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Oct 18, 2022 · Major medical societies, and medical billing codes, define abortion as any procedure that terminates a pregnancy — whether that pregnancy is wanted or unwanted, whether a woman is...
Jun 29, 2022 · On June 24, the Supreme Court overturned one of the most famous Supreme Court precedents protecting a woman’s right to privacy to have an abortion. The Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling: Explaining What It Means for the Law and for Women in America | The Dig at Howard University
Mar 11, 2024 · “You have a medical definition of abortion; you have 50-some-odd legal definitions of abortion; and then you have a bazillion public perceptions of abortion,” said OB-GYN Cara...
- The Role of Science
- Political Claims About Science
- Several Possible Options
As a biologist and philosopher, I have been watching players in the national abortion debate make claims about biology for many years. Abortion rights opponents know that Americans have widely differing values and religious beliefs about abortion and the protection of human life. So they seek to use science as an absolute standardin any discussion ...
Public figures have, in recent years, prominently claimed that scientific knowledge on the topic of human life is definitive. In 2012, for instance, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who was running for president, claimed on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: ”Biologically, life begins at conception. That’s irrefutable from a biological standpoint...
Scott Gilbert, the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology emeritus at Swarthmore College, is the author of the standard textbook of developmental biology. He has identified as many as five developmental stagesthat, from a biological perspective, are all plausible beginning points for human life. Biology, as science knows it now, can tell these...
- Sahotra Sarkar
Jun 24, 2022 · After nearly five decades of federally protected abortion access in the U.S., the Supreme Court’s June 24, 2022, decision to strike down Roe v. Wade refueled a host of unfounded claims. Although...
Most women in the United States are religious, and most major religions in the United States doctrinally disapprove of abortion. A substantial proportion of U.S. women have abortions. Although relationships among religious beliefs, abortion attitudes, behaviors, and stigma have been found in previous research, the relationship between stigma ...
May 30, 2022 · Editor’s note: On June 24th a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court voted to overrule the constitutional right to an abortion, which had been guaranteed since 1973 in Roe v Wade.. A S ONE OF the ...
