A growing number of lawmakers are proposing legislation to require fetal development education in public schools. Credit: Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library/Getty Images The Hechinger Report ...

During the first weeks of pregnancy, the developing placenta in a mother's womb undergoes a dramatic change. Individual cells merge, forming a continuous barrier that will spend the next nine months ...

Katrina Kimport receives funding from the Society of Family Planning and an anonymous private foundation. Tracy A. Weitz receives funding from the Society of Family Planning, Education Foundation of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An Ohio lawmaker wants to require public school students to watch videos about fetal development annually from third through 12th grade. Rep. Melanie Miller (R-Ashland) ...

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