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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 4065501" data-attributes="member: 18225">What’s also random is that doctors count the age of the embryo starting at the day of the mother’s last period, for some reason unknown to me.My first kid was through IVF, so we knew the literal moment of ‘conception’, but that’s not when they started the clock.So now you have a situation where not only does a woman not know she’s pregnant, but the metric that determines the implanted embryos’ ‘age’ might actually add two weeks, further complicating the situation.I get people don’t want abortions to occur, especially when, you know, ‘just be responsible’, etc.But these same states that are working real hard to restrict abortion are in many cases working real hard to restrict...Birth control.Really?  At that point it just seems like legislation aimed at controlling women.</blockquote>