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New Apps Let Women Obtain Birth Control Without Visiting a Doctor
HughPickens.com writes: With nearly 40 percent of all pregnancies in the United States unintended, birth control is a critical public health issue. For short-term methods, visiting the doctor for a prescription can be time-consuming and sometimes costly and for some, like teenagers, it can be intimidating or embarrassing. Now Pam Belluck reports at the NYT that a growing assortment of new apps and websites now make it possible to get prescription contraceptives without going to the doctor as public health experts hope the new apps will encourage more women to start, or restart, using contraception and help reduce the country's stubbornly high rate of unintended pregnancies, as well as the rate of abortions. At least six digital ventures, by private companies and nonprofits, including Planned Parenthood, now provide prescriptions written by clinicians after women answer questions about their health online or by video. All prescribe birth control pills, and some prescribe patches, rings and morning-after pills and some ship contraceptives directly to women's doors. "At first I didn't believe it," said Susan Hashem, who wanted to restart birth control pills without missing work for a doctor's appointment. Hashem used an app called Lemonaid and paid $15 for a doctor to review her medical information and send a pill prescription to a local pharmacy. "I thought it was just a setup to get money," Hashem said. But after she answered the health questions one evening, "a doctor actually contacted me after office hours," and the next morning, she picked up three months' worth of pills.
Though us "old farts" understand that "apps" are just "convenient" interfaces to already existing infrastructure, to the young "apps" are cool and innovative.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
the last time I threw out my back I had to go see a doc for flexeril. The drive was incredibly painful and the entire thing only served to put $200 bucks in the guys pocket. It was literally less than useless. Add to that the cost keeps a lot of low income people away from meds they already know they need. Mix this with an online pharmacy and people the the deep South surrounded by Bible thumpers trying to keep them away from the evils of Birth Control can finally live the way they want.
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Abortion is inhuman... get it... in human... hahahahahaha
We need to stop the abortion. it's just horrible and inhuman.
Here in Arizona we don't use Bibles to stop abortions. We prefer prenatal carry.
I'm strongly in favor of overall greater access to birth control. But I have to say that when it comes to starting any kind of hormonal birth control, I'm uneasy about the idea of doing so without the supervision of a doctor or other medical professional.
In my case I had to go through three different types of pills before I found a pill that worked well for me. The first two left me, well, hormonal and while it wasn't terrible, it also wasn't a pleasant experience. Especially compared to how much better things were once I finally found a pill that worked. There are a number of different pills on the market for a reason; not everyone responds to a given formulation the same way. And this is where the doctor was a great help, as she was able to tell me what was and wasn't normal, use my experiences to suggest other options. I suppose from a technical perspective any pill will do - they all seem to pause fertility - but the side effects can be a real pain.
This is why I'm uneasy about anyone starting a new birth control regimen without supervision. Certainly once you're established and happy, you should be able to get new packs as you please (including ordering extra for trips and such). And this is definitely something that needs to be fixed as it's harder than it should be. But starting without a physician seems like a poor idea to me. I feel like it's doing a disservice to others who will be lead to think the processes is easier than it actually is.
The Free World is in demographic decline, in some cases it looks terminal (look at Ukraine's birthrate for example, or Germany's). That is a vastly more important debate for Slashdotters to have than how easy it is for teens to get the Pill. Sadly, we don't do that debate and most people in the Free World don't understand that the lack of children in those countries is leading inexorably to the end of the social welfare state (without pyramid demographics required to prop-up the vote-bribe Ponzi scheme).
With nearly 40 percent of all pregnancies in the United States unintended, birth control is a critical public health issue.
Wow, that statement really makes you want to click and read the text. It's emotional and powerful.
While an unintended pregnancy is a serious issue, note that the US fertility rate is now 1.88 births per woman. The replacement rate for population is about 2.1 (births per woman, depends on the geographical area: percentage of births that live to adulthood).
If we can eliminate the 40% of all births that are unintended, the US population would drop off a cliff. This is already a problem for many areas such as Japan and Germany.
The term critical means "pertaining to or of the nature of a crisis", with "crisis" being " time when a difficult or important decision must be made" (with reference to: emergency, catastrophe, calamity, and doomsday).
This is an improvement and one I heartily support.
Nevertheless, calling the situation a "crisis" is a bit melodramatic... don't you think?
That's the new business model nowadays: create a cool app to inject yourself between buyers and sellers, lower expectations on both sides, get a cut in the process and call it "disruptive".
lucm, indeed.
Now for the question: Why is birth control supposed to be necessary?
it's not necessary, it's desired. people like to be able to determine what they are going to do with their life instead being slaves to biological processes. if you disagree with this then you should never take any medications ever even if it's to save your life because it's changing "the natural order of things".
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
I don't understand... I can't for the life of me understand one word of what it is you're talking about.
Are you advocating apps which help kill people?
Are you simply trying to make a comment which draws in argument by offending as many people as possible?
Are you a member of a group of people who feels persecuted (we all do at some point)?
Are you suggesting that preventing conception is killing a baby?
Was your point able to be made without trying to use an entire catalog of offensive slurs?
Could instead of "nigger" which I assume is referring to people in rap music since that's the only place I ever hear of people calling themselves that word, maybe you meant people in general but chose "nigger" because it would draw more outrage?
I can't really say after this entire rant that you have said anything sensible.
I'll try to extract something.
- I think you might dislike "left wing liberals"
- I think you might believe that if someone doesn't agree with you, they must be a left wing liberal
- I think you believe that "left wing liberals" are cruel and hateful people hiding behind a facade
- I think your biggest problem is that you seem to think there are a lot of people on the left.
- I think you might be a half-white trash & half-black, southern, transvestite non-lesbian female living as a successful housewife descended from German Jews on your mother's side.
There may be a lot of people on the right or left. We call themselves idiots, fools and morons, you're of course included in that category. Left and Right is the new religions of America. There are many people who are neither left or right and address each issue one by one.
apples 30% cut is to high and an app base medical planes under the ADA can't spend that much on admin.
Mix this with an online pharmacy and people the the deep South surrounded by Bible thumpers trying to keep them away from the evils of Birth Control can finally live the way they want.
Big difference between how they want and how they should.
Quick question: How should they live, and what's your authority for making that judgement?
Here try this. Works for most. Should be okay for you. If not, let me know and we can try something else. Riiight. Ever stop to listen to all those goddamn pill commercials? ... may cause DEATH! Oooookay. Let me go get some cause everybody else is! Everybody wants some! I want some too!
So is waging war and letting people live on the street, but you don't see many right wingers demand ending that.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You might want to add that the main reason they use human senses instead of expensive machinery and tests is due to availability reasons...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
So that's why I can't get laid, I'm too smart?
Yeah, I'll go with that.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Who's forcing anyone? When was the last time you saw someone hold a woman at gunpoint to make her take her pill?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Oh this is gold. Please tell me where you got that bullshit from.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It may surprise you, but there are women out there who choose to not have a child and still want to fuck. Guess what, they are human beings and want to enjoy life.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I'll agree with you on Jobs, but FDR kept the U.S. from becoming a Fascist country. The public was primed to revolt, and America has always been bent more towards authoritarianism and reject libertarianism. Just look at how hard it is to get people to accept that life is a right despite it being a prime reason to sever ourselves from Britain.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
condoms aren't a medication that intentionally changes the biological function of the person using them.
However, today's women are living a lifestyle that is a huge change from natural biological functioning. Many years ago, a woman was often pregnant or nursing most of her adult life, until menopause - if she lived that long.
Women today go through many many more menses than is natural.
Oddly enough, birth control pills mimic the more natural state. Despite the warnings, which I suspect are put there to satisfy the puritanical - kind of like whenever they find that alcohol in moderation is beneficial, they have to add that scientists are trying to find the miracle ingredient in grapes or barley.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
"Are the babies going to starve? Are they going to be deprived of education? No and no, of course."
Yes and yes, actually. In the early 1990's, crime rates started dropping precipitously in the US. Lots of noise was made at the time about "innovative new policing strategies" and other political puffery.
What really happened is a legal decision: "Roe v. Wade". Starting in 1973, a bunch of children started not being born because, for whatever reason, their would-be-mother felt that she couldn't care for a child... often financially. Had the child been born, they likely would not have had enough food, which ties closely with poor academic performance. But by the early 90's, when those children would have started turning to crime because they had no good, legal prospects for a future -- which is what had happened prior to the Roe v. Wade decision -- weren't around, so crime started dropping.
And when you look at states and countries that legalized abortion before and after Roe v. Wade, you see the same correlated drop in crime.
The Freakonomics guys explored this issue in their original book, and some follow-up blog posts, for example: http://freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-who-should-you-believe/
The bibles don't fit up there properly anyway, you're probably on to something!
Are the babies going to starve? Are they going to be deprived of education?
Uhhh... yes actually. Have you not heard of the plight of inner city school systems? Or that people like you are desperately trying to reduce welfare benefits for poor mothers that are "stealing your tax money"? You can't possibly think that it is easy to have a baby when you are a single mother making minimum wage, with no family support to help you out. Conservatives seem to care a whole lot about babies until they are actually born, then whatever, fuck 'em. Birth control is about choices.
So, you support making contraception widely available.
Are they also taught alchemy, voodoo, and homeopathy?
They want to fuck in the same way that you want to serve fries and mop floors.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
So is waging war and letting people live on the street, but you don't see many right wingers demand ending that.
The funny thing is that the Bible says we should live in peace, forgive our enemies, and help the poor. It says nothing about abortion. The story of Essau and Jacob implies that life begins at birth, not conception.
So that's why I can't get laid, I'm too smart?
Yeah, I'll go with that.
A big part of the reason why nerds that are into tech gadgets can't get laid is that the chicks that they are after are too busy with a cell phone texting to notice the guy next to them drooling.
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"...the Bible says we should live in peace, forgive our enemies, and help the poor.'
Actually, it reads that we should slaughter those who don't accept our god, collecting the foreskins of the males, accept a fair price for selling our daughters into slavery, and put duty to god before duty to family and friends.
There is exactly one reference to abortion in the bible. It's in Numbers 5, and it details the process for performing an abortion if you believe your wife has been unfaithful.
Conservatives do have a solution for single mothers: Incentivise them to get married. Marriages is a magic cure-all. It boost church attendance, improves education, reduces the crime rate, increases income and improves health. But only if you're straight, of course.
You have all the evidence genocide right in front of you. Yet why do you not realize it for what it is?
Almost ANYONE with a college education can teach.
This is a laughably stupid comment. You have obviously never worked with children or talked to someone that is a teacher. It is an incredibly difficult job that most people are not cut out for. Knowing something and being able to effectively teach it to children, whose brains are at various stages of development, are two entirely different things.
You are advocating population control in a situation where the birth rate is far below replacement.
Population control implies that someone is telling you not to have children. I am advocating women having the ability to choose for themselves. If you had to push a 10 pound baby out of your dick I am confident you would change your mind on this issue.
You know, sometimes one of the two people doesn't have a choice in the matter.
Ones that are human. Sex is a normal function of humans.
Seriously, are you such a worthless little shit stain you think that YOUR opinion means a damn thing to anyone, much less should be the driving guide to how everyone else lives? Because your nuts haven't dropped yet doesn't mean jack shit to anyone else.
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's
Sure we can, we make up classifications all the time in science. For instance, one possibility could be when the fetus can live on its own outside the womb. Specific, testable, scientific. Dang that was easy.
Yeah, the U.S. was at complete peace during the previous administration then as soon as Obama came into office it was 8 years of solid war. The Republicans tried to stop it every step of the way but boy Obama is just a warmonger.
Meanwhile back on planet Earth, the US has been tangled up in the middle east (this time) since well before Obama was elected - I suppose you conveniently forgot which party was in power then, no?
Hey axewolf,
"The fact that it is WIDELY subsidized by the government implies the 'necessity'."
Eh? The government also subsidizes the arts and sports.
"Why is it more important to sacrifice your instincts, the substance of your being, that which led to the formation of your body, for momentary respite from pressures from society?"
Eh? Where's the sacrifice? Women can choose to have children when they have a financial and relationship stability. I'm going to take a wild guess and assume you're a man who doesn't need to worry about the personal implications of having a baby without the previous two things in place.
"It's pretty disturbing that you get modded up for saying things so incredibly..."
From this point on you just went on a wild insulting rambling. The doctor's and government officials aren't deciding anything for anyone here. They're giving medical advice and allowing people to choose birth control. The doctor's aren't prescribing birth control and laughing about how they made women better workers.
Anyway, I know there's no actual point replying to you, in fact so far every reply I've seen to a post of yours just makes you madder and act more paranoid delusional. Just wanted the post you replied to to have some backup.
Take it easy man.
It's turtles all the way down.
Possibility for what? Your premise is already completely arbitrary. Human and not-human are classifications that you imposed. Depending on which scientific perspective you are coming from it can vary from the moment of conception to the moment of birth, with lots of moments in between.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/W...
Your own logic can even be turned against you because there isn't a single moment of fertilization. It can take up to four days for a sperm and egg to form a zygote. You can never give a single point and say "look at that, now it is life." So yeah, you crying "but science" doesn't make your backwards opinion automatically irrefutable.
The fact that it is WIDELY subsidized by the government implies the 'necessity'.
That has to be the worst use of logic I've ever seen. Lets point to all the places where it's not subisides and that otherwise have no problem and show that clearly it's not a necessity at all. The government subsidises industry to match policy, nothing more nothing less. The existence of a subsidy doesn't make anything anymore of a necessity than absence makes it a desire.
Accepting the role of your biological processes is not "enslavement".
You're naturally enslaved by anything that limits your being. This is why we have vasectomies. It's also why we augment ourselves in environments not suitable for living such as under water.
THE HUMAN RACE WAS CREATED BY THIS PROCESS OF PROCREATION TRIGGERED BY INSTINCT. It is not a disease.
The human race is rapidly over populating. It was a natural balance before we overcame infant mortality and starvation.
Basically your ideology is totally insane
Says the man who thinks women should be "mothers first". Go check yourself.
on the grounds of probably being suicidal.
We have drugs for that too. That damn pesky body.
They should be, because so-called scientific medicine is a white male construct.
Alternative answer: they probably are, if some silly bugger is willing to pay them for it.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
there are women out there who choose to not have a child and still want to fuck
I can think of one group of women like that. Whores. Prostitutes. What other ones can you think of?
A) Everyone else.
And a question for you: what is wrong with you that you think women enjoying sex fall into the category of "Whores"? And you even needed to repeat the point: "Prostitutes".
They're a far better class of person than you are, sir.
you just have terrible reading comprehension.
he's trying to communicate to you that your dogmatic position is illogical
Actually it says both, but if you're not an Ancient Hebrew, the slaughter, foreskins, and slavery don't apply to you. See Acts 15 for details.
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We need to stop the abortion. it's just horrible and inhuman.
But a pregnant woman poisoning their unborn child for nine straight months while she smokes or does drugs is humane? That is acceptable but not having a child isn't?
What about obese women who are pregnant? There are many physical and mental defects which can occur because of obesity yet we are now supposed to celebrate it despite the lifelong pain and discomfort it may foist on a child.
Tell me, isn't the poisoning of a child a crime? If so, why aren't people like you, who most likely claim a ball of cells is a person, going after pregnant women who are poisoning their child? Why aren't you pressing your local DA to prosecute them for child abuse or attempted murder?
If you're so concerned about the welfare of the unborn then maybe we should have a government program which watches over pregnant women to make sure they aren't endangering their child. The women will have to report to a government agent every other week and give out a detailed description of what they've been eating, any exercising they've been doing, take tests to insure they haven't been using drugs, and a whole gamut of other tests to make sure their child isn't being harmed. Would that work for you? Would that be better than a woman making her own choice not to have a child?
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
stinks of organized censorship
Modding down is censorship now? Man you're on a roll today.
I'm European, from my point of view your democrats ARE right wingers. The GOP is just off the chart.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
And the ability to use conscious decisions instead of just following instincts is what differs humans from the rest of the animals. Insisting that only instincts matter makes you subhuman.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Only if you stick with the 'on its own.' The age of viability has been steadily creeping down due to improved medical technology. Given enough time it'll eventually hit zero, when we are able to grow placental mammals in jars.
Feel free to demonstrate the objective scientific point of transition from "not human" to "human". It doesn't, and can't, exist within the context of biology.
Therefore, if you don't accept that life begins at conception, there is no scientific point at which you can claim such a transition has happened for you -at all-, and logical consistency requires that you agree society should likewise be free to kill you at will.
Conception is a process. Biologically, there is no "moment of conception" as the Catholics like to pretend. Sometimes the egg implants first, sometimes the sperm fertilizes it first, and so on. There is no set order for all the various steps that take place during conception. (Some orderings have better success rates than others, but none have a 0% chance... Oh, and about 50% of all conceptions are spontaneously aborted without any human interference. Who should we blame those on?) It's impossible to say life begins at conception because it's impossible to say when conception begins.
In other words, you are completely correct. There is no exact transition point. Which means there is nothing to do other than make one up, as best as we can.
Can you pinpoint the exact moment that a child becomes an adult? If not, I guess all two year olds should have the right to vote, drive, drink alcohol, and serve in the military.
Ideology: A tool used primarily to avoid the bother of thinking.
No, he didn't. The NRA was a commission set up by congress and chaired by Clarence Darrow.
The myth that "FDR sent dry cleaners to jail" is from neoliberal and far-right websites that are looking for reasons to smear one of the most popular presidents in US history.
You are welcome on my lawn.
So... men who like fucking for leisure are by default Johns? Did I get that right?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Really? You asked every women and they all came back with having that deep rooted feeling that they want kids? Wow.
You're a liar. I know women who you obviously did not interview.
Quite opposite, you are one of those people who tell people how they are supposed to feel and what they are supposed to think. You are one despicable, horrible waste of oxygen.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Actually, the Bible does talk about abortion:
Numbers 5:27
“If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse."
So it's ok to get an abortion if it's not her husband's child. Words of the Bible (not mine, I couldn't come up with such sick insanity).
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
But ... but ... I'm drooling over the cell phone!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I've watched a few videos of the current batch of feminists (mostly for giggles, they're taking over from the religious nuts as the most entertaining batshit insane on YouTube), but so far none of them really complained about the Pill and "having" to use it.
Though it would sure be fun to watch one of them argue against it, I have to give you that.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Pro-tip: drooling isn't really as attractive as you may think.
You are welcome on my lawn.
There is exactly one reference to abortion in the bible. It's in Numbers 5, and it details the process for performing an abortion if you believe your wife has been unfaithful.
Only if you twist the text to fit a pro-abortion viewpoint.
What Numbers 5 actually says is that a man should take a wife suspected of adultery to a priest, who will perform a ritual called the "ordeal of the bitter water". If she is innocent, she'll be fine, but if she's guilty it will cause her belly to swell, her thigh to rot and she will become a curse among her people. Some interpret this to mean that she'll die. Some believe that because "thigh" is occasionally used as a euphemism for reproductive organs, it's the womb that will rot, making it something like an abortion, though making her permanently infertile which is how she'd be a "curse among her people".
So, if it's about abortion at all, it's a process for sterilization or execution.
But it's also not a "process", because it's not the priest's direct actions which cause the result. It's her innocence or guilt that determines the outcome. In other words, God decides, not the husband or the priest, so it's a religious rite not a medical procedure.
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Every women [sic] has a need based in deep instinct to have children
What a piece of bullshit. I know plenty of women who have absolutely no desire for children and are really happy they don't have any. Unlike axewolf, some people do recognize that they're probably not cut out to be good parents.
what we have on this site are a bunch of totally insecure immasculated cuckholds that vehemently adhere to feminist propaganda
Well, that's better than a fucked-up misogynist with a Madonna/whore complex.
You sure about that? I spent twelve-plus years in the Bible Belt and there's definitely a correlation between how "Christian" they I insist on acting (I *don't* mean "turning the other cheek") and how able they appear to accommodate a book in said fashion...
I suppose you conveniently forgot which party was in power then, no?
Since they're effectively the same fucking party, that should be quite understandable.
"...the Bible says we should live in peace, forgive our enemies, and help the poor.'
Actually, it reads that we should slaughter those who don't accept our god, collecting the foreskins of the males, accept a fair price for selling our daughters into slavery, and put duty to god before duty to family and friends.
It's all which part do you choose to believe (if any)? Is it the love-your-enemies bit by a later Heretic, or the older eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth part? The literal-dictated word-of-God take on the Bible is clearly crap: hundreds of factual inconsistencies are found in the Bible. What's bothersome is that religious organizations using the name of the later Heretic chose to believe and promote the earlier eye-for-eye crap that He so rejected.
"ordeal of the bitter water".
There are a number of herbs that have been used to induce miscarriage since ancient times (slippery elm and black cohosh come to mind); perhaps that's what it's a reference to.
The point is some people enjoy sex and don't want kids. It's not your place to tell them how to live their lives.
You should be off having kids. Assuming you can find a partner.
It's called not having sex.
Oh, brilliant. You get married (if you're not already) and stop having sex. See how much you like that.
I love sex. But I already have enough kids. I don't want more. So to hell with anyone who wants to tell me how to live my life.
but FDR kept the U.S. from becoming a Fascist country.
Only according to the official narrative and only if you're unable to understand what's occurred over the past hundred-plus years. For fuck's sake, he's a Roosevelt; they're right up there with the Rockefellers in the insidious dept...
Exodus 21:22-23 makes it abundantly clear that killing a fetus is not at all the same as killing a person. If the fetus is accidentally killed, the person responsible has to pay a fine. But if the woman dies, the person responsible faces the death penalty.
Clearly, the lives of the fetus and the woman are viewed as very different.
(Not that I actually believe any of the crap in the Bible, but it's at least worth knowing what's in there.)
Why do I have to pay to answer a checklist to get medication
One of the main risks is that hormonal pills cause blood clots, which lead to strokes and sometimes to death.
It's a risk on the order of 1 in 10,000 or 1 in 100,000 a year, but if you multiply that by the number of women taking hormonal pills, that's a lot of strokes and deaths. It's increased by smoking, and by certain diseases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In principle you could have a checklist or online algorithm for people to follow that would give them the same advice that a doctor would give them, but in reality very few people (maybe 10%) can follow self-evaluations like that, and the algorithms aren't that dependable either.
"ordeal of the bitter water".
There are a number of herbs that have been used to induce miscarriage since ancient times (slippery elm and black cohosh come to mind); perhaps that's what it's a reference to.
Nope. Go read it. No herbs involved. At most it's a little bit of ink from when the written curses are washed off in holy water.
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The money grubbing health cartel gets to keep their mitts in the loop this way; in plenty of countries one can walk into a store and buy birth control pills with nothing needed but money (and about a tenth of what is required here). The benefits of allowing that for the majority far outweigh any risks to a very few (cue med student who will wail the standard B.S. against why that shouldn't be allowed, but those concerns don't apply to 99%+).
And then you could add that the life expectancy in Cuba is higher than the U.S., and the infant mortality is lower.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1...
A Different Model -- Medical Care in Cuba
Edward W. Campion, M.D., and Stephen Morrissey, Ph.D.
N Engl J Med 2013; 368:297-299
January 24, 2013
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1215226
This highly structured, prevention-oriented system has produced positive results. Vaccination rates in Cuba are among the highest in the world. The life expectancy of 78 years from birth is virtually identical to that in the United States. The infant mortality rate in Cuba has fallen from more than 80 per 1000 live births in the 1950s to less than 5 per 1000 â" lower than the U.S. rate, although the maternal mortality rate remains well above those in developed countries and is in the middle of the range for Caribbean countries.3,4 Without doubt, the improved health outcomes are largely the result of improvements in nutrition and education, which address the social determinants of health. Cuba's literacy rate is 99%, and health education is part of the mandatory school curriculum. A recent national program to promote acceptance of men who have sex with men was designed in part to reduce rates of sexually transmitted disease and improve acceptance of and adherence to treatment. Cigarettes can no longer be obtained with monthly ration cards, and smoking rates have decreased, though local health teams say it remains difficult to get smokers to quit. Contraception is free and strongly encouraged. Abortion is legal but is seen as a failure of prevention.
because it stops the muscle spasms. When I injured my back the trouble was the spasms kept it from healing. I have very, very limited side effects when I'm on it (bit hard to pee, being a muscle relaxant and all). Without it it takes weeks for me to heal enough to sit in chair. With it I'm up and running in a few days. After that I'm off the stuff. At least for me it's a wonder drug.
I agree a doctor needs to make sure nothing's going wrong, especially with the elderly. But a $15 call on a smart phone and a free consultation with a pharmacist can do that. I don't need a $200 (out of pocket because my plan doesn't kick in until $1200) visit.
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Oh, and when we do that we need to stop all sex without contraception! The thing you are obviously not aware of is that most fertilized eggs die, hence the very act of fertilizing eggs is "horrible and inhuman" according to nil-whits such as you.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Religious fanatics are not interested even in what their own holy books say. They are not interested in right or wrong. They are into suppressing anything that disagreed with their own perverted world view and in exercising power. If you want to find the worst of the worst in the human race, you need look no further.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
"thigh" is translated from a word that, elsewhere in the text, clearly refers to reproductive organs. It's an abortion.
The ordeal involves taking a brew prepared by the priests. I suspect we have only half the ritual - the other half was passed from priest to priest, saying which herbs to put in the brew.
Better education trumps technical advancement. Who would have thought.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Dude, science is nothing if not arbitrary.
Do you understand the scientific method? Do you know what a hypothesis is?
Science is not special. It is merely the latest in a series of educated guesses which haven't yet been disproven. I'm sorry if that doesn't fit in with your desire for ultimate certainty, but don't blame me--I didn't do it.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Pointing out cases you'd rather conveniently ignore is not "moronic", and someone claiming thusly stinks of being a dimwit.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
I love the irony of an AC posting about the original Slashdot audience! I think the original Slashdot was more focused on science and technology, and did not care at all about personal philosophical beliefs. That's the part of Slashdot that I miss the most.
Don't believe everything you read, Sonny.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Meanwhile, on planet Earth, Obama (hardly a "right winger") is going to go down in history as the first president to have been effectively at war for 8 solid years.
This is only almost true because US presidents have not had a good track record of staying in power for 8 solid years during times of extended warfare. But it isn't true anyway, since Woodrow Wilson was in power for 8 years during the US occupation of Nicaragua, which lasted 19 years spanning his entire presidency. Theodore Roosevelt was in power for 8 years during the Moro Rebellion, which lasted 14 years spanning his entire presidency.
And if you count the American Indian Wars, every President with an eight year term before Woodrow Wilson was at war for eight solid years.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
So, how long do the democrats have to hold total power until they actually start being responsible for bad stuff they do, and can't just blame republicans? 20 years? 100? 1000?
The Democrats would be responsible for starting any war they actually start. Its not that hard to figure out. Wars which are cleaning up the mess of previous administrations can certainly last decades, as it did during the Vietnam War. I'd agree that after about 50 years you could no longer blame the original administration which started the war, but that is an arbitrary figure.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
I don't care where he got it from, I just want to see him in Thunderdome going head to head with Roman Mir.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
If you want badly enough to see it that way, you certainly can. But that's not how scholars see it, either today or in the past.
Note to ACs: I usually delete AC replies without reading them. If you want to talk to me, log in.
let's compare sources.
You say:
The NRA was a commission set up by congress and chaired by Clarence Darrow.
Wikipedia says:
The National Recovery Administration was a prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in 1933. The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices.
As for that myth of dry cleaners sent to jail, just google the guy's fucking name: Jacob Maged.
Of course newspapers of the time who reported he story (like the chicago tribune) were all part of that conspiracy of neoliberal websites that just wanted to smear the name of that great President.
http://archives.chicagotribune...
lucm, indeed.
I'm very happily married, and both my wife and I think you're full of shit.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
"Europeans are off the chart left. Socialism will never work."
Your fire and car insurance seem to do just fine with such a socialist ideas, so does the US postal system, military defense, highways, fire department, bridges, garbage collection, public libraries (Those are large houses of stone where people go to read stuff)
and a few dozen other ones.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
"Sure we can, we make up classifications all the time in science. For instance, one possibility could be when the fetus can live on its own outside the womb. "
On its own? These times that usually means between the age of 35 and 40.
The problem with your theory (aside from the fact that it's 6 days, not 3) is that you assume that the responsibility in these matters is solely the woman's.
This ignores rapists and persistent husbands/boyfriends who don't feel like waiting a whole week and who don't have to worry about getting pregnant.
Sucks how these annoying little details keep cropping up to louse up your perfect/simple solution, doesn't it.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
"Are they also taught alchemy, voodoo, and homeopathy?"
Only those who video-consult to L.A.
You're skipping an important step:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You are welcome on my lawn.
Oh, this is interesting: Jacob Maged, the dry cleaner who was sentenced to 30 days in jail, later voiced his support for the NRA and the industrial code that he violated, saying that it had actually helped his business survive.
http://archives.chicagotribune...
How come you don't read about that in any of the right-wing or neo-liberal sites that talk about him as some martyr to the New Deal? Jacob Maged was a fan of the New Deal.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Did you even look at that 1934 Chicago Tribune story you so proudly cited?
You are welcome on my lawn.
I give more weight to information in peer-reviewed medical journals than to information in political opinion magazines.
But even giving Stusser the benefit of the doubt -- in developed countries, the miscarriage rate after 21 weeks is about 0.5%. So even if you counted miscarriages after 21 weeks as infant mortality, the difference would only be 0.5%, and Cuba would still have infant mortality comparable to the US.
Obama is very much a right winger compared with most politicians on the planet. The problem in the US is that you can choose between right wing (Democrats) and right wing extremists (Republicans), so it is less obvious. Sanders would be a little saner choice but the Democrats seem to be radicalizing too with Clinton.
Reverse Alien vs. Predator?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Ok so first you call it a myth made up by neoliberals, but now that you've found an interpretation that (according to you) makes the whole thing a positive for FDR you're suddenly rewriting your own history.
Cognitive dissonance much?
lucm, indeed.
Your argument is superficial and dishonest.
There are many forms of life that have nothing to do with conception (ask any amoeba).
Life has existed in a continuum for something like 2 billion years.
The fusion of a sperm (a living thing) and an egg (a living thing) is not the start of new life, it is the start of a new individual. It appears you don't have much respect for individuals since you think it's acceptable for you to tell a woman what to do with herself.
Here's a car analogy: At what point does a collection of parts on an assembly line become an automobile? Can't name an exact point? That's because it's a process, just as egg + sperm -> embryo -> fetus -> newborn is a process
Because many decisions are based on the law in this matter, the law that identifies when a new person (human being) comes into existence should be reasonable, in accordance with reality, based upon sound definitions, and allow determination of facts based on easy observations. The fundamental definition of a person (human being) is an independent rational animal, with each of those 3 words clarified for use in legal and utilitarian contexts (for instance, rational refers not to the ability to spout syllogisms, but to having a rational faculty consistent with age and experience.) Until birth, a fetus is not independent, thus not a person, and thus has no rights; however the potential of the fetus and the responsibility of the woman makes the restriction (not prohibition) of late-term abortion a reasonable thing.
As noted above, the attempt to pinpoint the start of life is based on a false assumption. Identifying a start to personhood is not a scientific endeavor (and it's dishonest to claim otherwise), it is a legal and political one.
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Hey, you're the jackoff who brought up Jacob Maged. Don't blame me that the poster boy for your agenda disagrees with you.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Your moniker is in accord with your argument.
Science is the fundamental method people use to determine how things work, so that they can plan their actions with reasonable expectations of success. That is not arbitrary.
I particularly object to your use of the word "merely". The use of educated guesses is the main part of human experience, and does not deserve to be denigrated with the word "merely."
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You'd toe the party line too, if the alternative were spending more time in jail.
Courts routinely demand things like admission of guilt and "public service" to reduce time served. "Public Service" often takes the form of making public statements relating how wonderful some hideous laws and their enforcers are.
Don't you recognize extortion when it's right in front of your eyes?
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Simply put, Planned Parenthood, an organization darling of the left, was founded by Margaret Sanger with the purpose of discouraging Negroes from reproducing.
Just as many conservatives are religious loons, many on the left are loons with beliefs like "All sex is rape" (Andrea Dworkin), Southern men are killers (Neil Young), and so forth. These people get a lot of press and it's easy to see them as the ideological leaders of the left.
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In 1934, the Chicago Tribune was an anti-Roosevelt, anti-NIRA, Republican paper. This was during an era of muckraking, too. There was no indication that the statements Maged made after his incarceration were in any way forced.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Really? Please quote the original Hebrew with your translation. I am sure it's original, as what you claim is written is not, in fact, written.
Which bit would that be?
I've been around /. a long time. Like most suffering from nostalgia, you remember a past that never was. Slashdot has always had discussions that veered away from pure science and technology. Without strict moderation, it's practically guaranteed to happen, as people like to digress.
Just because you don't know when something happened does not mean it didn't happen. There is still a moment of conception, if conception is defined as an egg becoming fertilized such that it will start to grow into a fetus. It doesn't matter what the process is. There is still a moment before the egg can grow into a fetus, and moment after which it will grow into a fetus. That moment is conception, even if you can't tell post facto when it occurred.
Note: I am taking no position on whether life begins at that moment, only that such a moment does in fact exist.
As to your ridiculous analogy regarding adulthood: no one is claiming that our laws regarding the transition from childhood to adulthood is based on a scientific evaluation of biological maturity.
"If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse." - Numbers 5:27.
How can this be interpreted as anything other than an abortion? Even if not via drugs, at the very least it's an attempted abortion via supernatural curse.
So in other words you've nothing more than "Don't care for your tone"--IOW you've nothing, period.
Thanks for playing.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
"Please put on this condom before you rape me."
"Please wait until I insert my diaphragm before you rape me."
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Odd. It's been working for 70 years now and counting. And people even come here voluntarily from all over the world, but obviously because they're dumb enough to think that it could work.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You should go look at jessica valenti and some of dwarkins more recent stuff, they have both argued against it.
Om, nomnomnom...
There is still a moment before the egg can grow into a fetus, and moment after which it will grow into a fetus.
Well, let's pretend you're correct. The moment you are describing is different every time. So there's no useful to use it as a demarcation. And if you aren't using it as a demarcation, what are you using it for?
That moment is conception, even if you can't tell post facto when it occurred
The word I use for things which people give names to, but you can't verify the existence of, is fantasy.
Ideology: A tool used primarily to avoid the bother of thinking.
They really complain that women are being forced to use the Pill? Wow, talk about going over the edge.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Not birth control, self-control is the critical public health issue. Come on, we know what causes pregnancies, men and women choose to engage in that activity, and it's a surprise when 'life finds a way'? That's like saying toll house cookies are the unintended outcome for buying a tube of dough, spooning it on to a greased tray, and baking it in an oven...
It is - high school nurses hand them out, everyone on 'Obamacare' gets free contraception, public healthcare clinics (like planned parenthood) give condoms away for free, major chain drugstores sell one month birth control prescriptions for less than $10.
I think you confuse 'ok' with 'become a curse'. That 'become a curse' doesn't sound OK to me...
What matters is that it's a-ok to kill the baby (and potentially the mother) if you think it's not yours. At least according to that book.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Thank that old-time socialist Benjamin Franklin for creating the first public library. (Not everything on the daily kos is true/accurate - hard to believe, I know)
Oh so it's a good thing that the economy is squeezing mothers to kill their fetuses. The solution to crime is grind down all the would-be criminals to pulp before they're born. We can't just go out in the streets killing them, so we should abstract the issue of what a fetus really is and convince their mothers to kill them.
Do you have ANY idea what eugenics is?
The fact is that there is plenty of food for all. A huge portion of crops are used for creating fuel and have been for a long time. Somehow life itself seems more important than convenience. But I guess your judgement of this depends on how much you benefit from the destruction of the lives of others.
The fact is that when supplied with the basics, communities educate themselves.
We have enough of all the basics. It's just not "profitable" due to economic manipulation.
Realize your slavery
Your tiny brain is trying to abstract this issue into some kind of liberal vs conservative issue. What if you released yourself from that intellectual torture device and looked at the variables for what they actually are?
The point is that the demand for food and education would force them to be provided.
Unrest is a critical problem and it will be avoided at all costs. It is preferred by our ruling class that the cost should be paid with the blood of the lower people rather than precious resources that would be used to raise potential competitors.
Birth control is not about choices. It's about forcing a certain segment of the population to kill itself. It's leveraging the illusion of the free market to enact sophisticated slavery. Leadership says: "Oh you don't have enough to raise your child comfortably? It's just TOO BAD that you don't, I don't know why that is or what I could do about it! What tragedy? Well here is an OPTION for you...."
Basically the success of this slavery hinges on people like you thinking you understand the economy in your dogmatic belief that it is somehow infallible and beyond the control of organized manipulation. Even though the evidence to the contrary is obvious.
It all boils down to your utter cowardice. You delude yourself into thinking nothing is wrong simply because you have absolutely no idea what to do if something is indeed wrong. It's all about your personal comfort. Well the cost of that comfort is your future and your very humanity.
Rejoin the culture of death because life, especially the new life of a child is such a burden and a curse. Take that first class carcinogen, and sterilize yourself and most likely if you ever do reproduce the following generation by your ingestion of this carcinogen has such a greater chance of being sterile. Don't be open to life because it will truly not be an option in the not so distant future. Look around you and see all the people who can't conceive and the millions who are waiting to adopt and there are no children for adoption. The human race has already slowed down to barely replacement rate according to the UN statistics and many countries are dying out because they are below replacement rates. Even in Russia, they are paying women NOT to have abortions. We are so good at destroying ourselves!
Cool stuff man. Except your whole argument is made null by the fact that income is highly negatively correlated with fertility rate. Sorry you typed all that out for no reason.
Science isn't arbitrary. As you say, it's the latest in a series of educated guesses which haven't yet been disproven, and there are sufficient rules to keep the arbitrariness to a minimum.
However, science is applicable only to certain things, namely things that can be disproven by experiment and/or observation. I know of no experiment that would tell me that human rights don't begin at some particular point between conception (itself slightly arbitrary) and birth, and therefore (unless I'm seriously wrong) this is not a matter for science.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
In which case mules are zombies, since they can't reproduce and hence aren't alive. I've been wandering around as an undead revenant since my vasectomy. You know, I think that definitions of life that say that living things must be able to reproduce aren't very useful.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
No, you're starting with an incorrect assumption (not all females need to reproduce to perpetuate a species), reasoning from it incorrectly (not all things that are necessary are basic instincts in humans - babies aren't born knowing how to breast-feed, for example, although most figure it out really fast), and coming up with a dogmatic and extreme conclusion.
You must be a man.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
I do know a woman who had an abortion when she just couldn't care for a child, and had four children once life became more stable. I suspect that's more people in the world, net.
However, I'll tell you one thing common to all aborted fetuses: they're unwanted. Being an unwanted child, which the fetus will become, is not a good thing.
There's plenty of food for all, OK, but it's not distributed to everyone. Changing that would require some massive changes in society and the economy. Communities do not educate themselves to a satisfactory level nowadays.
In other words, you're making crap up to fit with your prejudices.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Wow, I knew about half of them had gone completely off the deep end, but this is still surprising.
On the bright side, that means that feminism is finally in the "devouring itself" phase.
Let's hope republicans and democrats are next.
Lol what the fuck?
You are going to have to realize at some point that your simplisms are not applicable to real life.
You are still locked into this personally combative attitude. It's a sure sign that you feel you have no logical defense for your ideas and the only way to preserve the belief you've invested in is to display like an animal, moaning and growling but not actually attacking.
There is absolutely no clear counter-implication connecting the point you stated about low income correlating with fertility, which I will admit, to my points.
You need a great deal more reasoning to even ASSERT that your overall point is true, but of course, you're above that, you're already a certified Smart Boy and you are exempt from critical thinking when you feel like adhering to dogma. Sorry but there is nothing coherent in your thinking. You just don't have a self-consistent view of broad circumstances.
But the point of this policy that I describe is precisely to fix this "problem" that you describe. The point is to downsize the population of worthless workers and eventually replace them with automation. Their worth as ballast at the base of society only goes so far. They are reproducing too much. They have to be sustained lest they become dangerous. That is why socialism and communism were invented. To ensure that there is consistent supply to meet the demand of those that aren't fitting into the economy to buy time to transition them out to a diminished existence. Welfare is the bid for time. Birth control is the transition out.
It's population control. Eugenics. Genocide.
In other words you're making excuses for the status quo regardless of any morality or long-term view of economics.
Get a grip! You've lost your mind.
Let me tell YOU something: most of those lost babies are mourned. The mothers did want them, they were just afraid to go through with birth and raising and providing for the child because of stress artificially imposed for the purpose of controlling the population of low-class people.
"Oh I don't feel like having a baby, lets just flush this one down to the incinerator. (A couple years pass). Oh I do feel like having a baby after all, I guess we can keep this one. I don't need to justify my dismissal of human life on a whim, ITS MY BODY MY RULES I HAVE RIGHTS AOWIERJAOWIERJASOEIFJAOSIFJDN (feminist brainwashed expression continues)"
Food is not distributed to everyone....so instead of standing up for our own interest, we cower to the wishes of the distributors?
Communities do not educate themselves to a "satisfactory level"? What is a satisfactory level? WHY is it like this? Is there no possibility of sabotage considering the blatant withholding of resources from these people?
So babies should be aborted/murdered because they're not wanted because their mothers are too stressed from being artificially poor and only those who work to fit into the current system should be fed?
There is no duty to all people, they are worthless unless they serve?
You are what some would call a "house nigger" and an "Uncle Tom".
"not all females need to reproduce to perpetuate"
The species is not the point. It is an overly broad social group. There are many other "social units of survival" that are much more important like family, tribe, nation, etc.
But about what you said, in our history the opposite has been true. There has been no guarantee of the survival for even large social units anywhere remotely close to long enough for this to be imprinted on our genetics and instinct. We are not ants which have only one reproducing female at a time per colony, and very very few animals have a history like this that enabled them to solidify the fact that not all individuals need to reproduce into their genetics.
With mammals, which are social animals to begin with, there is an utterly obvious benefit to every female reproducing as much as possible. "Strength in numbers" is a fundamental truth to mammal life and has always been. Humans are configured unlike mammals like rabbits who are genetically used to overpopulating areas and can miscarry gracefully. There is a genetic assumption that every individual we manage to raise is absolutely invaluable. The gestation period speaks for itself. Every individual is a precious resource to be cultivated with every care. As many children as can be supported must be supported.
That is the substance of women's instincts concerning child bearing. They can delude themselves with modern propaganda, but their instincts run deep and are much stronger. They cannot be suppressed indefinitely. Women who "don't want children" are literally severely mentally ill: their habits work against their instincts. But they get an excuse and a social movement to justify their self destruction because it's in the interest of the top of the social hierarchy.
You are so horribly and obviously wrong in your "thinking" and belief.
"incorrect, incorrect, dogmatic, extreme" yet you excuse yourself from any reasoning. You are one ironic hypocrite.
You have absolutely no valid perspective on life. You are a casualty of rewarded ignorance. You're a criminal bastard who needs the harshest re-education.
Unrest is a critical problem and it will be avoided at all costs. It is preferred by our ruling class that the cost should be paid with the blood of the lower people rather than precious resources that would be used to raise potential competitors.
Baseless statement with no proof.
Leadership says: "Oh you don't have enough to raise your child comfortably? It's just TOO BAD that you don't, I don't know why that is or what I could do about it! What tragedy? Well here is an OPTION for you...."
Also here you seem to be implying that "the man" wants to give more access to birth control as some kind of Illuminati conspiracy to keep the working man down, but then why is literally half the government (republicans) vehemently fighting against birth control. This ruling class sure isn't very good at executing their conspiracy...
Basically the success of this slavery hinges on people like you thinking you understand the economy in your dogmatic belief that it is somehow infallible and beyond the control of organized manipulation. Even though the evidence to the contrary is obvious.
I literally never said a thing about understanding the economy. Good straw man.
You are still locked into this personally combative attitude. It's a sure sign that you feel you have no logical defense for your ideas and the only way to preserve the belief you've invested in is to display like an animal, moaning and growling but not actually attacking.
Absolutely hilarious given that you are the one constantly name calling and I have never resorted to that. Literally every comment you make calls me an idiot or a coward or some variation of that, followed by more baseless arguments. Maybe take your own criticism here? You clearly have some anger issues.
I really don't care what you think at this point, and obviously neither does anyone else given your shitty karma. Stop stalking my comments please.
Just as I thought
Yeah man, be sure to send me a copy of your manifesto before you blow up that federal building. I'm definitely interested in reading it.
There is exactly one reference to abortion in the bible. It's in Numbers 5, and it details the process for performing an abortion if you believe your wife has been unfaithful.
There's another (indirect) reference in Exodus 21:22 which prescribes a monetary penalty for inducing a miscarriage in a woman bystander. Which is hardly surprising because children were considered property at the time.
You will not drink with us, but you would taste our steel? - Walter Matthau, The Pirates
Lol, okay. More name calling and no logic. I bow to your superior shit talking skills.
The status quo is the status quo for reasons, some of which are good. Change for the sake of change is often bad, especially changes based on ignorance.
Exactly where do you get the information about how women feel after abortions? Do you make it up to suit your prejudices, or do you get it from other people who made it up? I haven't seen any such statement in reliable sources. I'd say the evidence is pretty clear that women who get abortions tend not to want to have that fetus/child at that time. There are cases of coercion, I'm sure, but not many.
I see that you want our entire society massively changed to suit your prejudices. I generally approve of the changes, but they're not going to happen any time soon, and will have unforeseen effects.
I also see that you prefer to misconstrue what I wrote and use insults than address what I actually wrote.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Prejudice....You are using that as some kind of negative qualifier. You say it like some variables are being ignored. Pray tell, what are they?
Abortion is barely-abstracted murder. If you are on the level of self-centered delusion that prevents you from seeing that, I'm not sure you have any free rational faculties.
You accuse me of misconstruction and prejudice, yet you offer no competing point of view or any rebuttal at all except "where are your sources".
"Reliable sources". Or you could just know people. Or know something about human nature. The problem with "reliable sources" is that they do not exist. People lie about their intentions and feelings, and pollsters/staticians manipulate population selection and query results. Pro-life sources INVARIABLY say there is depression and regret after abortion, pro-choice sources INVARIABLY say there is no causation in the correlation, and neutral sources are INVARIABLY inconclusive. The point is that the judgement of depression is subjective and manipulable. You cannot get objective perspective on the matter from an "official source" handing down a judgement. The only thing for it is to use your own experience, knowledge, and judgement to look into the primary data for yourself.
So basically you are using ignorance of this fact to substantiate your unreasoned prejudice.
The problem with people like you is that you need a source for everything. You need an authority to tell you it's okay to take a stance one way or another. Critical thought and personal experience hardly factor into it. You'll just sit in the middle as the world turns and your life slips away, ignoring your duty as a citizen because of your cowardice.
I addressed what you wrote exactly. You just refuse to accept the implications because you are surprised by actual meaning behind your careless expression.
Your point of view is inexcusably wrong. You deserve to be labeled and confronted. "Name-calling" is not inherently "infantile".
That has turned out to be a pretty bad way to go. Different people know different people, and have different views of human nature. It's sometimes difficult to run studies, but they frequently have results that surprise people.
You were the one who claimed that most women who have had abortions mourn their fetuses. You provided more evidence. From what you say, prejudiced sources say what you'd expect them to, and neutral sources are inconclusive. Your claim is therefore not supported by the evidence, since the results that are not apparently fixed do not support what you say. I'd be willing to bet that you haven't examined several hundred case studies selected with sufficient randomness to try to avoid systemic error, which is what "looking into the primary data for yourself" means here. Again, I haven't seen anything reliable supporting your claim, and you have presented evidence that it's unfounded.
I don't need sources for everything. I act according to my own knowledge and judgment. However, if you're going to tell me something I'm doubtful about, I'm going to need sources to be convinced. I may investigate unfounded claims by random pseudonymous people on the Internet, but I'm not going to accept them at face value.
And, apparently, I am "inexcusably wrong" because I ask you for support for your claims. Interesting.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes