OT: need stats for letter

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Dear Friends,

My project for this year is to try to get accurate

information out there in unexpected places. I'm a

resource teacher. I print up reading passages for my

students from a usually excellent website called

edhelper.com. However, the article on " new life " contains

some unfortunate misinformation- the most notable being

that pregnancy begins after implantation and that 70% of

all human embryos do not implant. I'm writing them an

email but wondered if anyone has citations to add, or a

better idea how to explain this. (My letter is below.)

Thanks!

Gaes

Although the art work that accompanies it is just precious

and most of the text is very sensitively written the

article. However, it is inaccurate in at least two very

important ways. First, a new, unique human individual

comes to be when the sperm and egg join at fertilization.

That is when a normal pregnancy begins. Secondly, experts

differ widely in their estimates of how many embryos

implant successfully. This varies with the age and health

of the mother.

... today I’m writing to ask you to revise one of your

comprehension passages: “A New Life” by Kennedy.

If it were written in the first person the article would

not only be more interesting, but more accurate! How much

more compelling it would be to state, “Your life, and the

life of every other human being, began when the sperm

fertilized the egg. However, your mother could not know

that she was pregnant until after the embryo implanted in

her uterus.”

Instead, the passage claims that a woman is not pregnant

until after the embryo implants. Furthermore it

inaccurately proposes that 70% of all human embryos do not

implant. This is only an estimate, and an unreliable one

at that since the percentage varies widely according to

the age of the woman, her health, and other factors. A

young fertile woman who has relations at the fertile time

of her cycle has about a _______

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http://www.sfuhl.org/ this is my favorite link to go to for info on new life.... Advent Blessings Lepak, NFP Practitioner Assoc Dir Office of Family Life Archdiocese of Oklahoma Cityfootstps@... wrote: Dear Friends,My project for this year is to try to get accurate information out there in unexpected places. I'm a resource teacher. I print up reading passages for my students from a usually excellent website called edhelper.com. However, the article on "new life" contains some unfortunate misinformation- the most notable being that pregnancy begins after implantation and that 70% of all human embryos do not implant. I'm writing them an email but wondered if anyone has

citations to add, or a better idea how to explain this. (My letter is below.)Thanks!GaesAlthough the art work that accompanies it is just precious and most of the text is very sensitively written the article. However, it is inaccurate in at least two very important ways. First, a new, unique human individual comes to be when the sperm and egg join at fertilization. That is when a normal pregnancy begins. Secondly, experts differ widely in their estimates of how many embryos implant successfully. This varies with the age and health of the mother. ... today I’m writing to ask you to revise one of your comprehension passages: “A New Life” by Kennedy. If it were written in the first person the article would not only be more interesting, but more accurate! How much more compelling it would be to state, “Your life, and the life of every other human being,

began when the sperm fertilized the egg. However, your mother could not know that she was pregnant until after the embryo implanted in her uterus.”Instead, the passage claims that a woman is not pregnant until after the embryo implants. Furthermore it inaccurately proposes that 70% of all human embryos do not implant. This is only an estimate, and an unreliable one at that since the percentage varies widely according to the age of the woman, her health, and other factors. A young fertile woman who has relations at the fertile time of her cycle has about a _______