User talk:SalClements

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Beginning of pregnancy controversy article

People throw around a lot of acronyms and jargon around here that can be tough to parse sometimes. Just a note to explain a couple things. This page details Wikipedia's standards for sourcing biomedical content. National Review falls under WP:MEDPOP (and perhaps some other areas, because its coverage of such topics is colored by politics -- not as much as some other publications, granted, and this is secondary to it simply being "popular press").

Also, Wikipedia favors the status quo. The burden is on those who want to change the status quo to use the talk page (Talk:Beginning of pregnancy controversy) to find consensus for a change once it's disputed. At this point, regardless of the content -- there may well be something to add along the lines of what you're included -- repeatedly adding it to the article will just result in getting blocked from editing (that's not a threat -- I'm not an admin and cannot block anyone -- just an FYI).

I'm confused by a couple of your comments claiming to have addressed the issue, which makes me wonder how much of this is unintentional. Regardless, you keep restoring the National Review. Here is the text, including markup, of what I just removed:

However, some methods might have a secondary effect of preventing implantation, thus allowing the [[embryo]] to die.<ref name="LinacreQ2016">{{cite journal |last1=Peck |first1=Rebecca |author1=Rebecca Peck |author2=Walter Rella |author3=Julio Tudela |author4=Justo Aznar |author5=Bruno Mozzanega |title=Does levonorgestrel emergency contraceptive have a post-fertilization effect? A review of its mechanism of action |journal=Linacre Q |date=February 2016 |volume=83 |issue=1 |doi=10.1179/2050854915Y.0000000011 |pmid=27833181 |access-date=18 July 2023 |quote=Plan B is the most widely used emergency contraceptive available. It is important for patients and physicians to clearly understand the drug’s mechanism of action (MOA)... data suggest that when administered pre-ovulation, it may have a post-fertilization MOA.}}</ref> Those who define pregnancy from fertilization subsequently may conclude that the agents should be considered [[abortifacient]]s.<ref>{{cite web |last1=DeSanctis |first1=Alexandra |title=Yes, Some Contraceptives Are Abortifacients |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/11/contraception-birth-control-abortion-abortifacients-ella-plan-b-iud-embryo-life/ |website=nationalreview.com |publisher=National Review |date=November 4, 2016}}</ref>

Also swapping "equate" for "identify" (changing documentation of a perspective to pointing to Truth). The article talk page is a better place for these conversations than a user talk page, though.

I suggest using the talk page, which can be productive to better understand the objections and how to overcome them. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 16:01, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

regarding: "swapping "equate" for "identify" (changing documentation of a perspective to pointing to Truth)" - The lede said "equate the beginning of a pregnancy with the beginning of an individual human being's life," but the source doesn't document that perspective. The source says "the newly fertilized egg, which is a brand new life." SalClements (talk) 16:26, 18 July 2023 (UTC)