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Human Embryology Made Simple | 501(c)(3) | SCIENCE EDUCATION | Spreading the basic, accurate science about when a human being begins to exist.

[Contend Projects @ContendProjects]

Stop asking people when they “believe” that an individual human life begins and start asking if they KNOW and are using the objective science to derive legitimate positions and determine valid public policies and laws.

#StopIndulgingScienceDeniers

[State of the Union @CNNSOTU]

.@jaketapper: When do you think life begins?

@GovernorBullock: “It’s not up to people like me to be making these decisions. I think that’s the greater point. It’s ‘what does an individual woman need to do with her body and with her health care?’” #CNNSOTU

[National Review @NRO]

A constitutional republic exists so that a majority cannot vote a class of human beings out of the human family.

Once the law agrees that one group of humans may be permanently erased, the question is: Who is next? | Brooke Stanton

https://t.co/e0Si1wqC86

[National Review @NRO]

Virginia’s Question 1 would write a scientific falsehood into its Bill of Rights and take parents out of the room. | Brooke Stanton

https://t.co/e0Si1wqC86

[Ryan T. Anderson @RyanTAnd]

Hard to take seriously the philosophers who deny personhood to unborn babies but apply it to AIs.

[Grazie Pozo Christie, M.D. @gchristiemd]

Ambiguity is a feature, not a bug!
Great piece...

[Contend Projects @ContendProjects]

The New Yorker’s Dangerous Ambiguity About When Life Begins

Our founder’s latest editorial @realDailyWire.

https://t.co/G9tYUUoETF

[Contend Projects @ContendProjects]

A woman is pregnant when a new human being begins to exist.

There is still no such thing as being “almost pregnant.”
(5/5)

[Contend Projects @ContendProjects]

This is not new.

The New Yorker is recycling what abortion advocates have sold for 50+ years: that a woman can be “almost pregnant.” It worked before.

That is why so many people today think pregnancy begins at implantation.

They are doing it again.
(1/5)

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Pregnancy tests draw a misleading, somewhat arbitrary, binary between a state of being pregnant and not being pregnant. You can be kind of pregnant, a little bit pregnant, or almost pregnant, or maybe pregnant, and still test positive for pregnancy. Pregnancy tests, particularly at-home urine tests, capture a moment in time at which an embryo has implanted and is interfacing with the uterus in some way. “We define how we understand the beginning of pregnancy based on this snapshot, but such a freeze-frame contains limited information,” Apoorva Tadepalli writes. Read more about the difficult task of determining when pregnancy actually begins: https://t.co/hGDewJfdDn

[Contend Projects @ContendProjects]

ACOG did it in 1965, and just like that, a woman was magically “almost pregnant” between fertilization and implantation.

Not science. A fraudulent redefinition so the industry could keep the word “contraception.”
(4/5)

[Grazie Pozo Christie, M.D. @gchristiemd]

Science is so hard for the left.

If HcG is found in a woman's urine (and the test is highly sensitive and specific), she's pregnant.

An EXPECTANT MOTHER.

You can't be a little bit pregnant.

[Contend Projects @ContendProjects]

Definitions that delay “pregnancy” until implantation (or beyond) do not change the fact that a new human being already exists.

There is no such thing as being almost pregnant.

[Contend Projects @ContendProjects]

A human embryo = a human being

In human sexual reproduction (in vivo), scientifically, a woman is “pregnant” and pregnancy begins when the new human being begins to exist.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Pregnancy tests draw a misleading, somewhat arbitrary, binary between a state of being pregnant and not being pregnant. You can be kind of pregnant, a little bit pregnant, or almost pregnant, or maybe pregnant, and still test positive for pregnancy. Pregnancy tests, particularly at-home urine tests, capture a moment in time at which an embryo has implanted and is interfacing with the uterus in some way. “We define how we understand the beginning of pregnancy based on this snapshot, but such a freeze-frame contains limited information,” Apoorva Tadepalli writes. Read more about the difficult task of determining when pregnancy actually begins: https://t.co/hGDewJfdDn

[Contend Projects @ContendProjects]

Actually, EPF is believed to be the earliest possible marker of pregnancy.

PREGNANCY CAN BE CONFIRMED before implantation, 12 to 24 HOURS AFTER FERTILIZATION (when a human being begins to exist) by detecting a protein called “early pregnancy factor” or EPF in the mother’s serum (blood plasma), AND the detection of this protein indicates a viable human embryo/human being exists.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Pregnancy tests draw a misleading, somewhat arbitrary, binary between a state of being pregnant and not being pregnant. You can be kind of pregnant, a little bit pregnant, or almost pregnant, or maybe pregnant, and still test positive for pregnancy. Pregnancy tests, particularly at-home urine tests, capture a moment in time at which an embryo has implanted and is interfacing with the uterus in some way. “We define how we understand the beginning of pregnancy based on this snapshot, but such a freeze-frame contains limited information,” Apoorva Tadepalli writes. Read more about the difficult task of determining when pregnancy actually begins: https://t.co/hGDewJfdDn

[Ed Whelan @EdWhelanEPPC]

“Virginia’s Amendment 1 Is Extreme and Deceptive: Voter referendum would allow abortion up to birth, abolish parental consent, and more”
That’s title of my new National Review essay (linked at end of thread). Some key points:
1. Contrary to what sponsors of the amendment have claimed, Amendment 1 would do far more than write into the state constitution the broad protections for abortion that already exist in state statutes.

[Ed Whelan @EdWhelanEPPC]

Virginia’s Amendment 1 Is Extreme and Deceptive https://t.co/ppttozL9Hd

[Contend Projects @ContendProjects]

@McCormickProf It seems some people have finally conceded that birth does not change the nature or essence of an already existing human being—only to extend abortion’s radical, dehumanizing permission structure to born children, rather than apply fundamental life protections to the unborn.

[Contend Projects @ContendProjects]

@michaeljknowles 💯

[Charlotte Lozier Institute @LozierInstitute]

Pregnancy is not a disease and abortion is not healthcare.

[SBA Pro-Life America @sbaprolife]

Thank you to @SecRubio and @SecKennedy for restoring international American leadership on the side of life. This is a powerful step forward for women, children, and the dignity of every human life around the world.
https://t.co/7Vq4gBRPcY