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June 25, 2012 | | WOMB WARS Keith Mason and his wife, Jennifer, are leading a growing national movement to define human embryos as legal people, outlawing abortion. In an exclusive profile of the couple in Newsweek, Abigail Pesta describes the motivation behind the “personhood” movement and the group’s fight to bring the issue to fall ballots in states across the country. Opponents of the movement say personhood laws would erode hard-fought women’s rights—threatening some forms of birth control, in-vitro-fertilization, and embryonic stem-cell research. Mason disputes these charges, calling instead for reform of medications and infertility treatments that “kill a living human being.” BABY MAKING A small but growing number of mothers are skipping hospitals to have their babies at home. A few decades ago, home birth in the U.S. was mostly limited to insular religious communities like the Amish; in recent years, though, it has moved toward the mainstream, spurred by the rise of attachment parenting, a reaction against a dysfunctional medical system, and pro-midwife documentaries like the The Business of Being Born, which featured Ricki Lake giving birth in her bathtub. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the number of home births grew 29 percent between 2004 and 2009, to 29,650. Michelle Goldberg reports on what’s fueling the trend—and the hidden dangers at hand. | | 
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