SIO480: Abortion Legislation Gets Embryonic Terminology and Facts All Wrong
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Inspired by an Opening Arguments episode during the heartbeat bills, Dr. Nathan Thompson and soon-to-be-Dr. Rachel Feltman embarked on research where they collated "facts" from abortion legislation across the country and examined its medical/anatomical accuracy and misleadingness. Their work was published (read it here!) in the February 2025 issue of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only. This is episode 480. I'm Thomas Smith and I am so excited for today's episode. This is a unique one. This is really cool. So Dr. Nathan Thompson and soon to be Dr. Rachel Feltman are on the show today. They are researchers who were inspired by opening arguments apparently to do some research on how well does abortion |
| 0:40.6 | legislation throughout the country reflect medical reality? How medically accurate is it, I suppose? |
| 0:47.6 | And it won't surprise you to learn it's not super, not amazingly so. And I just think this was such a cool study to do, a really |
| 0:58.0 | important study to do something that I think really should make ways. I hope people notice this |
| 1:02.5 | because I think it should matter that when you look at abortion legislation systematically |
| 1:08.0 | and you study it, that the results of how medically accurate it is |
| 1:14.1 | are not good. I get that we all have such low expectations, but like, come on, that's not good. |
| 1:19.7 | So this is super cool. I'm really excited. And it was awesome of Nathan and Rachel to come on the show |
| 1:26.2 | and to reach out and tell us what they were doing. |
| 1:28.9 | Why don't we just get on over to the interview and they'll tell you more about it and themselves. |
| 1:33.4 | But first, we have to take a quick break and you can avoid that at patreon.com slash serispod. |
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| 2:05.4 | And then be on with Dr. Nathan Thompson and Rachel Feldman. |
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