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PREGNANCY + POSTPARTUM
Some Hospitals Taking Newborns from Parents Due to False Positives Caused By Poppy Seeds
What: USA Today has the story of a California woman and mother of five who had her newborn taken into protective services after eating a poppy seed salad right before birth—which prompted her drug test to be (incorrectly) positive for opiates.
Why it matters: “For decades, state and federal laws have required hospitals across the country to identify newborns affected by drugs in the womb and to refer such cases to child protective services for possible investigation. To comply, hospitals often use urine drug screens that are inexpensive (as little as $10 per test), simple to administer (the patient pees in a cup), and provide results within minutes. But urine drug screens are easily misinterpreted and often wrong, with false positive rates as high as 50%, according to some studies. … It’s unclear how many of the nation’s 3.6 million births every year involve drug testing, but health care experts said urine screening is ubiquitous. Tens of thousands of infants are reported annually to authorities for in utero drug exposure, with no guarantee that the underlying tests are accurate, our analysis of federal data shows.”
Source: USA Today
Actress Selena Gomez Shares that She Can’t Carry a Pregnancy
What: Actress Selena Gomez tells Vanity Fair that she can’t physically carry a child—a big name to illustrate the complexity and nuance of becoming a parent.
Why it matters: “’I haven’t ever said this,’ she says, ‘but I unfortunately can’t carry my own children. I have a lot of medical issues that would put my life and the baby’s in jeopardy. That was something I had to grieve for a while.’ Gomez communicates this calmly and without sentimentality. ‘It’s not necessarily the way I envisioned it,’ she says of becoming a parent one day. ‘I thought it would happen the way it happens for everyone. [But] I’m in a much better place with that. I find it a blessing that there are wonderful people willing to do surrogacy or adoption, which are both huge possibilities for me. It made me really thankful for the other outlets for people who are dying to be moms. I’m one of those people. I’m excited for what that journey will look like, but it’ll look a little different. At the end of the day, I don’t care. It’ll be mine. It’ll be my baby.’”
Source: Vanity Fair
ABORTION ACCESS
Florida Election Police Show Up at Homes of People Who Signed Pro-Abortion Petition
What: Two people reported that Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ election police “arrived at their homes and asked them about petitions they had signed months ago to add [pro-abortion access] Amendment 4 to the November ballot.”
Why it matters: “’They want people to stay home and to not vote,’ Democratic state Rep. Fentrice Driskell said at a virtual news conference Monday. ‘They want people to read these articles and hear it on social media that the police showed up at somebody’s door and intimidated them and made them feel bad about signing an Amendment 4 petition.’”
Source: Washington Post
Missouri and Nebraska Voters May Lose Chance to Vote on Abortion Access
What: Abortion access questions might be kicked off ballots in Missouri and Nebraska due to technical quibbles—despite petitioners getting tens of thousands of people to sign on in support of voting on the questions.
Why it matters: “Statewide ballot measures in support of the procedure have [seen success since Roe fell], and this November similar measures will appear before voters in Arizona, Nevada, Florida, South Dakota, Colorado, New York, Maryland and Montana.”
Source: CBS
WELLNESS + BEAUTY
Thousands of Cosmo Readers Pick Their Favorite Beauty Products
What: Cosmopolitan says they got over 155,000 people to respond to their
“Readers’ Choice Beauty Awards,” and collated the results into the top 100 products in skin, makeup, and hair products.
Why it matters: The survey wasn’t scientific, and there are affiliate links galore. That being said—there is power in positive reviews from so many people, so we found it worth perusing. And the sheer breadth of product categories means there is something for everyone here.
Source: Cosmopolitan
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