The littlest victims. Smokers' offspring more prone to asthma. Sperm abnormalities among cocaine users. Decreased cardiac output in infants of mothers who abused cocaine. Pro-choice legislator in West Virginia Charlotte Pruitt introduced some bills restricting male reproductive rights to illustrate how abortion restrictions amount to unequal treatment of women and men in reproductive matters.
Bills take aim at double standard.
Have students role-play presenting information to a hospital board advocating changes in hospital policy to facilitate bonding between mother and infant and father and infant. Both the infant and the mother need the close contact. For the infant, it facilitates attachment. For the mother, it increases involvement, reduces the artificiality of the hospital setting, and reduces the chance of postpartum blues. For the father, it makes him part of the infant's life from the first moments and increases his sense of involvement.