Pregnant woman held with drug-soaked jacket

October 1st, 2009 Wis. women accused of receiving opium in the mailMANITOWOC, Wis. — Two women accused of receiving opium through the mail have been charged in Manitowoc County.

September 29th, 2009 LONDON - The world's first man to be pregnant with twins has vowed he will have children after suffering a miscarriage. Spaniard Ruben Noe Coronado, 26, who was born a woman called Estefania Coronado Jimenez, is trying again for a baby with the help of an IVF clinic despite losing twin babies.

September 20th, 2009 Pregnant Mass. teen shot dead at own birthday bashBOSTON — A pregnant teenager has been shot and killed at a birthday party held in her honor in Boston.

September 15th, 2009 Cops: Men held in Pa. slaying sent scene picturesBRADFORD, Pa.

September 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An 8-month pregnant woman was detained on Sunday after her stomach blocked the steering of her car, causing her to knock down a motorcyclist in Xinmi, Henan province. The woman, surnamed Li, told police officials that she failed to manoeuvre the wheel quickly because her stomach had blocked the steering, reports the China Daily.

August 7th, 2009 LONDON — A pregnant Briton sentenced to life imprisonment in Laos for trafficking heroin has arrived back in Britain to serve the remainder of her sentence. Twenty-year-old Samantha Orobator was met by a prison van as she got off the flight from Laos at London's Heathrow Airport on Friday morning.

August 6th, 2009 Pregnant Briton jailed in Laos going homeVIENTIANE, Laos — A pregnant British woman jailed in Laos for trafficking heroin is being flown home to serve her sentence in Britain. Samantha Orobator, 20, was sentenced in June to life in prison after pleading guilty to drug trafficking.

June 18th, 2009 Correction: Pregnant Woman Killed storyHILLSBORO, Ore. — In a June 16 story about an Oregon woman accused of murdering a pregnant woman and cutting her unborn child from her womb, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the suspect — Korena Roberts — had not entered a plea during her indictment hearing.

June 10th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Thomas Beatie, the transgendered man who created history last year by giving birth to a baby girl, has done it again. ABC News reported that Beatie gave birth to a son early Tuesday in Bend, Oregon, and that the child would be nursed by his wife, Nancy.

June 8th, 2009 Ore. woman charged in death of pregnant womanPORTLAND, Ore. — A pregnant 21-year-old found dead with her baby no longer in her womb befriended the woman charged with killing her through Craigslist, her mother said Sunday.

June 8th, 2009 Autopsy: "blunt force" killed pregnant Ore. womanPORTLAND, Ore.

June 7th, 2009 Woman charged in death of pregnant womanHILLSBORO, Ore. — Authorities in Oregon say they have arrested a woman after a newborn she claimed was hers died and the body of a woman who had been pregnant was found at her home.

May 3rd, 2009 UK woman in Laos could go on trial MondayLONDON — A pregnant British woman who faces death by firing squad if she is convicted of drug smuggling could go on trial in Laos as early as Monday, a human rights group said Sunday. Samantha Orobator, 23, has been in jail in Laos since August, when she was accused of trying to smuggle just over half a kilogram (1.1 pounds) of heroin in her luggage.

April 24th, 2009 Pregnant Colo. woman hit by car while fleeing bearCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.

April 24th, 2009 Mom-to-be hit by car while fleeing bear is OKDENVER — A pregnant woman who was fleeing a bear when she was struck by a slow-moving car said she would honor the euthanized animal by giving her baby the middle name "Bear." Ashley Swendsen, 26, said she thought the bear followed her more out of curiosity than malice because it kept a distance of about 10 feet Thursday morning on a hiking trail in northwestern Colorado Springs. As she ran, she thought, "If it was going to hurt me, it already would have." Swendsen managed to scramble up an embankment and was crossing the street when she was hit by a slow-moving car.