With recent claims that the phrase “late-term abortion” was manufactured by the pro-life movement, I figured I’d do a little research into the truth behind that.

Here’s what I found…

1/ There’s a reference to spontaneous abortion happening “late-term” in this 1905 article on “Small-Pox” from A Manual of Midwifery.

General gestational references to “late-term” (approaching “near-term”) seem common in medical journals even earlier.

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hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hc4mz…

🧵 This pseudonymous individual claims to work in emergency medicine & has been outright admitting to falsifying patients’ medical records to protect from liability of botched induced abortions or complications from induced abortions.

1/ Correct med coding is very important for patients to receive proper treatment, as proceeding w/ incorrect treatment or delaying proper treatment can endanger patients’ lives.

There are distinct ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes for several types of abortive outcomes to pregnancies:

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Animated map - US Fetal Homicide statutes before the Fourteenth Amendment by year

Murder 3rd (ambiguous gestation) - NM terr
Manslaughter (post-quick only) - AR, FL, IA, KS, MI, MO, MN, MS, NY
Manslaughter (any gestation) - OR, WI
Felony (any gestation) - TX, VT Static map with statutes

Last week, I drafted proposed legislation for Ohio (& emailed a copy to my state representative, @realJeffLaRe).

This bill borrows ideas from several other states to address protection of rape victims, expansion of prenatal child support, & tax benefits for pregnant women.

1/ I am going to briefly discuss the aims & influences of this bill in each of its 5 pages to solicit ideas. Feel free to adapt it to your own state, wherever applicable.

Section 1 begins by addressing victims of rape for which a child has been conceived.

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Here’s why so many are lying that bans on induced abortions prevent treatments for ectopic pregnancies or after miscarriages:

They’ve lived a pseudo-religion for decades, sacrificing their own offspring to ward off storms & preserve the illusions of prosperity.

1/ If they can convince any women to fear emergency treatments & die, they’ll evangelize against the heretical bans & grow their church membership. In the Church of Abortion, the women’s deaths are necessary for The Cause.

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Post-Dobbs Abortion Gestational Limits

This map shows my best attempt at trying to determine the current gestational limits for each state, while many factors are still in flux.

patreon.com/posts/post-dob… Here's the map from the public Patreon post, though Twitter recompresses images, so legend text may be difficult to read:

Some discussion on the scuffle over “pinch to zoom” in the #Rittenhouse trial:

We take this technology for granted in the modern age with little thought to what goes into it. The debate on the accuracy of providing a zoomed-in digital video to the jury was very valid.

1/ Interpolating pixels is always guesswork, as the original pixels are not present. There have been numerous algorithms & entire hardware acceleration tools developed over the decades to fill in such details.

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I have previously written several threads on historical nuggets found while researching for Criminal Abortion Laws Before the Fourteenth Amendment.

However, I was unable to find many answers to questions, as well. This thread looks at one such topic.

#AbortionBefore14A

1/ An earlier nugget discussed Rep John Bingham as the author of the 14th Amendment’s contentious 1st section & that he held firm belief in the Constitution protecting natural rights, something afforded to the unborn, as explained by Supreme Court Justice James Wilson in 1790.

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Since there have been a few requests on this hot topic: I’m summarizing Texas Senate Bill 8, known as the “Texas Heartbeat Act”.

I have included a link to the enacted legislation, if you would like to read it in its entirety.

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capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/bi… §1 Title: “Texas Heartbeat Act”

§2 Finding: The state never repealed the abortion statutes pre-dating Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113 (1973)

§3 Amendments to Ch. 171 of Health and Safe Code, adding subch. H, regarding detection of fetal heartbeat

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It appears that it is Ms. Sherman who needs to read a book.

Induced abortions were homicidal acts under common law at the nation’s founding. Post-quickening ones were felonies; pre-quickening ones were misdemeanors. Statute laws started clarifying in 1821 & evolved w/ embryology

https://twitter.com/rbraceysherman/status/1434135050505891843

Since I will inevitably receive defiant replies, questioning what I have read on the topic, here are some pre-14A sources (chronologically):

1. Henry of Bratton (c. 1210-1268) Bracton: De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliæ, Vol. 2, pg. 341, lines 30-32. amesfoundation.law.harvard.edu/Bracton/Common…

Last year, I published Prenatal Child Support Across the United States, a book w/ original legislation scans for every state/territory going back as far as 1793.

I originally started researching legal history after seeing how the mainstream media gave no effort in research.

1/ This year, Utah’s legislature expanded (Fig 1) the state’s existing prenatal child support requirements from those of 1996 (Fig 2) & 1997 (Fig 3), bringing the state from the bare minimum Federal requirements (Fig 4) to being at the forefront in the nation.

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I had made a statement earlier today that induced abortions cause more pregnant women to die annually than the lives of pregnant women who are saved by them. This topic seemed worth making into a thread to explain in detail, so here we are. The focus will be on the US.

1/ First, it’s important to decide on a definition for an induced abortion. As is standard, this CDC definition excludes treatment for ecoptic pregnancies & post-miscarriage treatment. Since the focus is only legally induced abortions, we will discuss illegal ones separately.

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It has come to my attention that this viral TikTok video has been spreading the claim that women can be arrested for miscarriages in 38 states. This video is propagating serious misinformation that I would like to correct.

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m.tiktok.com/v/685421993091… When claims like this were made last year about Georgia’s LIFE Act, I became suspicious & decide to read the legislation for itself. It said nothing of the sort. The fears seemed to stem from the declaration of personhood to the unborn.

Read it here: legis.ga.gov/legislation/en…

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W/ Judge Jones striking down Georgia’s LIFE Act (HB481, 2019), the topic of #PrenatalChildSupport has, once again, returned to the media discourse, due to §5 of the act. Unfortunately, authors of the articles on HB481 are doing a disservice by being unfamiliar w/ the topic.

1/ Here is an excerpt of the Act & the resulting Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 19-6-15(a.1)(2), for reference.

The typical discussion is that Georgia had a wild, new idea of allowing a pregnant woman to collect child support for her unborn child.

legis.ga.gov/legislation/en…

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So far, Kansas is the last state I’ve found to enact prenatal child support, doing so in 1990 & 2006. What’s unique is *how* the legislature worded it. The presumption is that the father *did* provide support during pregnancy, & the statutes list penalties when he did not.

1/ The 1990 legislation (SB 431) makes changes to Chapter 59 (Probate Court) of the Kansas Statutes in relation to adoption. If it can be proven that the father knew of the pregnancy & neglected to provide support, the mother can place the child for adoption w/o his veto.

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This title quickly grew on me. The word “dominion” perfectly sums up the story arc of the entire franchise.

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https://twitter.com/brycedhoward/status/1232461783723462657

Before the original park fell, Dr. Ian Malcolm warned John Hammond, “Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet’s ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that’s found his dad’s gun.”

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Some comments on this case:

The premise of fetal homicide laws is something that makes abortion proponents very uneasy, since it can be seen as granting limited personhood to the unborn. Opponents see their uneasiness as an example of cognitive dissonance.

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https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1205242193922969603

Homicide laws differ by state, but those w/ fetal homicide (a.k.a. feticide) provisions have to specifically exempt elective abortions (which are homicides, by definition) to be compliant w/ court precedent. Here is CA’s law for an example:

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I finally got around to reading Ohio’s “Human Rights and Heartbeat Protection Act” & thought I’d share some details on it. If you would like to read the bill, I have provided a link to it. Including amendments, the full bill is only 27 pages. 1/

legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/le… 1. The act has numerous exemptions for the life & health of the mother. These are termed “medical emergency” & “medical necessity”.

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Since it’s close to #Christmas , I figured it was worth going through a quick history lesson on the origin of the abbreviation “Xmas”. Though well-intentioned, those who fight against the abbreviation b/c it “removes Christ from Christmas” are incorrect. 1/ In our Latin alphabet, we use the letter X/x (ex) in “Xmas”. It was originally the similar-looking Greek Χ/χ (χι) - which is the first letter in ΧΡΙCΤΟC (CHRISTOS, Christ). The abbreviation “Xmas” dates back at least to the 16th century, & other abbreviations predate that. 2/