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How a woman brings a new spirit into this world is reflective of the worldview of a community to which she belongs. How a woman births or how she is tortured will impact if she is able to nurse her child. Technobirth comes with technoslop. Neither is quite human.
Women who were induced were more likely to report 'experiences of disrespect and mistreatment by staff caring for them.' While the rise in induction certainly needs to be discussed, perhaps we also ought to talk about why staff are mistreating women. theconversation.com/1-in-3-b…
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Thank you God for my life, thank you for my husband, thank you for my children, thank you for my home, thank you for hot water and food, thank you for working hands and feet and eyes and ears, thank you for a husband with working hands and feet and eyes and ears, thank you for the million second chances, thank you thank you thank you
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Whenever I hear about some new AI threat I can’t help but think of these words from C. S. Lewis
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In a recent podcast, bioethicist Arthur Caplan proudly proclaimed that he has pioneered using critically disabled people for research at NYU Langone Health.
Caplan says that not only is this going on now at NYU, but there are dozens of such research centers starting up all over the country, using “brain dead” people for drug testing and other research purposes.
Caplan admits in the podcast that people with a brain death diagnosis are not biologically dead, but that their “deaths” are a social construct -- which is why they can be successfully kept on life support for these experiments.
When people who are registered organ donors have infections or other conditions that make them unable to donate, the family is approached and asked if doctors might keep their loved one on life support to do some tests.
According to Caplan:
“We started by saying that it might advance transplant. We're going to study something, maybe an artificial organ or some immune suppressing drug. And if you give us permission -- they wanted to be organ donors, but they can't, they clearly wanted to help -- let's do it that way. And if the family concurred (which reminding listeners, they don't have to legally in an organ donation situation, but we were trying to be safe here in this idea of studying the body) if we take them for 72 hours, would you give us permission? And a lot of people did.”
Dr. Caplan’s eagerness to keep critically ill people on life support for experimentation contrasts sharply with his opinion when the parents of Jahi McMath (a young girl declared brain dead) wanted to keep her on life support to preserve her life. At that time, Caplan wrote, “Keeping her on a ventilator amounts to the desecration of a body.”
Last year, scientists were widely criticized for proposing the idea of creating “bodyoids,” non-sentient human clones grown in artificial wombs, for research purposes.
Move over, bodyoids: such experimentation is already being performed today, on actual humans, with no waiting.
It is highly unlikely that the families of these unfortunate people are being informed that their loved ones are only “socially dead” when doctors obtain “consent” for these experiments.
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There is a version of your life that will never exist because you would not endure the pain necessary to reach it. Suffering, is not the enemy of greatness, it is instead the doorway.
To suffer well is not to seek pain just for pain’s sake. It is to recognize, it is to understand that some pains are not enemies, they instruments, they are teachers. There is a huge difference between destructive suffering and meaningful suffering, between the chaos that kills our souls and the hardship that carves us into something beautiful.
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“Schools are not called to follow the pace of the digital world, but to offer that which the digital sphere by itself cannot provide, namely a shared time for learning and developing trustworthy relationships.” (MH, 147)
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Every PREP Act declaration involves erecting a liability shield to protect countermeasure manufacturers, in this case, a vaccine (quote unquote) from the US Army (already in phase 1) and Moderna (pre-clinical).
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Today, I signed a targeted PREP Act declaration to support the development and deployment of medical countermeasures related to Andes virus, which can cause the deadly respiratory illness Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome.
This action helps remove barriers to research and response efforts while we continue monitoring the recent outbreak linked to the South Atlantic cruise ship. HHS is taking this situation seriously and will continue working to protect public health and support the safe development of potential treatments and countermeasures.
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Paul's "those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death" is a great turn of phrase; applies to many today, not least the live-forever silicon-valley transhumanist types. a truly slavish lot.
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Most physicians are not scientists. Practice is founded on the ready made facts, methods, customs. Most of them didn’t undergo any magic ritual of proof — RCT blah blah blah. Most practice is copied. Repetition of the tenets of faith is part of religious practice.
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An egg cracked from within grows to be a bird. An egg cracked from without is cooked.
