Sentence examples for wanted pregnancy from inspiring English sources

Reeling from the shock of this news they face the life-changing decision about whether to continue or end their wanted pregnancy.

Last month, the Missouri Senate debated a bill that would outlaw selective abortion — that is, termination of an otherwise wanted pregnancy on the basis of a Down syndrome diagnosis.

While she still supports them in principle, in practice – as she deals with friends who have terminations, and suffers the miscarriage of her own wanted pregnancy – she finds herself becoming more ambivalent.

That was why, 14 years ago last month, my husband and I left our then three-year-old daughter with friends, and walked through a small crowd of protesters to terminate a deeply wanted pregnancy through late abortion.

• To the Editor: I have supported abortion rights for as long as I can remember, but nothing cemented my commitment to women's reproductive freedom like my own very much wanted pregnancy nine years ago.

"This week alone, Abortion Support Network has heard from a woman whose abusive husband hid her passport so she couldn't travel for an abortion, a woman who considered crashing her car to induce a miscarriage, and a couple whose very wanted pregnancy had catastrophic foetal anomalies – and these were only three of the 10 women who contacted us last week".

Sonograms are a nearly ubiquitous ritual of wanted pregnancies now, and in that context most people think they're swell.

In her memoir, "Forgetting to Be Afraid," which came out this week, Ms. Davis writes about the two wanted pregnancies she terminated.

Given what we know about behavioural responses to what is, in essence, a deadline, the policy could lead to procrastination and fewer wanted pregnancies.

Exploiting the emotional power of fetal imagery, laws require women to undergo ultrasound, a practice welcomed in wanted pregnancies but commandeered for use against women with unwanted pregnancies.

These were wanted pregnancies in which the fetus was already identified as a child, and often even named.