Let me state something very obvious.

Maternal instinct is not a myth.

Hey, I'm Kristen Hawkins.

Welcome to this episode, I'm explicitly pro-life, or how to win this week episode.

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A recent op-ed in the New York Times, oh gosh,

claimed that maternal instinct is a myth.

The author wrote that a mother's physical and emotional connection

to her pre-born child and newborn child

is a social construct designed by men to oppress women.

The author isn't a neuroscientist or a doctor. She is a journalist who seems to have a political axe to grind more than

interests and facts for science, don't they all? The author says, quote, the notion that the

selflessness and tenderness babies requires uniquely ingrained in the biology of women,

ready to go at the flip of a switch, is a relatively modern and pernicious one.

This is an odd assertion, giving the emerging field of brain research in recent decades

that clearly demonstrates how dramatically mother's brains are altered by the experience

of pregnancy and new

motherhood. The changes are so significant that researchers can readily identify women who had

children from those who did not based on the scans of their brains. The changes that occur in

bonding a mother to her child are also lifelong.

Researchers have identified genetic material

from children in a mother's brain and other organs,

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