Maine Bill's Proposed Fetal Exposure Guidelines Generate Controversy

Maine Bill's Proposed Fetal Exposure Guidelines Generate Controversy

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"An elderly woman came up to me and said, 'Do you know what I do?' And I said, 'No ma'am. … Ann Dorney, a family physician who practices in Skowhegan, asked whether the law would apply to mothers who, say, smoked marijuana before they realized they …
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New Iberia children learn about city's past to improve the future

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But their stories have been either untold or forgotten, which is why nearly 50 people recently gathered inside the Martin Luther King Community Center to call out the “Ghost of the West End.” While children are taught in school about … But poverty …
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Douglas Davis' Twin Sister: 'You Don't Know How Much It Hurts'

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Then, well after dark, they would return to the car to drive Dougie back to Stratford, turning the car onto the winding access road to the Ella Grasso Center, where he lived with about 45 other men and women with developmental disabilities. That's how …
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Study shows declining life span for some US women

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Women have long outlived men, and the latest numbers show the average life span for a baby girl born today is 81, and for a baby boy, it's 76. But the gap has been narrowing and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown women's …
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