Posted on 05/28/2014 6:16:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
PolicyMic, a news organization that claims to know and report on what matters most to young people, tells readers that their promise is to report on "perspectives that aren't typically showcased at other outlets." Yet, a recent article regurgitated one piece of fiction that almost all of the other media outlets have already showcased ad nauseam. And I can't be the only Millennial who is getting annoyed by the lack of integrity in reporting about my generation.
Their recent article, Dear American Women: You Are Being Lied to, lists nine ways in which American women are supposedly being duped by "a society still steeped in the sexism of years past." This is as specific a description that the elusive guilty party of accused liars merits in the piece. (The site has a penchant for churning out lists of reasons why Millennials --well, mostly women and minorities-- are victims of one thing or another. If PolicyMic becomes the paradigm of Millennial reporting, today's young people will undoubtedly go down in history as the self-proclaimed victim generation.)
Number six in the list of nine reasons why women have it so bad in America is, "You are not capable of making your own medical decisions." The accusation reads:
Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land, making such a ban [on late-term abortion] arguably unconstitutional. But that hasn't stopped anti-choice politicians from passing legislation making access to safe abortion procedures increasingly difficult in states across the country. [Sen. Lindsey] Graham claimed he knows twins who were born at 20 weeks... let's all remember that what Graham believes should have no bearing on a woman's choices about her health. Research shows that in states with more access to contraception and family planning, teenage pregnancy rates are lower and median incomes are higher. In fact, when young women are given robust sex education and access to affordable contraception, they are able to make more informed choices and the teen pregnancy rate drops.
Aside from the fact that there is blatant misinformation about the effect of birth control and "robust" sex education in the author's attack on pro-life legislators, the title of the accusation itself is misleading. Claiming that pro-life legislators like Sen. Lindsey are trying to tell women that they can't make their "own medical decisions" assumes that life-affirming laws infringe on a woman's ability to be independent and to take care of her own health. In reality, they do the opposite.
Remember the "war on women" we heard so much about last year? Many actual American women know that it is being waged against us by the other side. The side that would tell us that our fertility is a disease, and that the pathway to freedom is sex without its biological consequences (like children). And if our carcinogenic pills and the copper IUDs in our bodies fail to prevent our bodies from doing what they so fiercely and incredibly do, there's abortion.
We know that legislators who are looking out for the welfare of our pre-born children, and for our own safety and informed consent in our reproductive decisions are acting in the interest of women's progress. They are upholding a commitment not to let women regress by being subjected to the coercive and misleading forces of the abortion lobby, which stands for little more than profit. We know that these forces mimic all too vividly the patriarchal nature of the American yesteryear. And that is why we are pro-life: because it is the only way to ensure justice for women -- including pre-born women -- and to ensure that women's rights move forward rather than slip away.
Maybe the real lie being told to women is: "You aren't WORTH what your amazing female body can do."
In keeping with the pro life message, thought I’d grab a little common sense and natural law that’s been all but scrubbed from the national psyche.
This can be found in any pre mid 1980’s medical or nursing guide going back to Hippocrates
Just reminding, knowing flames would spew as they will
In any real abortion statement that our culture, even our presidential races, Founders forbid, revolve around all attempts to keep the uterus from performing the function for which it exists.
Any flames, consider your intent
In the 1961 edition of Eastman and Hellman’s standard textbook, Williams’ Obstetrics, the authors state:
“From a biologic point of view pregnancy and labor represent the highest function of the female reproductive system and a priori should be considered a normal process.”
And from the National Right to Life website:
” ...medical schools still commonly administer a Hippocratic pledge but sadly, in pro-abortion cultures, they have removed the promise to not kill an unborn child. For as mentioned at Abort73.com, the original oath has been “replaced by vague generalities’ “
I think it is true that women who have never breastfed have a higher rate of breast cancer and women who have never had pregnancies have a higher rate of ovarian cancer.
Not here to argue - I couldn't care less. But I think the statistics bear that out.
Maybe in your house. In my house the normal condition of the stomach is to start digestion, not to be distended.
Normal pregnancy and labor & delivery with breast feeding and at a normal age of initiation (not way beyond late twenties) have a cancer preventive property
It brings on so much anger to say so, as people want control over this so much that they demand it ...from everyone. It’ll give any dem candidate an edge including one that would destroy everything including the constitution
But the facts are there. And backed up by statistics, history, physiology, anthropology, religious dogma and even pharmaceuticals and on gym
The opposite is also true. Causing breast cancer in the same class of carcinogens as smoking tobacco and lung cancer is the birth control pill, which also is a risk factor in strokes. Induced abortion(not spontaneous/miscarriage) is a risk factor in breast cancer.
That’s just cancer.
On gym = ob gyn
This is all from the center for disease control. CDC
In the real world, this means "crap other people would never believe"
And are you so daft as to miss my point...or is my humor sensor broken and I should be laughing. I have been cranky lately and I may have missed a good joke.
I hear what you’re saying.
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“In the 1961 edition of Eastman and Hellman’s standard textbook, Williams’ Obstetrics, the authors state:
“From a biologic point of view pregnancy and labor represent the highest function of the female reproductive system and a priori should be considered a normal process.””
I certainly did my part.
I had my first in 1961 when this article was written——I had my fifth in 1967.
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Well, it’s weird to (have to) talk about, and it doesn’t sit well with the BCP folks, but it’s true
:)
I’ll bet you’re happy now, all that company and support, and all.
Normal
“I’ll bet you’re happy now, all that company and support, and all.”
I was happy then——I had,and have,a great life.
Thank you,God.
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Pregnancy is the a normal state of the uterus.
FTFY
And all the howlers should admit that pregnancy is most likely the only thing the uterus is good for, which is an understatement because it is essential to all posterity. It is unnatural, not to mention unsustainable, to render the uterus vestigial yet that is the profound insanity of our culture.
I'm not sure it's true or can be proved but I've heard and suspect that there may be biological/immunity benefits to the mother from each baby's genetic material that potentially escapes into the mother's body. I may have seen that in a TED talk.
I that God every day that my wife is a megagrandmultipara, the feminine eqivalent of a triple ace. She is amazingly healthy and energetic, especially compared to her relatives ravaged by bc, vd, abortion, cancer and hysterectomy. And she is absolutely lovely and enticing.
and no driver's licenses.
for an asian female, there is no hope, even if they had plenty of shoes (hello Imelda) because as soon as one gets behind the wheel, guilty(!) of DWO (driving while oriental) with evidence for being of female sex making that "guilty" and "with a prior" [conviction].
To automatically equate pregnancy with being barefoot and in the kitchen, categorizes it with animals, and imprisoned animals, enslaved.
It is a hoax.
Practicing birth control, especially by being on the pill, which is poison, is imprisonment, enslaving and objectifying.
To state that women are like animals by being pregnant is to believe the hoax perpetuated on this society.
To be on a toxic substance, preventing normal bodily functions in order to keep a male around, who does not want to take care of children, not more than his maximum allowance that he makes up on a whim, is to be objectified.
That is the true undignified state.
To blame a sick society is a cop out. Our society is very sick, but we do not have to buy that to be a mother is a state of slavery, base, crude, undignified. To do so is to buy into a lie.
When we see on all major broadcasts of national events pornographic images of women, to say that is dignified is seeing things backward as the culture demands.
The flames that come out when these statements are made are inconvenient and also testimonial to the painful truth.
REad the headline.
It is a hoax to deny femininity and to not make demands on men, that they ultimately are hard driven to desire, to take care of and commit and then allow whatever family God provides, and assists in caring for.
From the citation, Williams...:
“...pregnancy and labor represent the highest function of the female reproductive system...”
When one considers the normalcy of pregnancy, one will consider how to manage one’s dealings.
One treats the body as if it wants to be in that state, and then one can act in a way that brings about good consequences.
Or, one can practice birth control, which is to attack the reproductive system as if it is unhealthy, when it is not.
It is normal to be married, and to want to be so, as it is normal to be single and want to be so, if life’s vocation, the single professional life, or the religious life, or widowhood or unforeseen divorce or illness presents that.
In that case, when considering the normal state of the uterus, which is to be pregnant, as well as other considerations, one is celibate, or one takes birth control pretending the reproductive system is sick when it normally tends to its normal state - pregnancy.
It was always a management issue until we started treating pregnancy as a bad (women’s health) issue.
the point being that pregnancy is not an illness, as you surely knew I meant, and still do.
She didn't have much of a sense of humor, either. :^')
That is so funny. I just wrote this in response to someone wishing SNL would make fun of BO’s speech to West Point Grads.
It would be so funny to see a proper jabbing:
You know...if Saturday night live would just go back to its original tone
“There is nothing more sincerely amusing than tenth grade boys in the cafeteria at lunch, or watching TV with the sound down on a Friday.
Adults either gone, or non intrusive.
Watch old Dana Carvey, he makes fun of George Michael on Weekend update. He’s George Michael, complaining to a straight faced, ‘annoyed’, Dennis Miller, and dressed in tight jeans saying, ‘Dennis, they made that video and I would just like to ask that editor, ‘wheeeere’s mmyy BUTT!? I mean where is it in that video...”
And George Bush threatening Sadaam Hussein, and with night vision goggles.
and the Italian waiter.
Or Phil Hartmann with the unfrozen caveman lawyer. Just random stuff. A little bit of a political figure here and there.
Even a few years ago when Sara Palin was on, back stage and Marky Mark comes up looking to punch someone, says oh Hi sara, have you seen Andy? I’m gonna kick the crap out of him. She says, hi, no ...
Just funny stuff.”
I just don’t find the destruction of the family nor disliking kids nor abortion funny.
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