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Baby Chris is Eleven Weeks Old
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[This is part 12 of a multi-part series chronicling a pregnancy through the lens of “Baby Chris.” Click here for other parts.] Eleven weeks after conception (13 weeks LMP), Baby Chris is about three inches long. It’s been a busy week for the development of facial features. The tiny nose and lips have formed, allowing Baby […]
Pro-choice articles euphemizing “heartbeat.”
/0 Comments/in Biology, Debunking /by Monica SnyderDefinitions of “heartbeat.” To my knowledge there’s no unifying authoritative definition of “heartbeat.” Embryology textbooks do use the term. For example: “Blood flow begins during the fourth week, and heartbeats can be visualized by Doppler ultrasonography.” – The Developing Human, Moore et al, 10th Edition (2013) “The heartbeat is initiated around the twenty-first day, and […]
When we say “heartbeat” we don’t mean “fetal pole cardiac activity.” We mean “heartbeat.”
/0 Comments/in Biology, Debunking /by Monica SnyderRecently a FB follower shared this post to our page: (Click to enlarge) The text reads, in part: This is what an embryo at 6 weeks looks like. There is no real heart beat because it’s heart isn’t nearly complete – they’re heart “vibrations” (vibrations are caused my cellular activity where the heart WILL be. […]
Baby Chris is Ten Weeks Old
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[This is part 11 of a multi-part series chronicling a pregnancy through the lens of “Baby Chris.” Click here for other parts.] Baby Chris has put on some serious weight this week: a whopping 77% increase, according to the Endowment for Human Development. He or she now weighs about half an ounce and is the […]
Making Sense of Arizona’s Late-Term Abortion Statistics
/0 Comments/in Later Abortion, Research /by Kara Balogova[Update December 2022: Here is a video summary of this blog post. Scroll past the video to see a written version of the same concepts.] Above: a 28-week-old baby I don’t know about you, but I often use the data brought to my attention by the SPL blog post “More evidence that most late-term […]
Recap: Senate Symposium on Sex Trafficking
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardSecular Pro-Life co-leader Terrisa Bukovinac here. Last week, I had the opportunity to attend a symposium at the United States Senate entitled “Trafficking and Women’s and Children’s Health.” The event brought survivors of sex trafficking together with doctors and legal experts to discuss the serious and pervasive concerns of sex trafficking in America and how […]
Baby Chris is Nine Weeks Old
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[This is part 10 of a multi-part series chronicling a pregnancy through the lens of “Baby Chris.” Click here for other parts.] One week into the fetal period, Baby Chris is exhibiting new behaviors. According to the Endowment for Human Development, “thumb sucking begins and the fetus may swallow amniotic fluid. The fetus can also […]
The people whose lives you suggest aren’t worth living? They can hear you.
/0 Comments/in Ableism, Adoption & Foster Care, They Can Hear You /by Monica Snyder[The original FB post where we collected these answers can be found here. We’ve since created a FB album with more such perspectives here.] Recently, “The Good Place” star Jameela Jamil tweeted the following: Text reads: “I had an abortion when I was young, and it was the best decision I have ever made. Both for me, […]
We asked, you answered: why did you convert from being pro-choice to pro-life?
/0 Comments/in Dialogue strategy, Uncategorized, We Asked You Answered /by Monica SnyderOriginal FB post here. At the time I started organizing these answers, there were about 200 comments. Many people became pro-life because of their own pregnancy experiences: Sasja: I was pro choice, and even against the gestation of embryos that showed signs of hereditary diseases or birth defects … And then I fell in love […]
Baby Chris is Eight Weeks Old
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[This is part 9 of a multi-part series chronicling a pregnancy through the lens of “Baby Chris.” Click here for other parts.] Since his or her conception eight weeks ago, Baby Chris “has grown from a single cell into nearly 1 billion cells forming over 4000 distinct anatomic structures” and “now possesses more than 90 […]