infanticide

VA Partial Birth Abortion Infanticide Act Constitutional, Should Be Upheld, Argues Americans United for Life Brief

CHICAGO, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Americans United for Life (AUL) today filed an amicus brief arguing Virginia's Partial Birth Abortion Infanticide Act is constitutional and should be upheld. AUL Staff Counsel Mailee Smith stated, "Time and time again, the U.S. Supreme Court has a...

Chinese Eco-tourism Causing Infanticide Among Tibetan Monkeys

A new study by researchers has claimed that Chinas desire to promote eco-tourism is leading to the deaths of Tibetan monkeys in their infancy in the Mount Huangshan Scenic Area of the countrys Anhui Province. According to National Geographic, the skyrocketing infant mortality of Tibetan ma...

Female Infanticide and Feticide Continue to Increase

Cultural bias against women continues to take a heavy toll the world over. Almost 100 million girls die every year, whether in the womb itself or as infants. According to a searing report on the prejudices against women, "Because I am a Girl", feticide is on the increase in many developing co...

Americans United for Life Applauds Fourth Circuit Protecting Women and Children by Upholding Virginia Partial Birth Abortion Statute

...wswire/ -- In a 6-5 decision in Richmond Medical Center v. Herring , the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Virginia's ban on partial birth infanticide -- a law that mirrors the federal ban on partial-birth abortion. Americans United for Life (AUL) provided litigation support to the state and...

2008 Welcome Back Awards Winners Honored for Extraordinary Achievements in the Field of Depression

...ecturing and teaching on the subject for the past 20 years. Her groundbreaking work has focused on researching and evaluating women who have committed infanticide due to postpartum mental disorders, and she has performed a significant amount of pro bono work for women with psychiatric illnesses. Spinelli continu...

Care Net Announces New Leadership: Melinda Delahoyde to Follow Kurt Entsminger as President

...of special projects before becoming a member of the Board of Directors. An accomplished writer, Melinda is author of Fighting for Life, co-editor of infanticide and the Handicapped Newborn, and contributing author to three additional books, including one with philosopher Francis A. Schaeffer and another with p...

New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

... light of male foetuses dumped in dustbins by doctors who aborted them to make money after lying to parents that the child was a girl. "Female infanticide is akin to serial killing. But female foeticide was more like a Holocaust. A whole gender is getting exterminated. It is a silent and smoothly execute...

Two More Unwanted Children Left at Japan's 'baby Hatch'

... their children. The hospital said it set up the anonymous drop-off to help children and troubled women who would otherwise resort to abortion or even infanticide to cope with unwanted babies. Abortion is widely accepted in Japan, where adoption outside of extended families is rare. The hatch, modelled on a...

Diminishing Differences and Empowering Eves

...such as divorce and sexual discrimination or abuse at work, her ‘ country cousin’ faces issues like illiteracy, early marriage and childbirth, female infanticide and a decreased access to health care. A western woman may face issues like teenage pregnancy, drugs, divorce or broken homes, while her eastern c...

Govt to Pass Amendment to Curb Sex Selective Abortions: Ramadoss

... Gujarat and Chandigarh - the areas with very skewed gender ratio - who are willing to spread awareness on checking the menace of female foeticide and infanticide in their constituencies. (Source: IANS News) ...

infanticide in Biological News

Neighbors from hell: Infanticide rife in guillemot colony

One of Britain's best-known species of seabird is increasingly attacking and killing unattended chicks from neighbouring nests due to food shortages. Researchers at the University of Leeds and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology observed a dramatic increase in the number of adult guillemots deli...

Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees

Researchers observing wild chimpanzees in Uganda have discovered repeated instances of a mysterious and poorly understood behavior: female-led infanticide. The findings, reported by Simon Townsend, Katie Slocombe and colleagues of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and the Budongo Forest Proj...

Pregnant mice block out unwelcome admirers to protect their pups

...henomenon is often called the Bruce effect and creates a mating opportunity for the alien male. It is also beneficial for the female because it avoids infanticide by the strange male after birth. After day 3 of pregnancy, however, the smell of an alien male's urine no longer affects pregnancy. At this stage the ...

infanticide in Biological Definition

Sociobiology

...s predicted. Another successful example was a quantitative description of infanticide by male harem-mating animals when the alpha male is displaced. Female infanticide and fetal resorption are active areas of study. In general, females with m...