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Mar 28Liked by Sarah Terzo

Thank you so much. I appreciate everything you address in this article. And, we definitely have a lot in common in the sense of not fitting in and being rejected for our beliefs and knowing that if we weren't we weren't Pro-Life, we'd be so much more accepted... but also knowing we could never be otherwise. Thank you for doing this work and sharing your work and research!

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thank you.

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I appreciate the thought you've put into this article. There's a lot to untangle here, but mainly I would just challenge you to use a different phrase than "assigned at birth" to refer to biological sex, since scientifically we know that a human's sex is determined soon after conception - well before birth. (You could just stick with "biological sex", or "gender/sex determined at conception" or "gender/sex determined in utero" or something along those lines.)

More generally, I think you may be somewhat overstating the commonness of certain bio-medical anomalies, but I wholeheartedly agree with you that that's MUCH less important than saving lives, and that agreement on gender-related issues should not be a litmus test for working together to prevent the killing of human beings. AND I wholeheartedly believe that the pro-life movement is better off for having you in it!

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This is one of the best articles I have seen. You are quite correct about the science of transgender people. However, you also mentioned other reasons for the term "pregnant people" that have nothing to do with gender identity. I see myself sharing this post with people who complain about the use of the term.

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