Chetzemoka @ Chetzemoka @startrek.website

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Medical science is clear on when a fetus is viable and when higher brain function occurs. You speak as if you believe the myth that "life" begins at conception, which is not congruent with medical science. Elective abortions should be safe, legal, and RARE.

Did you know that the rates of abortion are increasing now that these bans have gone into affect? Bans do not work. Sex education, birth control, these are the things proven time and again to reduce abortion rates.

This is the exact problem with these bans. The medical procedure in question (dilation and curretage) can be and is used in cases with a fetus in any condition. The same procedure can be used for an elective abortion, a medically necessary abortion, or even to complete a miscarriage that is already underway.

The "abortion" procedure would have saved Savita Halapanavar's life. I personally know three women who were in similar circumstances, losing a lot of blood during miscarriages that weren't completing on their own.

You can't ban medical procedures that have valid use cases. These things are most properly regulated by medical professionals themselves.

Exactly. This is why I love the phrase "All y'all are welcome, but you gotta act right."

Me, forever and a day pointing out that we don't even use cardiac activity as a metric for life in a grown ass adult human being. People are declared dead without higher brain function who have beating hearts.

Six weeks isn't even a heart, it's just some electrical activity in newly differentiating cells. Six weeks was always about lies, because of course it was.

Thank you for acknowledging that I am correct.

Ah yes, that notorious occupation where Denmark systematically raped and murdered all those Norwegians, installed a corporate kleptocracy to ransack their natural resources for the profit of people half a globe away, and then spent the next 400 years funding coups and dictators to maintain that corporate control.

I don't understand the level of ignorance required to even begin to pretend like these were equivalent situations.

You can't ask them that. The idiots already believe that there are more gay people and gay teenagers in the world today because gay people convert people who would otherwise be straight. As opposed to just, you know, no longer having to hide their identities for fear of being murdered.

That's why they screech about the "gay agenda"

Hmm, "current went missing" isn't a phrase I'm used to hearing. I wonder if the cardiogram was indicating some level of heart block (often not a dangerous condition, just something to monitor).

With the high fibrinogen, they're probably concerned about clotting. I wonder, did they check a blood test called d-dimer by chance?

I'm glad you'll be seeing a doctor soon. We have a lot of good treatments for cardiac conditions these days.

May I ask you about the nature of your heart problems exactly?

Because a "heart attack" is not actually a medical thing. What people usually mean when they say "heart attack" is what we call a myocardial infarction (lack of blood flow to the heart muscle caused by a blockage or constriction in a coronary artery.) And less commonly people use the term "heart attack" to refer to cardiac arrest where the heart just stops beating for some reason. (Myocardial infarction can turn into cardiac arrest, but cardiac arrest can happen because of any number of other things as well.)

So do you have a confirmed occlusion of a coronary artery? Or do you have a diagnosed cardiac arrhythmia of some kind? What are they planning to do to treat you? Because "don't get excited" isn't a long term management strategy. It's usually just to get you through until you find a successful treatment.

(I'm a cardiac critical care nurse. AMA)

She filed the lawsuit. She initiated this on purpose, making herself a test case in court trying to get this law overturned. In short, the reason her name is being reported is because she chose to be the person to take one for the team.

Legal cases require a real human who will be harmed by the law. She could have filed herself as "Jane Roe" like Norma McCorvey did, but she chose not to.

Fresh episodes of X-Files and Star Trek: TNG every week.

Just that whole experience of something on television being a cultural zeitgeist because everyone had to watch it at the exact same time because that was the only time it existed. Sure, you could record it on VHS and watch later, but it wasn't the same. Even being at home watching alone felt like participating in a social event.

In the United States, sovereign immunity only immunizes the government against lawsuits. It doesn't provide an individual with immunity against criminal prosecution.

Well There's Your Problem
Black Box Down
This Podcast Will Kill You

Apparently, I like listening to stories about death and disaster

Says the person who clearly doesn't have to see specialists in the US very often. We already have to wait months to see specialists.

No, they're not Christians at all.

I'm just pointing out that you're not being consistent.

Gubbins is a fun, new kind of word game.

Nonogram is a fun puzzle game.

Again, I'm not debating. But I do find the irony interesting.

And who created this definition that you're referencing? You speak as if it's the authority on what is and isn't Christian.

This was very much my experience with the trans girl I grew up with 35 years ago. From the instant she was able to express preferences (I'm talking like age 18 months to 2 years), it was all princesses and dolls and makeup and trying on mom's high heels. We all just assumed she was a gay boy because we had never heard of a transgender person before.

We encouraged her to just keep that behavior at home because she was bullied mercilessly for appearing to be an effeminate boy. But nothing would stop her; she was completely irrepressible.

When in high school, she told us she was really a girl, it was like the most face-palmingly obvious thing. Of COURSE that's what we'd been seeing her entire life. It just made sense. That's just who she is.

Thomas Kempis is very much Christian. There are a variety of Christian authors in this vein. Modern American Evangelicalism doesn't comprise the entirety of religious thinking.

I'm not debating. Just sharing what I've been taught.