#fetuses

There are a number of panicky Facebook posts, to which I will not link, going around about the "shocking" discovery that #mRNA #vaccines cross the #placental barrier. Which really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but #antivaxers gonna #antivax.

Okay, the discovery is real enough. Here's a direct link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2162253125000435 Click the "View PDF" button at the top, just above the journal title, to read the full article. Note that this is a pre-print version, meaning there may be some typos and such, but nothing that's likely to change the results.

The problem is ... well, there's no problem here! #Maternal #immunity, however acquired, is routinely passed on to #fetuses: we're all born with #immune systems primed to deal with whatever #diseases our mothers have encountered, and that's a *good thing*.

Of course antivaxers who freak out about any occurrence of the abbreviation "mRNA," like the same people often freak out about the word "pronoun" or the "cis-" and "trans-" prefixes, think this is somehow evil.

It's not. It means *fewer dead kids*. These people would literally rather kill their children than learn anything that contradicts their ideology.

#science #pregnancy #placenta #womb #evolution #women #fetuses #babies #birth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMg4bGn3Slk

All #Republican #State #SupremeCourt in #Partisan #Ruling says Arizona ballot initiative can call #fetuses ‘#unborn #humanbeings’

#Arizona is set for a #ballotinitiative to decide whether #abortion should be a #constitutionalright. If passed, it would allow #abortion until about 24 weeks

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #Courts #Corruption #Partisanship #RepublicanParty #Misogyny #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08/15/arizona-abortion-fetus-unborn-human-being/

#Arizona Supreme Court Rules That #Ballot Information Pamphlet Can Call #Fetuses "Unborn Human Beings" - Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2024/08/arizona-supreme-court-rules-that-ballot-information-pamphlet-can-call-fetuses-unborn-human-beings/

But in a March letter to #AMVAC, #EPA ofcls wrote that this voluntary step was not sufficient to protect #farmworkers & others exposed to the #herbicide. The ofcls wrote that changes to #thyroid hormone levels in the #fetuses of #pregnant rats exposed to #DCPA suggested “serious #risks of concern in #humans.”

…The #EmergencyAction order Tues suspends all registrations of the #pesticide….

#Health #PublicHealth #climate #farmers #agriculture

#Republicans approve new platform with revised #abortion position

The new platform leaves open a path to legislation or court decisions that would offer #fetuses the same #protections as people, but it infuriated some anti-abortion advocates.

#VoteBlue #ReproductiveRights #law #FarRight #MaleSupremacy #Evangelism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/15/republican-party-platform-trum-abortion/

#RNC #Platform Gives #Rights to #Fetuses, Endangering #Abortion and #IVF.

If established by #legislation, #fetalpersonhood would have the practical effect of #prohibiting #abortion at all stages of #pregnancy, and would put the rights of a fetus, over the life of the mother.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Misogyny #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/rnc-platform-abortion-ivf

#RepublicanParty #platform ahead of natl convention does not call for federal ban on abortion, but supports states establishing #fetalpersonhood through #Constitution’s #14thAmendment which grants equal protection under the law to all American citizens. If established by legislation #fetalpersonhood would have practical effect of prohibiting abortion at all stages of pregnancy. Its impact could become national if courts affirm state-level laws that extend application of #14thAmendment #fetuses.

Once on the bench, Parker routinely invoked #scripture, criticizing peers who didn’t.

“When judges don’t rule in the fear of the Lord, everything’s falling apart,”he once wrote, per a 2014 ProPublica investigation. “The whole world is coming unglued.”

He frequently heard cases that allowed him to opine on #fetuses & human #life.

“Today, the only major area in which unborn children are denied #legal protection is #abortion,” he wrote in 1 case, “& that denial is only because of… #Roe.”

#law

The #right’s latest #conspiracytheory is #queer #fetuses

#Influential #pundit #JamesLindsay claims #LGBTQ+ #people are pushing "#neonatal #queertheory," something that doesn't actually #exist.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Disinformation #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/02/the-rights-latest-conspiracy-theory-is-queer-fetuses/

#Abortion facility in #Ohio is notorious for performing #latetermabortions on #fetuses that can survive outside the womb #Evil

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-11-08-911-call-woman-injured-ohio-abortion-facility.html

The atlas was produced using over 2,500 3-dimensional #ultrasound (3D US) #brain scans that were acquired serially during pregnancy from 2,194 #fetuses in the INTERGROWTH-21st Project, which is a large population-based study of healthy #pregnant women living in eight diverse geographical regions of the world
#Neuroscience #Biology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/10/ns10262302.html

""#aborted #fetuses are not #technically #lives and it's #harmful and not #medically #accurate to refer to them that way" and "#people who have early #miscarriages of wanted #pregnancies are still #allowed to grieve and consider them their #child" are two #statements that can and should #coexist"

""people who made the difficult #decision to have an #abortion #because it's right for them and their #situation are still allowed to grieve how things could have been if their #circumstances had been different" is another statement that should be added"

#ausgov #politas

https://www.tumblr.com/anarchistmemecollective/717568355106766848?source=share

"#Pictures convey reality in a way that words cannot. One of these days, the #parents of #children #murdered in a #SchoolShooting may make the same decision Mamie #Till did of her son #Emmett in 1955."

Yes, it'd be awful. But it'd also get people's attention, like "pro-lifers" did when they started holding up graphic pictures of #aborted #fetuses at their demonstrations.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/photographs-of-child-victims-of-mass-shootings
It Is Time to Show the American People Photographs of Children #Massacred by #GunViolence

#IAmDB

I'm starting to see things from the #LunaticFringe #GQP is that several large food and beverage makers use #aborted #fetuses as ingredients in their food.

Applying a bit of #critical #thinking to this, and it strikes me that this would not be a very cost effective food additive. And that is without even questioning what value it could add to food production...

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When Does Life Begin?

#Life #ProLife #ProChoice #Choice #ChooseLife #Conception #Birth #BirthControl #Baby #Babies #Mothers #Mother #Fathers #Father #Parent #Parents #Wombs #Womb #Fetus #Uterus #Fetuses #Uteruses #Children #Child #ChildWelfare #ChildSupport #WomenRightsAreHumanRights #Abortion #AbortionRights #Women #WomensRights #Woman #Man #Men #Coffee #ReproductiveRights #ReproductiveHealth #Healthcare #Sex #Intercourse #ItsABoy #ItsAGirl #Penis #Vagina #Fornication #Sexuality

Disturbed transmission via #nicotinic #acetylcholine receptors in chick #fetuses impairs the hatchlings’ preference for animate objects—similar to what is seen in #autism spectrum disorder in humans.
#Neuroscience #Biology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/11/ns11182201.html

Judicial Watch received 165 pages of records from the FDA showing #FDA between 2012 & 2018 entered into 8 contracts worth $96,370 to acquire “fresh & never frozen” tissue from aborted #fetuses for use in creating “humanized mice” for research. Read: http://jwatch.us/LM8sqY https://twitter.com/JudicialWatch/status/1283929412526891011 #judicialwatch

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Judicial Watch received 165 pages of records from the FDA showing #FDA between 2012 & 2018 entered into 8 contracts worth $96,370 to acquire “fresh & never frozen” tissue from aborted #fetuses for use in creating “humanized mice” for research. Read: http://jwatch.us/LM8sqY https://twitter.com/JudicialWatch/status/1282857347379916800 #judicialwatch

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