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MDGFive.com Unites Arts and Activism for Maternal Health
Maternal health isn't exactly what most people consider to be a "sexy" topic and it can be challenging to engage those outside of the health community. Stepping up to the challenge, two artists have joined forces using the Internet to unite arts and activism.
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Assisted Reproductive Technology: Let's Focus on One Healthy Baby at a Time
by Jennifer Rogers, Reproductive Health Technologies Project
September 16, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)
Federal law and financial incentives lead to incredibly costly and potentially dangerous multiple births through assisted reproducitve technology (ART). The law should be reworked to create incentives for having only one baby at a time through ART, which is more cost effective and safer for mothers and babies.
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As Christmas Nears, Contemplating Miraculous Births
by Kate Ott, Religious Institute for Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing
December 22, 2008 - 8:00am (Print)
Miraculous biblical stories of birth fit more closely with our notions of reproductive technologies than with the Vatican's re-assertion that the only authentic context for human life is an act of reciprocal love between a man and woman in marriage.
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