Fetal Development
(the science)
(the science)
The heartbeat of an unborn baby can usually be detected by ultrasound around this week of pregnancy.
what is Six Weeks
This 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalized abortion nationwide before being overturned decades later.
What is Roe v. Wade?
The core pro-life philosophical argument states that all human beings possess this fundamental right, regardless of age or development.
What is the Right to Life?
Local community centers that offer free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, diapers, and parenting classes to expecting mothers.
What are Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRCs)?
Whe abortive limit in Wisconsin (weeks)
What is twenty weeks?
Unique, permanent human fingerprints begin forming by this week of embryonic development.
What is 10 weeks?
This 2022 Supreme Court case overturned Roe v. Wade, returning the authority to regulate or protect abortion back to individual states.
What is Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization?
The two rights that come into conflict when discussing abortion
What are bodily autonomy and right to life.
Nationwide pro-life initiative that organizes 40 consecutive days of peaceful prayer vigils and community outreach outside clinics.
What is 40 Days for Life?
Number of states with full abortion bans
What is thirteen?
At 8 weeks, this percentage of the unborn baby's adult body structures and organs are already present.
What is 90%?
This former Planned Parenthood clinic director became a prominent pro-life advocate and wrote the book Unplanned.
Who is Abby Johnson?
The famous pro-life apologist Peter Singer's abortion limit suggestion.
what is 3 weeks after birth?
Federal healthcare and nutrition program that assists low-income pregnant women, infants, and young children.
What is WIC (Women, Infants, and Children)?
In 2022, voters in this western state made national history by becoming the first to pass a ballot measure explicitly embedding a right to reproductive freedom into their state constitution.
What is California?
The scientific term for a developing human from fertilization through the eighth week of pregnancy.
What is an embryo? (After 8 weeks, it is called a fetus).
Early American women’s rights pioneer and suffragist who co-founded The Revolution newspaper and advocated against abortion.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
Famous philosophical thought experiment involving a bedridden musician, often used by pro-choice advocates to argue for bodily autonomy
What is the violinist argument?
State laws allowing a mother to safely and anonymously leave an unharmed newborn at a fire station or hospital with no questions asked.
What are Safe Haven Laws?
In 2021, this state passed the Heartbeat Act, pioneering a novel private civil enforcement mechanism allowing citizens to sue individuals aiding illegal abortions.
What is Texas?
The medical term for the point in pregnancy (around 22–24 weeks) when a baby can survive outside the womb with medical support.
What is viability?
Said "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."
who is Ronald Reagan?
In logical arguments, this informal fallacy occurs when an opponent alters the definition of a key word—such as switching between the biological and philosophical definitions of "human"—mid-argument.
What is equivocation?
Number of Pro-Life bills without "life of the mother" exeptions
what is zero?
In 2024, this state became the first in the nation to enact a 6-week gestational limit following a landmark 6-1 ruling by its State Supreme Court affirming that its constitutional privacy clause does not protect abortion.
What is Florida?