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  1. 🥱🧠 Researchers at #Durham University analyzed #ultrasound #videos to track how often fetuses yawn during different stages of #pregnancy.

    The findings indicate that yawning frequency decreases as the #fetus grows, suggesting the behavior is a necessary part of maturation for the central nervous system. Unlike adults, fetuses don't yawn because they're tired or because they see others doing it.

    👉 sciencenews.org/article/yawnin

    #biology #health #science #brain #research #medicine #education

  2. On Monday, #KateCox #fled #Texas to seek an #abortion, after the #state #invoked its #authority to #force her to carry a #nonviable #pregnancy to #term. #Pregnant with what they’d hoped would be their third #child, Cox and her husband had learned that the #fetus had a #fatal #abnormality, #Trisomy18, ensuring that even if #delivered, the #child would #live a #short, #excruciating #life and #die a #painful #death.