by Pablo Mestrovic Photo Credit Anna Nekrashevich with Pexels Collecting accurate figures about the incidence of abortion is remarkably difficult. This is the case not only in countries where abortion is illegal, but also in those where the practice is legal but the healthcare system either can not or does not want to provide accurate […]
Dr. Diana Greene Foster (pictured), the lead researcher for the Turnaway Study, has bee selected to receive a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship, along with a no-strings-attached $800,000 “Genius Grant” awarded to people who have “shown extraordinary creativity and dedication in their fields.” The Turnaway Study is a famous (or infamous) body of work comparing and contrasting […]
We all heard the sky-is-falling takes after Dobbs was announced: Pregnant people won’t be able to access life-saving care! Women will be dying in the streets! Doctors will be jailed for trying to save their patients! If you’re happy about the Supreme Court’s decision, you’re a monster! Inconveniently for the abortion industry narrative, the assumption […]
Today’s article is by pro-life atheist author Sarah Terzo. Read more by Sarah on her Substack. Photo Credit Danie Franco on Unsplash. In a 2021 book by Janet Morana, a rape victim describes the trauma she endured after her partial-birth abortion. Christina’s Story Christina from Alberta, Canada, was a substance abuser who was raped at seventeen. […]
[Photo Credit: Eric Ward on Unsplash] It is commonly claimed that legal access to abortion is necessary to preserve women’s physical and mental health, says Calum Miller in Chapter 15 of Agency, Pregnancy and Persons. Advocates of abortion claim that abortion is healthcare and that to prohibit it can cause the torture of a psychological […]
[This information is available in the form of a Twitter thread here.] Research finds that women seeking abortion believe providers should offer them the option to view the ultrasound. But providers don’t always do so, and abortion advocacy groups (Planned Parenthood Action, NARAL, ACOG) oppose measures requiring providers to do so. Please note I’m not […]
[This article is a Spanish translation of “The Risks of Telemedicine Abortion” courtesy of volunteer Pablo Mestrovic. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please complete our volunteer survey.] Esta publicación fue escrita originalmente por Audrey Wagner. El aborto por telemedicina—frecuentemente por teléfono—está en ascenso Durante la pandemia del COVID-19, una minoría de […]
Abortion activists have repeatedly claimed that abortion pills are safer than Tylenol. As far as I can tell, by that they mean that annually there are more ER visits related to Tylenol (acetaminophen toxicity) than to abortion pills. If more people each year are going to the ER because of Tylenol than because of abortion […]
I was recently reading Forever connected: the lifelong biological consequences of fetomaternal and maternofetal microchimerism (published in Clinical Chemistry, February 2021). This post contains my notes on the paper. [Read similar information in non-technical language in the Smithsonian article “The New Science of Motherhood“] The lifelong consequences of the exchange of cells between a mother […]
The way I see it, there are three keys to fetal pain. The IASP’s revised definition of pain, 4D ultrasound studies of fetal behavior, and The diminution of cortical necessity. Last time, I discussed the International Association of the Study of Pain (IASP)’s revised definition of pain, which discarded the requirement that a patient describe her pain verbally in […]
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