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• n  a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus

• A PTI cover story on life inside the womb -- What scientists have learned about those amazing first nine months and what that means for mothers.
• The "glass womb" is made from two glass slides, one with a scarcely visible depression containing a ripe ovum.
• From earliest times, woman's womb and its workings have been grossly misunderstood.

• uterus

News & Articles

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• Jeb Bush tells conservatives to welcome more baby-having immigrants
  Posted June 14, 2013, at 3:56 p.m. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference, June 14, 2013 in Washington, DC. The emerging theme on day two of the (deep breath) Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference is the womb. Conservatives use it.
  June 16, 2013 - Bangor Daily News
• Low birth weight could be a risk factor for age-related vision loss
  Medical researchers show that rats with restricted growth in the womb, causing low birth weights when born, were most susceptible to developing age-related vision loss, compared to their normal weight counterparts.
  June 12, 2013 - Science Daily
• Low birth weight could be a risk factor for age-related vision loss: UAlberta medical research
  ( University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry ) Medical researchers at the University of Alberta recently published their findings that rats with restricted growth in the womb, causing low birth weights when born, were most susceptible to developing age-related vision loss, compared to their normal weight counterparts.
  June 12, 2013 - EurekAlert!

Quotes

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• Matthew McConaughey in Inquirer.net
  My girlfriend Camila and I made a baby together,McConaughey writes. "It's three months growing in her womb and all looks healthy and lively so far. We are stoked and wowed by this miracle of creation and this gift from God, and so excited...
• Edward Leigh in News 10NBC
  In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb,Leigh said. "It should be a place of sanctity."
• Bill Leonard in Washington Post
  There's a political savvy that Baptist preachers who made it big in the Southern Baptist Convention learned from their mother's womb,said Bill Leonard, a former Southern Baptist seminary professor and dean of Wake Forest University Divinity...