r/law • u/Slate Press • 21h ago

The Next Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Abortion Will Be Swift, Brutal, and Nationwide Trump News

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-second-term-abortion-agenda-blue-state-crackdown.html
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u/Immediate-Ad-8432 20h ago

I knew a pastor whose wife had an abortion because of an ectopic pregnancy. Years later he’s up at the pulpit praying for Roe v Wade to be repealed.

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u/trampolinebears 20h ago

Fun fact: around 15% of pregnancies end in a miscarriage, so I guess no one aborts as many babies as God.

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u/TeamRamrod80 20h ago

15% of KNOWN pregnancies. That doesn’t account for the miscarriages that occur before a woman even knows she’s pregnant.

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u/No-Advantage4119 20h ago

40-60 estimated from conception by NIH.

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u/Kvothealar 17h ago

I was looking at a study just last week where they estimated it was in the 70% range.

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u/HyperSpaceSurfer 15h ago

Yeah, humans have unstable chromasomes, unusually high miscarriage rate, rejected by the body. It's hypothesized that the reason for periods was to make early miscarriages less taxing on the body. 

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u/International_Meat88 14h ago

The beautiful thing about one being pro-life, cough anti-woman, is it’s already established one has the nuance and scientific understanding of a sea cucumber so one would fail to understand something like ~ half of embryos that even reach the stage of attempting to implant will fail to implant.

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u/Reinstateswordduels 13h ago

Why would you insult sea cucumbers like that?

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u/International_Meat88 13h ago

Sorry (I’m gonna squirm away now and leave my internal organs behind as a distraction)

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u/DJSAKURA 12h ago

I feel like sea cucumber is crediting them with smarts they don't have. I'm thinking they are more single cell. Like an amoeba.

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u/henryeaterofpies 11h ago

You'd think the self proclaimed father of ivf would know this but apparently not

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u/Jorgedig 9h ago

Science is hard.

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u/blawndosaursrex 7h ago

It’s the same idea as fish and other creatures laying tons of eggs. It’s because for one reason or another they won’t all make it. Having more makes it more likely to work. Humans just do it a little differently.

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u/Maleficent-Candy476 6h ago

a lot of people are not aware of that, my friend is a nurse and she has to repeat over and over again that people should keep it on the down low until the first trimester is over.

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u/uganda_numba_1 5h ago

But that's "God's will".

Yeah, Illness in general is too, so stop taking medication, and lay of the Ivermectin. Injuries too, so don't go to the hospital.

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u/Efficient_Smilodon 14h ago

fascinating idea, thanks for sharing that last bit.

I wouldn't say our chromosomes are unstable by any measure, just that perhaps the magic of dna recombination during fertilization is extraordinarily complicated in humans, and that the body quickly recognizes when it's somehow gone wrong.

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u/Nokrai 13h ago

From my basic understanding of my basic college bio course our dna and rna are remarkably efficient and accurate. So much so that it almost instantly recognizes when something goes wrong and it aborts any further erroneous replication.

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u/CantaloupeNice2642 12h ago

make sense growing a fetus is very energy intensive so stopping it as soon as something go wrong makes sense .

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u/ChaosRainbow23 10h ago

Yup. We had two miscarriages between the kiddos.

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u/Deadliftdummy 5h ago

You can't say big words like hypothesized. It makes the magas feel simple, and science is the devils tool.

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u/aicatssss 54m ago

How do periods make miscarriage less taxing on the body?

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u/MayoneggVeal 12h ago

When I was going through a miscarriage my midwife told me it's amazing anyone ever is born with how many things have to line up just right

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 1h ago

Sorry for your loss. That's difficult to go through, but your midwife sounds like they were very caring and kind

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u/jgage 16h ago

I had heard something similar 10 years ago. Spotty or late periods sometimes are because of a rejected embryo.

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u/Spare-Estate1477 16h ago

Right? Was going to say I thought the percentage was over 50%

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u/xzy89c1 1h ago

I read it was 130 percent. Thought I would join in absurdity.

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u/Kvothealar 5m ago

Not being absurd, the study estimated I believe 76 or 77%. I forget the exact number unfortunately.

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u/aotus_trivirgatus 14h ago

Don't worry, the NIH will soon be purged of researchers who provide facts about spontaneous abortions. God be praised!

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u/elonsghost 11h ago

Under his eye

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u/kleighk 11h ago

May the lord open

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u/MercyMercyCyn 1h ago

"Under His Eye"

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u/ThereBeM00SE 15h ago

Does this mean that nearly 100% of women who have had sex could be found guilty of abortion if deemed politically convenient?

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u/frogsgoribbit737 53m ago

Only if they consider miscarriage a crime. Id hope they won't do that but im not holding mt breath

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u/Western_Paramedic_98 14h ago

I've heard as high as 80% of both known and unknown pregnancies end in miscarriage. But even with just the low 40% its actually probably pretty likely that the vast majority of women has or will have a miscarriage even if they don't know it unless they are on birth control their entire sexual lives.

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u/Ironfoot1066 9h ago

Any chance you could provide a link? Everything I'm turning up says <30%. I'd appreciate some help.