President Obama's actions will help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, abortions and women dying from high-risk pregnancies because they don't have access to family planning.

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The report also points out that asylum-seeking women often have high-risk pregnancies, due to serious physical health conditions that can be related to having fled torture, sexual violence or female genital mutilation in their own countries.

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While no deaths have been put down to malware in medical equipment, an example is given on how fetal monitors used on women with high-risk pregnancies being treated in intensive-care wards were slowed down by malware.

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These interventions are stopping smoking, promoting single pregnancies in IVF treatments, reducing planned Caesarean sections - which are often carried out before due dates - unless there is a medical reason by 80%, providing progesterone supplements to women with high-risk pregnancies and cervical stitches for women with a "weak" cervix that could mean a baby does not go to term.

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