John E. Davidson/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Adriana Smith died more than three months ago. The 30-year-old mother and nurse learned, too late, that her brain was full of blood clots. Surgery to address the issue was unsuccessful, and she was declared braindead. But while brain death is the legal and medical definition of being dead, Smith’s body has been kept alive for the past three months because of Georgia’s abortion laws, which forbids abortion if fetal cardiac activity can be detected. At the time of her death, Smith was almost nine weeks pregnant. And so she will be kept on...
RFK Orders "Complete Review" Of Abortion Pill
Bloomberg/Bloomberg/Getty Images During a meeting of the Senate Hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) fiscal year 2026 budget, Secretary Robert Kennedy stated his intention to oversee a “complete review” of the so-called abortion pill mifepristone after expressing concerns regarding its safety. The secretary’s apprehension regarding mifepristone is based, in part, he says, on the findings of a paper published earlier this year by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) stating that nearly 11% of women had a “serious adverse event” following the use of mifepristone, far higher than the .5% supported by clinical studies. “It’s...
Parents Financially Supporting Adult Children Reaches 3 Year High
deepart386/E+/Getty Images Hey there, moms of adult children? How was your Mother’s Day? Was it nice? Did your kids treat you like the queen you are? Great… because based on a new survey from Savings.com, statistically, they owe you. Not just their lives but, like, money. It turns out that the percentage of parents supporting their adult children has reached a three-year high to the tune of $1,474 per month on average. This is particularly the case with Gen Z children (18 to 28 years old) but is also true of Millennial children (29 to 44 years old). Savings.com began...
Have We Forgotten Who We Were Before Kids?
NickyLloyd/E+/Getty Images Having a baby fundamentally changes a person. Everything around you is suddenly different. Everything looks different, feels different. For a while, there’s a very specific, craggly line separating your life — the Before and the After. No matter how thrilled or anxious you were about becoming a mom, no matter how planned or unplanned your child was, you’re bound to feel like a new person. But do we really lose ourselves? Have we forgotten who we were before kids? Those early days, months, even years are hard. It’s a lot of surviving and not thriving, but there comes...