Miscarriages

Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, DJ Annie Mac and Labour MPs Nadia Whittome and Kim Johnson are among the figures lending support to a new campaign to change how rap lyrics are used as evidence in UK criminal hearings.According to research by the University of Manchester, at least 240 people in the UK have had rap music used against them as criminal evidence in court in the last three years, including allegations of gang membership and alleged confessions of criminal activity within lyrics. High-profile recent examples include…

Following her final performance as Mystique in 2019’s Dark Phoenix, Jennifer Lawrence was absent from the acting scene until she returned late last year as one of the ensemble players in the Adam McKay-helmed Netflix movie Don’t Look Up. As far as her personal life goes though, that’s been quite eventful, because in addition to marrying art gallery director Cooke Maroney in 2019, Lawrence had her first child earlier this year. Now, along with revealing the sex of the baby, Lawrence has opened up about having two prior…

On July 1, 2022, Halsey, who goes by the pronouns they/them, wrote a candid op-ed for Vogue on their own experience with becoming a mother, giving birth, and experiencing many miscarriages. The heartfelt piece of writing was written in response to Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court in June 2022. The 27-year-old singer said that they had three miscarriages at the age of 24 after the birth of their son Ender the previous year. They explained, “One of my miscarriages required ‘aftercare,’ a gentle way of…

In an Instagram remark on People’s page, Sharon Stone was candid and truthful. Sharon remarked that she could all too easily identify with the scenario after reading a quotation from Peta Murgatroyd’s interview in which she discussed her three losses and IVF experience. Stone wrote, “We, as females, don’t have a forum to discuss the profundity of this loss. I lost nine children by miscarriage.” The actress continues, “It’s no small thing, physically nor emotionally, yet we are made to feel it is something to bear alone…

New research shows women who have had a miscarriage or stillbirth, have an increased risk of stroke – when blood can't get to the brain, because of a blocked or burst artery. That risk increases with each miscarriage or stillbirth.  Trying to establish this link is difficult because it requires following a large number of women over a long period of time and having reliable data on women's experiences. Our study, published by the British Medical Journal today (June 22), is the first to conclusively show the link between…

In clinics today, fertility patients using in vitro fertilization (IVF) are routinely advised to pay for an expensive supplemental test called preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A), in which a handful of cells are removed from the embryo to examine their DNA. For those who can afford it, PGT-A is popular because it can flag genetic abnormalities that increase the odds that a pregnancy, should it occur, will end in miscarriage. Pervasive use of the test has also generated controversy. The authors of an…