Tag: Fearing

Fearing Legal Threats, Doctors Are Performing C-Sections in Lieu of Abortions

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Some physicians are doing unnecessary and invasive surgery on pregnant patients “to preserve the appearance of not doing an abortion.”

Surgeons performing a “classic cesarean section.”

(Photo: Natthawon Chaosakun via Shutterstock)

When news that Lizelle Gonzalez was suing the local prosecutor’s office for more than $1 million in damages, after being falsely imprisoned for murder over an attempted self-managed abortion in 2022, reproductive rights advocates cheered the move as a pathway to justice for the wrongfully charged southern

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What is Disease X? The ‘unknown virus’ that has experts fearing for the worst | US | News

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Disease X has been trending on Twitter, with users on the popular Elon Musk-owned platform comparing the “unknown virus” to having the potential for another global pandemic.

COVID-weary users were quick on the draw with a wide sundry of memes and one-liners, with more than 12,000 posts dedicated to the mysterious disease as of press time.

More than a few even took the opportunity to swipe directly at Musk, who recently rebranded Twitter as “X,” suggesting that the disease was

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AI expert warns ‘Hollywood needs to evolve’ fearing ‘biggest danger’ of strikes | Films | Entertainment

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AI Revenue expert Jeff Pedowitz sat down with Express.co.uk to explore claims that have emerged from Hollywood since the start of the strike, some of which seem completely dystopian – with many fans comparing the situation to the Black Mirror series.

While Jeff admits artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry is far more evolved than viewers may think, estimating that the first completely AI-generated film could be on screen within a year, he is encouraging people from all sides of

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Russians continue to stream across the border into Georgia fearing Putin’s mobilisation

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Queueing in their cars and wheeling suitcases along the road, photographs show Russians continuing to stream across the border into Georgia as they fear Putin’s mobilisation, even as the despot today delivered a ranting annexation speech in Moscow. 

Roads were jampacked full of traffic as people made a desperate dash for freedom at the Kazbegi border crossing in the Kazbegi municipality of Stepantsminda.

Downcast Russians had packed their cars full of their belongings as they fled Putin’s call-up for hundreds

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A Mega-Merger Has Left Some Gold Miners Fearing for Their Safety – Mother Jones

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Photo illustration by Neu Tokyo for High Country News and The Nevada Independent

This article, a collaboration between High Country News and The Nevada Independent, was supported by grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism and is republished here as part of our Climate Desk partnership..

Note: Because some sources were concerned about the possibility of retaliation, gender-neutral pseudonyms were used in this story. An asterisk is used to denote where a source’s name have been changed to protect their

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