Topic: Afghanistan
Three times Hasrat Bibi gave birth. Each time her baby died before reaching the outside world. After the third, she was left a social outcast and unable to have more children, but in Afghanistan her story is all too familiar.Bibi first fell ...
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - She was 15 years old, heavily pregnant and had travelled eight days on the back of a donkey to reach hospital.Suffering from seizures and high blood pressure, she died soon after at the Herat Maternity Hospital in western ...
Military police are investigating "despicable" fake calls to families of Canadian soldiers deployed in Afghanistan to say their sons or husbands had died in combat, authorities said Wednesday.The impostor telephone calls were made to families of soldiers based at Canadian Forces Base ...
Even rumors of reinstatement of the draft need to be taken seriously. In a time when our country is involved in military action on several fronts and National Guard units have been activated, it is not unreasonable to suspect the issue of ...
Being a military spouse is nothing like I imagined it would be. In the next month or so I was introduced to four or five wives who's husband's were in the same unit as my husband. When we got news the men ...
to get the egg and sperm together and sweep them into the uterus to grow. Stuck in the narrowest part usually, just at the opening into the uterus. Or maybe the middle, or in the picture at the end (the fimbria). In ...
Not too long ago, I wrote about Approaching an Empty Nest and bragged about how much I was looking forward to it, about the plans my husband and I are making to move away when my daughter graduates from high school next ...
Recently, I answered a question in Hubpages from a woman who is raising her daughter's child because her daughter is addicted to drugs and cannot care for him. The child is ill and has complications because her daughter used drugs while pregnant, ...
When the news broke about Jamie-Lynn Spears' pregnancy, I could not believe the hysterical reaction from most media outlets and blog websites. Amazing considering the state of the economy, the presidential election, and the never-ending war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday announced a $40 billion drive to improve the health of women and children, which he said would save millions of lives around the world.Governments, philanthropists and private groups pledged the cash, giving a spectacular end ...