The confusion about just how pregnant a pregnant person is one of the things the forced birthers intended, and one reason they lit on “fetal heartbeat” as the point in time when abortion should be banned. First, at this point in the sixth week, the mass of cells in question is actually an embryo, not …
Overturning 50 years of precedence,1 the draconic five formally denied a request from Texas abortion providers to freeze a state law that bans abortions after six weeks. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the three liberal justices in dissent.2 The five (Barrett, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch,3 and Kavanaugh) are Catholics of the extreme Pius X branch of …