The Justice Department said this week that informant Alexander Smirnov invented a story about $5 million bribes paid to Joe and Hunter Biden and is also "peddling new lies."
Vaccines don’t work. Global warming is a lie. The United States is not a democracy. Babies are too small to be seen with the naked eye and can be frozen and thawed out. Biden is corrupt because Vladimir Putin said so. Am I missing anything?
Personally I think the whole thing is overblown. Unless I missed something, nobody said anything about banning IVF; they just put some scary biblical language into an otherwise very reasonable decision about damages for a guy who broke into a clinic and accidentally destroyed some embryos and now is on the hook financially. Pro-choice people saw the language and flipped out, a little understandably given the current political climate, and the media ran with the story, but I think it’s pretty unlikely that anyone is actually trying to ban or regulate IVF in any way. (maybe just 1-2 total wackos who just saw the story and jumped to ban it just from being wired for anti-woman-ness and not knowing IVF from IUD)
“The decisions by Alabama Fertility Services and Mobile Infirmary come a day after the University of Alabama at Birmingham health system said in a statement that it was pausing IVF treatments so it could evaluate whether its patients or doctors could face criminal charges or punitive damages.”
So it is stopping IVF in this state and will have untold repercussions based on the ruling “Unborn children are ‘children’” which has potentially complicated and unpredictable outcomes. You are entitled to your opinion of course but I think you are quite wrong about this being overblown. It is huge for many.
"More than 9 million babies have been born using assisted reproductive technologies like in vitro fertilization. "
“A cycle of in vitro fertilization can cost anywhere from $10,000 to $25,000”
For people currently using IVF, this is probably a very stressful time.
If I remember correctly, hospitals in that state had to stop performing IVF as a consequence in order to avoid being at risk of violating the law. Classifying embryos as children has really important consequences.
OK, sure, there is no illuminati or whatever—I’ll give you that.
But US democracy is a very troubled one. From local to federal level, it has critical flaws and little to no mechanisms against abuses. Education required for informed consent is tragic, the economy still depends on brain import instead of organic growth. Only far right has high turnout and so gets what they vote for. If I were to guess it’s because of religious factions maintaining coherence and motivation, of course aside from active voter suppression. Can’t have an effective democracy when half the population doesn’t vote. 2020 was historic because “only” a third of the population didn’t vote.
Various indices measuring democracy show a gradual decline, too, and they already tend to be slightly biased towards exaggerating US democraticity because of all the propaganda. Speaking of which, decades of Red Scare (and nuclear panic) poisoned free speech against left-wing concepts and yet utterly fail now that Russia is a bigger threat than ever. (Including nuclear—we’re mere 90 seconds to midnight.)
Technically, a human ovum is 0.12mm in diameter… I have a 3D printer nozzle with a 0.10mm pitch, and it’s still visible to the naked eye (from up close), just slightly smaller than a 0201 SMD resistor.
Vaccines don’t work. Global warming is a lie. The United States is not a democracy. Babies are too small to be seen with the naked eye and can be frozen and thawed out. Biden is corrupt because Vladimir Putin said so. Am I missing anything?
The schools are putting in kitty litter and telling your kids they can identify as cats and pee in the litter boxes
Jewish Space Lasers
Babies are what now? I haven’t heard that before. Any links?
The IVF thing.
Personally I think the whole thing is overblown. Unless I missed something, nobody said anything about banning IVF; they just put some scary biblical language into an otherwise very reasonable decision about damages for a guy who broke into a clinic and accidentally destroyed some embryos and now is on the hook financially. Pro-choice people saw the language and flipped out, a little understandably given the current political climate, and the media ran with the story, but I think it’s pretty unlikely that anyone is actually trying to ban or regulate IVF in any way. (maybe just 1-2 total wackos who just saw the story and jumped to ban it just from being wired for anti-woman-ness and not knowing IVF from IUD)
“The decisions by Alabama Fertility Services and Mobile Infirmary come a day after the University of Alabama at Birmingham health system said in a statement that it was pausing IVF treatments so it could evaluate whether its patients or doctors could face criminal charges or punitive damages.”
So it is stopping IVF in this state and will have untold repercussions based on the ruling “Unborn children are ‘children’” which has potentially complicated and unpredictable outcomes. You are entitled to your opinion of course but I think you are quite wrong about this being overblown. It is huge for many.
"More than 9 million babies have been born using assisted reproductive technologies like in vitro fertilization. "
“A cycle of in vitro fertilization can cost anywhere from $10,000 to $25,000”
For people currently using IVF, this is probably a very stressful time.
If I remember correctly, hospitals in that state had to stop performing IVF as a consequence in order to avoid being at risk of violating the law. Classifying embryos as children has really important consequences.
OK, sure, there is no illuminati or whatever—I’ll give you that.
But US democracy is a very troubled one. From local to federal level, it has critical flaws and little to no mechanisms against abuses. Education required for informed consent is tragic, the economy still depends on brain import instead of organic growth. Only far right has high turnout and so gets what they vote for. If I were to guess it’s because of religious factions maintaining coherence and motivation, of course aside from active voter suppression. Can’t have an effective democracy when half the population doesn’t vote. 2020 was historic because “only” a third of the population didn’t vote.
Various indices measuring democracy show a gradual decline, too, and they already tend to be slightly biased towards exaggerating US democraticity because of all the propaganda. Speaking of which, decades of Red Scare (and nuclear panic) poisoned free speech against left-wing concepts and yet utterly fail now that Russia is a bigger threat than ever. (Including nuclear—we’re mere 90 seconds to midnight.)
Technically, a human ovum is 0.12mm in diameter… I have a 3D printer nozzle with a 0.10mm pitch, and it’s still visible to the naked eye (from up close), just slightly smaller than a 0201 SMD resistor.