The Government is planning to give greater protection to pregnant women and new parents returning to work. Plans have been unveiled aimed at extending legal protections covering women on maternity
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A nurse who was looking after an incapacitated woman at a long-term healthcare facility in the US has been arrested on suspicion of raping her. It comes weeks after the
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The Isle of Man has become the first part of the British Isles to decriminalise abortion – to the “widespread relief and excitement” of locals. The Abortion Reform Bill received
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Campaigners will present a petition with more than 100,000 signatures to Prime Minister Theresa May calling for an end to the “postcode lottery” of NHS fertility treatment. The Fertility Network
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A woman in a vegetative state who was sexually assaulted at a long-term US care facility and had a baby is recovering at a hospital along with her child, authorities
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A young woman left infertile because her cervical cancer was not spotted for more than four years has been awarded the costs of having surrogate children in America by the
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Revised abortion statistics show a 50% increase in abortion for Down’s syndrome over the last 10 years – with projections it is set to rise further, a campaign group has
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A hospital trust at the centre of a maternity care scandal has been criticised by health inspectors in a new report. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated services at Shrewsbury
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Families on low incomes can apply for a new pregnancy and baby grant from December 10, the Scottish Government has announced. The first payments for the new Best Start Grant
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Families have raised questions over the deaths of 36 people at a trust at the centre of a maternity probe, it has emerged. Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust said it
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