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Phone: 202-223-8073
Fax: 571-312-0544

2776 S. Arlington Mill Dr.
#803
Arlington, VA 22206

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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!

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Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan

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Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan is president of the Charlotte Lozier Institute. He served as legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee more than four decades ago, worked as a writer for President Reagan from 1981-1989, helped to lead the Family Research Council for nearly two decades and served as Senior Research Fellow in Religion and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation.

Chuck has played key roles in the development of public policy regarding public financing of abortion, compassionate alternatives to abortion, the child tax credit, marriage penalty relief, rights of conscience, and other life and family issues.

Donovan is the author or co-author of books and monographs on family topics. Appearances on national radio and television include CNN’s Inside Politics and ABC’s Nightline as well as programs on FOX, BBC, NPR, the Voice of America, EWTN and CBN. His articles and commentaries have been published in newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, San Diego Union and National Catholic Register, and in magazines such as Reader’s Digest, The Weekly Standard, American Legion Magazine, World Magazine, American Library Journal, Crisis, and Focus on the Family’s Citizen.

Chuck has published in the peer-reviewed journals Linacre Quarterly and the Open Journal of Preventative Medicine.  He has spoken to audiences across the United States, in Venezuela, and in the United Kingdom.

A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Donovan earned a bachelor of arts degree in English at the University of Notre Dame.

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Maternal & Public Health

Checking Politifact on Women’s Alternatives to Planned Parenthood

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan Marguerite Duane, M.D., M.H.A., FAAFP
May 16, 2017
Abortion

Pregnancy Help Centers: A Consensus Service to Women and Children

In recent years, advocates of legal abortion have turned their attention to limiting or interfering with the work of pregnancy help centers (PHCs), typically nonprofit groups that offer a range of free or heavily discounted services to women and girls who think they may be pregnant. 

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan
April 13, 2017
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Abortion

Transcript of Remarks of Chuck Donovan on the Release of “Abortion Worldwide Report”

On January 25, Charlotte Lozier Institute President Chuck Donovan presented opening remarks at the Family Research Council during an event launching the major report entitled, “Abortion Worldwide Report: 100 Countries, 1 Century, 1 Billion Babies.” The report, authored by William Robert Johnston,

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan
February 7, 2017
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Peer Reviewed

Restoring Christ-centered medicine through public policy changes centered around subsidiarity and the doctor–patient relationship

Many Catholic leaders supported passage of legislation designed to achieve the humanitarian goal of universal or near-universal health coverage. These leaders could not imagine that the resulting law would lead to a severe assault on the practice of Christ-centered medicine.

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan
November 1, 2016
Maternal & Public Health

Abortion Reporting: Toward a Better National Standard

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan Rebecca Gonzales
August 24, 2016
Research

Abortion Reporting: Toward a Better National Standard

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan Rebecca Gonzales
August 24, 2016
Press Release

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” Donovan
June 28, 2016
Fetal Development

A Baby is Not a Mosquito

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan
May 24, 2016
Life & the Law

Lozier Institute Files Brief in Support of Daleiden & Center for Medical Progress

The Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) and Americans United for Life (AUL) recently filed an amicus brief in a major lawsuit over the late-term abortion videotapes collected by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). This lawsuit involves a vital public policy question: Can

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan
May 11, 2016
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Life & the Law

Bicameral Congressional Letter Demands Transparency from FDA

Yesterday 75 members of Congress, led by Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey and Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, sent a letter to the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration demanding answers to questions about the FDA’s surprise approval of relaxed

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan
April 26, 2016