around day 14 of an average 28-day menstrual cycle . That means that when a sperm fertilizes an egg, a person is already officially two weeks pregnant. As nonsensical as that sounds, it’s the simplest way medical professionals can date a pregnancy.
What’s more, these dates are based on averages. Many women have irregular menstrual cycles. Birth control isn’t 100 percent effective, and certain types can eliminate menstruation altogether, throwing even more uncertainty into the early timeline of pregnancy.Most abortions in the United States happen very early in pregnancy, data collected in 2019 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show. Fewer than 5 percent of abortions are done at or after week 16 of pregnancy. 2.
“What we’re seeing is actually the primitive heart tube and the cells in that heart tube having electrical activity that causes fluttering,” Verma says. “The ultrasound is actually manufacturing that sound based on the electrical activity and fluttering motion.” Knowing what a fetus experiences is impossible, but brain development studies provide some clues. The experience of pain starts with the senses detecting something noxious. Those signals then have to travel to the cortex, the outer layer of the brain that helps interpret that sensation. In human fetuses, those brain connections don’t exist until about week 24 or 25 of pregnancy.
“That has been a moving line as science has advanced and our ability to support very small babies has advanced,” Swartz says. “But it’s also not a fixed line for babies born now.”
There is zero scientific basis for the abolition of abortion. It’s all ideology, religion and dumbness. So many real lives will be destroyed.
grandmagrit Thanks for re-tweeting!
Then there is the whole idea of Government Forced Birth, what does a heart have anything to do with it, this is about taking away control from an individual over their body and giving it to Government? Fish have hearts...yum Pigs have hearts...yummy Cows have hearts...yummier
Only god is allowed to kill babies!
I remember Trump got COVID19 treatment developed from embryonic stem cells. If abortion is illegal, not only embryonic cell but all cell-based experiments should be illegal too.
You're talking about zygote, implantation, heartbeats, brain function, pain. All of these are processes of life; not an indication of life. Life is far more complex than any of these. Life begets life. Life begins before conception.
Hogy egy küklopszmaréknyi fekete műbroki tüskével tűzdelve vibrálna a 'cuki' végbélnyílásaikban, miközben grillsütőn kiterítve imádkoznának a nők jogainak visszahozataláért. Talán. De nem biztos :D
There is only 1 thing that we need to know. A person is never required to give up their body in order to keep another person alive. Body autonomy is a fundamental right that supports all other rights.
why is science news pushing more POLITICAL pr0paganda.
I don't get it. Couldn't guys came on face or tits to prevent that child killing thing?
The very simple principle here is, it is not mentioned in the US Constitution as an issue that should or can be addressed by our federal gvts. It is an issue for our state governments. Fight it out there! I promise you, Missouri will not look like California, but that’s okay.
I think you are missing the point it is a states right issue where it belongs.... Statesrights TenthAmendment we found a civil war over states rights.... NOT Slavery.
As a pharmacist, I can understand concepts discussed here fairly well. The problem is, most people involved in policy making DON'T understand it well. To use a line from Neil DeGrasse Tyson: they know enough to think they're right but not enough to know they're wrong.
Lol, sure it's black and white. Leave it alone it's a human being with different genetics and capable to talk back. If you don't leave it alone you're murderer.
Protest safely women.
Read this
all true. But it doesn't matter. If a woman is a human, her body is her own, and she can do whatever she wants with it. ESPECIALLY kicking a parasite out of it. At any point during pregnancy. On the grounds of personal self-defense.
when i have had sonograms for various reasons, i did hear that swishing sound which people think is a heartbeat.
god commits thousands of abortions every day---miscarriages & spontaneous abortions. god understands physical, mental, and emotional viability as good as humans do
excellent article. thank you.
Laura should film an abortion so she can demonstrate how babies cannot feel pain.
When they came out with the fetal heartbeat thing I thought they were using technological advances against women. Now I know it's even worse. The heartbeat is manufactured by the machine in response to electrical flutter. There is no actual heartbeat.
This is a great non-bias scientific list of the new obstacles that women, doctors, and state governments alike will have to comprehend. No one wants to be the third wheel.
Bacteria is life on Mars but a fetus isn't? Weird.
Everybody in the debate about abortion should read this article.
Any chance this could find its way into a 'Science News for Students'?
Have you met the folks who oppose women's choice? They are the same folks denying climate change and ignored covid solutions. No exactly the most scientific bunch.
god commits abortions thousands of times a day--miscarriages and spontaneous abortions. Yes, god, women, and doctors understand physical, mental, and environmental viability
Just one question needs answered. Does an abortion end a human life?...Nuance destroyed.
These 'misunderstandings' sound like the creative six year old me rubbing off misplaced lines on my line drawing book with a wet finger & hoping the teacher won't notice the mistakes!
Obstetrics and Gynecology. Abortion regulations based on flawed medical and scientific premises, Swartz says, “places priority on a potential life over the actual life of the person sitting in front of me.” We should, We must put life of the woman before a potential life.
Thank you for posting&esp for clarifying that of weeks of pregnancy is counted starting from 1st day of the woman's last period,NOT from date of conception,which in most cases,happens 2 weeks later.
Thank you so much for writing this and trying to provide better information for people to understand. Thank you! I appreciate you! 🤓
“Pain is very complex, It requires not just a physical response, but the ability to suffer as a result' Doctors completely deny subjective experiences in research because of the inability to measure them, but the moment it suits them they use subjectivity to back their argument?
Stop the layoff
Many on the right don't and won't care what science has to say on this topic. You could get a thousand doctors and scientists to testify in front of state and federal Congress, and many on the right will just say 'FU, your science is wrong.' Look how many wanted Fauci fired.
as a technical note, australia, canada, europe, and MUCH of the world, after 20-25 weeks, it is mrdr charges. IE most of the world has the heartbeat law.
The egg fertilized now has a unique human genome. Allowed to its proper course will develop into a full baby. Then we are asking, at what point do we say destroying that development is okay versus another state where it is not?
You fetal pain (4) is way out of date.
Fuck religion, they have no rights to change anything this country is a joke now.
There is no misunderstanding. It's religious bigotry.
Your opinion is not based on any science, so...
Science is not the Law.
You have no room to talk about accurate Science.....
Is a fetus a human life? Yes or no. That’s the only science needed.
What is a woman? Can you spread the virus after vaccination? Stop it already. Science at the federal level was abandoned a long time ago.
Murder is not up for debate.
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