[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 […]
Planned Parenthood released its 2022 annual report last week, and it has one heck of an opening line: “This was the year the worst happened.” I try to understand where pro-choice people are coming from. Many of them genuinely believe that abortion is a necessary evil, that women cannot succeed in male-dominated career fields without […]
Today at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, SPL Executive Director Monica Snyder is giving her presentation “Deconstructing Three Pro-Choice Myths.” Below are all the sources she used for today’s version of the presentation. Myth #1: Biologically, we don’t know when human life begins. Articles claiming the myth Biology and embryology textbooks and relevant quotes International […]
[Post-publication update, 4/23/23 – (1) I clarified the results of the 2018 Delgado study. Previously I had stated the study found up to 68% success rate for APR. The average rate was 48%, with different methods of progesterone administration having different success rates up to 68%. (2) I added a note about method limitations in […]
[This article is a Spanish translation of “Abortion laws decrease abortion rates internationally, but high unintended pregnancy rates can mask this effect” courtesy of volunteer Pablo Caballero. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please fill out our volunteer survey.] [Una versión de esta publicación está disponible en Twitter aquí .] En septiembre de 2020, […]
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