When Chloe, a 22-year-old mom from Arizona, gave birth to her second child, a daughter, she cradled her on her chest, knowing it would be one of the few times they would physically touch. Holding her newborn skin-to-skin on her chest was something Chloe originally told doctors she did not want to do. Chloe said she learned around 23 weeks into her pregnancy that her daughter had a condition known as holoprosencephaly, a birth defect in which the brain does not divide into two halves, the left and right hemispheres, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Older women are more likely to carry fetuses with genetic disorders that often can’t be detected until 15 weeks of pregnancy, beyond the limit set in a Senate proposal.
“How to teach students about the rule of law, precedent and the allegedly non-political nature of law is seriously threatened [by Dobbs v. Jackson],” Prof. Cynthia Bowman, law, said. “As well as the lives of all my female students!”