Pregnancy & Abortion Misconceptions We can Fix in A&P | TAPP 118

Host Kevin Patton uses a recent article from Science News as a basis for discussing the biological processes involved in pregnancy, birth, and abortion care to clarify misconceptions and support productive public conversation.

• 00:00 | Introduction
• 00:56 | Why Address These Concepts
• 14:53 | Sponsored by AAA
• 16:15 | Strategies
• 21:44 | Sponsored by HAPI
• 22:44 | Concepts & Misconceptions
• 32:15 | Sponsored by HAPS
• 34:44| More Concepts & Misconceptions
• 43:31 | Staying Connected

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Like most aspects of biology, early human development involves many complex processes. Despite the rhetoric around these issues, clear lines — between having a heart and not having a heart or being able to survive outside of the uterus — are scarce, or nonexistent. (Laura Sanders)

 

Why Address These Concepts?

14 minutes

As A&P faculty, should we dip our toes into the abortion care controversy? Should we look at the accuracy and completeness of our own current understanding of pregnancy, birth, and abortion care? This segments suggests a role for us.

★ Sins Against Science; A Chat with Judi Nath | TAPP 110 (a chat with the author)

★ Sins Against Science (The A&P Professor Book Club) theAPprofessor.org/bookclub.html#badge-B043 

★ HAPS Book Club (how to join) theAPprofessor.org/haps (click the Contact button at the top)

★ Standardize Abortion Education Across U.S. Medical Schools (opinion of healthcare profession students wanting abortion education from MedPage Today) AandP.info/r2e

★ The US Supreme Court abortion verdict is a tragedy: this is how research organizations can help (from Nature editorial) AandP.info/2s3

★ Why hundreds of scientists are weighing in on a high-stakes US abortion case (news from Nature) AandP.info/d5t