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Adoptive parents have to be careful because there are pregnant women out there (who) really don't have any intention of giving their child up for adoption.

Colorado had an opportunity to step up where the federal government has failed women. Emergency contraception is a safe and effective form of birth control that all women should have access to, yet foes of reproductive rights continue to put up roadblocks at every juncture.

Currently all women are offered a second-trimester screening test as a standard of care. The results of this study will have quite an impact because it will give pregnant women and their physicians more options for earlier and more effective screening.

The program became very popular over the last two years. Many women who are 35 years and older are choosing to have first-trimester screening or a combination of first- and second-trimester screening instead of amniocentesis. There are a lot of women out there who want early non-invasive information regarding the status of their pregnancy and we are hearing from them.

I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.