The lab-made embryos, crafted without any eggs or sperm and incubated in a device that resembles a fast-spinning Ferris wheel full of tiny glass vials, survived for 8.5 days. That’s nearly half the length of a typical mouse pregnancy. In that time, a yolk sac developed around the embryos to supply nutrition, and the embryos themselves developed digestive tracts; neural tubes, or the beginnings of the central nervous system; beating hearts; and brains with well-defined subsections, including the forebrain and midbrain, the scientists reported in a study published Thursday (Aug. 25) in the journal Nature (opens in new tab).
Californians will soon be able to terminate the life of their unborn child from the comfort of their own home after the California State Assembly passed AB 223. The bill states people cannot be charged for performing a self-induced abortion.
NEWSWATCH BLURB:
California Legislature Passes Controversial Bill Decriminalizing Self-induced Abortion – www.breitbart.com
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The California State Legislature passed a bill Tuesday that would protect women from legal penalties for inducing their own abortions, and which includes controversial language on “perinatal” death.
The bill, AB 2223, introduced by Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), is just one of several measures expanding abortion that the legislature has considered as the U.S. Supreme Court has reversed Roe v. Wade. Voters will consider a constitutional amendment this November that would protect abortion through birth.
GO DEEPER:
Facts About Abortion: U.S. Abortion Statistics – abort73.com
Based on available state-level data, approximately 887,000 abortions took place in the United States in 2019. That’s up from approximately 872,000 abortions in 2018, 890,000 abortions in 2016, and 913,000 abortions in 2015.
Reasons Women Get Abortions – hli.org
3.5% of Abortions Are for the “Hard Cases”
Calculations based on statistics provided by medical journals and government surveys in the United States show that abortions for the “hard cases” are much rarer than most people believe.
Poll: What Americans think about abortion, in 3 charts – Vox
While Pew found that sizable majorities of Americans said abortion should be legal if a woman’s health is at stake (73 percent) or if the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest (69 percent), just over half (54 percent) said it should be legal if the baby was likely to be born with severe disabilities or health issues.
The stage of pregnancy especially affects people’s views of abortion. Pew found that in the first six weeks of pregnancy, 51 percent of people said abortion should be generally legal, compared with 26 percent who said it should be illegal. By 24 weeks into a pregnancy, just 29 percent said it should be generally legal while 42 percent said it should be generally illegal.
What Percentage Of Pregnancies Are Aborted – PregnancyProTips.com
Abortions on Black women have now reached their highest percentage since 2000, according to newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control .
The abortion data, released in November and analyzed by Live Action News, reveals that in 2016, while Black women accounted for 38 percent of reported abortions, population estimates for 2016 show that African Americans made up just 12 percent of the population. This news comes on the heels of deliberate efforts by the abortion lobby to market abortions among women of color as a positive.