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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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Abortion

Preventive Services Mandate Accommodation, 8th Edition, Falls Short

Liberty can be explained in a handful of words; deprivations of liberty usually require thousands.  That is the case with the latest iteration of the accommodations permitted under the Obama Administration’s preventive services mandate, which was published on Friday, August 22.  The

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan
September 4, 2014
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Fetal Development

CLI President Chuck Donovan Interviewed on EWTN Radio

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan
July 9, 2014
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Life & the Law

The Universal Core of Conscience

On Tuesday of this week the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in two cases to decide whether private companies can refuse to comply with a federal mandate to supply health insurance coverage for abortifacient drugs and contraceptives.  The cases, Sebelius v.

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan
March 25, 2014
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Abortion

Elective Abortion Coverage Information Still Elusive

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan Genevieve Plaster, M.A.
December 13, 2013
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Abortion

Supreme Court Will Review Abortion Drug Cases

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan Thomas M. Messner, J.D.
November 26, 2013
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Life & the Law

Court Lets Texas Abortion Regulation Take Effect: Three Things You Need to Know

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan
November 1, 2013
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Abortion

ObamaClarity at Day 9: Abortion Coverage Still Opaque

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan Genevieve Plaster, M.A.
October 9, 2013
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Life & the Law

Multi-State Health Plans: A Potential Avenue to Tens of Thousands of Publicly Subsidized Abortions

In this report, CLI President Chuck Donovan documents how multi-state plans (MSPs) created under the Affordable Care Act are one pathway that would allow for an additional 111,500 publicly subsidized abortions per year.

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan
September 1, 2013
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Abortion

CLI Comment on West Virginia Laws and Regulations Pertaining to Abortion

The Lozier Institute filed a comment on a West Virginia law, urging for a gestational age limit to abortions and implementation of health and safety standards for abortion facilities.

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan
August 16, 2013
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Fetal Development

Survival of Extremely Premature Infants Possible, Improving

Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan
May 17, 2013