Research has excluded pregnant women from clinical trials -- adding to cultural perceptions around pain and motherhood being natural allies.

"Right to life means something more than survival or animal existence. It would include the right to live with human dignity."

This is the first time researchers have found direct experimental evidence of how poverty drives such changes.

Recognizing the emotional ordeal, the court noted that continuing with the pregnancy “would have a deleterious impact on her mental health.”

"There isn't a single gynecologist or pediatrician available in the region" despite several malnutrition-related deaths, the court noted.

Increased use of fertility treatments like IVF has led twin births to skyrocket across the globe.