When discussing whether women regret abortion, I think people are using different meanings of the word “regret.” Some mean feeling remorse over an event or wishing it had gone differently. Others mean feeling sorrow or otherwise suffering. The ideas are similar but not identical. The distinction is important when we discuss whether women regret their […]
The journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics recently published an issue focused on how people are affected by pregnancy loss. I’m grateful to say my story was one of those chosen for publication. I’ve talked about my experiences with miscarriage in blog posts before (especially Our cultural gaslighting of women who miscarry before 20 weeks and […]
By Daniel Gump (This article originally appeared on The Pro-Life Review.) It is often claimed by abortion proponents that induced abortions are “coded” the same as many other medical procedures. They also claim that physicians and pharmacists have withheld emergency treatments from patients to avoid any legal gray areas in states where induced abortions are […]
[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 […]
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 […]
(Transcript below video.) Transcript: When pro-choice people conceptualize the embryo as a parasite, and pathologize pregnancy as our body’s failure to rid ourselves of a parasite, there’s another element of that discourse that I want to touch on. And that is how this kind of framing affects people who have experienced pregnancy loss. I have […]
[Today’s guest article is by John Bockmann.] Ectopic pregnancy can be a life-threatening emergency for a pregnant woman. It’s the leading cause of maternal mortality in the first trimester, when most induced abortions occur. That’s probably why it’s drawn a lot of attention, especially since legal, non-therapeutic abortion is no longer guaranteed everywhere in the […]
1. Abortion bans mean women won’t be able to get treatment for ectopic pregnancy. There are currently no abortion laws that outlaw treatment of ectopic pregnancy. Quite the opposite, many state laws explicitly exempt treatment of ectopic pregnancy from their definitions of abortion. For example, last year’s Texas Heartbeat Law incorporated Texas’ Health & Safety […]
Today’s guest article is by Petra Wallenmeyer, who is the Content Director at Human Defense Initiative. Introduction A rather interesting journal publication was brought to my attention a few weeks ago. The article is called “Conscious Abortion: Engaging the Fetus in a Compassionate Dialogue” and was published in the Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology […]
“Spontaneous abortion” is the medical term for a miscarriage. Many people have expressed confusion and hurt regarding this phrase, believing that it’s trying to equivocate between a miscarriage and an elective abortion or that it’s suggesting a woman gets an abortion casually. As someone who has had two miscarriages, I understand the gravity and sensitivity […]
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