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Woman gives birth after first U.S. ovary transplant

By wire services
Published June 8, 2005

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - An Alabama woman gave birth this week to a baby girl after undergoing the first known successful ovary transplant in the United States.

Stephanie Yarber, 25, gave birth Monday night to a 7 pound, 15 ounce girl named Anna, said her identical twin sister, Melanie Morgan, who donated the ovarian tissue.

Dr. Sherman Silber, an infertility specialist in St. Louis, performed the transplant in April 2004, and Yarber became pregnant only five months later.

Yarber became menopausal at age 14 and was unable to become pregnant without medical help.

ARLINGTON, Texas - A measure revamping Texas' child protective services was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Rick Perry, who called the issue an emergency after several child homicides by parents who were suspected of abuse.

Lawmakers appropriated nearly $250-million to reform Child Protective Services, saying it would allow the agency to hire 2,500 workers and cut caseloads.

TENNESSEE LETHAL INJECTION: A condemned killer is challenging Tennessee's method of lethal injection because it includes a drug forbidden in the euthanasia of animals. A lawyer for Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, 54, will argue before the state Supreme Court today.

BOY DIES IN VAN: In Little Rock, Ark., a 3-year-old boy died after being left in a day care van for hours while the temperature was in the 90s, and the driver was arrested on a manslaughter charge. Marcellus Johnson was to have been dropped off at his home about 3 p.m. Monday, but driver Rancocas Foreman skipped the boy's stop, went home and parked and locked the van before leaving for his second job.

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