How the Supreme Court recalibrated the abortion debate in just 3 words
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"Unborn human being" is the term Associate Justice Samuel Alito
adopted from the Mississippi statute, thereby replacing the key phrase
in the landmark 1973 Roe ruling that spelled out a constitutional
right to abortion: "potential life."
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Alito didn't write God or Christianity or Bible anywhere in the
opinion, but his justification is a veiled "religious narrative," said
Rebecca Todd Peters, a religious studies professor at Elon University.
By co-opting the language in Mississippi's law in Dobbs v. Jackson
Women's Health Organization, the majority opinion gives credence to
the notion -- embraced largely by the religious right -- that life
begins at fertilization, she said. The ruling has already emboldened
several states to ban and criminalize the medical procedure in almost
all circumstances.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/17/us/abortion-religion-dobbs-roe/index.html

RE: Unborn human being

Pregnancy loss may occur in as many as 1 in every 4 pregnancies. https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/topic/default?id=overview-of-pregnancy-loss-90-P02466

RE: life begins at fertilization

John Opitz, a professor of pediatrics, human genetics, and obstetrics
and gynecology at the University of Utah, testified before the
President's Council on Bioethics that between 60 and 80 percent of all naturally conceived embryos are simply flushed out in women's normal
menstrual flows unnoticed. This is not miscarriage we're talking
about. The women and their husbands or partners never even know that
conception has taken place; the embryos disappear from their wombs in
their menstrual flows.

http://reason.com/archives/2004/12/22/is-heaven-populated-chiefly-by

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