This is fairly late in a pregnancy, but I have not felt pregnant for very long at all.

It was only very recently that I began thinking that I would probably actually have this baby. For most of this year, I wasn’t pregnant; I had not yet miscarried. I was pregnant for now, but who knows?

After being pregnant so many times, what does that even mean? (Once, my friend, an ob-gyn, was trying to explain my chemical pregnancy to me, and I asked her, dryly, if it would be helpful to think of myself as definitely pregnant only after I had given birth.)

Time moves differently when you are pregnant after multiple early losses. With every day, your odds of delivering a healthy baby get a little better, but new questions and uncertainties arise constantly that make you feel like you’re moving backward.

This is not new. The New Yorker is recycling what abortion advocates have sold for 50+ years: that a woman can be “almost pregnant.” It worked before. That is why so many people today think pregnancy begins at implantation. They are doing it again.

For example, in October 1964, at the Population Council’s Second International Conference on Intra-Uterine Contraception in New York, the problem was the IUD. If it acted after fertilization, it might be labeled abortifacient.

Conference chairman Dr. Howard C. Taylor Jr. said the fix out loud: “It has been suggested that we ought to set our definition that pregnancies start at implantation.” Implantation—versus fertilization—when a human life actually begins.

ACOG did it in 1965, and just like that, a woman was magically “almost pregnant” between fertilization and implantation. Not science. A fraudulent redefinition so the industry could keep the word “contraception.”

A woman is pregnant when a new human being begins to exist. There is still no such thing as being “almost pregnant.”

The first cell of a new and unique human life begins existence at the moment of conception (fertilization) when one living sperm from the father joins with one living ovum from the mother. It is in this manner that human life passes from one generation to another.

The two cells gradually and gracefully become one. This is the moment of conception, when an individual’s unique set of DNA is created, a human signature that never existed before and will never be repeated.

This is fairly late in a pregnancy, but I have not felt pregnant for very long at all.

It was only very recently that I began thinking that I would probably actually have this baby. For most of this year, I wasn’t pregnant; I had not yet miscarried. I was pregnant for now, but who knows?

After being pregnant so many times, what does that even mean? (Once, my friend, an ob-gyn, was trying to explain my chemical pregnancy to me, and I asked her, dryly, if it would be helpful to think of myself as definitely pregnant only after I had given birth.)

Time moves differently when you are pregnant after multiple early losses. With every day, your odds of delivering a healthy baby get a little better, but new questions and uncertainties arise constantly that make you feel like you’re moving backward.

This is not new. The New Yorker is recycling what abortion advocates have sold for 50+ years: that a woman can be “almost pregnant.” It worked before. That is why so many people today think pregnancy begins at implantation. They are doing it again.

For example, in October 1964, at the Population Council’s Second International Conference on Intra-Uterine Contraception in New York, the problem was the IUD. If it acted after fertilization, it might be labeled abortifacient.

Conference chairman Dr. Howard C. Taylor Jr. said the fix out loud: “It has been suggested that we ought to set our definition that pregnancies start at implantation.” Implantation—versus fertilization—when a human life actually begins.

ACOG did it in 1965, and just like that, a woman was magically “almost pregnant” between fertilization and implantation. Not science. A fraudulent redefinition so the industry could keep the word “contraception.”

A woman is pregnant when a new human being begins to exist. There is still no such thing as being “almost pregnant.”

The first cell of a new and unique human life begins existence at the moment of conception (fertilization) when one living sperm from the father joins with one living ovum from the mother. It is in this manner that human life passes from one generation to another.

The two cells gradually and gracefully become one. This is the moment of conception, when an individual’s unique set of DNA is created, a human signature that never existed before and will never be repeated.