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Los seres humanos comienzan como cigotos: Refutaciones a ocho argumentos comunes de proelección

November 22, 2022/0 Comments/in Biology, en español /by Guest Blogger

Descargo de responsabilidad: El propósito de esta entrada de blog es la definición biológica. No tiene la intención de establecer o argumentar ningún punto moral o filosófico. [This article is a Spanish translation of “Human Beings Begin as Zygotes: Refutations to 8 Common Pro-Choice Arguments” courtesy of volunteer Michelle Lozano-Persons. If you’re interested in volunteering […]

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NPR interviews abortion rights activists to determine if embryos have hearts

September 8, 2021/0 Comments/in Biology /by Monica Snyder

On Sept 3 (2021) NPR published the article “The Texas Abortion Ban Hinges On ‘Fetal Heartbeat.’ Doctors Call That Misleading” by Selena Simmons-Duffin. In NPR’s tweet of the article, the description said “What an ultrasound detects in an embryo at 6 weeks is electrical activity from cells – not a heart.” Here I will explain […]

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Poll: Pro-choicers support a lot more abortion restrictions than you’d expect.

July 17, 2020/0 Comments/in Research, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

When polls regarding abortion ask Americans about Roe v. Wade, most people say they want the Supreme Court decision upheld. But when the same polls ask people when they think abortion should be legal, most believe there should be more restrictions than Roe v. Wade actually allows. I’ve summarized these contradictory results before. Today I […]

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Sources for “Deconstructing Three Pro-Choice Myths”

February 29, 2020/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

Today Oregon Right to Life is hosting the “Together We Advocate” Conference, the largest pro-life conference in the Pacific northwest. Monica Snyder, SPL co-leader, will be giving a slightly updated version of her presentation “Deconstructing Three Pro-Choice Myths,” including where those myths come from and the research that undermines the myths’ claims. Here are the sources […]

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Even very pro-choice biologists acknowledge a human life begins at fertilization.

February 26, 2020/0 Comments/in Biology, Research /by Monica Snyder

If you haven’t already, you should really read Biologists’ Consensus on ‘When Life Begins’, a dissertation by Steve Jacobs out of the University of Chicago. This blog post is going to be long, so here’s the summary: Most Americans think “When does human life begin?” is an important question that people deserve to know the answer […]

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A Pro-Life Response to “The unscientific nature of the concept that ‘human life begins at fertilization,’ and why it matters”

January 15, 2020/0 Comments/in Biology, Uncategorized /by Guest Blogger

Image: Competing protest signs. One reads “Keep abortion safe and legal.” The other reads “Face it… abortion kills a person.” [This article originally appeared at The Fetal Position and is reprinted here with permission.] Occasionally a pro-choice person will give me a link to an article attempting to refute the idea that a new human organism begins […]

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Are Human Embryos Human Beings from the Beginning?

June 12, 2019/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Clinton Wilcox

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Pro-choice advocates will insist that the human embryo doesn’t become a human being until birth or at least sometime late in pregnancy. Pro-life people generally agree with the scientific consensus that human life begins at fertilization; once the ovum cell is fertilized by the sperm cell, a new, genetically distinct human organism […]

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Pro-choice articles euphemizing “heartbeat.”

June 7, 2019/0 Comments/in Biology /by Monica Snyder

Definitions 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 […]

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When we say “heartbeat” we don’t mean “fetal pole cardiac activity.” We mean “heartbeat.”

June 5, 2019/0 Comments/in Biology /by Monica Snyder

Recently 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. […]

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We asked, you answered: why did you convert from being pro-choice to pro-life?

May 22, 2019/0 Comments/in Uncategorized, We Asked You Answered /by Monica Snyder

Original 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 […]

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