First, a few definitions When I use the term “pregnancy loss” it can refer to either miscarriage or abortion. The difficulty in distinguishing the two is a major theme of this article. When I talk about “equal protection laws,” I’m referring to laws that would make it possible to charge women who get abortions with […]
[This article is a transcript of “Study: abortion bans aren’t increasing maternal mortality” courtesy of volunteer Ben Tomlin. If you’re interested in volunteering to transcribe more of our content, please complete our volunteer survey.] This video is also available on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. Since Dobbs, we’ve heard endlessly about how abortion restrictions are going to increase maternal […]
[This article is a transcript of ‘Abortion is nothing to do with death‘ courtesy of volunteer Ben Tomlin. If you’re interested in volunteering to transcribe more of our content, please complete our volunteer survey.] This video also available on TikTok. “Abortion is nothing to do with death.” Okay, this paper is by Lisa Harris, an abortion provider. […]
We talk about abortion for fetal anomaly often without noticing a lot of unspoken and unexamined assumptions. In this post, I’m not trying to evaluate whether the assumptions are true, false, fair, or absurd. I’m only naming them. If you’re looking for evaluations about the assumptions, skip to the section “Evaluative Content.” Assumptions about moral […]
[This article is a transcript of “Could you pass an ideological Turing test?” courtesy of volunteer Ben Tomlin. If you’re interested in volunteering to transcribe more of our content, please complete our volunteer survey.] (Video also available on Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram.) This video is meant for people both for and against abortion. In any kind of debate, whether it’s […]
At the end of February, I keynoted the conference for the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) in Seattle. I trained nearly 300 medical professionals on how to have more effective, persuasive conversations about abortion. This work is core to Secular Pro-Life’s mission: advancing secular arguments against abortion but also training people with […]
[This article is a transcript of “Alexia Moore and the attempted murder charge” courtesy of volunteer Ben Tomlin. If you’re interested in volunteering to transcribe more of our content, please complete our volunteer survey.] This video is also available on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. “Georgia woman charged with murder after police say she took pills to induce an abortion.” On December […]
In 2024, JAMA Pediatrics published “Infant Deaths After Texas’ 2021 Ban on Abortion in Early Pregnancy,” which argued that “abortion restrictions may have negative spillover effects on infant health.” The paper was filled with questionable and frankly ableist assumptions, and I wanted to respond somewhere beyond SPL’s blog. I spoke with Nicholas Colgrove about it. […]
March is Trisomy Awareness Month, and March 18 is Trisomy 18 Awareness Day. Happy to write to you today with some good news. Historically, when parents received a prenatal diagnosis of Trisomy 13 or 18, medical teams would tell them the conditions are fatal. If parents still wanted to try to give their children the […]
I spoke with Chaney Gooley, a nonprofit consultant for Heaven’s Gain, and Rachel Owen, the CEO of Infinite Worth, about miscarriage kits, which are tools for helping loss parents identify and preserve embryonic or fetal remains in the course of at-home miscarriages. The three of us talked about the major gaps in society’s approach to […]
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