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. […]
Do fetuses have sensory experiences? In the ongoing discussions about fetal pain and fetal consciousness, some groups have argued fetuses have no sensory experiences throughout all of pregnancy. They say the neuroinhibitors in fetal blood continually sedate them, so they aren’t likely to experience pain (or anything else) until they’re born. Some abortion advocates use […]
Hi all, Secular Pro-Life has a three-part mission. The first part of our mission is to advance secular arguments against abortion. We hit this goal hard in 2025. Our framing is resonating We’re interested in useful conversations with pro-choicers, so we design our content to decrease tribalism. We prioritize common ground, familiar language, and ideologically neutral sources. And […]
Article published in The Hill: “No, OBGYNs are not systematically fleeing states that banned abortion.” There’s been a lot of media coverage claiming that they are, but researchers in public health, medicine, and economics from Stanford, Berkeley, and elsewhere tried to look at this more analytically and found “no evidence of such an exodus.” They […]
[This article is a transcript of “Are OBGYNs feeling Idaho because of abortion laws?” 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.) Can you guess which state just lost one-third of its OB-GYN doctors in just two years? […]
If you want the physical effects of abortion without the psychological impacts, there’s a pill for that. (For all quotes below, emphasis is added.) The journal Contraception published Interest in period pills in the United States: A nationally representative survey, 2021–2022. The study was conducted primarily by researchers from Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health […]
Since conducting this survey, Herb Geraghty and I streamed an in-depth conversation about some of the survey results and what they mean for our public discourse. Get the replay link here: Replay: “Abortion” Across the Aisle Introduction There’s no single definition of “abortion.” We can define it in terms of ethics, law, or medicine, and […]
The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) posted a study arguing the serious adverse events for women who take abortion pills are 22x higher than what the FDA claims. Some notes: EPPC’s Figure 1 (pictured) lists situations they defined as Serious Adverse Events (SAEs). Note some women experienced multiple events, which is why the overall […]
On average, maternal mortality rates (MMRs) are higher in states with abortion restrictions than states without them. This has been true since before Dobbs overturned Roe v. Wade, and remains true today. Controlling the variables Abortion proponents will point to this correlation and then suggest or outright claim this shows that abortion restrictions are dangerous […]
Post-publication edit: SPL’s Herb Geraghty and Monica Snyder streamed an in-depth conversation about the complexities of defining “abortion.” Get the replay link here: Replay: “Abortion Across the Aisle” In March 2025 the journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics published “Defining ‘Abortion’: a call for clarity“. In this article philosopher Nicholas Colgrove suggests six questions to help […]
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