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and doesn't mention other methods or drugs. This has argued about for centuries. I don't think it means a total ban on the procedure.
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Polio was long gone by the time I started elementary school. The MMR and polio vaccines were routine. I'm glad Jonas Salk isn't around to see this. Deadly diseases didn't just vanish by magic. It took brilliant science, dedicated doctors, and hard, difficult work.
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Lest we forget,,, ############ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith_Papyri ############ https://mrm.org/joseph-smith-mummies In an article titled “From Kirtland, Ohio, to Far West, Missouri: Following the Trail of the Mormon Mummies,” authors Ray L. Huntington and Keith J. Wilson, both former professors of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University, follow the know
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Do they feel elated? I've never understood the emotional appeal of xenophobia. I've lived in places where most people didn't speak my language. I grew up in places where most people couldn't understand what I was interested in and could care less. I liked meeting people from other countries and learning about their culture. I didn't go around screaming about sending them to the gulag, nor
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Why? That's the question. Is religious "turf" dominance that important? Do they think copies of the Ten Commandments have magical powers that will somehow ward off evil? ############# https://www.nola.com/news/education/louisiana-ten-commandments-law-unconstitutional-fifth-circuit/article_7cf2f7a8-8225-4abd-9836-6a0eb3c65afa.html Louisiana’s controversial law r
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Lots of horse trading involved...money, family, property, honor killing (i.e you stole your own body) rewards on Earth and in heaven, bribes to keep silent, hymen reattachment, ya ya ya
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Same goes for Mormons, Catholics, EVs, some Hindus and Muslims. Lots of money and status involved. ############ https://www.reddit.com/r/latterdaysaints/comments/z7wma9/why_do_members_believe_in_purity_culture/ https://www.restorativefaith.org/post/a-history-of-purity-culture https://browngirlmagazine.com/hinduism-says-virginity-kanya-kanyadaan/ https://www.practo.com/
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A while back, there was a thread about what people were reading, and at the time I was reading a new biography about John Brown -- the freedom fighter (or terrorist depending on your point of view). There's a famous scene depicted in the book that describes a meeting between Brown and one of the so-called "Secret Six," the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harper's Ferry. Brown m
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_0i_1RlNk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll-y7E-IlUg
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The Emancipation Proclamation didn't end slavery everywhere in America on 1 January 1863 (hence the Juneteenth celebration), and the Armistice didn't end all the fighting at the end of WW1. It took a while. ############ https://history.blog.gov.uk/2018/11/09/the-war-that-did-not-end-at-11am-on-11-november/ Every year we remember that the guns of the First World War ceased firing a
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11 November 1918, 11h 11m 00s Reconstruction of original sound ranging records. ########### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwisj9WqWc0
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Too bad, Mormons. Not only did she live thousands of years before you claim the world even existed, she wasn't "white and delightsome." This woman shares the same physical traits as other post-Ice Age European Mesolithic people: brown skin, wavy or curly hair, and blue and/or green eyes. Light skin in humans is a evolutionary trait to match dietary and climatic conditions.
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What is "life?" Who is and who is not allowed to exist? Do you have "agency," or does someone get to "own" you? Is living without the exercise of free will the same as living without life?
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https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/may-she-finally-rest-in-peace-brain-dead-womans-life-support-switched-off-after-baby-was-born-via-emergency-c-section/ The life support for Adriana Smith, the woman whose body has been kept alive despite being brain-dead, has now been switched off after the child she was pregnant with was delivered by emergency C-section.
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https://www.galvestonhistory.org/news/juneteenth-and-general-order-no-3 Head Quarters District of Texas Galveston Texas June 10th 1865. General Orders No. 3. The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former
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And Mormons do get a lot of cosmetic surgery. Ah, the hypocrisy... ############ https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2024/08/06/latter-day-saints-have-more/ New body image study shows they undergo such procedures more often than most Americans, but BYU researchers say these members may be misunderstanding the church’s theology. You may have seen the billboard on Interstate 15 of
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That is what happens now. A friend's daughter went through this. I met her when she was four. She's fifteen now. A parent, guardian, or judge has to sign off on the treatment after a psychological and medical evaluation. Treatment starts at around ten and delays puberty until the child reaches sixteen or adult age depending on the state and can legally get surgery. The blockers ju
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https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialSciences/ppecorino/DeathandDying_Text/Pecorino_Transplants.htm Beyond all these uses for neomort bodies is perhaps the most bizarre of all, which now is technically possible, but has not been actually accomplished the way which will now be described. A neomort body could be used as an incubator or a surrogate womb to bring a fetus to term. In fact, it is possi
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It was science fiction then. It isn't now. ############ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/06/24/Bioethicist-suggests-using-brain-dead-women-as-incubators/6895583128000/ SYDNEY, Australia -- A scientist suggested Friday using brain-dead women as surrogate mothers to make better use of 'living corpses,' but the idea drew sharp condemnation from doctors, lawyers and religious leaders.
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First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was
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Adult Language Warning, Medical Sex Terminology ************ Imagine telling someone, "I don't give a flying f if your 'mentally twisted' kid offs themselves. I just don't want to have to deal with seeing some chick that I might want to f and not know what they are." That, in effect, is what just happened. That's the situation we now have created. For people who claim d
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summer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think that using a dead woman as an incubator is > disgusting, but that's me. Me Too. Suppose someone of means wants to use a recently brain dead woman either for eggs, a surrogate, or for necrophilia or all three? Would that be OK?
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