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 Human embryonic development - that article is not very well-organized, and it uses a lot of technical terms without adequate introduction of them. Welcome to The Visible Embryo was good in the past, but it now seems like it was hacked. I've also found 28.2 Embryonic Development – Anatomy & Physiology and Mechanisms of human embryo development: from cell fate to tissue shape and back - PMC and Developmental Stages in Human Embryos though they also have the technical-term problem. I'll try to avoid such vocabulary as much as possible.

A fertilized egg is a single cell, but one that soon divides. By day 4, the cells start to differentiate, with the inner cells getting an identity separate from that of the outer cells, and by day 5, the embryo is a hollow ball with those inner cells now making an inward bump at one spot in that ball.

By day 7, the hollow ball implants into the womb, and by day 9, that bump starts to differentiate. By day 12, it forms a hollow part inside of itself, the amniotic sac. The original hollow becomes the yolk sac. Yes, we have a vestigial yolk sac.

In between the amniotic sac and the yolk sac is the embryonic disc, and it curves toward the yolk sac, making the embryo proper. It becomes surrounded by the amniotic sac, and it absorbs the yolk sac, also making the umbilical cord. Three weeks after fertilization, the embryo starts having a vague resemblance to a baby, though its body parts and internal organs still have to do a lot of development. At this stage, it is only 3 millimeters (1/8 inches) long.
 
How Many Eggs Does a Woman Have? | The Evewell Advice - The Evewell

Men continually make new sperm cells, but women don't make new egg cells, an odd circumstance.
A female foetus has around 4 million eggs. When a baby girl is born, the number of oocytes steadily drops to between 1 and 2 million, and the number keeps decreasing by 10,000 each month before puberty. When a girl reaches puberty, she has between 300,000-400,000 eggs, yet the monthly loss of oocytes slows down to 1,000.

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How many eggs do women have in their 30s?

There is no one right answer to this question, as certain factors – such as smoking or other personal factors – may mean a woman has fewer eggs than others. The average number of oocytes at the age of 30 would be around 72,000 (12% of maximum pre-birth levels).

How many eggs does a woman have at 40?

By the time a woman reaches 40, she’ll be down to about 18,000 (3% of her pre-birth egg supply). Although the chances of conception are lower, this does not mean it is impossible to conceive at this age.

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Menopause

When a woman’s body has no more viable eggs left, the oestrogen levels start to decline and a woman goes through menopause. Menopause usually occurs between the ages of 45 and 55 – in the UK, an average woman reaches her menopause at the age of 51, however, 1 in 100 women can experience menopause before they reach 40 – this is known as premature menopause or premature ovarian insufficiency.
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How Many Eggs Does a Woman Have? At Birth, Age 30, 40, More
As a fetus early in development, a baby with ovaries has around 6 million eggs.
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Alabama governor signs IVF protection bill into law, but experts say it will take more work to protect fertility services | CNN
The new law does not address the issue of personhood at the heart of last month’s unprecedented ruling in a case stemming from the accidental destruction of frozen embryos at a fertility clinic, and experts say it’s going to take more work to protect fertility services in the state. The fertility clinic at the center of that case has halted services and told CNN the new legislation falls short of providing the legal protection it needs to resume care.
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Nearly 9 in 10 Voters Say IVF Should Be Legal - Yahoo from Rolling Stone
Although Trump and some Republican lawmakers have said they support IVF after the decision came out, even speaking about their personal experiences with it, they have failed to take meaningful action to protect access and have failed to say whether they believe embryos should be considered people under the law.

In fact, 125 Republicans in the House have sponsored the Life at Conception Act, introduced in Jan. 2023, that would define a “human being” to be “all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being.” The House bill does not make an exception for IVF, although a Senate version does.
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Senate Republican blocks bill that would protect access to IVF nationwide - CBS News
The bill aims to preempt state efforts to restrict access to the fertility treatments since a ruling earlier the Alabama Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that frozen embryos could be considered children under a state law."

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Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, sought to approve the legislation under unanimous consent, which gives any single lawmaker the power to block its passage."

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Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican blocked the bill on Wednesday.

"The bill before us today is a vast overreach that is full of poison pills that go way too far," Hyde-Smith said on the Senate floor after she objected to the bill's passage.
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S.3612 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Access to Family Building Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
It has 47 cosponsors, 3 original, including nearly every Democrat and Independent in the Senate.

Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) herself:

Despite Claiming to Support IVF, Senate Republicans Block Duckworth Bill to Protect IVF Access Nationwide | U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois

Quoting herself, Patty Murray (D-WA), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Tim Kaine (D-VA).

Support for Duckworth Bill to Protect IVF Access Grows After Alabama Supreme Court Ruling | U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois with more quotes.
Duckworth was the first Senator to give birth while serving in office and had both of her children with the help of IVF. In 2018 she advocated for the Senate to change its rules so she could bring her infant onto the Senate floor. She has made protecting and expanding access to essential reproductive healthcare a top priority. She joined her colleagues to applaud the Biden Administration’s landmark decision to allow the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to provide abortion care to Veterans and their eligible dependents to protect the health and life of the person and in cases of rape or incest.
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TD wants a floor vote on her bill, a vote by the entire Senate, to make the Republicans there take a public stance on it.
 
Trump says he supports IVF following Alabama embryo ruling | AP News
Former President Donald Trump said he would “strongly support the availability of IVF” and called on lawmakers in Alabama to preserve access to the treatment that has become a new flashpoint in the 2024 presidential election.

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Trump, in a post Friday on his Truth Social network, said: “Under my leadership, the Republican Party will always support the creation of strong, thriving, healthy American families. We want to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, not harder!”
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Republicans Own the IVF Mess | Vanity Fair - "The GOP’s priorities have been in lockstep with the far right, from the assault on abortion rights to its logical conclusion: fetal personhood."

Noting that Donald Trump won with the help of the far-right base of the Republican Party, and that he got the Religious Right three antiabortion Supreme Court Justices. But those Justices did what the RR wanted, and that provoked an electoral backlash against the party.
Unfortunately for Republicans, they’ve forgotten how to even pretend to be normal. A person doesn’t need to look any further than House Speaker Mike Johnson, a man who monitors his son’s pornography intake as his “accountability partner,” opposes “no-fault divorce,” blames mass shootings on “the human heart,” and tried to help Trump steal the 2020 election. House Republicans unanimously supported Johnson last fall, and the party is lining up in 2024 behind Trump, who is facing 91 criminal charges and vowing to be a “dictator” (at least for a day).
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Very unlike past Republicans like John McCain and Mitt Romney, who at least seemed to be sober and normal.

The Republicans first wanted the abortion issue sent back to the states, but when many states instead supported the practice, they went for a Federal abortion ban.
 
Meanwhile, we wait for the Florida Supreme Court to rule on the Abortion Rights referendum (and the abortion ban). The state court must rule by April 1st (of all days) on whether the language on the referendum is sufficient. The court seemed to hint the answer was yes, but courts (especially partisan ones) have been getting quite the bit partisan recently. The impact on the referendum both for the rights of women as well as the General Election are notable. Florida also has a senate race, which might be close enough. And while the state has been reddish purple recently, the post Dobbs electoral world with the referendum could get it back to Purple.

In Arizona, a similar effort is underway to put it on the ballot in that state. The right-wing knows that the general populace supports these rights, from Kansas to Massachusetts. Obviously this would impact the general election there as well, in a state that Trump really has to win to have any viable shot at the General Election win. The right wing is so desperate, they have launched people to go door-to-door to convince people to not sign the petitions. Arizona abortion referendum volunteers need 400,000 signatures.
 
Idaho needs doctors. But many don’t want to come here. What that means for patients

You’ve seen the headlines before: Idaho has a shortage of physicians. But just how short are we?

Idaho ranks at the bottom of all 50 states for its supply of doctors per capita. Even in areas of the state with high population density, such as the Boise area, patients often face months-long wait times to see primary care physicians, even though most providers are already concentrated in the those places.

And a slew of factors threatens to make matters worse.
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Brian Whitlock, president of the Idaho Hospital Association, told the Statesman he recently spoke with a hospital CEO who explained how a physician the hospital was recruiting for its emergency room “declined the offer, saying he was not willing to come to a state that criminalizes physicians.”

“And that is starting to become a pretty common response from people who say, ‘No, I’m not coming to Idaho to practice medicine,’” Whitlock said by phone.
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ZiprHead said:
Idaho needs doctors. But many don’t want to come here. What that means for patients

You’ve seen the headlines before: Idaho has a shortage of physicians. But just how short are we?

Idaho ranks at the bottom of all 50 states for its supply of doctors per capita. Even in areas of the state with high population density, such as the Boise area, patients often face months-long wait times to see primary care physicians, even though most providers are already concentrated in the those places.

And a slew of factors threatens to make matters worse.
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Brian Whitlock, president of the Idaho Hospital Association, told the Statesman he recently spoke with a hospital CEO who explained how a physician the hospital was recruiting for its emergency room “declined the offer, saying he was not willing to come to a state that criminalizes physicians.”

“And that is starting to become a pretty common response from people who say, ‘No, I’m not coming to Idaho to practice medicine,’” Whitlock said by phone.
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Who needs doctors when you have Jesus?
 

And apparently lying about birth control is becoming viral on social media.
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Physicians say they’re seeing an explosion of birth-control misinformation online targeting a vulnerable demographic: people in their teens and early 20s who are more likely to believe what they see on their phones because of algorithms that feed them a stream of videos reinforcing messages often divorced from scientific evidence. While doctors say hormonal contraception — which includes birth-control pills and intrauterine devices (IUDs) — is safe and effective, they worry the profession’s long-standing lack of transparency about some of the serious but rare side effects has left many patients seeking information from unqualified online communities.

The backlash to birth control comes at a time of rampant misinformation about basic health tenets amid poor digital literacy and a wider political debate over reproductive rights, in which far-right conservatives argue that broad acceptance of birth control has altered traditional gender roles and weakened the family.

Physicians and researchers say little data is available about the scale of this new phenomenon, but anecdotally, more patients are coming in with misconceptions about birth control fueled by influencers and conservative commentators.
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Jimmy Higgins said:

And apparently lying about birth control is becoming viral on social media.
article said:
Physicians say they’re seeing an explosion of birth-control misinformation online targeting a vulnerable demographic: people in their teens and early 20s who are more likely to believe what they see on their phones because of algorithms that feed them a stream of videos reinforcing messages often divorced from scientific evidence. While doctors say hormonal contraception — which includes birth-control pills and intrauterine devices (IUDs) — is safe and effective, they worry the profession’s long-standing lack of transparency about some of the serious but rare side effects has left many patients seeking information from unqualified online communities.

The backlash to birth control comes at a time of rampant misinformation about basic health tenets amid poor digital literacy and a wider political debate over reproductive rights, in which far-right conservatives argue that broad acceptance of birth control has altered traditional gender roles and weakened the family.

Physicians and researchers say little data is available about the scale of this new phenomenon, but anecdotally, more patients are coming in with misconceptions about birth control fueled by influencers and conservative commentators.
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Lying for Jebus.
 
Republicans at work:

www.whitehouse.gov

FACT SHEET: House Republicans Endorse a National Abortion Ban with Zero Exceptions in Latest Budget | The White House

This week, the Republican Study Committee, which represents 100% of House Republican leadership and nearly 80% of their members, released a budget
www.whitehouse.gov www.whitehouse.gov

Admittedly, this is from Biden and not the Republicans but I doubt he would be lying.

Is that what you want, ectopics are death sentences?


Clear medical malpractice (C-section when a D&C is superior in all medical aspects) to avoid performing an "abortion"?
 
In some good news, abortion pill injunction sees difficulty in question from SCOTUS. Overall, looks like 7-2. Because Thomas and Alito are insane.
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“This case seems like a prime example of turning what could be a small lawsuit into a nationwide, legislative assembly on an FDA rule or any other government action,” Gorsuch said.
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Though, what I find alarming is this:
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The discussion at one point turned to a key question – if the doctors challenging the nationwide approval of mifepristone can simply raise a “conscientious objection” that doesn’t require them to assist in an abortion rather than force a nationwide ban on the drug.
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This wasn't about abortion, but the FDA's right to regulate a drug. So why did this come up at all?
 
She won in a district won by Trump by 2 pts... by 26 pts! Nearly 2 to 1. WOW! Last guy got fired for corruption, but still... this is Alabama, the "Red State".

However, turnout was about 1/3 that for the 2022 mid-term election that Lands lost by 7 pts. It is hard to read the tea leaves here. It isn't like Alabama just became blue. How impactful was the IVF decision... if nearly half the number of people went out to vote for Lands in 2024 than they did in 2022?
 
Fears grow over Comstock Act, Justices Thomas, Alito | The Hill
Abortion-rights supporters are sounding the alarm that conservative Supreme Court justices want to use a long-dormant law to enforce a nationwide abortion ban.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito repeatedly invoked the Comstock Act during oral arguments Tuesday in a case about the constitutionality of the Biden administration’s efforts to expand access to mifepristone.

Alito questioned why the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had not contended with the law in its decisions on expanding access to mifepristone through the mail.

“This is a prominent provision; it’s not some obscure subsection of a complicated, obscure law. Everybody in this field knew about it,” Alito said.
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So they want to resurrect a zombie law.
What is the Comstock Act of 1873 and how is it tied to abortion pill case? | The Hill
During the arguments, conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito repeatedly invoked the Comstock Act.

The Comstock Act is a set of federal laws passed by Congress in 1873. It made it illegal to send “obscene, lewd or lascivious,” “immoral” or “indecent” materials through mail, including drugs that induce abortions and contraception.

The law is named after Anthony Comstock, an anti-vice activist who was dedicated to upholding Christian values. He opposed abortion, obscene literature, contraception, masturbation, gambling, and prostitution, among other things, the Free Speech Center wrote.
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What does 1870s Comstock Act have to do with abortion pills? | AP News
A former lawyer for the conservative First Liberty Institute, Kacsmaryk used the terminology of anti-abortion advocates throughout his opinion, referring to doctors who prescribe mifepristone as “abortionists,” fetuses as “unborn humans” and medication abortions as “chemical” abortions.

If upheld, Kacsmaryk’s 67-page decision would also dismantle recent FDA changes designed to ease access to mifepristone, particularly a 2021 switch that allowed the drug to be sent through the mail.

WHAT IS THE COMSTOCK ACT?

Originally passed in 1873 and named for an anti-vice crusader, the Comstock Act was intended to prohibit the mailing of contraceptives, “lewd” writings and any “instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing” that could be used in an abortion.

The law’s scope has been repeatedly narrowed by federal courts and Congress, which eliminated the reference to contraceptives in the 1970s. And the federal government hasn’t enforced the law since the 1930s, according to legal experts.

Kacsmaryk, though, agreed with plaintiffs that the law — as literally interpreted — prohibits mailing mifepristone.

The FDA’s decision allowing the “dispensing of chemical abortion drugs through mail violates unambiguous federal criminal law,” he concluded.
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Frankly the act is there and in effect so it should be followed. It should have little effect on shipping the drug. The shippers can just use FedEx, UPS, DRL, etc..
 
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