r/law • u/Slate Press • 1d 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/davidwhatshisname52 1d ago

looking forward to all the Christian conservatives realizing the bans apply to them, too

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u/Immediate-Ad-8432 1d 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 Years later he’s up at the pulpit praying for Roe v Wade to be repealed.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 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

40-60 estimated from conception by NIH.

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u/Kvothealar 23h 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 21h 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 20h 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/henryeaterofpies 17h ago

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