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In the fourth week, the embryonic heart starts beating. The neural tube, which becomes the brain and spinal cord, forms. At this point, a woman has likely only been aware of her pregnancy for one week.

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In the seventh week after conception, networks of neurons produce brain waves that have been recorded as early as 6 ½ weeks after conception. The embryo spontaneously moves his arms, hands, and legs, and may even hiccup. The embryo’s heart now has all four chambers.

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By the seventeenth and eighteenth week after gestation, the fetus shows a clear response to pain in multiple studies, and at least one brain pathway is mature enough to create a perception of pain. The fetus also practices breathing, crying, and breastfeeding in the womb. The fetal heart has beat over 20 million times and circulates about 55 quarts of blood per day.

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In the eighth month of pregnancy the fetal brain is ready to learn! At 32 weeks after conception, neurons are creating 40,000 new connections, called synapses, every second! With repeated exposures, the fetus can learn flavors, nursery rhymes, songs, and even words that she will recognize after birth!

The Lifesaving Impact of Recently Enacted Pro-Life Laws
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The Lifesaving Impact of Recently Enacted Pro-Life Laws

Multiple studies analyzing state-level birth data all find a significant association between strong pro-life laws and increased state birthrates –…

Michael J.…
June 24, 2026
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What Should We Expect in Maternal Mortality Trends Due to the Dobbs Decision?
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What Should We Expect in Maternal Mortality Trends Due to the Dobbs Decision?

This paper examines claims that pro-life laws in effect post-Dobbs would increase maternal mortality rates.

Ingrid Skop,…
June 4, 2026
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An Analysis of Colorado’s SB 25-183
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An Analysis of Colorado’s SB 25-183

This week, the Colorado State Senate will begin legislative debate on SB 25-183. This bill will require Colorado’s Medicaid and…

Michael J.…
April 2, 2025
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Fact Check: Lozier Institute Sets the Record Straight on Evidence-Based Research
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Fact Check: Lozier Institute Sets the Record Straight on Evidence-Based Research

Recently, CLI scholars Dr. James Studnicki and Dr. Ingrid Skop dug into the question of whether induced abortion can be…

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August 1, 2024
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Online Mail-Order Chemical Abortion: A Threat to Abuse and Trafficking Victims
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Online Mail-Order Chemical Abortion: A Threat to Abuse and Trafficking Victims

As the summer of 2023 proceeds, a federal appeals court is continuing its deliberation over a lawsuit against the Food…

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July 18, 2023
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Life & the Law

America: A Global Outlier for Its Ultra-Permissive Abortion Policy

Recently, the Atlantic published an article entitled "Why America is a Global Outlier on Abortion." The author, Olga Khazan, wrote that the United States stands apart from the rest of the developed world due to restrictions to public funding of abortion.

Nora Sullivan, M.P.A
July 27, 2016
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U.S. House Passes Legislation to Protect Conscience Rights of Healthcare Professionals

Last Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to pass the Conscience Protection Act of 2016 (S. 304) by 245-182. In light of egregious cases of prolife nurses being forced to assist in abortions, prolife employers – including churches – in California and New York being mandated to provide coverage of abortion in health plans, and privately funded prolife pregnancy resource centers being required to advertise abortion, this bill’s passage in the House is an important step towards more effectively protecting the civil rights of Americans who do not wish to participate in the abortion industry.

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July 19, 2016
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Kentucky Fights on for Women’s Health in Abortion Facilities

In June, while the U.S. Supreme Court was sentencing women to the modern-day abortion back alley, Kentucky’s Court of Appeals unanimously, though temporarily, stopped EMW Women’s Clinic from performing abortions.

Catherine Glenn Foster,…
July 18, 2016
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Dr. Biscet Receives His Medal of Freedom

There is a remarkable coda to our recent story about Cuban pro-life physician and human rights hero Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet.  On Thursday, June 23, in Dallas, former President George W. Bush welcomed Dr. Biscet to the Bush Center and personally presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Charles A. “Chuck”…
June 28, 2016
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Fetal Development

Ending Lethal Discrimination before Birth

Tim Bradley
June 21, 2016
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New Michigan Laws Deter and Punish Coerced Abortion

Proponents of abortion are all about “choice.” Yet in many cases, it seems, a woman’s decision to procure an abortion does not feel like much of a choice at all. The best estimates indicate that somewhere between 30 to over 60 percent of women seeking abortions in the United States do so under pressure—from the father of her child, her parents, her family members, friends, or employer.

Tim Bradley
June 20, 2016
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Fetal Tissue, Stem Cells & Bioethics

Next Station Stop: The Embryo Farm?

For decades, proponents of destructive embryo research have given at least lip service recognition to the serious ethical concerns inherent to such research. Thus, for example, although the 1999 report from then-President Clinton’s National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research, endorsed destructive human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) and federal funding for it, it nonetheless recognized that the ethical concerns raised by this research were real and that “many would likely agree: the embryo merits respect as a form of human life.”

Eugene C. Tarne
June 9, 2016
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New York’s Hidden Abortion Mandates Force Churches to Subsidize Abortion

Now half a year since the opening of the 2016 Obamacare enrollment period, new state abortion mandates are just coming to light in New York. The Catholic Diocese of Albany and 12 other entities who have deeply-held objections to abortion were recently informed they had been covering elective abortions, unbeknownst to them, in their employer insurance plans under two state abortion mandates. Earlier this month, the 13 groups – including Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal, and Lutheran churches, Catholic Charities agencies, a privately held organization and an employee of a religious organization – sued the New York State department that issues and enforces health insurance regulations as well as each of the plaintiffs’ respective insurance companies.

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May 31, 2016
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