Up to half
of all fertilized eggs naturally don't implant in the uterus — they pass out of your body during your period.
Not exact matches
@Marie - 50 %
of fertilized eggs are spontaneously aborted,
naturally, without human intervention.
And for an interesting look at the problem
of categorizing the pill as an abortifacient, check out Libby Anne's piece on the topic, where she notes that «if your goal is to save «unborn babies,» and if you truly believe that a zygote — a
fertilized egg — has the same value and worth as you or I — the only responsible thing to do is to put every sexually active woman on the pill,» because the pill actually reduces the number
of zygotes
naturally rejected by a woman's body.
(Rabbit trail: The fact that a woman's body
naturally rejects hundreds
of fertilized eggs in her lifetime raises some questions in my mind about where we draw the line regarding the personhood
of a zygote.
30 - 50 %
of all
fertilized eggs do not implant
naturally.
Human multiple births can occur either
naturally (the woman ovulates multiple
eggs or the
fertilized egg splits into two) or as the result
of infertility treatments such as IVF (several embryos are often transferred to compensate for lower quality) or fertility drugs (which can cause multiple
eggs to mature in one ovulatory cycle).
The salmon
naturally expire after the Herculean effort
of swimming upstream and spawning, but too many fish perishing prematurely before they've had a chance to lay
eggs and
fertilize them spells trouble.