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This Week: Xenobot Reality Check, Spicy Breast Milk, Sperm Plastic, Solar Water, Flexible Biorepair Gel, COVID Update, Community Hippo Poop, Fishing Monkeys, Internet Of Brains, Brain PING, And Much More…
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Disclaimer, Disclaimer, Disclaimer!!!
Today the Supreme Court of the United States of America
heard the arguments for a Mississippi state abortion case.
The case in question,
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, No. 19-1392,
targets Roe v. Wade.
Comments from the conservative justices suggest
that we may see this major pillar for advancements
in women’s health and educational & professional attainment in the US
over the past near to 50 years
pulled out from beneath us next June.
If Roe is overturned:
17 states will immediately enact bans on most abortions,
11 will enact laws that ban abortions at or after 6-weeks
(most people find out they are pregnant around this time),
Missouri will ban abortion at 8-weeks
(three-quarters of abortions occur by 9-weeks)
Arkansas will ban at 12
Mississippi will get its wish to ban at 15, and so will Louisiana,
Utah bans at 18-weeks,
and so on…
(did you know that 99% of abortions happen by 21-weeks – the supposed viability line)
Those states that protect abortion or have no laws making it illegal will
very likely experience a surge in the number of women who travel on average 280 miles to abort safely & legally.
But, those are only the women who can afford it.
The rest,
some 100,000 women a year,
will either carry unwanted children to term – perhaps to give them up for adoption,
or they will resort to illegal and unsafe abortion methods.
Scientific studies have shown that
“the consequences of not getting a wanted abortion are worse than those experienced by women who get one…”
14 times as many women die in childbirth as from receiving legal abortions.
in fact, 4 times as many women die from getting colonoscopies as die from having legal abortions.
Protecting women is protecting children.
And, we support protecting Roe v. Wade
here on
This Week in Science.
Coming up next…
Let’s start with some quick science news
Reproducing Bio-Bots
Xenobots – biological robots made from embryonic frog stem cells – reproduced all on their own… kinematically.
Spicy breast milk
Need I say more?
Sperm Plastic
It doesn’t need to be sperm, just a lot of sustainable produced DNA.
Solar Water
How much water in our solar system (and on Earth) came from the sun?
Biorepair Gel
A flexible gel might be the answer to repairing dynamic tissues like the vocal cords or heart muscle.
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Omicron
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Euro Pfizer For Kids
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It’s time for Blair’s Animal Corner!
Hippo poop creates a river-wide microbiome
We know poop brings nutrients to the Nile, but now it also looks like it brings all the bacteria to do a body good.
Why did the monkey go fishing?
He was cold and hungry, of course!
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Let’s finish strong with science from Dr. Kiki!
Internet Of Brains
Researchers have developed a platform for wireless behavioral neuroscience studies. Start an experiment at the flick of a switch!
Brain PING
Brain surgery that doesn’t require a scalpel.
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