[The below article is a Spanish translation of “Nearly half of all fertilized eggs fail to implant,” courtesy of volunteer Axel Abbas. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please fill out our volunteer survey.] El cigoto humano es la primera etapa de desarrollo del ciclo vital de un organismo humano. A veces, cuando afirmo […]
[This article is a Spanish translation of “Monozygotic Twinning: Weasley brothers, flatworms, and cow clones” courtesy of volunteer Axel Abbas. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please fill out our volunteer survey.] La gemelación dicigótica es cuando dos espermatozoides fecundan dos óvulos y producen dos cigotos que crecen como dos organismos separados. No es […]
The loss of a child is well known to be a type of grief that can lead to a couple struggling emotionally, even to the point of struggling to stay together—but what if the child is lost in pregnancy? What if the loss is so early that those outside of the couple’s circle may not […]
[Today’s guest author is anonymous.] 1972 – Prior to Roe v Wade I marched to the Minnesota State Capitol with other young women from my high school with a sign reading “Keep the State Out of My Vagina!” A 15-year-old friend had a legal abortion arranged in New York by her family. If I had […]
Today’s post is my guest author Heather C. Postcards: Are easier for congressional aids to review and tally, Add a visual message to your prose, Are cheaper than sending a letter, and Have a larger impact than an email. Legislators assume that for every letter or postcard they receive from a constituent, there are at […]
Today’s post is by Andrew Scherer I’ve thought a lot about what makes anyone a “person.” Perhaps “personhood” has only ever been a label that humanity has used as a linguistic gate-keeping device in order to justify oppression, cruelty, and the killing of people they do not like and want to eliminate. Can anyone else […]
[Today’s guest article is by Kaine Spitak and Herb Geraghty. Kaine Spitak is a JD candidate at Duquesne University and the President of their school’s LGBT Law Society. Herb Geraghty is the Executive Director of Rehumanize International, a secular non-partisan human rights organization dedicated to creating a culture of peace and life.] In the wake […]
I am a practicing emergency physician in Texas. My primary practice location is in a high volume, urban, community ER attached to a hospital providing women’s services, i.e. obstetrics. 20-30% of my daily practice is acute-care obstetric triage and treatment prior to 20 weeks, as well as undifferentiated walk in patients beyond 20 weeks with […]
The following post is recreated from a Twitter thread by Dr. Calum Miller. This viral video about fetuses being parasites is honestly the perfect example of what happens when you give a first year undergrad a small bit of technical knowledge and a camera. (I’m not saying she is a first year undergrad – just […]
[Today’s guest article is by an anonymous author.] It’s been strange watching various reactions to Dobbs overturning Roe. Both pro-lifers and pro-choicers have insisted that society should focus on the reality of women no longer having abortion to use as a solution to crisis pregnancy. They worry whether we are properly equipped for their needs. […]