Anise K. Strong: To be fair, it's not actually 9 months; human pregnancies are ~ten lunar months/menstrual cycles or 40 weeks/280 days long - much easier to count!

"Two months after Dobbs, 22 percent of adults said they were uncertain whether eggs inside a woman’s ovaries have shells (they do not)." *rubs temples*

Abortion Debate Shifts as Election Nears: ‘Now It’s About Pregnancy’www.nytimes.com Two years after Roe was struck down, the conversation has focused on the complications that can come with pregnancy and fertility, helping to drive more support for abortion rights.

can't forget the great pollster Celinda Lake explaining to a voter in a focus group what a trimester is (the first third of pregnancy) only to have him say: What's that in months though? Dividing 9 by 3 was too much math. 'Don't know much about history/don't know much biology' 🎶

To be fair, it's not actually 9 months; human pregnancies are ~ten lunar months/menstrual cycles or 40 weeks/280 days long - much easier to count!

And a trimester is a group of three months. It's commonly, but not exclusively, used in reference to pregnancy.

As both a university professor and mother of 3, I am well aware.

I cannot stop laughing at the blatant mansplaining, absolutely wild

I did not think she needed it explained, I just thought mentioning the definition was a useful contribution to the discussion.

Sorry to double reply but maybe I can clarify. In the context of Sara Manns's post above, about a pollster having had to tell a voter what it meant, I thought it was relevant that it literally means "three months" and isn't only used with pregnancy, *not* that anyone here didn't know that.

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