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  • A Japanese woman was asked to take a pregnancy test before flying to a US island that has become popular for birth tourism

    01/13/2020 7:17:30 AM PST · by steveben · 15 replies
    Yahoo ^ | January 13, 2020 | Insider
    In November, 25-year-old Japanese citizen Midori Nishida was checking into a flight to Saipan, a US island in the Pacific, where she was going to visit her parents. She wasn't pregnant, and said so on a check-in questionnaire, but airline staff made her take a pregnancy test anyways before she was allowed to board. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nishida was asked to give permission to an authorized medical provider to conduct a "fit-to-fly" assessment, and the form said it was for women who had a body size or shape resembling a pregnant woman. Nishida told the Wall Street...