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“What kind of mothering do you expect?”

April 26, 2024/in Adoption & Foster Care, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

(Any time we discuss women who don’t regret being denied abortion, people think we are claiming their perspectives are a reason to ban abortion. In fact, there are multiple reasons to take notice of these women’s experiences, regardless of your views on abortion laws.) Some people believe if a woman gives birth only because she […]

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Did Dobbs make any difference? Guttmacher reports over 1M abortions in 2023

March 21, 2024/in Legislation, laws, & court cases, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

[Most of this info is also available as a Twitter/X thread here.] A new Guttmacher report shows abortions in 2023 are at the highest level since 2012. At an estimated 1,026,690 abortions, the 2023 number is a 10% increase over 2020 levels. Does this mean Dobbs (the 2022 Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. […]

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Abortion-seeking women want the option to view their ultrasounds

September 6, 2023/in Legislation, laws, & court cases, Research, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

[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 […]

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No, abortion pills aren’t safer than Tylenol.

August 25, 2023/in Abortion pills, Research, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

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 […]

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Connected at the cellular level: fetal cells enter maternal tissues and stay for decades

July 31, 2023/in Biology, Research, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

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 […]

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Controversy around Abortion Pill Reversal: a quick overview

April 21, 2023/in Abortion pills, Biology, Research, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

[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 […]

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Las leyes que regulan el aborto reducen internacionalmente las tasas de aborto, pero altas tasas de embarazo no deseado pueden ocultar este efecto.

February 1, 2023/0 Comments/in en español, Legislation, laws, & court cases, Research /by Guest Blogger

[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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Cinco años después, 96% de las mujeres a las que fue negado el aborto ya no querrían haberlo tenido. (Estudio del Rechazo)

November 15, 2022/0 Comments/in Adoption & Foster Care, en español, Research /by Guest Blogger

[This article is a Spanish translation of Five years later, 96% of women denied abortion no longer wish they could have had one. (Turnaway Study) courtesy of volunteer Pablo Mestrovic. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please fill out our volunteer survey.] El Estudio del Rechazo tuvo una estadística muy promocionada acerca de cómo […]

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New peer-reviewed article: Fetal Pain in the First Trimester

January 24, 2022/0 Comments/in Biology, Later Abortion, Research, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

On December 6, 2021, The Linacre Quarterly published Dr. Bridget Thill’s dissertation “Fetal Pain in the First Trimester.” The article is written for a medical audience, with over 100 references to research in medical journals published from 1936 through 2021. If you can read the entire article, do, but for those who aren’t able to, […]

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Study: Women considering abortion who visit CPCs are more likely to continue their pregnancies

January 12, 2022/0 Comments/in Research, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

In July of 2021, PLOS One published “Pregnancy outcomes after exposure to crisis pregnancy centers among an abortion-seeking sample recruited online.” As of the time of this article, the research is fully available without journal access, if you’d like to read it directly. Here are some notes: The authors have pro-choice affiliations but, in my […]

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