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24 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
#Prochoice public writing professor deletes source showing embryos have hearts: blog.secularprolife.org/2021/09/pro-ch…

Buckle in, because this may be the most egregious case of pro-abortion media bias we've ever seen.
When Carrie Baker wrote an article for Ms. Magazine claiming that heartbeat bills are anti-science, she made a crucial error: she linked to an embryology textbook which told the truth.
When we pointed this out to her, she blocked us on Twitter, deleted the source from her article, and omitted any notation of the change to her article.

Baker is a professor of "feminist public writing" at Smith College.
You can read the whole sordid exchange here:

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21 Sep
In @MsMagazine @CarrieNBaker writes there's no heart at 6 weeks LMP, then links to a "basic embryology textbook" which states "heart begins to pump fluid through blood vessels by day 20, and the first red blood cells appear the next day." I'm going with the embryology textbook.
Here's her article: msmagazine.com/2021/09/07/six…
Here are a bunch of sources--including scanning electron microscope imagery--showing there is a heart and heartbeat at 6 weeks LMP.
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4 Sep
The Rehumanize Conference is about to start! Especially looking forward to Secular #ProLife's 4pm presentation "Deconstructing Three Myths about Abortion." #Rehumanize2021
We'll be live-tweeting all the abortion-related content, which also includes a "Global Perspectives on Abortion" panel, former PP worker turned whistleblower Mayra Rodriguez, SFLA's Apologetics 101, and (most timely) "Pro-Life Victories in the Law."
@RehumanizeAimee kicking it off with an introduction to radical inclusivity. "Our diversity is a strength, not a weakness."
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3 Sep
The pro-choice position requires so many lies to endure:

--embryos don't have hearts
--abortion restrictions don't decrease abortion
--anti-abortion activists are men trying to control women

Regardless of your ethical views, these are *factually false.* But PCers believe them.
Embryos do have hearts:
Abortion restrictions significantly decrease abortion:
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2 Sep
If the Texas heartbeat law stays in place long enough, Texas will likely see an increase in effective contraceptive use and decrease in unintended pregnancies. This correlation has been observed with abortion restrictions before. Sources below. ImageImage
"A state’s antiabortion attitudes, which likely contribute to the enactment of restrictive abortion laws, are a major factor in inducing greater use of highly effective contraceptive methods." Social Science Research, January 2012 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
"Fewer abortion providers increase the likelihood of women using the pill." The Social Science Journal, March 2014 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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2 Sep
Your resident lawyer Kelsey here. I am going to try my best to explain the Supreme Court's order in the Texas case, subject to revision when I've had more sleep. 🧵
First, it helps to understand what *typically* happens in abortion cases. A pro-life law is enacted, abortion industry interests sue, and the lower (district and circuit) federal courts enjoin (block) enforcement of the law while it works its way through the system.
The Supreme Court does not get involved in the proceedings until much later, if ever.

You can think of this pattern as creating two types of precedent.
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15 Aug
🧵 1/ "Religious people are pro-life, so if you're pro-life you must be religious." This is a bad argument. Let me count you the ways.
2/ First, this is a very common logical misstep called "affirming the consequent" or "converse error." We see a conditional statement ("If you're swimming, you're wet") & incorrectly assume its converse ("If you're wet, you're swimming") must also be true. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming…
3/ In this context, the conditional statement is "If you're religious, you're pro-life" & the converse is "If you're pro-life, you're religious." You can't assume the converse based on the conditional statement.
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