* The Pregnancy Discrimination Act banned employment discrimination against pregnant women in the U. S., stating a woman cannot be fired or denied a job or a promotion because she is or may become pregnant, nor can she be forced to take a pregnancy leave if she is willing and able to work.

In 2010, she starred in TV films The Pregnancy Pact, In My Shoes and was a guest star in two episodes of Desperate Housewives.

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 and Family and Medical Leave Act are rooted in several major court decisions leading up to them.

Since then, the rate has fallen dramatically with 0. 15 per 1000 live births reported in 1998, though this decline is partially accounted for because some fetuses are aborted when tests show signs of spina bifida ( see Pregnancy screening above ).

For example, Park Street Church helped launch a private high school in Hyde Park, Boston Trinity Academy, in 2002 to help address the educational needs of inner-city Boston ( more than 70 % of its students are on scholarship and more than 50 % are minorities ); it hosts many English as a Second Language classes during the week ; it has and supports ministries for the homeless, such as Boston Rescue Mission and Park Street's Starlight Ministry and Thursday Evening Outreach ; it partners with Daybreak Pregnancy Resource Center and A Woman's Concern to assist women facing unplanned pregnancy ; it provides English classes for international students and immigrants ; and through a ministry called Alive in Christ, an affiliate of Exodus International and an advocate of conversion therapy, it seeks to " help those who struggle against their homosexuality and seek Christian guidance.

Discrimination against pregnant applicants is illegal under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, which views pregnancy as a temporary disability and requires employers to treat pregnant applicants the same as all other applicants.

Pregnancy discrimination occurs when expectant women are fired, not hired, or otherwise discriminated against due to their pregnancy or intention to become pregnant.

World Health Organization recommendation on Maternal Supplementation During Pregnancy states that " health benefits are expected for the mother and her developing fetus with little risk of detriment to either, from a daily supplement not exceeding 10, 000IU vitamin A ( 3000mcg RE ) at any time during pregnancy.

Pregnancy sickness causes women to experience nausea when exposed to the smell or taste of foods that are likely to contain toxins injurious to the fetus, even though they may be harmless to her.

She released her second book in June 2009, titled " Thalia: ¡ Radiante !- Your Guide to a Fit and a Fabulous Pregnancy ".

On the inside cover of the LP ( the first page of the " newspaper ") there is an additional article entitled ' Little Milton in Schoolgirl Pregnancy Row ', which talks about a 14-year-old girl named Julia Fealey ( pictured on the front cover to Gerald's left ), who blames her pregnancy on Gerald Bostock.

Pregnancy forced her to cancel her planned appearances in the autumn of 1935.

Care Net ’ s Pregnancy Decision Line virtually reaches the abortion-minded woman at her point of need to empower her to make a decision for life.

* Pregnancy and breast feeding – Lorazepam belongs to the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) pregnancy category D, which means it is likely to cause harm to the developing baby, if taken during the first trimester of pregnancy.

* Pregnancy and postnatal transmission ( e. g., breast feeding )

Pregnancy testing was conducted in the mid-20th century by injecting urine from a woman into a male toad's lymph sacs, and if spermatozoa appeared in the toad's urine, the patient was deemed to be pregnant.

Several legislative measures bear Smeal ’ s imprint including the Free Access to Clinic Entrances legislation ( influenced by Madsen v. Women ’ s Health Center ) that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994, the unsuccessful attempt to defeat Proposition 209 in California, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the Equal Credit Act, the Civil Rights Restoration Act, the Violence Against Women Act, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1991 and the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

Pregnancy and the use of oral contraceptives have been reported as risk factors.

Pregnancy has been known to exacerbate CMT, as well as extreme emotional stress.

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Pregnancy tests are not accurate until 1 – 2 weeks after ovulation.

Also, a U. S. review, " Emerging Answers ", by the National Campaign To Prevent Teenage Pregnancy examined 250 studies of sex education programs.

In January 2010, Birch played Sidney Bloom in the Lifetime movie, The Pregnancy Pact.

* Two at a Time: Having Twins: The Journey Through Pregnancy and Birth.

Data now being collected by the Epilepsy and Antiepileptic Drug Pregnancy Registry may one day answer this question definitively.

Pregnancy is rare, but can occasionally occur naturally as well as through embryo transfer.

Pregnancy affects the susceptibility to relapse, with a lower relapse rate at each trimester of gestation.

Pregnancy toxemia appears to be most common in hot climates.

Pregnancy can be a cause, possibly by increasing blood triglycerides.

Pregnancy related Pelvic Girdle Pain is a significant musculoskeletal disorder that begins in pregnancy and for some women last for years.

The county had the highest teen pregnancy rate in the state for the year 2005 as researched by the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina.

Pregnancy and nursing tend to increase nipple size, sometimes permanently.

Pregnancy also deepens the pigmentation.

Pregnancy is a potential result of any form of sex where sperm comes in contact with the vaginal area ( typically vaginal sex, but pregnancy can result from anal sex, digital sex with sperm fluids on the fingers, or even sperm that is on the body and is transferred to the vaginal area ) between a fertile female and a fertile male.

The criteria were established in the Termination of Pregnancy ( Jersey ) Law 1997.

The criteria were established in the Termination of Pregnancy Act 1995.

Twelve months is the lower reference limit for Time to Pregnancy ( TTP ) by the World Health Organization.

An antibacterial is a compound or substance that kills or slows down the growth of bacteria.

With hand-operated brakes, force is applied to brake levers mounted on the handlebars and transmitted via Bowden cables or hydraulic lines to the friction pads, which apply pressure to the braking surface, causing friction which slows the bicycle down.

Beginning several months after the events in Blade Runner, Deckard has retired to an isolated shack outside the city, taking the replicant Rachael with him in a Tyrell transport container, which slows down the replicant aging process.

** Braising-combining a direct dry heat charbroil-grill or gridiron-grill with a pot filled with broth for direct moist heat, faster than smoking but slower than regular grilling and baking ; time starts fast, slows down, then speeds up again to finish.

( A disc played from beginning to end slows down during playback.

As mentioned above, this is usually broken down verbally as " slow, slow ; quick, quick " where the ' slows ' cover two beats ( or ' counts ') each and the ' quicks ' mark a single beat ( or ' count ') each.

The opening of the body for the entry does not stop the rotation, but merely slows it down.

After inducing encystation in E. invadens, DNA replication increases initially and then slows down.

One such challenge is the potential for carbon dust to build up on the anode, which slows down the internal reforming process.

Internet Explorer slows down GIFs if the frame-rate is 20 frames per second or higher and Microsoft reports that Google Chrome and Safari also slow down some GIF animations.

# Inhibition of GDP dissociation by Guanine nucleotide dissociation inhibitors ( GDIs ) slows down the building of active GTPase.

A damped harmonic oscillator, which slows down due to friction

Similarly, the lower stream tubes expand and the flow slows down.

Eventually, in the worst case, too much of the available memory may become allocated and all or part of the system or device stops working correctly, the application fails, or the system slows down unacceptably due to thrashing.

Ways to reduce such context / restore latency include having relatively few registers in their central processing units ( undesirable because it slows down most non-interrupt processing substantially ), or at least having the hardware not save them all ( this fails if the software then needs to compensate by saving the rest " manually ").

Since it has only a tiny fraction of its parent's radius ( and therefore its moment of inertia is sharply reduced ), a neutron star is formed with very high rotation speed, and then gradually slows down.

Pain relievers such as paracetamol ( also known as acetaminophen ) or drugs containing codeine ( which slows down bowel activity ) are safer medications for pain relief in IBD.

Most reactor designs in existence are thermal reactors and typically use water as a neutron moderator ( moderator means that it slows down the neutron to a thermal speed ) and as a coolant.

Each time a spouse invokes the application of foreign law, the process of divorce slows down, as the parties are directed to brief the issue of conflict of laws and provide translations of the foreign laws.

One example is acquiring the grenade launcher in an early level, an act that slows down the time for that level over the best possible, but speeds up the overall game time by allowing the runner to bypass a big area in a later level that they could not otherwise do.

When a positron slows down to speeds similar to those of electrons in the material, the positron will annihilate an electron, releasing two gamma photons in the process.

First, as light is entering a drop of water, it slows down.

In economics, stagflation is a situation in which the inflation rate is high, the economic growth rate slows down, and unemployment remains steadily high.

Driving both the asymmetric heeling hull form and the angled rudder through the water produces drag that slows the boat down.