Chances are in about four years, kindergarten classes will be filled with students named Liam and Olivia.

Those are the top two most popular names in 2021, according to the Social Security Administration.

Liam may already be a common name in classrooms, since it has been the most popular boy name for the past five years.

Noah and Emma were the second most popular names in 2021. Oliver and Charlotte rounded out the top three.

Fewer parents are naming their child Alexander. The name is no longer in the top 10 and has been replaced by Theodore.

The Social Security Administration began putting together the list of most popular names in 1997, with names dating back to 1880.

If you want to see how your name ranks, click here.

New Mexico plans to build a new abortion clinic in a town near the Texas border.

The announcement came after the state's Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an executive order Wednesday, committing $10 million from her capital allocation funds to build the new clinic in Doña Ana County.

In a news release, Grisham said the new clinic would offer a "full spectrum of reproductive health care," including abortion.

In New Mexico, abortion is legal. However, the Associated Press reported that its neighboring states, Texas and Oklahoma, have banned abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.

“As more states move to restrict and prohibit access to reproductive care, New Mexico will continue to not only protect access to abortion but to expand and strengthen reproductive health care throughout the state,” said Gov. Lujan Grisham in the news release. “Today, I reaffirm my resolve to make sure that women and families in New Mexico – and beyond – are supported at every step of the way.”

Other services the clinic would provide include family planning, prenatal care, and postpartum care and support.

Lujan Grisham has been a proponent when it comes to abortion rights.

Three days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, she signed an executive order that would ensure safe harbor to those seeking abortions or providing abortions in the state, the Associated Press reported.

Thanks to candid conversations from influencers like entrepreneur Anna Victoria and public figures like Senator Tammy Duckworth and former first lady Michelle Obama, the concept of using in vitro fertilization or IVF to achieve pregnancy is becoming more of an open conversation.

According to the latest data from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, or SART, 77,256 babies in the U.S. were born via assisted reproductive technologies in 2019, increasing more than 2600 from the year before.

Here’s how it works fundamentally: during IVF, mature eggs are united with sperm in a lab. At some point, those fertilized embryos are then transferred to the uterus in hopes of producing a pregnancy.

The technology has opened up new possibilities for families — but it's not without its issues.

A recent mixup turned the now common practice into a nightmare for one couple when their fertilized embryo was swapped and inserted into the uterus of another patient.

“We never even knew that something like this could happen," said Alex Cardinale. "It wasn't even on our radar. How could this happen? But now we realize that the fertility industry is a mess."

Dr. Emily Jungheim, a professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, says occurrences like these are rare. But the growing trend of freezing embryos for future use can increase the potential for mix-ups.

“When you think about the inventory and the attention to detail and how careful you need to be due to the risk of having all of those things in storage, you could imagine how these types of things could happen," Jungheim said.

The industry has been called out before for lack of federal regulations. But it isn’t completely void of oversight.

For nearly two decades, clinics have been bound by the Fertility Success Rate and Certification Act, which requires embryo labs to be certified by an approved non-federal program. It also requires clinics to report their success rates.

The FDA also binds clinics for matters of drug and device safety.

But federal oversight of the industry as a whole doesn’t exist. Instead, it’s more self-regulation where some clinics work to meet the guidelines set by the non-profit, SART.

SART members must follow industry standards created in part by SART and a group of their peers from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. They are also monitored to ensure things like honesty in marketing and advertising.

According to SART, as of 2018, 86% of IVF clinics were members of their organization.

Still, mistakes can happen. Jungheim says there are ways patients can be their own best advocates.

“What is the certification of the physician that I'm working with there?" She said. "Are they board certified in reproductive endocrinology and infertility? Do I have friends who've gone there who feel strongly about their docs and comfortable with them?”

She also says incidents like this can cause doctors and labs to ask vital questions and make changes for the better.

Amber Strong at Newsy first reported this.

AUSTIN, Texas —

Most abortions in Texas are banned again after clinics that had raced to provide them during a two-day legal reprieve canceled appointments Saturday following a whiplash appeals court ruling.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a one-page order Friday night, reinstating a Texas law that prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks — and before some women know they’re pregnant.

Enforcement of the nation’s strictest abortion law is left up to private citizens who are deputized to file civil lawsuits against abortion providers, as well as others who help a woman obtain an abortion in Texas. Since taking effect in September, clinics in other states, including neighboring Louisiana and Oklahoma, have been inundated with patients from Texas.

Friday’s order from the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit is just the latest in the legal battle over the Texas law, known as Senate Bill 8. It came two days after a federal judge in Austin suspended the law, allowing providers to resume abortions.

Here are some questions and answers about the law and what’s next:

WHAT HAS BEEN THE IMPACT?

Abortion providers say the ramifications have been punishing and “exactly what we feared.” Some women are being forced to carry pregnancies to term, they say, or waiting in hopes that courts will strike down the law.

More than 100 pages of court filings in September offered the most comprehensive glimpse at how the near-total ban on abortion in Texas has played out. Physicians and executives at Texas’ nearly two dozen abortion clinics described turning away hundreds of patients, and some who showed up for appointments could not proceed because cardiac activity had been detected.

One Planned Parenthood location in Houston normally performed about two dozen abortions daily, but in the 10 days after the law took effect, the clinic had done a total of 52.

Clinics in nearby states, meanwhile, say care for their own residents is being delayed to accommodate women making long trips from Texas. Doctors say recent patients from Texas have included rape victims, as the law makes no exceptions in cases of rape or incest.

Whole Women’s Health has four clinics in Texas and was among providers that performed abortions in the state Thursday and Friday, after the lower court ruling allowed them. President and CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller said she didn’t have the number of abortions performed during the reprieve.

WHAT WAS THE LANDSCAPE IN TEXAS BEFORE?

More than 55,000 abortions were performed last year in Texas, which already had some of the nation's strictest abortion laws, including a ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Abortion providers in Texas have experience when it comes to abruptly ramping up operations again. In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, abortions in Texas were all but banned for weeks under orders by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that postponed surgeries “not immediately medically necessary."

But providers were reporting staffing issues and worried some clinics would permanently shutter. A decade ago, Texas had more than 40 abortion clinics, but more than half of them closed for good during a protracted legal battle over a 2013 law that was ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

The Biden administration could bring the case back to the Supreme Court and ask the justices to quickly restore the federal judge's order that blocked the law.

The law has already made one trip to the Supreme Court. The justices voted 5-4 not to intervene to prevent it from taking effect, but they said further challenges were possible. With the Biden administration’s challenge underway, the law could return to the justices quickly.

The federal judge who suspended the law — Robert Pitman, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama — wrote in a blistering 113-page opinion that the law was an “offensive deprivation” of the constitutional right to an abortion.

Whether the Biden administration’s lawsuit — which calls it “clearly unconstitutional” — was likely to succeed was a factor in Pitman putting the law on hold.

Texas Right to Life, the state's largest anti-abortion group and a driver of the new law, has cheered the fact that it has stopped abortions every day that it has been in effect.

HOW ARE OTHER STATES RESPONDING?

After Texas' law went into effect, Republican lawmakers in at least half a dozen states said they would consider introducing similar bills, with the goal of enacting the kind of abortion crackdown they have sought for years. Those states include Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Mississippi, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Meanwhile, two dozen state attorneys general, all Democrats, submitted a brief in the Biden administration’s lawsuit saying a substantial reduction of abortion access in one state would result in health care systems being burdened elsewhere.

The City Council in Portland, Oregon, briefly considered a boycott of Texas businesses because of the new law but instead decided to set aside $200,000 to fund reproductive care.

The growing anti-abortion campaign is intended to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Abortion opponents hope the conservative coalition assembled under President Donald Trump will end the constitutional right to abortion as established by the high court in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Since the passage of Senate Bill 8, which prohibits abortion once a heartbeat is detected, many Texans who need abortions have left home for care. It's lead to a surge in patients at clinics in surrounding states

Planned Parenthood of South Texas would normally be filled with patients receiving different types of care for abortion. Jeffrey Hons, the president and CEO, says they had no choice but to shut down those procedures.

“It’s eerily quiet here now and that’s been the case here for the month of September," Hons said. “And then when the Supreme Court turned its back on not only the women of Texas, but the legal framework of the United States of America, then things went eerily quiet here when people realized finding abortion in Texas had essentially become nearly impossible and the flurry of activity has now moved across state lines where people are desperately trying to find the care very very far away that they should be able to find right here.”

Hons says it feels wrong for them to not be offering the services their patients desperately need.

“And for those people finding abortion care that is legal, safe and offered without judgement and without stigma, it’s essential. It’s a human dignity, it’s a human right. And so, it is very painful right now, to be experiencing the emotion and physic toll that Senate Bill 8 is creating for staff who want to help people but can’t," Hons said.

This reality has put some people in a tough spot; their options are slim.

“There is so much to be worried about right now. I mean when you talk to abortion providers in neighboring states, whether that be Louisiana, New Mexico Oklahoma, they are seeing an uptick in the number of patients who are reporting Texas zip codes as their home address," Hons said.

The New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproduction Choice is seeing that firsthand.

Brittany Defeao, the program manager, shows us some context. She says In September 2019, they performed 20 abortions, in September of 2020 that number dropped to 15, and this year, it’s up to 50 people, 80% of whom are Texans.

“We were not really seeing new Mexico patients, it’s a very small amount of what we serve. We do anyone. Anywhere you come from, we will support you. Clearly Texas is the majority, it always has been, now it’s overwhelming, it is all Texas people," Defeao said.

To look at it another way, in 2020 they provided abortions to 216 people and they have already surpassed that this year with three months to go.

“It’s not how it used to be. It’s like they scatter in, they are just showing up. A lot of them are flying in in the morning. I’m getting them at the airport, taking them straight to an appointment, picking them up, getting food, they are flying back," Defeao said.

She says their phones have not stopped ringing; people are terrified to submit an application while still in Texas and are unsure of the boundaries around Senate Bill 8.

“So, we have the people who are afraid to travel, the people who are afraid to travel in a pandemic, and the people who are afraid that they are going to go to jail if they come out here to access care," Defeao said.

On top of all of that, their resources are slim.

“So, what we’re seeing is really low income, marginalized communities, the people that need the help the most," Defeao said. “These are people that have nothing, that don’t have access to birth control, to health care, to food, to safety.”

That’s why this clinic in New Mexico is making sure the people of Texas are reminded that they do have options.

“Just like confirming that community and trying to break that shame and stigma that’s even heavier because of this law," Defeao said.

The questions that can come with any pregnancy can be overwhelming; add the COVID-19 pandemic and a new vaccine into the mix, and -- whether a woman is already pregnant or in the process of planning a pregnancy -- the unknowns can seem to outnumber the knowns.

"We've been trying to conceive for three and a half years now," said Anamarie Waite. Waite and her husband, Kevin, want to give their daughter, Amora, a younger brother or sister.

They've been through five rounds of infertility treatments.

"I'm not going to get [the vaccine] if we're back in treatment and actively trying to conceive, but if we do end up getting pregnant, I would like to get the vaccine if it's available to me while I'm pregnant," Anamarie Waite told WCPO.

It's delicate timing to balance for the Waites, one experts say will require careful discussions with their doctor.

No (known) reason pregnant woman shouldn't vaccinate

For Dr. Tina Sosa, pediatrician and new mom, deciding to get the COVID vaccine was a matter of weighing the risks of contracting the virus against the unknowns that still surround the vaccine could impact the woman, her pregnancy or the baby postpartum.

She got her vaccine when she was 34 weeks pregnant. Weeks later, she delivered a healthy baby boy, Leo, and said she hasn't observed any complications.

"I had to weigh the risks of getting COVID while I was pregnant to getting the vaccine," she said, pointing out that pregnant women who contract the virus are at a higher risk of severe illness and hospitalization.

The World Health Organization in a Jan. 8 post on its website said it does not recommend pregnant women receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine but later said on Jan. 26 that it does not "have any specific reason to believe there will be specific risks that would outweigh the benefits of vaccination for pregnant women" to receive the Moderna vaccine. The agency recommended that pregnant women who are at high risk of contracting the virus -- healthcare workers like Sosa, for example -- should receive the vaccine.

Dr. Emily DeFranco, OBGYN and maternal-fetal medicine specialist at University of Cincinnati Medical Center, agrees there's no indication either vaccine poses additional risk to women who are pregnant.

"There's no scientific reason to think it would be harmful. We certainly have reason to believe it would be very beneficial," she told WCPO. "With that being said, it hasn't been studied for safety in pregnancy, and you should understand that before you make a decision to take the vaccine."

When it comes to pregnant healthcare workers, specifically, DeFranco said she hasn't encountered one yet who has declined getting the vaccine.

Don't plan growing family around vaccine

As for those planning a family, Dr. Abby Loftus-Smith, an OBGYN with St. Elizabeth Healthcare, says the vaccine is safe to receive while trying to conceive.

"There is no increased risk in early miscarriage in those groups of women; there's no increased risk of infertility in those groups of women," she said.

DeFranco agrees there, too: "I would not advise that there's any reason to feel that you would need to delay attempting to get pregnant," she told WCPO.

Sosa said the decision ultimately is a personal one.

"It needs to be a personal decision for every woman and a discussion with their doctor," she said.

Beyond making the personal decision to get or not to get vaccinated against coronavirus, whether or not there's available supply is another matter. And for a family like the Waites, waiting becomes a less and less acceptable option each day.

"We're already three and a half years into this; we're not getting any younger and my egg quality isn't getting any better. So we just, waiting for the pandemic to end, waiting for the vaccines to be available is just not something that's an option for us."

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the tran triplets were born four minutes apart. The Orange County Sisters are now celebrating another milestone there due to deliver babies over the next four months. I'm gina, I'm actually the oldest by four minutes and I'm having a girl and her name is Latin Grace And I am Nina, I'm the middle. Um four minutes I'm having a boy and his name is Hendrix Paul. And I'm victoria the youngest by four minutes and an eight minute I'm having a boy. Um and his name is Ryan and Seth together. They're part of the covid pandemic baby. Boom. The triplets planned it that way, victoria Brown's baby comes first in just 2.5 weeks. Once we found out that Nina was pregnant, We encourage Gina, like pretty much every day. Yeah, come on. You know you have. And I was like, I was like, no, no, because you were thinking this is going to be my third. But it happened. The sisters now, 35 are expected to give birth in July August and November. They're the best of friends. They're making memories in matching outfits and sharing maternity clothes. They'll all deliver at the Women's Hospital at Memorial Care saddleback Medical in Laguna Hills. Yes, by the same physician, O. B. G. Y. N. Daniel Sternfeld. The interesting thing is they had prenatal appointments all in the same day. So they click with me, I'm going this is a wonderful story of these three sisters were all pregnant having babies at the same time. The triplets didn't plan this, but the babies births will even out the number of nieces and nephews in the family. Three boys and three girls. Hi

These close-knit triplets are all pregnant at the same time

Updated: 5:44 PM EDT Jun 23, 2021

Three California sisters who are triplets are all due to give birth just months apart from one another.Gina, Nina and Victoria were born a mere four minutes apart 35 years ago.Gina is expecting a girl, while Nina and Victoria are both expecting boys. Once Victoria and Nina found out they were expecting, they encouraged Gina, too."The interesting thing is they had prenatal appointments all in the same day, so it clicked with me that this is a wonderful story of these three sisters who are all pregnant and having babies at the same time," Dr. Daniel Sternfeld told KCAL-TV.Watch the video above to learn more about this story.

IRVINE, Calif. —

Three California sisters who are triplets are all due to give birth just months apart from one another.

Gina, Nina and Victoria were born a mere four minutes apart 35 years ago.

Gina is expecting a girl, while Nina and Victoria are both expecting boys. Once Victoria and Nina found out they were expecting, they encouraged Gina, too.

"The interesting thing is they had prenatal appointments all in the same day, so it clicked with me that this is a wonderful story of these three sisters who are all pregnant and having babies at the same time," Dr. Daniel Sternfeld told KCAL-TV.

Watch the video above to learn more about this story.