Kerala sneaked into a centuries-old Hindu shrine that has long barred women of childbearing age.
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Marriage and childbearing used to happen much earlier, both of which had to do with economic realities and the status of women in society.
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It's also worth noting that this isn't the first time in history that a generation has had to ask whether childbearing is morally acceptable.
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The result is "a decoupling of marriage and childbearing," according to the authors, with larger percentages of children brought up in single mother households.
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A 247 study published by the National Institutes of Health, "Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing," shows that the problem crosses gender boundaries.
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Ten years later, many people are still recovering from the impacts of that period, which include stagnant wages, delayed marriage and childbearing, and delayed retirement.
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If women move en masse to have children at older ages, the rate will fall, then rise again as the average age of childbearing stabilises.
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As punishment, they are forced into a life of childbearing slavery, one in which they are ritually raped by their owners on a monthly basis.
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Among its tips was to buy in an area that is home to lots of women in their 20s and 30s (ie, of childbearing age).
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While it only observed women with normal cycles—up to 30 percent of women experience irregular periods during childbearing years—that 90 percent is impressive.
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Often these graduates are people of childbearing age who are not living in Hungary, leading to every sixth Hungarian child being born outside the country.
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Four million people out of around 13.5 million in need of humanitarian assistance inside Syria are women and girls of childbearing age, U.N. data shows.
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The fact that childbearing and child rearing are not paid or subsidized reinforces the idea that these activities are not valuable labors: they are love.
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For centuries, women of childbearing age were prohibited from entering the temple, which is perched on a lush hill in the coastal state of Kerala.
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When a woman of childbearing age goes to the doctor in most places, she gets standard queries about her smoking, drinking, seatbelt use and allergies.
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Between 2007 and 2017, the population of Hispanic women of childbearing age in Wake County grew nearly 50 percent, drawn by a booming local economy.
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As marriage has declined, though, childbearing has not, which means that more children are living in families without two parents and the resources they bring.
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These sorts of demographic catastrophes return to stunt population growth two decades after they happen, as the number of women reaching their childbearing years drops.
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One case involved a factory's policy forcing some women of childbearing years to be sterilized if they wanted to work around chemicals that cause infertility.
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"The differences in total fertility rates between rural and metro areas are consistent with previous research describing differences in childbearing behaviors," the study authors wrote.
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The Task Force, which is a panel backed by the U.S. government, had similarly recommended in 22 that women of childbearing age take folic acid supplements.
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It was the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case, disputing HB2 on behalf of the 2.5 million Latina women of childbearing age in the state.
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Women of childbearing age are having fewer children, the data show, and they are waiting later in life to have those children than earlier generations did.
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Many factors influence whether or not obese women should have bariatric surgery first or after childbearing, so there is no black or white answer, Stuart said.
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But the thing is, PCOS is not uncommon: It's estimated that between one in 10 and one in 20 women of childbearing age has the disorder.
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But the most commonly used measure of fertility, the number of births for every 210,240 women of childbearing age, was 244 last year, a record low.
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Several dozen women have tried to enter the temple since October, after India's Supreme Court ruled that the ban on women of childbearing age was unconstitutional.
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Women of childbearing age, whether they were pregnant or wanted to be soon, were told not to travel to 68 countries where Zika had been circulating.
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The fertility rate fell to 60.2 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age, down 3 percent from 2016, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
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This period of adulthood, usually in one's 30s, when the childbearing decision becomes unavoidable, is a kind of existential rite of passage for many urban professionals.
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White America is growing older, there are fewer white women of childbearing age, and the white fertility rate is lower than that of Hispanics and blacks.
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Warren and Tyagi want Americans to have children, but they provide case after case in which childbearing strains family finances and leads to bankruptcy and misery.
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They excluded same-sex couples and physicians under age 25 or over 50, in order to focus on gender differences in work hours during childbearing years.
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Let's not gloss over childbearing; my husband and I both gave up whatever it was we used to do with our free time and disposable income.
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Women of childbearing age who live in states that did not expand Medicaid are more likely to be uninsured than their counterparts in Medicaid expansion states.
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Gender roles — particularly when it comes to marriage, childbearing, caregiving and other family responsibilities — can limit women's independence, and ultimately their ability to become financially secure.
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On the other hand, about 5% of women of childbearing age experience recurring emotional and physical symptoms severe enough to meet criteria for PMDD, she said.
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We resist the conventional wisdom that women will succeed in school, career and life only if they relegate childbearing to an elusive "ideal" moment in time.
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Women face even more trade-offs today because they have more choices, including higher education and a career, and young people are delaying marriage and childbearing.
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Scientists believe that the increases may be explained by the growing trend toward delayed childbearing and having fewer children, both known risk factors for breast cancer.
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A regulatory impact analysis of the administration's new rules estimated that "no more than 126,400 women of childbearing age" would have been affected, court documents said.
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It is not uncommon for employers, concerned about having to cover maternity leave costs, to ask female job applicants about their marital status and childbearing plans.
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The debate over whether women of childbearing age can visit a shrine in southern India has become a battle involving caste, gender, party politics and history.
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According to the Philippines' National Demographic and Health Survey for 2017, 9% of Filipino women age 13-19 had begun childbearing, down from 10% in 2013.
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His remarks echoed a directive issued in February by nine government ministries and agencies prohibiting employers from asking job applicants about their marital or childbearing status.
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JB: Do you think the CDC's recommendations — that pregnant women and women of childbearing age avoid travel to countries where Zika is circulating — are overly cautious?
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The report, by the Guttmacher Institute, found the rate has declined to 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women of, what is considered, childbearing age (that's 15 to 20113).
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Second-wave feminism, birth control, women entering the workforce, divorce laws, and other radical social shifts contributed to young men and women alike delaying marriage and childbearing.
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The gender neutrality also reduces the likelihood that employers will discriminate against women of childbearing years, since both men and women are equally eligible for the leave.
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Before, the jobs were assigned by the government no matter whether you are male or female, but now private companies often avoid hiring women of childbearing age.
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Roughly 97% of women of childbearing age in Latin America and the Caribbean live in countries subject to "highly restrictive" abortion laws, according to The Guttmacher Institute.
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"What's behind this is a continuous decline in the number of women in the typical childbearing age bracket of 25 to 39," a health ministry official said.
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That opportunity continues to expand, further reducing the number of children born to women from the EU, the U.S., China or Japan, as well as delaying childbearing.
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According to the PCOS Foundation, about 5-10% of women of childbearing age suffer from the endocrine disorder, but about half of those women are still undiagnosed.
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Decades later, there are about 4.4 ischemic strokes for every 100,000 women of childbearing age, and birth control increases the risk to 8.5 strokes per 100,000 women.
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I'll never forget the moment when I, a woman well into her childbearing years, and member of the workforce for more than a decade, realized the misconception.
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Almost two-thirds of women of childbearing age in the United States use contraceptives, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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As a result, the percentage of women of childbearing age who have been sterilized hovers around 18 percent, and this figure has declined since the early 2000s.
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I'm not sure if it's my difficulty walking, being a woman of childbearing years, or what, but I can't get a job over $14 an hour anywhere.
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McManus recommended that pregnant women and women of childbearing age use protection during sex, get regularly tested for HIV/STDs and complete preventative treatment regimens as required.
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Women reported being regularly rejected for jobs if they were of childbearing age, or having contracts that were involuntarily converted to part time if they became pregnant.
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On Thursday, it rolled out an online "birth map" that used shades of pink to rank towns and cities by the number of women of childbearing age.
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There were 59.1 births for every 19503,000 women of childbearing age in the country last year, a record low, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
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The decline in 240 was broad, sweeping through nearly all age groups, and reflected a long, gradual shift in American childbearing to later in the mother's life.
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This is doubly true when you consider that immigrants' work in the household and child care sectors likely serves to increase native-born Americans' childbearing as well.
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The decline in teen births in places such as the U.S. and Eastern Europe has also been a significant factor in the rising average age of childbearing women.
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Among women of childbearing age who were registered for iPLEDGE in 2006 and 2009 to 2010, the pregnancy rates ranged from 33 per 10,000 to 173 per 10,000.
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However, close to 48 percent of women of childbearing age do not have children, and this does not seem to affect their earnings potential in a positive way.
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Better, she says, help women to avoid unplanned pregnancies and delay childbearing at least until they finish school and are in a solid relationship, whether married or not.
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They were a reminder that my childbearing years were slowly ticking away, and that I should try to have a child soon whether or not I was married.
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Impossible to treat then (and rare even now, though fixable with surgery), Jane's condition precludes sex and childbearing, which in turn precludes marriage in that time and place.
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This is because parental leave policies are associated with an increase in leave-taking and childbearing, which leads to lost labor or increased health care costs for companies.
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The researchers found that, overall, the rate of abortion has declined from an average of 40 per 1,000 women of childbearing age in 1990 to 35 in 2014.
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Women who are 40 to 44 planned their families during a different atmosphere for childbearing, since many of them had children in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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For women who have children during the prime childbearing years of 25 to 35, their earnings never recover, and their salaries often drop precipitously after having a kid.
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In addition to the concern that more children will make for a worse climate, there's another fear driving some of the young people who've decided to forgo childbearing.
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"Natural decrease is the ultimate demographic consequence of population aging, low fertility, and a diminishing proportion of the childbearing-age population," researchers Rogelio Saenz and Kenneth Johnson wrote.
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It took her four years to finish, from roughly 36 to 40, as if by composing it she could delay thinking about childbearing until the last tenable moment.
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I was far from alone; federal Civil Servants, whose childbearing years also coincide with their lowest levels of leave accrual, have no paid parental leave of any kind.
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For women, greater educational achievements, a lifetime in the work force and delayed marriage and childbearing mean our lives are more expansive and outward-looking than ever before.
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Harvard economist Claudia Goldin has found that the gender wage gap in America is the largest for women in their 30s — in other words, their prime, childbearing years.
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Enrollees who don't have kids question why they have to pay for pediatric services, while those not of childbearing age argue they shouldn't have to pay for maternity benefits.
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It added that pregnant women have more than double the risk of hospitalization if they get influenza compared to women of childbearing age who aren't pregnant, the CDC said.
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It doesn't necessarily have to feel like a cop-out; Gilead can punish her pretty badly and still leave her as a functional childbearing vessel if they need to.
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If you're a woman of childbearing age who likes to drink, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would like you to stop and consider your future unborn baby.
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Its message practically applies to any woman of childbearing age who drinks, is sexually active and at one time used birth control but decided to stop for some reason.
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Declaring that someone has "childbearing hips" is one of those creepy compliments that just doesn't quite sit right — like saying someone looks "fertile" or calling someone a "natural" beauty.
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The total fertility rate, the number of babies a woman of childbearing age is expected to have over her lifetime, is currently at 1.72 — 2% lower than in 2017.
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"Exposure to educational material improves fertility awareness and changes desires toward childbearing and its timing," said Hidekazu Saito of the National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo.
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But women of childbearing age account for just a sliver of union membership, so maternity leave and breast-feeding policies have not been at the top of union agendas.
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Studies of five other PFAS chemicals – PFBA, PFHxA, PFHxS, PFNA and PFDA – will just be getting started, even though PFNA levels in women of childbearing age are going up.
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Critics and feminists from Judith Fetterly to Gloria Steinem debated the gendered ideologies of the novel's sweetness and do-gooder-ism, its emphasis on marriage, childbearing, and the home.
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The next day I contacted Postpartum Support International, an organization that supports women facing mental health issues related to childbearing, and talked to a coordinator in New York City.
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These specialists point to a demonstrated link between women's ability to control their reproductive lives and their childbearing, and the economic growth, stability and resilience in communities and countries.
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This seems to exist through women's childbearing ages, said lead researcher Valentina Gallo, professor of epidemiology at Queen Mary University of London's Centre for Primary Care and Public Health.
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This means anyone who knows at least 10 women of childbearing age -- a category that includes, hopefully, all of us -- most likely knows someone who has had a miscarriage.
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Just 53 percent who put childbearing first have incomes in the middle or top third, meaning 303 percent of millennials who have a baby first are considered lower income.
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Women of childbearing age consume an average of 60 milligrams of DHA per day, but many experts recommend at least 200 milligrams per day during pregnancy and breast-feeding.
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One in 10 women of childbearing age has polycystic ovary syndrome, which can cause irregular periods, acne, and facial hair growth and can increase the risk of endometrial cancer.
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"Virtually no country in the world has been able to coax birth rates up for a significant period of time after childbearing rates have dropped with modernisation," said Greenhalgh.
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Protesters dressed in the red robes of Atwood's Handmaids — women forced into childbearing slavery — have become a familiar sight outside courtrooms ruling on cases and legislation involving reproductive freedom.
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This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came out with a new campaign advising all sexually active women of childbearing age who aren't using contraception to avoid alcohol.
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Making the delusion seem even more credible is that most cases occur in women of childbearing age who are married, many of whom had been trying to conceive for years.
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The first is that the new rules estimate that "no more than 126,400 women of childbearing age will be affected," an increase from the estimated 120,000 of the 2017 rules.
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Some people may be delaying or skipping childbearing due to economic concerns, because they are pursuing education and a career, or because that's simply not the path they are choosing.
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A document released by the central government and ruling Communist Party on Tuesday said families would be able to "independently arrange childbearing" under the new policy, without applying for approval.
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In the past, there were also ethical concerns about negatively affecting fertility for women of childbearing age, a worry that effectively excluded women from research while men continued to participate.
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In one case, a military veteran who had signed up for a 150-person wedding in Vieques next year bailed out when her sisters objected because of childbearing concerns. Mrs.
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The study, published Wednesday in The Lancet, found that the worldwide abortion rate dropped slightly from 1990 to 2014, to 35 from 250 abortions per 21990,256 women of childbearing age.
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Sinosphere BEIJING — For 36 years the Chinese state nearly turned out the lights on childbearing, ordering most families to have just one child and to focus instead on economic growth.
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Illinois is breaking ground in the U.S. by following suit and acknowledging the physical and emotional burdens upon women due to childbearing and incorporating them as mitigating circumstance into law.
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"The government must protect the life and health of women who are already pregnant, those of childbearing age and the whole population in general to the Zika virus," she says.
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Most surveys find that non-childbearing women do experience pain getting the device, possibly more than women who have given birth — but also that they're extremely happy with the contraceptive.
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And so the wage gap persists, perhaps because of differences in education and experience, or women's saturation of lower-paying occupations, or the cost of childbearing, or sexism and racism.
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How it could hurt you: It may pose a particular risk to women who are pregnant or of childbearing age, according to studies on animals that suggest delayed fetal development.
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In one instance, the government published (and then retracted) an online "birth map" that showed, in shades of pink, the number of women of childbearing age by city and region.
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The data are clear: most morbidity and some 25% of all global deaths are caused by communicable diseases, maternal complications associated with childbearing, neonatal disease and death, and nutritional deficiencies.
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Zika doesn't stay in your system for much more than a week, so by the time those women were of childbearing age, they were already immune and zika posed no threat.
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The first speaks about government services for pregnant women; next come the risks of childbearing for women older than 246, then the history of contraception, the morning-after pill and infertility.
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More than 20 percent of US women of childbearing age had to pay money out of pocket for oral contraceptives prior to the Obamacare mandate, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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More than 20 percent of US woman of childbearing age had to pay money out of pocket for oral contraceptives prior to the Obamacare mandate, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Not just with pregnant women, but also with women of childbearing age, and now potentially with men who could be concerned about passing on any virus to a partner at home.
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"With all the progress that has been made, there remains great and profound disparities in teen pregnancy and childbearing in this country, by race and ethnicity and by geography," he added.
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When those mercury-laden fish are eaten by pregnant women and women of childbearing years, the mercury gets into their bloodstreams and passes through the placental barrier causing fetal brain damage.
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"It is crucial to direct humanitarian aid to protect women of childbearing age, both to lessen present suffering and reduce it in the future, but current resources are insufficient," he said.
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But now, here I was, two weeks later entering my 40s, my body a fossil of young middle-age and childbearing, and I had no place to buy a bathing suit.
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Dr. Barbara Almond, a psychiatrist who lifted the veil on the ambivalence some women feel about childbearing and on society's expectations about motherhood, died on March 6 in Palo Alto, Calif.
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A national health survey that looked at how women of childbearing age handled their birth control found that the use of condoms and the Pill went down between 2002 and 2013.
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The map below shows an estimate of the change in the share of childbearing-age-women who had a birth in the previous year, which demographers call the general fertility rate.
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Now activists are calling for more scrutiny of the manufacturing process of a consumer product used by a woman for about a week out of every month of her childbearing years.
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The World Health Organization says 225 million women in developing nations would like to delay childbearing but are not using contraception for a variety of reasons, including a lack of access.
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Can I just say that, here we have an unprecedented number of women serving in Congress, unprecedented in number, in representation, an unprecedented number of women serving in their childbearing years.
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It seems natural for a father to go out into the big, wide world fighting evil; women, on the other hand, appear mostly stuck in their traditional roles as childbearing caregivers.
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The number of women of childbearing age in China — defined as aged 212 to 22017 by the publishers — is set to fall from 22018 million in 202035 to 22023 million in 22023.
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Women are now much more likely to get an education and join the labor force than they were in previous decades, and to delay or skip childbearing just because they want to.
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Ms d'Addio says the very low fertility rates now seen in many OECD countries are not inevitable, and governments should try to lessen the obstacles to childbearing faced by individuals and families.
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Nova Galaxia is a vlogger who has polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a hormonal imbalance that causes an estimated 10% of women of childbearing age to have a higher proportion of male hormones.
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In 20303-55 Africa's most populous country, Nigeria, had a fertility rate of 6.4 (meaning that a woman could expect to have that many children if she survived through her childbearing years).
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The disease may affect up to one in 10 women of childbearing years and about half of all women who experience infertility, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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"Women were considered protected subjects because they were of a childbearing age, [and] this was during a time when science was maturing and we were creating more prescription drugs," she tells Broadly.
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Women may want to weigh the added risk of needing abdominal surgery during pregnancy when considering whether to wait until they have finished childbearing before having bariatric surgery, the study team writes.
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It seems more likely that the end of childbearing was the turning point in Howe's life; she gave birth to the last of her six children in 228, when she was 40.
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Michelle Goldberg Opinion Columnist Last week, the National Center for Health Statistics reported that America's birthrate reached a historic low in 2017, falling to 1.83 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age.
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Should the court uphold this Louisiana law, it would result in the nearly 85033 million women of childbearing age in Louisiana having access to only a single abortion clinic in the state.
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"She will amplify the important steps for everyone — especially pregnant women and women of childbearing age — to take to protect against Zika," HHS wrote in a release on Monday announcing the trip.
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The rest were rounded up at gunpoint, along with all other women of post-childbearing age and high professional status, and taken to a stadium that had been repurposed as a prison.
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Forty is, of course, an age heavy with cultural meaning, but Heti never acknowledges that she is choosing 40 as the symbolic, rather than the literal, end of the narrator's childbearing years.
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The country has engaged in a concerted effort to vaccinate its population ahead of the closure, inoculating more than 85033,000 people with a focus on young children and women of childbearing age.
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Additionally, almost 60 percent of participants expressed a desire to learn more about male fertility, which means almost half of the sample were content with leaving their childbearing futures up to chance.
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In the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an unprecedented travel advisory, warning pregnant women and women of childbearing age to avoid countries where Zika is currently circulating.
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Some, like the economist Lyman Stone, have suggested America's "historic collapse in childbearing" is being driven by the fact that society isn't organized to support people having all the babies they'd like to.
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Before we get to why that's so, let's talk a bit more about American cultural norms surrounding childbearing and parenthood — which are, in turn, shaped by the deep structure of our modern economy.
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In The Handmaid's Tale, Hulu's recent Emmy-winning adaptation of another Atwood novel, patriarchy is stretched to a dystopian dimension, with fertile women made to serve as childbearing chattel for those in power.
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Mr Mori says that hitherto the main goal has been to prevent STDs, but that Japan's shrinking population has started a debate about whether the aim should be, in part, to encourage childbearing.
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Aunt Lydia is given a lot of power by the leaders of Gilead; as women who are beyond the childbearing age and sympathetic to the cause, Aunts control the destiny of enslaved women.
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And although economics can influence childbearing decisions, "I think there is a general sort of trend that there are other things in life that one can do other than having children," he said.
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Ever since we announced our plans, I have been receiving phone calls from women from all over the country; some have seen their childbearing dreams turned into nightmares because of the Zika virus.
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The longer it takes to get much needed funding to the NIH to investigate the range of impacts on women in childbearing age and their babies, the more people this virus will infect.
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It means employers will, unfairly or no, start to see any woman of childbearing age as a risky investment, because they would be much more likely to take a long leave of absence.
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An insurer stops paying for maternity, posts a lower premium, and people with no plans for childbearing will flock its way (along with some prospective parents who just don't read the fine print).
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The EWG tested hair samples from 254 women of childbearing age from 40 states who reported eating as much or slightly more fish than the government recommendations over a period of two months.
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The rate fell to 60.2 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age in 2017, down 303 percent from 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
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Right now, to be ACA-compliant, consumers have been effectively forced to over-insure resulting in singles buying pediatric dental coverage or those beyond childbearing age getting covered for maternity and newborn care.
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The creation of an instant family of four or more may sound wonderful to couples who struggled for years to conceive and to older women nearing the end of their best childbearing years.
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Other artists of that era put textiles at the center of an explicitly feminist program, using conventionally "dainty" handicrafts — knitting, crocheting, embroidery — to express ambivalence about childbearing, or rage at women's domestic oppression.
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Not knowing quite what to do with the "treasure," the author discovers that the hair and other body parts are wonderful in the treatment of: Whooping cough Syphilis Grippe Childbearing and other convulsions.
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" At the end of the novel, in a witty reversal of the expected cliché, she describes having managed to get to the end of her childbearing years without a baby as "a miracle.
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That recommendation was adopted around the world and is the reason doctors, before taking X-rays, ask women of childbearing age if they are pregnant or if they think they might be pregnant.
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In 2017, there were 13.5 abortions for every 1,000 women of childbearing age, a slight drop from 14.6 in 2023, according to a report from the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights research group.
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In 2017, there were 13.5 abortions for every 1,000 women of childbearing age, a slight drop from 2023 in 2014, according to a report from the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights research group.
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That recommendation was adopted around the world and is the reason doctors, before taking X-rays, ask women of childbearing age if they are pregnant or if they think they might be pregnant.
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His study is among a growing body of research that suggests what we often think of as a gender pay gap is more accurately discussed as a childbearing pay gap or motherhood penalty.
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Still, even under the new tax regime, the fertility of women of childbearing age in households paying no federal income taxes is almost 25 percent higher than the fertility of those paying income taxes.
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In the morning, Darcy is rueful about the sex and tersely pre-empts any notion of reviving their relationship by stating that he doesn't want to use up any more of Jones's childbearing years.
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The general fertility rate, or the number of live births per 21625,2900 women of childbearing age, was 220006 percent, down 2202 percent from 2628, reaching another record low for the nation, the CDC said.
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Spiotta's precision pacing keeps all of these questions and more in the frame, and keeps them fundamentally unanswerable by linking them to such real-life obsessions as sex, attractiveness, childbearing, child-rearing and money.
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However, most of that overall decrease is thanks to the declining rate in developed countries (like the U.S.), which is now at an all-time low of 27 per 1,000 women of childbearing age.
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This argument, now almost 15 years old, has been picked up lately by social conservatives worried about the decline of marriage and childbearing and frustrated by the Republican Party's longstanding inattention to family policy.
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But what started as a planned three-year stint turned into a six-decade-long mission in which the two doctors worked closely with women who had a childbearing injury known as obstetric fistula.
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According to a government estimate, based on a survey of women of childbearing age, 383,238 abortions were conducted in 220, the latest year for which data is available from the Health and Welfare Ministry.
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The increased availability, affordability and social acceptability of elective single motherhood should radically change the dating landscape for women in their mid- to late childbearing years, evening out the balance of power with men.
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Michele, 33, said that she starting experiencing symptoms of PCOS — a hormone imbalance that affects 1 in 10 women of childbearing age — soon after she finished filming Glee, and struggled with the body changes.
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And while few, if any, studies have examined how large a role climate change plays in people's childbearing decisions, it loomed large in interviews with more than a dozen people ages 21003 to 43.
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Perhaps. But now that women of childbearing age are overwhelmingly in the workforce, I'd argue the next battle is going to be over the home front as our generations struggle to balance the two.
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Beyond that, the continued association of pregnancy with sickness perpetuates the benighted notion of childbearing as a threat to ordinary human experience when many would argue that it is the singular manifestation of it.
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Because of the potential for birth defects, the CDC has warned pregnant American women and women of childbearing ages who may become pregnant to stay out of places where the virus is currently circulating.
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They worry about his efforts to give Islam a larger role in public life, including supporting laws limiting alcohol sales and making statements urging women to assume traditional roles focused on childbearing and child care.
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And we know that, for instance, in places like Sweden or even places like France, women are not as economically disadvantaged by their childbearing and child-caring roles as they are in the United States.
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A bad recession or a mortgage-lending squeeze will encourage couples to pause—and, because many now give themselves only a narrow window before their fertility drops, some will be knocked out of childbearing altogether.
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In partial response to this, in 1977 the FDA recommended that women of childbearing age be excluded from small-scale and early phase drug trials, as they didn't want to risk potential harm to fetuses.
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But the advice strikes a nerve because it appears to treat all women of childbearing age as potential mothers — regardless of whether they have any intention of getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term.
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NEW DELHI — Two women, accompanied by plainclothes police officers under the cover of darkness early on Wednesday morning, entered a centuries-old Hindu shrine in southern India that has long barred women of childbearing age.
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In The Upshot, Claire Cain Miller highlighted a range of research showing that the earnings of women who have children during the prime childbearing years of 25 to 35 never recover relative to their husbands'.
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Historically, women in their late twenties usually had the highest fertility rates of all, but they were overtaken in 2016 by women in their early 30s, reflecting a trend of later childbearing throughout American society.
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In addition to banning inquiries about a woman's marital and childbearing status, the notice also prohibits employers and recruiters from restricting births as a condition of employment, or asking new hires to take pregnancy tests.
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Although SART collects data on pregnancy rates using frozen eggs, it doesn't break out whether women had frozen them as part of in vitro fertilization treatment or fertility preservation during illness, or to delay childbearing.
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"Working-class whites are deeply upset that they are losing traditional family structures," she wrote: As you know, the divorce rate and rate of unmarried childbearing in the professional-managerial elite have remained close to what they were in 1960, whereas whites in the Missing Middle now are experiencing sharply higher rates of nonmarital childbearing and family dissolution, which of course hit black families a generation earlier, given that they lost access to the blue-collar jobs that kept family life stable a generation earlier.
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The statement came at the request of Alejandro García Padilla, governor of the U.S. commonwealth, where the Zika virus is spreading rapidly, threatening hundreds of pregnant women and their unborn babies and women of childbearing age.
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This "ectogenesis" or "extracorporeal pregnancy" would not only allow women to outsource the burden of childbearing to robot surrogates, it could also expand reproductive options for single people, same-sex couples, or families struggling with infertility.
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A lot of Chinese millennials may be delaying or opting out of childbearing, but those who have committed to parenting often go all out to ensure their children grow up healthy and do well in school.
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Employers in the EU must offer a minimum paid maternity leave of 14 weeks; many countries mandate for more than that and also provide paternity leave, thus reducing companies' reluctance to employ women of childbearing age.
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That said, she was hesitant about supporting my decision for a few reasons, including the fact that most women don't undergo a reduction surgery until after their childbearing years are over, and I was only 24.
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"The American Economic Review paper, which examined people born around 1970, found that almost all of the pay gap for college graduates came from ages 26 to 33" — in other words, during women's typical childbearing years.
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In addition, Congress should look broadly at the Family Planning and Reproductive Health budgets of USAID and the State Department's Global Health Program to ensure women of childbearing age have access to voluntary family planning information.
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Mary Lou Marzian (D) filed the proposal that would require women of childbearing age to provide a notarized doctor's statement to the state each month indicating whether they are pregnant, The Louisville Courier Journal reported Friday.
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Catholic-affiliated hospitals may refuse to provide services that are essential — even life-saving — to women of childbearing age, such as contraception, sterilization, infertility treatments, or abortion, when the life of the woman is in danger.
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Using census population estimates by sex and age for states and making some simple extrapolations to monthly data, we can make a reasonable guess of where birthrates per-childbearing-age-woman are falling or rising most.
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The general fertility rate measures the number of births for every 1,000 women of childbearing age in a given year, and the total fertility rate estimates how many children women will have based on current patterns.
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It could be that the new generation of millennial women is delaying having children even longer than the women who came before them, as prime childbearing years are also critical years for advancing in a career.
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But more and more, doctors recommend that all women who are hoping to conceive soon or even just fall into the demographic of "childbearing age" should add a daily prenatal vitamin to their self-care routine.
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The findings, published in this week in the scientific journal Royal Society Open Science, support "the Grandmother Hypothesis," the idea that mothers live long beyond childbearing years in order to help their children raise more children.
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Fertile women who violate Gilead's sexual purity laws are forced into life as indentured childbearing slaves, or Handmaids, and the story of one very typical and ordinary Handmaid, Offred, was the story of The Handmaid's Tale.
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"While the total number of women of childbearing age fell by 5 million, the number of births increased significantly, showing that the family planning policy adjustments were extremely timely and extremely effective," he told reporters on Sunday.
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But in 22018, the total fertility rate, or number of births each woman is expected to have in her childbearing years, dropped to 22018 in the US. By 2018, it declined again — to 1.72, another record low.
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Those most vulnerable to a loss of iron in their staple crops include 354 million children under five and more than 1 billion women of childbearing age, mainly in South Asia and north Africa, the researchers said.
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The government agency recommended Tuesday that women of childbearing age who are not using contraception should abstain from drinking because they might become pregnant and put a hypothetical baby at risk of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs).
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The Art of Waiting, described by The New York Times as a "thoughtful meditation on childlessness, childbearing, and — for some — the stretch of liminal agony in between...Quite lovely and laudable," is available wherever books are sold.
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At the time, officials with Health and Human Services claimed the rules wouldn't impact "99.9% of women," but that calculation included all women in America, many of whom were not in their childbearing years, according to CNN.
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By cutting men out of the picture, it carries a significant risk of increasing the existing "motherhood penalty" and making employers wary of hiring women of childbearing age for fear they will disappear if a baby arrives.
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Because of the potential for birth defects, the CDC issued travel guidance for pregnant American women and women of childbearing age who may become pregnant, warning them to avoid visiting places where the virus is currently circulating.
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The fertility rate has increased for women over 40, and the generation of women finishing up their childbearing years now had more children than their mothers did, but that isn't likely to be true for their daughters.
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But advocates of the ban say that women of childbearing age, defined by temple caretakers as those between 10 and 50 years old, should not be allowed to visit because the shrine's deity, Lord Ayyappa, is celibate.
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For months, the centuries-old Sabarimala Temple, which sits on a hill in the southern state of Kerala, has been the site of violent protests and riots over whether women of childbearing age could set foot inside.
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In November, the National Center for Health Statistics reported that the birthrate among women of childbearing age had dropped to a record low, continuing a sharp decline in births that began around the financial crisis of 265.
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Those figures track with the overwhelming majority of anecdotal evidence I've amassed from peers during our childbearing years, but they absolutely do not track with the narrative presented in pretty much every pregnancy test commercial I've ever seen.
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After all, in a world where misogyny and racism have stripped women, trans, and nonbinary people of their bodily autonomy for centuries, it's hard to believe that a conversation about childbearing could be deployed with the same nuance.
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The trial, called Uterine Transplantation for the Treatment of Uterine Factor Infertility is aimed at helping the "estimated 1 in 500 women of childbearing age worldwide" who are unable to get pregnant because of abnormalities in their uteruses.
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While men and women enter the workforce with the same ambitions, as women reach childbearing age, more and more of them scale back to part time, seek out flexible work schedules, or drop out of the workforce altogether.
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Whereas in Canada, right now, anyone who hires a 73-year-old of either gender knows that someday they might disappear for eight months to a year, so that prejudice against young women of childbearing age doesn't exist.
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Based on the dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood in 1985, the show is about a new America where women have been completely disenfranchised and those in their childbearing years have been relegated to become breeders, called Handmaids.
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Not only are more and more Americans adopting the practices and values described by Lesthaeghe and Neidert — self-expressiveness, gender equality, cohabitation, same-sex couples, postponed marriage and childbearing — but so too is much of the developed world.
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Women in their childbearing years who are not pregnant and do not plan to become pregnant — and consistently use birth control, ensuring that they will not conceive — can safely visit countries in which the Zika virus is circulating.
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If I were asked to describe the stage of life that I occupy now, at the age of thirty, it would not occur to me to say that I am a thus far childless woman of childbearing age.
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According to the CIA World Factbook, the median age in Japan is 46, and the Japanese welfare ministry predicts that by 2035, more than a quarter of Japan's male population will have forgone marriage in their childbearing years.
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So while it's important to debate questions like how the cost of child care affects childbearing decisions within marriages, the question of why marriage has declined so precipitously in the first place still looms over the fertility discussion.
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Queen or no queen, Victoria took up the nonstop business of childbearing (she had six children from 1840 to 1846, and then three others at more widely spaced intervals) and let Albert assume some of her royal role.
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BEIJING — The Chinese government, which has struggled to keep women from leaving the labor force, is taking new steps to combat sex discrimination in the workplace, including prohibiting employers from asking applicants about their marital or childbearing status.
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Yang said the number of women of childbearing age was expected to decline by about 5 million a year over the 2016-2020 period, but China was hoping to keep birth rates at around 17-20 million a year.
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In the U.S., women entering medicine face many barriers to childbearing, including a persistent negative stigma surrounding pregnancy during years-long training programs, said senior author Dr. Marissa Tenenbaum of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.
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In January, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a first-of-its-kind travel alert: American women of childbearing age, whether pregnant or not, were told to avoid countries where the Zika virus has been circulating.
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It should be with guarded optimism that we promote delayed childbearing to our patients, because risks to both mother and child are invariably present; and because many failed attempts also occur, the risk of lifelong childlessness cannot be overstated.
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The findings are important because more than a third of women of childbearing age are obese, roughly one in 10 have diabetes, and an estimated 2 percent to 10 percent of mothers develop diabetes during pregnancy, the authors note.
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Because 22019 percent of all women of childbearing age in the United States have used birth control at some point in their lives and because nearly one in four of U.S. women will access abortion services during their lifetime.
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But what began as sharp declines in pregnancy and childbearing among teenagers — typically considered a socially desirable result — has slowly spread up the age cohorts, first to women in their early 20s, then to those in their late 20s.
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In 2014, there were an estimated 926,200 abortions — a rate of 14.6 per 473,000 women of childbearing age (15 to 44) — compared with 22014 million abortions in 224, the year of the last Guttmacher report, or 22011 per 244,2000.
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"Failure to address low vitamin D status during childhood, adolescence, for women of childbearing age and in the elderly could have serious long-term implications for public health," said David Richardson, visiting professor of food bioscience at the University of Reading.
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The new research also suggests that neurologists are proactive about ensuring patients of childbearing age take supplemental folic acid, which "has been associated with lowering the risk for neurodevelopmental disorders including autism in children of women with epilepsy," Pennell said.
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Iodine plays a vital role in brain development during pregnancy, but past research finds that about 30 percent of women of childbearing age have iodine blood levels below the target of 100 micrograms per liter, the authors note in Human Reproduction.
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In many of the Central American countries experiencing an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus, governments have advised women to delay childbearing for two or more years until a cure has been found for the devastating birth defects it causes.
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President Barack Obama's administration declared a public health emergency in Puerto Rico on Friday in response to the growing number of Zika virus cases that pose a "significant threat to public health," especially to pregnant women and women of childbearing age.
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And while it's more complicated to project iron deficiencies, we found that nearly 1.4 billion highly vulnerable people — children under the age of 5 and women of childbearing age — will live in regions that we identified as having the highest risk.
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"It has been noted [that] young adults today take longer than previous generations to achieve their independence, as evidenced by their older ages when leaving school, leaving home, entering the labor market, forming a union, and childbearing," the study reads.
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I thought quite a lot about what normal is and isn't as I was reading "The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood," Belle Boggs's thoughtful meditation on childlessness, childbearing, and — for some — the stretch of liminal agony in between.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Chinese authorities have urged employers not to ask women about their marital status or childbearing plans in job interviews, in the latest step to tackle discrimination at work and boost female participation in the labor force.
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These companies are in the Green Zone, where people are wealthy and privileged—they have their childbearing taken care of; they can sometimes splurge on $600-a-pound bacon—and afforded more privileges as they climb up the corporate ladder.
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"Zika has primarily affected the destination wedding and honeymoons business because these are people of childbearing years coming to celebrate romance, and there are plenty of honeymoon babies," said Matt Cooper, chief marketing officer with the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association.
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The macroeconomic pressures he describes in the urbanized West — a lack of affordable housing and linear careers — are particularly tough on millennials, who are also, incidentally or not, a historically unattached generation, with low rates of marriage, homeownership and childbearing.
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He is Yu Te Tseng, not Yu Tu. SCIENCE TIMES The Take a Number column on Tuesday about increases in the use of long-term contraceptives misstated the number of women of childbearing age in the United States using contraceptives.
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Dr. Catherine Hamlin, an Australian obstetrician and gynecologist who devoted her life to treating Ethiopian women with a devastating childbearing injury and helped develop pioneering techniques to treat it, died on Wednesday at her home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital.
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UK women set up a movement called BirthStrike, announcing that they won't procreate until the world gets its act together on climate, and high-profile US figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez amplified the question of whether childbearing is still morally acceptable.
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The uplift was linked to a number of factors, including migration, greater fertility among older women and shifting social attitudes about parenthood, as well as to grandchildren of those born in the post-World War II baby boom reaching childbearing age.
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Sex workers have similar pregnancy intentions to other women of childbearing age, but worse outcomes due to limited access to reproductive health services and poor treatment when they do seek care due to the stigma of their profession, Goldenberg added.
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On January 15, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a first-of-its-kind travel alert: All women of childbearing age, whether pregnant or not, were told to avoid countries where the Zika virus has been circulating.
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Abortion It's a fact that probably won't stop the political battle over abortion, but it's noteworthy nonetheless: abortions are at a historic low in the US. A new report says the rate has declined to 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age.
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Births fell 5.9% from January to July year on year, as the pool of women of childbearing age shrinks and more women delay having children or decide not to have them at all, figures from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare show.
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For women of childbearing age, the CDC now recommends discussing, "strategies to prevent unintended (pregnancies), including counseling on family planning and the correct and consistent use of effective contraceptive methods in the context of the potential risks of Zika virus transmission" with patients.
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Arielle Kuperberg, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro who studies how childbearing and marriage have changed over time, has found that people in areas with more opportunities for the less educated are likelier to get married.
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The rate of abortions can be influenced by a number of factors, the report shows, including availability of contraception, information and health care; access to abortion providers; changes in laws; and shifts in the economy and in attitudes about things like nonmarital childbearing.
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Virologists believe it has never caused noticeable waves of birth defects in tropical Africa or Asia, as it has in South America, because most women get the virus as young girls and are immune by the time they reach their childbearing years.
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New numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the general fertility rate, or the number of live births per 2628,28503 women of childbearing age, was 22019 percent, down 3 percent from 2016, reaching another record low for the nation.
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We need policies that remove fiscal penalties for marriage and encourage marital stability, that recognize the service parents do for society, and that subsidize childbearing and child-rearing accordingly — even if, on their own, such policies won't restore us to stable fertility levels.
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Less clearly advantageous, for some women, was the advent of no fault divorce in 1969, which was followed by an increase in the divorce rate of 20 to 25 percent, a decrease in rates of marriage and a sharp increase in nonmarital childbearing.
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And the fertility rate has not rebounded after the recession in the way that many economists expected: The number of babies born per 1,303 women of childbearing age in 2016, the last year for which we have official data, was a record low.
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India: Bindu Ammini, who this month became one of the first women to enter a Hindu shrine in south India that for centuries had barred women of childbearing age, has been bouncing from one safe house to the next fleeing angry mobs.
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The case for paid parental leave With 74 percent of women of childbearing age in the workforce, developing ways to promote breastfeeding in a range of settings including the home, healthcare settings, and the workplace are important to improving child and maternal health.
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"Preventing, screening and treating diabetes in women of childbearing age may be important not only for improving health of the women but also for reducing long-term cardiovascular disease risks in their offspring," said study leader Yongfu Yu of Aarhus University in Denmark.
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The optimists, though, have to reckon with the fact that everyone is working longer hours, notwithstanding increased wealth and technological convenience, and the presumably related fact that parents everywhere seem harassed and exhausted, while marriage and childbearing both are falling out of fashion.
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Because of the potential for birth defects, CDC issued travel guidance for pregnant American women and women of childbearing age who may become pregnant, warning them to avoid visiting places where the virus is currently circulating (the red areas of the Americas on the map).
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As candidates talk about income inequality — an issue discussed during both Democratic debates — they cannot ignore the gender and racial biases that fuel our country's wealth and income gaps by disempowering half the population and penalizing women for the childbearing and caregiving work they do.
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For example, labor pain and pain from a traumatic accident can both be severe, yet the former is an anticipated aspect of childbearing and typically associated with a positive outcome, thus making it more tolerable and less unpleasant than the latter in most cases.
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Prior to the past couple of centuries, the functions of marriage in the West were social and economic: to enact alliances between families, ensure childbearing, maintain family ties and racial "purity," shore up wealth, and transfer property (part of that property being the bride herself).
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If the expected number of children per woman of childbearing age drops in the U.S. from 1.76 to 1.5 or 1 — well below the replacement rate of 2.1 — no amount of immigration can compensate, Richard Jackson, president of the Global Aging Institute, tells Axios.
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Friendsgivings for many are just a pre-party to a still family-centric holiday, but the trend also mirrors shifting lifestyles and demographics in the U.S. Urbanization, delayed marriage and delayed childbearing over the past few decades have reshaped social connections and personal obligations.
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While waiters in starched shirts distributed trays of grilled meat and piles of rice and fish, party officials gave speeches and a prominent journalist took to the microphone to remind the couples of the importance of childbearing to the "resistance," or the struggle against Israel.
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Travis Rieder, a research scholar at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University who studies the ethics of having children, points out that this is not the first time a generation has questioned childbearing in the face of a potential existential threat.
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All of these findings are "concerning since products containing vinpocetine are widely available for use by women of childbearing age," stated Principal Deputy Commissioner Dr. Amy Abernethy and Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response Frank Yiannas, both of the FDA, in their warning to women.
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Scientists, activists and concerned citizens see cleanup of PCBs as a necessary protection for the health and economic livelihood of the area, and even go as far as to say that women of childbearing age and children should eat no fish at all from the river.
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It feels like the latter — especially since Jon helpfully pointed out to Dany that maybe the witch who murdered her husband wasn't the most reliable source of information on her childbearing capabilities, meaning that there could be yet another incest baby heading to Westeros in Season 8.
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So the drop in birth rates in 2017 doesn't necessarily mean fewer women are having children — it could just mean that people currently in their childbearing years (basically, millennials) are not having children right now, and may or may not decide to have them later on.
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Targeting these neighborhoods is especially important, Persse said, because they have a large population of women of childbearing age, fewer residents may have air conditioning (which mosquitoes tend to disdain) and they may lack the necessary funds to buy repellants and pesticides to protect themselves, Persse said.
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The essays collected in Megan Daum's 2015 anthology Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids all speak to the social pressure heaped on women to have children, regardless of their desires, their economic means, or their biological capacity for childbearing.
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Increasing the minimum wage can lead to higher unemployment, particularly women of childbearing age, who, in turn, may be less likely to avail themselves of health services around the period of childbirth, a time widely understood to be critical in shaping child nutrition and stunting levels.
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"It can be tricky to track down what will trigger major complications such as heart failure or a blocked artery," he said, pointing out that women of childbearing age are by definition young and very unlikely to die at all, never mind of a chronic condition.
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Ross Douthat of the New York Times fired back, respectfully suggesting that secular liberal societies could incentivize fertility of native citizens by deploying some fairly minor policy tweaks, including bigger financial incentives for childbearing — and by promoting different family norms, like increased involvement in religious communities.
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Young American-born Hispanic women are less likely to be poor and more likely to be educated than their immigrant mothers and grandmothers, according to the Pew Research Center, and many are delaying childbearing to finish school and start careers, just like other American-born women.
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Folic acid prevents neural tube defects to the spine and brain, which occur in the first month of pregnancy, so the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends that any woman of childbearing age take a daily supplement of folic acid of 400 micrograms daily, at least.
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"While laws regulating abortion would ultimately affect all women, physicians argued that middle-class, Anglo-Saxon married women were those obtaining abortions, and that their use of abortion to curtail childbearing threatened the Anglo-Saxon race," Beisel and Kay wrote in 2004 for the American Sociological Review.
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An HHS spokesperson told BuzzFeed News in 2017 that the previous versions of the rules were not expected to affect more than 120,000 women's contraception coverage; they now estimate that "that no more than 126,400 women of childbearing age will be affected by the expanded exemptions," the memo states.
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Based on research that was so bad it resulted in the revocation of the medical license of the doctor who authored it, millions of parents and childbearing-adjacent people started wondering if the greatest public health advance in the last century was actually harming children by causing autism.
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"Delaying childbearing until later years is becoming an international trend, and there's an interesting assumption that women are being selfish and choosing their careers, travel or personal agendas over kids," said lead study author Judith Daniluk, a counseling psychology professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
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Her father, Ken, worked at a university library, and her mother, Angela, wrote historical novels, and when they came late to marriage—and then to childbearing and child rearing—they saw no reason to change the entrenched pattern of their lives, or to become more like ordinary people.
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And if the flavors of the foods you love can make the experience of childbearing and child rearing a little tastier, or spicier, for mothers, that's all to the good as well, and very much in line with what we hope our children are drinking in mother's milk.
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Despite health warnings by state and federal officials to limit consumption of fish tainted with the chemical — including an "eat none" notice to pregnant women and those of childbearing age — many poor minority residents of riverfront communities continue to eat, and even subsist on, fish caught in the river.
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Katha Pollitt's excellent "Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights" (2014) was also addressed to those Americans in the "muddled middle" of the debate, though Pollitt explicitly set out to persuade them that abortion, by allowing women a measure of control over childbearing and therefore their lives, was an unequivocal moral good.
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We can reconcile these seemingly conflicting positions by ensuring that family planning is a cooperative endeavor, recognizing mutual obligations on the parents and community to ensure all kids a fair start in life, and gearing delays in childbearing and resource redistribution around maximizing outcomes in child welfare and early childhood development.
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"The evidence in this case overwhelmingly demonstrated that if the challenged laws were to go into effect now, they would likely cause a near catastrophic failure of the healthcare system designed to serve women of childbearing age within the State of Texas," Ezra wrote in a decision posted in online records.
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It wasn't until the 1970s, when pro-sterilization laws began to be repealed in both the U.S. and Canada, and after thousands of women like Mercredi had been forcibly sterilized in their childbearing years, that both governments started to look closely at whether or not sterilization procedures were legal and consensual.
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The first contrast lies in the development of American feminism, which has acquiesced to certain trends that it found troubling 30 years ago — including not only the ubiquity of pornography but also the practice of surrogacy, the class-bound commodification of childbearing, that Atwood's Gilead biblicizes and places under patriarchal control.
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But, she continued, now we are in a new social paradigm that has normalized nonmarital childbearing and child rearing among certain segments of the population, and it will take more than economic improvement to restore the stable two-parent family in the communities it which that norm has been steadily eroding.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued interim travel guidance on Friday for pregnant women and women of childbearing age who are planning to become pregnant, warning against travel to Brazil and 13 other countries in the Americas where the Zika virus has been linked to brain deformities in newborns.
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The representation of Iowa residents between the ages of 85033 to 44 is lower than for the country overall, meaning that those in their prime childbearing ages are more likely to be moving to or living in other states – states with more racial and ethnic diversity and often more accepting of immigrants.
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"This emergency declaration allows us to provide additional support to the Puerto Rican government and reminds us of the importance of pregnant women, women of childbearing age, and their partners taking additional steps to protect themselves and their families from Zika," said US Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell in a statement.
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Center "therapists," led by head "therapist" and leader Richard "Riggs" Corriere (who did not countenance childbearing among his followers either), employed a combination of abreactive/regressive psychological techniques, which they had learned from Primal Therapy guru Arthur Janov, and coercive social techniques of group therapy to gain control of their patients' psyches and lives.
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While many top male players have opted out of golf's return to the Olympics after a 112-year absence, only one woman, Lee-Anne Pace of South Africa, has chosen to forgo the competition in Rio, even though the pool from which the field will be culled is filled with women of childbearing age.
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To the Editor: Re "Research Overlooks Women" (Science Times, May 28): In 1993, at the height of the H.I.V.-AIDS epidemic, several of us at the Food and Drug Administration fostered major change in clinical trial protocols: We removed a longstanding ban on the participation of women with childbearing potential in early-stage clinical trials.
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Vagina: Jacques Ravel at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Larry J. Forney at the University of Idaho are studying 200 women to determine the microbial changes that may result in a common and difficult-to-control infection called bacterial vaginosis, which afflicts more than 20 million American women of childbearing age.
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Most study participants said they wanted to have children, but many women said they plan to postpone childbearing until after they complete their education, advance in their careers, have access to child care and jobs that could be combined with having children, and have traveled and done other things that may be difficult with children.
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These paradoxes are clearly visible in the figure of Jin Xing, the nationally beloved talk-show host sometimes called China's Oprah: She is a transgender woman, and the reluctant face of trans China, but she also often espouses conservative gender norms, like the importance of a woman's domestic role in childbearing and good housekeeping.
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Thus in a 19th-century context, where healthy sexuality meant a large patriarchal family with the wife as the angel in the home, anti-Catholic polemicists were obsessed with Catholicism's nuns — these women who mysteriously refused husbands and childbearing, and who were therefore presumed to be prisoners in gothic convents, victims of predatory priests.
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It still does, extending the promise to singles and same-sex couples as social norms shift, and increasingly—as in the case of Trellis—to the much larger clientele of young women who wish to postpone childbearing while they pursue a career or await "the one", and are therefore likelier to need help when they do eventually want babies.
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Women who, like BJ, were working parents in the 1960s and 1970s, described what it was like seeking work as a woman of childbearing years before 1978; they recalled having to show prospective employers their birth control pills or disclose the dates of their last period to prove they weren't pregnant or wouldn't try to get pregnant if hired.
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While the HHS has argued that the rule would have no impact on "99.9% of women" in the U.S., it based that figure on the total number of U.S. women (around 165 million), rather than the number that matters: that of women of childbearing age who rely on birth control for pregnancy prevention or other health concerns.
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"This is a very exciting thing to see because the rate has been somewhat stagnant for quite a while, and unintended pregnancy is a key measure of the extent to which American women are able to achieve their childbearing goals," said Lawrence B. Finer, director of domestic research at the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research and policy think tank.
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After India's Supreme Court struck down a 1991 ban that forbade women of childbearing age to pray at the Sabarimala Temple, a centuries-old hillside shrine in the southern state of Kerala, it did not take long for protesters to set vehicles on fire, pummel the police and attack women who tried to hike up a three-mile trail to reach the temple.
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A poor single woman in a ghetto may not have the resources to be an ideal parent, Shelby is willing to concede; but if that is ultimately a shortcoming of our society, it adds insult to injury to structure welfare benefits (as has been done in the United States) so as to discourage nonmarital childbearing — thereby hindering her reproductive freedom.
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This cycle is described in a National Institutes of Health paper, "Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing," by Shelly Lundberg, a demographer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Robert A. Pollak, a professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis, and Jenna Stearns, a doctoral candidate in economics who is also at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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The group-activated hangings, the tearing apart of human beings, the clothing specific to castes and classes, the forced childbearing and the appropriation of the results, the children stolen by regimes and placed for upbringing with high-ranking officials, the forbidding of literacy, the denial of property rights: all had precedents, and many were to be found not in other cultures and religions, but within western society.
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Most people in poverty in the United States and the world over are women and children, women's earnings here and abroad trail the earnings of men with comparable education and experience, our workplaces do not adequately accommodate the demands of childbearing and child rearing, and we have yet to devise effective ways to ward off sexual harassment at work and domestic violence in our homes.
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The natural birth movement, a reaction to "twilight sleep" injections, routine episiotomies and other interventionist hospital practices, began in New York in the 903s and took off with the opening in 290 of the city's first birth center, the Maternity Center Association Childbearing Center on East 214nd Street, said Dr. Laura Zeidenstein, the director of the graduate midwifery program at the Columbia School of Nursing.
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If women really have the same opportunities as men to succeed in public life, what does it say that women still make up less than 20 percent of Congress, or that women's wages still plummet just as they enter their childbearing years, or that women hold two-thirds of all low-wage jobs, or that roughly one-third of working women experience workplace sexual harassment?
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But as with another, more literally humanistic pursuit — childbearing — that had seemed to stabilize after a post-1960s collapse but now is in decline again, the absence of a post-Great Recession bounce-back for the humanities suggests that the economic calamity of 2008 was a precondition but not the only cause, and that other cultural shifts had left the humanities ripe for another era of collapse.
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The general fertility rate — the number of births per 1,000 women of childbearing age (defined as 2.13 to 44) — was 60.2, which was down 3% from 2016 and an all-time low for the US. "This is a pretty big decline since the recession [from 2007–09], when the number was closer to 69 or 70 births," Gretchen Livingston, a senior researcher at the Pew Research Center and an expert on fertility and demographics, told BuzzFeed News.
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As of 2012, at least 11 rich countries had policies like that, according to the University of Antwerp's Minimum Income Protection Indicators (MIPI) database: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. Here's how much families get in each of them, illustrated in a lovely graphic by Vox's Javier Zarracina: Javier Zarracina/Vox France's program is designed largely to encourage childbearing, and so only kicks in for families with two or more children.
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Then Kate Julian's Atlantic examination of what she calls the "sexual recession" looks at a surprising reality of life in the sexually liberated West — the fact that despite (or because of?) our permissive culture and the sweeping availability of entertainments that cater to every kind of sexual desire, the sexual act itself has fallen somewhat out of fashion, along with its usual accompaniments (relationships, marriage, childbearing), while onanism and long-term celibacy are on the rise.
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Whether it's Jewish men demanding that their personal religious views take precedence over the right of women airline passengers to enjoy their flights in peace, or Christian men in legislatures and courts demanding that their personal religious views take precedence over the right of women in their childbearing years to control their own bodies, or Islamic men demanding that their personal religious views take precedence over the right of their wives and daughters to shake hands with male business acquaintances, or men in a hundred other religions demanding that their personal religious views be given precedence in order to oppress women in a thousand other ways, it's all the same: Oppression of women masquerading as religious piety, and always demanding that the world accommodate and enable the oppression.
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