[This article is a Spanish translation of “Embryos & metaphysical personhood: both biology & philosophy support the pro-life case” courtesy of volunteer Pablo Mestrovic. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please fill out our volunteer survey.] El artículo del blog de un invitado de hoy es de Kristina Artuković Cualquiera que está de alguna […]
[This article is a Spanish translation of “Hydatidiform moles and molar pregnancies” by volunteer Axel Abbas. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please fill out our volunteer survey.] [Este post contiene fotografías de bebés con graves anomalías genéticas]. Los provida suelen decir: La vida comienza en la concepción (o fecundación). En la fecundación hay […]
[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 […]