2 posts tagged ‘maternal health’

• Oklahoma Wants to Prosecute Woman Who Took Edibles Because Her Fetus Didn’t Have Medical Marijuana Card

  Jezebel, Dec 15, 2023

  On Thursday, Pregnancy Justice filed a lawsuit asking the Oklahoma Supreme Court to stop prosecutors from charging pregnant people in the state with felony child neglect for using medical marijuana—a legal medication—during pregnancy. Per reporting from The Frontier, since 2018—when the state voted to legalize medical… Read more...

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• Alabama Woman with two uteruses set to give birth to twins

  Boing Boing, Nov 14, 2023

  Only one in a million women born with two uteri is ever pregnant at the same time in both. Kelsey Hatcher of Alabama is one such person. The 32-year-old mother-to-be is 34 weeks pregnant and will give birth to twin girls next month, reports The Washington Post. — Read the rest

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