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. https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/410/113. Cf. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/70-18. Cp, https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/abortion/roe-v-wade, Rev. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/opinion/texas-abortion-sb8-roe-v-wade.html. On the evolution of abortion in history and Texas history, consider: Arthur Frederick Ide (1988: 3rd ed.) Abortion Handbook: the history, legal progress, practice & psychology of abortion. Las Colinas: TX, Liberal Press.] the draconic five formally denied a request from Texas abortion …