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Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under Usagi Yojimbo, The Comics Journal, Steve Ditko, Stan Sakai, staff, Sergio Ponchione, Roy Crane, reviews, Renee French, Popeye, Ignatz Series, Gary Groth, EC Segar, Dan Nadel, Daily OCD, Carol Tyler, Blake Bell | 7 Mar 2011 6:10 PM |
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• Review: "Though the episodic flow and gung-ho patriotism of the strips are simplistic in both content and conception, the depth they lack is greatly made up for by the vast, epic compositions that contain Crane's spring-coiled bigfoot cartooning, the explosive you-are-there immediacy of his dogfights and shootouts, and the sensuous intensity of form and shape he brings to gorgeous women and vehicles of war alike. [...] Crane worked in broad strokes, which is what made him a great cartoonist; but in Buz Sawyer he also sometimes discovers quieter places, ones truly worthy of the sumptuousness with which he imbued every panel." – Matt Seneca, The Comics Journal
• Review: "Kalesniko is a major talent, and this book, which depicts a day stuck in traffic on a California freeway, presents considerable space for reflection, gossip, roman a clef and more. [...] Though the text of the story is rich and interesting, Kalesniko's art is amazing; manga-esque yet thoroughly Western, and richly expressive and subtle. Freeway will inevitably place high on many critic's year's-best lists." – Richard Pachter, The Miami Herald
• Review: "Political commentary often has a short shelf life, but Kreider's collection of cartoons and essays [Twilight of the Assholes] remains potent and pungent, despite its primary focus on the excesses and detritus of the Bush administration. There are no claims of fairness, balance, sensitivity or subtlety here. Kreider's sharp pen skewers holier-than-thou hypocrites, patently phony pious proselytizers, opportunists and idiots of all stripes — gleefully and without fear." – Richard Pachter, The Miami Herald
• Review: "With the core cast established, Segar takes more liberties with the formulas established in earlier books... and Segar continues to find new ways to play his cast off one another. How do Olive and Wimpy react when Eugene predicts Popeye will lose a prize fight for the first time ever? How does Popeye react to being a leader of men? It's all here, all adventure and all hilarity. Fantagraphics, as you'll know if you've been reading the series to date, continues to provide a gorgeous package – a towering book... with a striking die-cut cover. [...] Popeye Vol. 5: 'Wha's a Jeep?' stands out as another winning classic comic strip collection, a reminder how great the medium has been and how dynamic it can still be." – Michael C. Lorah, Newsarama
• Review: "The value in this volume [Unexplored Worlds: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 2] is not in the stories themselves... but in tracking how Ditko's art develops. Amid the stock characters of hapless dullards, five o'clock shadow Everymen and saturnine businessmen and the typical rocketships and ray guns of the day, Ditko gains confidence and consistency in his depictions, and an ability to pack more information into fewer images and to guide the reader's eye across the page for maximum impact. His ability to convey otherworldly horrors flowers as well..." – Christopher Allen, Trouble with Comics
• Review: "...[W]hy is Sergio Ponchione not regarded as one of the top artists in the field today?! [Grotesque #4] is absolutely gorgeous. Lush, bizarre, and moving. The type of comics art which you dwell on a single panel for minutes at a time. The amount of detail and skill in each drawing is astounding. The tones and colors along with the expressive line and brush work create a mood of deep inspection." – P.D. Houston, Renderwrx Productions
• Interview: The Comics Reporter's Tom Spurgeon talks to new TCJ.com honchos Dan Nadel & Tim Hodler about taking the reins of The Comics Journal's online presence: "The initial goal was and remains the creation of a genuine on-line comics magazine (as opposed to blog, or series of blogs), with all of the long-form essays, interviews, reviews, and visual features that come with it. In other words, yes, we're attempting a counter-intuitive web site strategy, in the hopes that quality content will draw people in. We're interested in making a magazine that has a place in the larger visual culture, and can be a go-to source for people seeking insightful writing about comics."
• Commentary: Robot 6's Sean T. Collins, on the new TCJ.com: "Since I'm writing for the thing, I may not be in the best position to comment about it, but quite aside from my own minor role in the proceedings, the move is a welcome and long-overdue one. [...] Handing the Journal's website to an experienced print/web editorial team with a clear vision of comics and how to talk about them, one that moreover has been on the leading edge of comics criticism for some years now, is a major step in the right direction."
• Interview: The Daily Cross Hatch's Brian Heater concludes his conversation with Stan Sakai: "I own the characters, so I can do basically whatever I want with him, as far as the story goes. Most of it is adventure, I've done romances, I've done mysteries — I even did Space Usagi, where he goes through outer space. I can pretty much do anything I want with him, so I never get bored. I'm having fun with Usagi, even after so many years."
• Interview: The Comics Reporter's Tom Spurgeon talks to Renee French: "I've been fishing around. I don't know if it's my age or what, but I'm confused. I have a bunch of obsessions that keep coming back. If I just kind of do something else, like these one-off drawings that I've been doing lately, it's not satisfying. I actually need to feel a little on-edge and crazy, I think."
• Interview: Seattlest's Hanna Brooks Olsen chatted with our own Larry Reid at Emerald City ComiCon yesterday and got "some pretty spectacular insight on what's going on" with us
• Feature: The Seattle Times' Janet I. Tu does her due diligence in her profile of Emerald City ComiCon and asks the president of Seattle's largest comics publisher about the event: "'It's mind-bending how big it is now and how influential,' said Gary Groth, who works at Seattle-based Fantagraphics Books, a graphic-novel and comic-book publisher, and edits the print edition of The Comics Journal, a magazine of news and criticism on comics and cartooning. Groth attributes the growth of such conventions to comics becoming a more integral part of pop culture. 'Or perhaps pop culture has become more comic-book-ized,' he said. 'You see it with comic-book movies or TV shows like Heroes. What used to be seen as essentially kids' entertainment has become grown-up entertainment.'"
• Commentary: Robot 6's Sean T. Collins comments on Alex Dueben's interview with Carol Tyler for that blog's parent site Comic Book Resources: "Having been sucked in by war fever myself several years ago, I find myself more and more moved by accounts of how even the most well-intentioned conflicts make a rubble of countless human lives, both the ones taken and the ones scarred, physically, economically, or emotionally. ...[Tyler is] doing vitally important work."


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Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling; July 20, 1964 Transcript Clarksdale, July 20 Dear Folks: I've been working like crazy on the Freedom Dem Party - (the more I work the more I believe it's extremely worthwhile). We've got 1150 people Freedom registered which is pretty good. We've set up precinct meetings for tomorrow. They really might be successes. There is really a great deal happening - but it's hard to write about it. I imagine we'll have a good week of talking when I get back - just to give you an idea of what it's like here. All is still safe and sound. We have changed homes (Mrs. P-'s daughter wanted her bedroom back). Our new house has no phone (and no refrigerator or stove or light in the bathroom - we'll be eating in cafes - we have a deal about eating breakfasts in the home of another volunteer). I feel very excited - seeing results is good for the morale. This letter will be in lieu of the Tuesday letter - tomorrow is the precinct meeting and I'll be like a chicken-minus-head. I got the money order. It looks like we won't be going to New Orleans after all. As soon as the Freedom D.P. county meeting is over (July 28) we will start pushing for a huge massive Freedom Day (probably on Aug. 10 - in fact a Freedom week Aug. 10-14). All very exciting. Love and Freedom Mat
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A corporate stranglehold on how a local franchisee can run two popular Steak 'n Shake restaurants has pushed them to the brink of failure, mostly because it costs more to operate in Denver than elsewhere, according to court papers filed in a federal lawsuit Friday.
Franchise owners Kathryn, Larry and Christopher Baerns of Aurora also say in court papers that executives of the Indianapolis-based restaurant chain made a number of alleged misrepresentations about the potential success of the business, mostly just to get their money.
Now, less than a year after they've invested more than $350,000 into the SnS chain with an exclusivity promise to operate 13 restaurants in the Denver area, the Baernses claim they were misled and their efforts to succeed were thwarted by the chain's iron-fisted requirement of uniform pricing.
The family's allegations come in its response to a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court by SnS to stop the Baernses from operating under the chain's famous logo. The chain says it terminated its 20-year franchise agreement last month when the family refused to follow corporate policies that its 500 stores offer identical prices, no matter their location nationwide.
Claiming they were "fraudulently induced" into investing, the Baernses ask that the efforts to shut them down are stopped.
The Baernses say in a counterclaim that it became clear Denver was an anomaly, that food prices were higher than SnS franchisees paid in other parts of the country, and that SnS not only knew this but disregarded the information when projecting the potential of the Denver market.
The chain operates primarily in the Midwest and South. Neither Steak 'n Shake officials nor attorneys for the chain could be immediately reached for comment Friday. The company has typically refused to discuss lawsuits.
The Baernses say they first approached SnS about franchise opportunities in early 2011 but eventually bought out Tom and Connie Caruso of Littleton about 10 months after the Carusos opened the chain's inaugural Colorado restaurant in Centennial in November 2011, followed by one in Sheridan.
SnS's initial projections were for net profits in Denver to exceed 21 percent per location, according to the Baernses' complaint, an estimate later changed to say Denver locations should "easily achieve" more than 25 percent.
Those profits would fuel development of the additional locations required under the agreement, the Baernses say SnS told them.
But problems with the projections and corporate promises of success surfaced quickly, they said. Sales projections of more than $2 million annually were half that amount. Food costs that were "deliberately understated" were 20 percent higher, and labor costs were nearly double the projections, the Baernses say.
Christopher Baerns says he told SnS last November that the two restaurants "were not profitable and the only way to make them such was to raise prices," which SnS said was imminent.
Financial troubles peaked when SnS imposed a $4 menu nationwide, which "was a significant decrease" in prices, contrary to what the Baernses said was needed to save their shops.
Then, a mandatory computer system prevented them from offering a la carte purchases. Finally, in June, the lender for real estate earmarked in Northfield for the next restaurant backed out because of the poorly performing restaurants, the Baernses said in their complaint.
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text: Bivouac near Lafayette, Georgia Saturday, October 15th, 1864 My Dear Sallie, Enclosed you will find a note in pencil written on the march, but I failed to get an opportunity to send it off. I write you from this place which is in Walker County, Georgia, twenty-eight miles southwest of Chattanooga. This is the seventeenth day we have been on the march. We have completely flanked Sherman's army, cutting the railroad in several places, capturing Big Shanty, Moore Station, Ackworth, Calhoun, Lilton, Dalton, Mill Creek Gap, and Tunnel Hill. In all, about two thousand prisoners, seven hundred of whom were Negroes (Forty-fourth Tennessee Colored Infantry Regiment) artillery, etc., etc. We left Dalton yesterday and are resting here tonight, twenty-seven miles northwest of Dalton. How long we will stay here I can't tell, or where we are going I can't tell. It is thought, however, we will go on to Tennessee. We are in light marching order, I have brought only one change of clothes with me. We have no tents, sleep out by a big fire. Weather is quite cold for the last five or six days, fair and dry. It is, however, cloudy this evening. Language is inadequate to give you any idea of the barbarism of the enemy in Georgia. It is a perfect desert waste wherever they have been.


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A seminar on the many ways that people can use everyday items to adapt their homes and maintain their independence – Dish Towel or Door Opener? – will be offered at 6 p.m. Tuesday, September 18, at the Fond du Lac Public Library. The program is free and open to the public; no registration required.
Retirement can be a great time of life, but understanding the intricacies of the paperwork can cause headaches. The library is offering a free class, When I'm 65, at 1 p.m. Tuesday, September 11.
Presented by Julie Hilbert, senior benefit specialist from the Fond du Lac County Dept. of Senior Services, the class will provide information on insurance, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D and Social Security.
Handmade is better. Nothing beats the love, meaning and care that come with a gift made by hand. A home decorated with hand-crafted items is unique. Besides, making stuff is a lot of fun.
The Fond du Public Library kick-starts the fun this fall with Crafternoons, a new program for adults and teens. From 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. every third Saturday, library staff and local crafters will host a different how-to, make-and-take fun project.
The slow turn from summer to fall sends all sorts of signals to our bodies and minds. Even if a person's back-to-school days are long gone, this can be a time when books and reading get extra attention. So it's a perfect time to consider a book club.
Both of the Fond du Lac Public Library's book clubs are accepting new members. Ladies of the Evening Book Group meets 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month, and the Afternoon Delight Book Group meets 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. the second Wednesday of the month.
Parodies are meant to poke fun at things and Fifty Shames of Earl Grey by Fanny Merkin (aka Andrew Shaffer) does just that. It doesn't just poke fun at the popular erotic series; it takes aspects of the first in the erotic series, Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James, and raises them to a whole different level - of absurd and outrageous – and outrageous is putting it mildly. I will admit it. I did read James's Fifty Shades of Grey. I wanted to find out what all the commotion was about, and I would have to say I am still not quite sure.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson is one of the strangest, funniest, and yet, saddest stories I have ever read. Growing up poor in rural Wall, Texas, and spending her whole life being pegged as "that weird girl", the author shares her life story in her own unique, rambling style. Once I started reading I just couldn't stop. Living surrounded by people who were just as poor, her childhood did not seem all that weird. Her parents never said they could not afford things, just that they did not need them.
Jon Mark Bolthouse, 47, is a technology expert, father of 11-year-old Ivy, husband to Monica Walk and, in his spare time, an accomplished (and busy) keyboard and guitar player for the Madison-based band Fuzzy Side Up. He took over as director of the Fond du Lac Public Library on July 23.
The lower level of the Fond du Lac Public Library is clean and dry following flooding last week from a burst pipe. The BookCellar will reopen on Saturday, August 4, in time for a special sale. All books in the Finance section – on money management, personal finance, retirement, etc. – will be half price on Saturday and Monday.
A burst pipe in the lower level of the Fond du Lac Public Library will cause The BookCellar to close on Saturday, July 28, and Monday, July 30. The library plans to reopen the store on Saturday, August 4.
The flooding occurred sometime during Wednesday's overnight storm that dropped about 2 ½ inches of rain on Fond du Lac. Some of the meeting rooms are closed temporarily for cleanup, but all other library programs and services are operating as normal.
The Fond du Lac Public Library's BookCellar – the used books and more store in the lower level – is having two great sales in August.
On Saturday, August 4, and Monday, August 6, everything in the Business & Finance section is half off. The section includes books on personal finance, retirement, management and more that regularly sell for $1.


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This information is produced and provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The information in this topic may have changed since it was written. For the most current information, contact the National Cancer Institute via the Internet web site at http://cancer.gov or call 1-800-4-CANCER.
Breast Cancer Prevention
What is prevention?
Cancer prevention is action taken to lower the chance of getting cancer. By preventing cancer, the number of new cases of cancer in a group or population is lowered. Hopefully, this will lower the number of deaths caused by cancer.
To prevent new cancers from starting, scientists look at risk factors and protective factors. Anything that increases your chance of developing cancer is called a cancer risk factor; anything that decreases your chance of developing cancer is called a cancer protective factor.
Some risk factors for cancer can be avoided, but many cannot. For example, both smoking and inheriting certain genes are risk factors for some types of cancer, but only smoking can be avoided. Regular exercise and a healthy diet may be protective factors for some types of cancer. Avoiding risk factors and increasing protective factors may lower your risk but it does not mean that you will not get cancer.
Different ways to prevent cancer are being studied, including:
- Changing lifestyle or eating habits.
- Avoiding things known to cause cancer.
- Taking medicines to treat a precancerous condition or to keep cancer from starting.
General Information About Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the breast.
The breast is made up of lobes and ducts. Each breast has 15 to 20 sections called lobes, which have many smaller sections called lobules. Lobules end in dozens of tiny bulbs that can produce milk. The lobes, lobules, and bulbs are linked by thin tubes called ducts.
Anatomy of the female breast. The nipple and areola are shown on the outside of the breast. The lymph nodes, lobes, lobules, ducts, and other parts of the inside of the breast are also shown.
Each breast also has blood vessels and lymph vessels. The lymph vessels carry an almost colorless fluid called lymph. Lymph vessels lead to organs called lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are small bean-shaped structures that are found throughout the body. They filter lymph and store white blood cells that help fight infection and disease. Clusters of lymph nodes are found near the breast in the axilla (under the arm), above the collarbone, and in the chest.
See the following PDQ summaries for more information about breast cancer:
- Breast Cancer Screening
- Breast Cancer Treatment
- Genetics of Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer in American women.
Women in the United States get breast cancer more than any other type of cancer except skin cancer. The number of new cases of breast cancer has stayed about the same since 2003. Breast cancer is second to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in American women. However, deaths from breast cancer have decreased a little bit every year for the past several years. Breast cancer also occurs in men, but the number of new cases is small.
Breast Cancer Prevention
Avoiding risk factors and increasing protective factors may help prevent cancer.
Avoiding cancer risk factors may help prevent certain cancers. Risk factors include smoking, being overweight, and not getting enough exercise. Increasing protective factors such as quitting smoking, eating a healthy diet, and exercising may also help prevent some cancers. Talk to your doctor or other health care professional about how you might lower your risk of cancer.
NCI's Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool uses a woman's risk factors to estimate her risk for breast cancer during the next five years and up to age 90. This online tool is meant to be used by a health care provider. For more information on breast cancer risk, call 1-800-4-CANCER.
The following risk factors may increase the risk of breast cancer:
Estrogen (endogenous)
Endogenous estrogen is a hormone made by the body. It helps the body develop and maintain female sex characteristics. Being exposed to estrogen over a long time may increase the risk of breast cancer. Estrogen levels are highest during the years a woman is menstruating. A woman's exposure to estrogen is increased in the following ways:
- Early menstruation: Beginning to have menstrual periods at age 11 or younger increases the number of years the breast tissue is exposed to estrogen.
- Late menopause: The more years a woman menstruates, the longer her breast tissue is exposed to estrogen.
- Late pregnancy or never being pregnant: Because estrogen levels are lower during pregnancy, breast tissue is exposed to more estrogen in women who become pregnant for the first time after age 35 or who never become pregnant.
Hormone replacement therapy/Hormone therapy
Hormones that are made outside the body, in a laboratory, are called exogenous hormones. Estrogen, progestin, or both may be given to replace the estrogen no longer produced by the ovaries in postmenopausal women or women who have had their ovaries removed. This is called hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or hormone therapy (HT) and may be given in one of the following ways:
- Combination HRT/HT is estrogen combined with progesterone or progestin. This type of HRT/HT increases the risk of developing breast cancer. Women taking combination HRT/HT also may be more likely to have an abnormal mammogram. Studies show that when women stop taking estrogen combined with progesterone, the risk of getting breast cancer decreases.
- Estrogen-only therapy may be given to women who have had a hysterectomy. Clinical trials studying whether estrogen-only therapy affects the risk of breast cancer have had mixed results. In women who have a uterus, estrogen-only therapy increases the risk of uterine cancer.
Exposure to Radiation
Radiation therapy to the chest for the treatment of cancers increases the risk of breast cancer, starting 10 years after treatment and lasting for a lifetime. The risk of developing breast cancer depends on the dose of radiation and the age at which it is given. The risk is highest if radiation treatment was used during puberty. For example, radiation therapy used to treat Hodgkin disease by age 16, especially radiation to the chest and neck, increases the risk of breast cancer.
Radiation therapy to treat cancer in one breast does not appear to increase the risk of developing cancer in the other breast.
For women who are at risk of breast cancer due to inherited changes in the BRCA1 andBRCA2genes, exposure to radiation, such as that from chest x-rays, may further increase the risk of breast cancer, especially in women who were x-rayed before 20 years of age.
Obesity increases the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women who have not used hormone replacement therapy.
Drinking alcohol increases the risk of breast cancer. The level of risk rises as the amount of alcohol consumed rises.
Inherited Risk
Women who have inherited certain changes in the BRCA1 and BRCA2genes have a higher risk of breast cancer, and the breast cancer may develop at a younger age.
The following protective factors may decrease the risk of breast cancer:
Exercising four or more hours a week may decrease hormone levels and help lower breast cancer risk. The effect of exercise on breast cancer risk may be greatest in premenopausal women of normal or low weight. Care should be taken to exercise safely, because exercise carries the risk of injury to bones and muscles.
Estrogen (decreased exposure)
Decreasing the length of time a woman's breast tissue is exposed to estrogen may help prevent breast cancer. Exposure to estrogen is reduced in the following ways:
- Pregnancy: Estrogen levels are lower during pregnancy. The risk of breast cancer appears to be lower if a woman has her first full-term pregnancy before she is 20 years old.
- Breast-feeding: Estrogen levels may remain lower while a woman is breast-feeding.
- Ovarian ablation: The amount of estrogen made by the body can be greatly reduced by removing one or both ovaries, which make estrogen. Also, drugs may be taken to lower the amount of estrogen made by the ovaries.
- Late menstruation: Beginning to have menstrual periods at age 14 or older decreases the number of years the breast tissue is exposed to estrogen.
- Early menopause: The fewer years a woman menstruates, the shorter the time her breast tissue is exposed to estrogen.
Selective estrogen receptor modulators
Selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) are drugs that act like estrogen on some tissues in the body, but block the effect of estrogen on other tissues. Tamoxifen is a SERM that belongs to the family of drugs called antiestrogens. Antiestrogens block the effects of the hormone estrogen in the body. Tamoxifen lowers the risk of breast cancer in women who are at high risk for the disease. This effect lasts for several years after drug treatment is stopped.
Taking tamoxifen increases the risk of developing other serious conditions, including endometrial cancer, stroke, cataracts, and blood clots, especially in the lungs and legs. The risk of developing these conditions increases with age. Women younger than 50 years who have a high risk of breast cancer may benefit the most from taking tamoxifen. Talk with your doctor about the risks and benefits of taking this drug.
Raloxifene is another SERM that helps prevent breast cancer. In postmenopausal women with osteoporosis (decreased bone density), raloxifene lowers the risk of breast cancer for women at both high risk and low risk of developing the disease. It is not known if raloxifene would have the same effect in women who do not have osteoporosis. Like tamoxifen, raloxifene may increase the risk of blood clots, especially in the lungs and legs, but does not appear to increase the risk of endometrial cancer.
Other SERMs are being studied in clinical trials.
Aromatase inhibitors
Aromatase inhibitors lower the risk of a new breast cancer in women who have an increased risk of breast cancer. Women with an increased risk of breast cancer include the following:
- Postmenopausal women with a personal history of breast cancer.
- Women with no personal history of breast cancer who are 60 years and older, have a history of ductal carcinoma in situ with mastectomy, or have a high risk of breast cancer based on the Gail model tool (considers many risk factors for breast cancer).
In women with an increased risk of breast cancer, taking aromatase inhibitors decreases the amount of estrogen made by the body. Before menopause, estrogen is made by the ovaries and other tissues in a woman's body, including the brain, fat tissue, and skin. After menopause, the ovaries stop making estrogen, but the other tissues do not. Aromatase inhibitors block the action of an enzyme called aromatase, which is used to make all of the body's estrogen.
Possible harms from taking aromatase inhibitors include muscle and joint pain, osteoporosis, hot flashes, and feeling very tired.
Prophylactic mastectomy
Some women who have a high risk of breast cancer may choose to have a prophylactic mastectomy (the removal of both breasts when there are no signs of cancer). The risk of breast cancer is lowered in these women. However, it is very important to have a cancer risk assessment and counseling about all options for possible prevention before making this decision. In some women, prophylactic mastectomy may cause anxiety, depression, and concerns about body image.
Prophylactic oophorectomy
Some women who have a high risk of breast cancer may choose to have a prophylactic oophorectomy (the removal of both ovaries when there are no signs of cancer). This decreases the amount of estrogen made by the body and lowers the risk of breast cancer. However, it is very important to have a cancer risk assessment and counseling before making this decision. The sudden drop in estrogen levels may cause the onset of symptoms of menopause, including hot flashes, trouble sleeping, anxiety, and depression. Long-term effects include decreased sex drive, vaginal dryness, and decreased bone density. These symptoms vary greatly among women.
Fenretinide is a type of vitamin A called a retinoid. When given to premenopausal women who have a history of breast cancer, fenretinide may lower the risk of forming a new breast cancer. Taken over time, fenretinide may cause night blindness and skin disorders. Women must avoid pregnancy while taking this drug because it could harm a developing fetus.
The following have been proven not to be risk factors for breast cancer or their effects on breast cancer risk are not known:
There does not appear to be a link between abortion and breast cancer.
Oral Contraceptives
Taking oral contraceptives ("the pill") may slightly increase the risk of breast cancer in current users. This risk decreases over time. The most commonly used oral contraceptive contains estrogen.
Progestin-only contraceptives that are injected or implanted do not appear to increase the risk of breast cancer.
Studies have not proven that being exposed to certain substances in the environment (such as chemicals, metals, dust, and pollution) increases the risk of breast cancer.
Diet is being studied as a risk factor for breast cancer. It is not proven that a diet low in fat or high in fruits and vegetables will prevent breast cancer. For more information on diet and health, see the Fruits and Veggies Web site.
Active and passive cigarette smoking
It has not been proven that either active cigarette smoking or passive smoking (inhaling secondhand smoke) increases the risk of developing breast cancer.
Studies have not found that taking statins (cholesterol -lowering drugs) affects the risk of breast cancer.
Cancer prevention clinical trials are used to study ways to prevent cancer.
Cancer prevention clinical trials are used to study ways to lower the risk of developing certain types of cancer. Some cancer prevention trials are conducted with healthy people who have not had cancer but who have an increased risk for cancer. Other prevention trials are conducted with people who have had cancer and are trying to prevent another cancer of the same type or to lower their chance of developing a new type of cancer. Other trials are done with healthy volunteers who are not known to have any risk factors for cancer.
The purpose of some cancer prevention clinical trials is to find out whether actions people take can prevent cancer. These may include exercising more or quitting smoking or taking certain medicines, vitamins, minerals, or food supplements.
New ways to prevent breast cancer are being studied in clinical trials.
Clinical trials are taking place in many parts of the country. Information about clinical trials can be found in the Clinical Trials section of the NCI Web site. Check NCI's list of cancer clinical trials for breast cancer prevention trials that are now accepting patients.
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Abortion is a very personal matter, and so is marriage; no government has the right to interfere in the private affairs of its citizens.
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Abortion is a very personal matter, and so is marriage; no government has the right to interfere in the private affairs of its citizens.
I support States' Rights, as long as the rights of a state does not infringe on the rights of an individual. Women have the right to self-determination and no state should try to deny or hinder this right.
CA-Oxonian: "As always, mores founded on religious belief are inimical to rational thinking and reasonable action".
Obviously, abortion is the 'reasonable action" he has in mind.
Let us accommodate Mr CA-Oxonian and have a look at what definitely non-religious, even anti-religious believer has to say about this. Enters Richard Dawkins, The Shrieking Atheist:
[quote] "With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig."[unquote]
I wonder whether Jason Rapert considers women like Savita Halappanavar to be lives worth saving.
Telling a society that they must wholly accept a constitutional right to end an unborn life is bound to give rise to major opposition. Even Norma McCorvey, the original plaintiff in RvW, is repulsed by abortion and actively promotes pro-life causes. The pro abortion forces have created many powerful enemies due to their tactics and rhetoric.
What are those powerful enemies going to do? physically hurt pro-life people? well it won't be the first time; anyway prisons await them.
You are confused: Sempervirens speaks about pro-abortion forces making enemies for themselves, you imply that pro-life (meaning anti-abortion) people can be send to prison. What is it your intended to say?
People living outside the USA imagine they "know" the country based on the wholly unrealistic views provided by Hollywood through countless movies and TV shows. The reality is quite different. Large swathes of the USA are nearly medieval in outlook, quite unlike the situation in any modern country. It's not surprising, therefore, that the people of the USA have difficulty in coping with post-Enlightenment concepts of liberty (as per J S Mill). The abortion fracas is merely one consequence of the fact that this is a highly conservative, relatively uneducated, and rather intolerant society that finds modern conceptions of civil life to be deeply uncomfortable. Ironically, many Americans would welcome greater clerical influence on the formation and implementation of laws - a situation not unlike that in many strict Islamic countries. As always, mores founded on religious belief are inimical to rational thinking and reasonable action.
It is more interesting to notice that many european countries have managed to make abortion laws there is a compromise but good enough compromise that abortion have not been a political issue for decades.
Seems to me, that USA is instead having two extreme viewpoints fighting against each other in a winner takes all strategy
You are talking like a fool. I have visited every state over many decades and lived in many parts of the country. The "medieval" America of which you bray does not exist.
People are generally tolerant, educated and open-minded. It is just that some of them are not into bigtime killing. And, that is what abortion involves: death, death and more death.
Those who oppose abortion seem to have, regardless of whether they dwell in Manhattan, Kansas or Manhattan, NY, greater imagination than those on the other side of this issue. They can imagine the life of a new child, now maturing within the mother. They can imagine -- and THIS is the crucial difference -- something beyond their own egos as a guide to moral behavior. That "something" is a sense of shared community and it crosses religious and secular lines.
Post-Enlightenment concepts (I can't believe you dredge up someone as mouldy as J.S. Mill!) also brought us communsim, Fascism and National Socialism. There was a great deal to be said for an ethical system that limited what the individual could do and stressed community rather than a Nietzche-like Will to Power (= SELF.)
This is a hugely diverse country, one in which thoughtful, sensitive, moral and informed individuals can be found on every square mile. I expect, from your jejune tone, that you are a college sophomore.
do you ever hear yourself? listening to an advocate of pro choice talk about abortion is like listening to a member of the KKK talk about black people. their diatribes exude racist vigor.
relatively little is said of course about the merits of abortion, BUT a lot of time is spent on racist hateful meandering about...you know...those people.
If abortion only involves "death, death, and more death", then what is involved when somebody removes an appendix? What is involved in the meat trade?
I have never understood how people who eat meat can consider themselves "pro-life". The meat industry truly does involve only "death, death, and more death," but with much less controversy. While I disagree with those vegetarians who oppose abortion, at least I can understand and respect their positions.
OK, A. Andros, since you make a case that suggests that "death, death, and more death" is what pro-choice folks are after, let me point out the fact that the ones arguing like you are likely fine with "death, death, and more death" for those criminals that are on death row in these lands. So what does that render you? Are you now pro life, or pro life if it suits your needs? I'm not suggesting that we pardon all criminals that are on death row, but the death penalty by itself obviously hasn't succeeded in deterring criminals to commit their acts. Aside the fact (and I am aware that's for another discussion), it strikes me as awkward that a country like ours, that makes up 5% of the world population, has by far the highest percentage of inmates (I think it's around 25% of the world inmate population, butI can't readily state a source here).
What is involved when someone removes an appendix is that someone else continues to live -- without their appendix.
I hope this clears up any confusion.
I have opposed the death penalty for decades and written to governors urging them to commute death sentences. I would be delighted to see ALL criminals on death row have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment or some other more merciful sentence.
Our country does have a remarkably higher percentage of incarceration and I think we are far too harsh with criminal penalties. I also don't know what that has to do with abortion.
Well, I just googled abortion limit in a number of European countries
The quoted article seems to be from 2005, that is, there might be changes in some countries
But it is worth noticing, that USA and Britain seems to have more liberal abortion laws compared to most of Northern Europe
In France, abortion after 12 weeks is allowed only if two doctors say a woman's health is endangered or the foetus has a serious abnormality.
In Sweden, abortion is provided free and on demand until week 18. After that, a woman must secure special permission from a medical board.
Denmark has abortion on demand for the first 12 weeks. After that, there are limits and terminations are few after 16 weeks.
Britain has the most liberal abortion laws in Europe.
A termination can be obtained up to 24 weeks of pregnancy - double the limits in France and Germany and six weeks later than in Sweden or Norway.
@A. Andros
Thank you or the opportunity to refute two basic fallacies in the so-called 'pro-life' argumentation:
The argument saying that fetuses are 'unborn babies' is wrong and deceptive both factually and logically -
It's the equivalent of saying that I'm dead based on the fact that I'm a person, and eventually all people die, so I will die too, I.E. I'm dead...
But I'm not dead - I'm alive.
Similarly, many fetuses develop into babies, and are born eventually, but that doesn't mean that a fetus is a baby - it's not.
A fetus is a fetus.
So far for the pseudo logic, and as far as the facts go - a 3 months fetus has neither cognitive capabilities nor feelings, since its nervous system is not developed to a point enabling such things. Therefore, it is neither a 'baby' nor a 'person', and claiming it is one is wrong and deceptive.
As for the idea that a pregnancy is comparable to breast cancer, are you suggesting that women who have breast cancer should be forced to get a treatment or surgical operation against their will?
Or are you suggesting the opposite, that women who wish to get rid of a cancerous tumor removed from their breast should not be allowed to do so for some reason?
Like I said before: Nobody (not even you) has a right to know what's going on in another person's belly against that person's will, since what goes on in someone's belly is nobody's business but their own.
And naturally, nobody has the right to decide what to do with the content a woman's belly, because it's her belly and not theirs.
You can force a cow or a sow to procreate calves and piglets for your farm, but you cannot force a woman to procreate, because you don't own that woman: Nobody does or can own her - not even the government of Arakansastan and the Arakansastanian bigots and zealots who voted for this absurd and unfair law.
Stay out of other people's bellies, and mind your own business!
Little Rock can now claim the title of the Western World's new capital of bigotry - Congratulations!
Either the fetus is a member of the human race or it is not. The most objective way to determine species is DNA. The fetus DNA is, in structure, exactly the same as every single one of us except for variations caused during Meiosis II. If you wish to rely on self-generated definitions, no one can stop you. But, there is not a biologist alive that can tell a difference between the DNA of a fetus and that of a centennarian. Both are unmistakably fully human -- your lame opinions notwithstanding.
The question is not whether the woman can be treated for breast cancer against her will. The question is whether she can FORCE me to support her treatment against MY will. And, the answer is that she can and does. Our public health system takes my money and, through various levels of administration, uses it on behalf of her body. It is absolutely correct in doing this because we have moral obligations toward each other regardless of how we feel about "Our bodies, ourselves."
What is the ethical source for your statement that "No one has a right to know what is going on in another person's belly against their will?" We do all kinds of things to people's bodies against their will. In nearly all states, small children have their bodies penetrted with needles against their will in order to vaccinate them. We quarentine people 'against their will" for the general good. The nation even seizes the entire bodies of millions of men during wartime and puts them in the way of bloody dismemberment and, believe me, it is against their will. We take control of the bodies of young people and force them to attend school for twelve years "against their will." The list of instrusions into/and control of "our bodies, ourselves" is a long one and justified by both law and custom.
And, I AM minding my own business. The number of children born into the world affects the economy, our culture, our circle of friends, our day-to-day routine, how we live and who we are. All of this is society's business.
You are one of those solipsisic types who cannot move beyond yourself. It is YOUR body, YOUR baby, YOUR right to do as you wish and the effect of this on the rest of us is strictly YOUR business.
I don't think I am a zealot or a bigot. But, I also do not kill my own offspring or live in a miasmatic world of solipcistic selfishness.
A. Andros,
You are wrong, again - and I will willingly correct you:
To begin with, I am not a woman, which is why I don't defend my own body, my own baby, my right, etc, but the right of women to protect themselves, their body, their lives and their own business from dictates coming from power hungry individuals and groups who disrespect women.
Second, human DNA is a very common material that can be found in anything the human body produces, from saliva to dandruff, feces, blood, sweat, and tears... This is to say that the fact a human fetus contains human DNA doesn't make it a member of anything, and it certainly doesn't turn it into a human baby.
Similarly, the fact that a little girl has two ovaries doesn't turn her into a mature woman, and the fact that a statement has a meaning doesn't turn it into a true statement.
FYI, my kids don't go to school against their will - they love school, and even if they didn't, I'd still have the right to decide whether I want to send them to school, including to which school, or school them at home.
This is because children are not adults, and as such they need to have someone assume the responsibility for them, and as my children's father I'm responsible for them (and you're not, thankfully).
Again - a fetus is a woman's fetus, and as such she's responsible for it, and not you or the state of Arakansastan.
FYI, women are not children, and they're as mature and responsible as you are, and possibly even more, which is why you have no moral right to send them anywhere, penetrate their bodies in any way, or tell them in what circumstances they should procreate.
It sis solely their business and their decision.
My moral and ethical standards are based on respect to others, and not on some ancient mythical gobbledegook quoting a fictional omniscient and omnipotent deity that over the years happened to become a popular source for explanations of various natural phenomena, as well as a justification for a some abject crimes and aberrations including slavery, racism, and discrimination against women.
Brush up your biology. Human DNA is only present in homo sapiens sapiens. If you find it in "saliva, dandruff, feces, blood, sweat and tears" then it is from human saliva, human dandruff, human feces, human blood, human sweat and human tears. Human DNA = species homo sapiens sapines. No exceptions. None.
I'm glad your children love school. I congratulate you on not having them killed in utero.
No a fetus is not a "woman's fetus." Once again, you need to get up to speed in biology. During crossover (Meiosis II) the father's chromosomes combine with the mother's in exactly the same proportion. Genetically the child is "half" father.
As for your assertion that "it is solely their business" we will take that for what it is -- your assertion. Other peoople assert there are little green men on Mars. Maybe both of you are right -- but neither of you seems to have proof.
I don't know who the "omniscient and omnipotent deity" is about whom you speak. I don't believe I mentioned any deity, omnipotent or otherwise, so I am not sure why your bring this up.
So, your theology is pretty gratuitious. But, really, your biology is worse.
An appendix also has human DNA. Is is murder to remove and kill somebody's appendix? People are not considered humans with rights because of their DNA. People are considered humans with rights because we have cognition, we have an understanding of life, we know who we are, we have identities. An appendix does not. A 3 month fetus does not.
Even better, one does not have to spend $100,000 to send the appendix to college!
A two-month old baby does not have an understanding of life or an understanding of it's identity. Does that make it okay to kill a two-month old? I should hope not.
Roe v Wade protects a woman's right through the first trimester. 12 weeks begins the second trimester--get important facts out there please.
Wrong. Roe V Wade protects abortion until the fetus is "VIABLE", meaning the lungs have at least developed and the fetus can breath on its own. The lungs don't even form until the 22-24th week. You really didn't read the court case did you? Idiot.
Only the first trimester is truly guaranteed to be free from state regulation. From the decision:
(a) For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician. Pp. 163, 164.
(b) For the stage subsequent to approximately the end of the first trimester, the State, in promoting its interest in the health of the mother, may, if it chooses, regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health. Pp. 163, 164.
(c) For the stage subsequent to viability the State, in promoting its interest in the potentiality of human life, may, if it chooses, regulate, and even proscribe, abortion except where necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother. Pp. 163-164; 164-165."
Technical question, why the vocal and unanimous focus on heartbeats? The heart is but one organ in the human body. Renal function, cerebral activity, cell multiplication, gender differentiation are other functions indispensable to human life. So why heartbeats of all things?
Could it be that this (on purpose) calls on the old crackpot medieval notion that the heart is somehow the seat of emotions, or even the soul?
It's okay to hold beliefs, but absurd beliefs are not the best foundation for legislating people's lives.
This has nothing to do with the problem under discussion.
Nobody holds such beliefs. "Heartbeat" is used as a literary synonym for vitality. It's used in poetry, music, and everyday conversation. You're reading way too much into it.
Oh Really. Read the article.
The law is called - CALLED - the Human Heartbeat Protection Act, and it "bans abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy — the age by which an ultrasound can usually detect a fetal heartbeat"
If you don't want to sound medieval, don't talk medieval.
Pro-lifers would like to protect the unborn from conception before the heartbeat. But being illegal, they're pushing the bounds by picking largely arbitrary points between conception and viability. If next they introduce the Lend a Hand Act that bans abortions after the 8th week when hands develop, they aren't doing so because they believe in some medieval notion of hands being the source of life.
As is usual for civil wars, the ongoing US Civil War is being fought on women's ovaries.
Pro-lifers should oppose challenging Roe. The Supreme Court is still pro-choice. This is a case of politicians trying to introduce populist legislation, long-term goals of the pro-lifer movement be damned.
Suppress the Ayn Randians long enough to get elected to the White House, replace pro-choice Supreme Court justices with pro-life ones, then we can overturn Dred Scott v... I mean Roe v. Wade.
... and you are a man. This also means you have never been pregnant, which, in turn explains why you are supporting protecting zygotes while sipping your soda.
Pro- Life is just a word for you. You are forgiven.
Being that evil, he is surely sipping not just a soda, but OVERSIZED soda! And for that he wouldn't be forgiven, right? Ah, those men...
I'm a man so I love coercing women into sleeping with me then getting an abortion which explains why men are as pro-choice as women. I tell the women that we can either pretend the pregnancy never happened and live happily ever after or she can have the kid and I'll resent her for the rest of my life. Usually she ends up resenting me for "forcing" her to get an abortion but clearly she had a choice. I'm glad you're on the side of us men.
You write - "Coercing into sleeping with me"
Are you so unfortunate that nobody will come with you out of her own free will? In that case, its better you forced them for abortion.
Honestly, I don't care whether one is pro-life or pro-choice. But what I do care is that pro lifers should not be allowed to LEGALLY deny choice of abortion to those who have no such fancy ideas and vice versa.
If you believe in pro-life lobby, please go and make as many as babies you want. If you are pro -choice, nobody and I repeat, nobody should be allowed to force you into having a child you never wanted.
I know yours was a banter, in the same spirit please ignore first paragraph about being unfortunate. I will hope that you have never coerced a woman for a date leave alone sleeping.
Have a nice day.
PS: I don't dislike pro-lifers. Just that I can't and will not support them in legally terrorising those who don't endorse/subscribe to their views.
You're redefining pro-life to mean pro-choice. You do dislike everything that makes pro-lifers pro-life.
It's really no surprise that conservatives want to control what goes on in other peoples' lives while misdirecting the public by claiming that they want government out of our lives.
I just wonder when people will finally start paying attention to the inherent hypocrisy of the current conservative movement.
There is nothing hypocritical about being against government programs, but being for the protection of viable human lives.
we want government in our lives when it comes to preventing murder. there is nothing hypocritical about a position that attempts to prevent murder. and imo the near deafening repetition of this talking point you make is an extremely unproductive and hateful way to carry on.
its dismissive of very genuinely held beliefs that honest good people have. and you're a bigot for your insistence on using it.
It also quite hateful calling large parts of you opponents murderers, forsize...
It's not hateful, it's true. Truth can be tough.
I'm sure people calling each other murderers or bigots on this forum perfectly and earnestly mean it.
However truth does not shoot both ways. Only one side is right.
By the fruit thou shalt know the tree; it is telling that one side should stoop so low as to suggest lying to the electorate: "Suppress the Ayn Randians long enough to get elected to the White House, replace pro-choice Supreme Court justices with pro-life ones, then we can overturn Dred Scott (...)" (previous post)
Spotting where the violence, hypocrisy and deviousness are everyday weapons is a good way to identify the wrong side.
At least with one of your statements I wholeheartedly agree: "By the fruit thou shalt know the tree". Actually, not if those fruit are weeded out when they're still ovary... 12 weeks, or 20.
If you think Abortion is murder, then do not have one..........trivial
Funny how they don't seem to care about human life after birth... :-D Honestly, how do people like you spout your neolithic beliefs with a straight face?
And, every single one of these pro-life state legislators have voted or will vote against state funding of programs that benefit children: education, nutrition,and health care. Once a child comes out of the womb, going from unborn to born, the pro-lifers could care less about the child.
At least pro-lifers think that the child should have a shot at life in the first place. How is being against these social welfare programs more despicable than being for snuffing out these lives?
Gosh . . . every single one of them. Not one is in favor of education, nutrition or health care. Not even one? When did you find the time to poll all the members of the Ark. legislature? Did you do this in writing or did you rely on statistical sampling done over the phone?
I know countless pro-lifers. They have raised, educated and fed their children. They have sat up all night with them when they were sick. They have done the same for the children of others. They coach Little League and they wait at the end of the sidewalk while their little one sells Girl Scout cookies at a stranger's house. They show up for parent/teacher meetings in droves and then sit around the kitchen table with their kids and help with algebra.
In both the churches to which we have belonged over the past thirty years they gave up weekend and evenings to provide shelter for homeless families -- including homeless children. (Three young women went straight from the delivery room to our shelter while I volunteered there -- we didn't ask their opinions on Roe.) Our church members spent long days in inner city schools tutoring the children of strangers and then cooked meals and took them to soup kitchens so other children of other strangers could go to bed well fed.
Are you positive you checked with the state of Arkansas? You seem to reside in the State of Hysteria.
So, Southern red states *aren't* taking every possible opportunity to de-fund social services?
So very christian, force the mother to have a child that for whatever reason she feels she cannot support and then was positively discriminate against the resulting child, calling the woman feckless and chiding her for not being able to live up to her responsibility.
Thank the gods that you people have no power in more civilized parts of the world.
You sound like the mother you mentioned got pregnant just like people get seasonal cold. And evil Christians are hell-bent to deny her a pack of tissue.
This is not what Carolinian said in his original post, and this is not what Mr Andros addressed in his reply. You speak to yourself, evidently.
No. They are not.
You are being purposely dense. He didn't say pro-lifers in general he said "pro-life legislators".
In general (there are of course specific exceptions) conservative legislators are creating budgets and laws which:
1) Cut funding meant to benefit poor children such as medical programs and nutrition
2) Cut public education.
Their contributions to Little League and church don't count nearly as much as what they vote for in the state budgets and how state taxes are charged and allocated. Arkansas is not the only red-state that balances it's budget on the backs of the poor:
It's a matter of opinion. I think the voluntary efforts of millions of parents who regard their children, and the children of others, as a blessing and a heritage count for as least as much as a government bureaucrat in the Department of Motor Vehicles.
But, as I said . . . it's a matter of opinion.
I find it impossible to comprehend, let alone defend the notion that what goes on in one person's belly could be another person's business.
Where do these people and states (e.g. Arkansastan) find the insolence to tell other people (I.E. women) when to procreate?
Such demand is worse than telling women to cover their faces, which has become to hallmark of modern bigotry.
Forcing a woman to give birth is not only unconstitutional, it's inhuman, and Arakansastan should be condemned by any human rights organization that respects women.
Bigots, keep out of women's bellies!
This sounds like a gratuitous slur but maybe not.
When I was in the Pakistani tribal areas close to the Tora Bora range, I found the Pashtun tribesmen to be extremely polite and hospitable people who liked their guns greased and loaded, their preachers learned and fiery, and their women silent and pregnant.
Wouldn't they feel right at home in Arkansas?
What goes on in a woman's belly?
And, what about what goes on in a woman's breast? If her belly is her business then so is her breast cancer. So . . . why all the pink ribbons and marches? Why can't an ill woman just do what her ancestors did . . . go off into the woods and expire in quiet?
The reason this doesn't happen is that the rest of us have a sense of COMMUNITY. A sense, that is, that we are responsible not only FOR each other but TO each other. The woman with ovarian cancer, the woman with breast cancer the woman with . . . . well, you name it. She has, by virtue of being a human being (NOT by virtue of being a woman) a moral claim on the rest of us
And, we have a moral claim on HER. The prospective father, the prospective grandparents . . . those who would be the baby's family . . . the baby itself . . . all of these have a claim. The very future of the country . . . demography . . . is something that affects us all.
If woman's bellies are their problem then so are their tits. If they can kill in the first instance then they can die because of the second. But, the rest of us, unlike yourself, recognize a human obligation to relieve suffering and engage our common humanity. That is why we are opposed to killing unborn babies . . . those children of both humans and God that reside in the woman's sacred belly.
What goes on in a woman's belly?
And, what about what goes on in a woman's breast? If her belly is her business then so is her breast cancer. So . . . why all the pink ribbons and marches? Why can't an ill woman just do what her ancestors did . . . go off into the woods and expire in quiet?
The reason this doesn't happen is that the rest of us have a sense of COMMUNITY. A sense, that is, that we are responsible not only FOR each other but TO each other. The woman with ovarian cancer, the woman with breast cancer the woman with . . . . well, you name it. She has, by virtue of being a human being (NOT by virtue of being a woman) a moral claim on the rest of us
And, we have a moral claim on HER. The prospective father, the prospective grandparents . . . those who would be the baby's family . . . the baby itself . . . all of these have a claim. The very future of the country . . . demography . . . is something that affects us all.
If woman's bellies are their problem then so are their tits. If they can kill in the first instance then they can die because of the second. But, the rest of us, unlike yourself, recognize a human obligation to relieve suffering and engage our common humanity. That is why we are opposed to killing unborn babies . . . those children of both humans and God that reside in the woman's sacred belly.
Children of both humans and god...........Big LOL. I would have been really surprised not to read the word god in your comments...........Once again Big LOL.
I do hope you know that there are some people who don't care at all about your god, keep him/her to yourself. Thank you
Anyone else tired of re-fighting the same old stupid battles, decade after decade?
Yeah . . . they asked Frederick Douglass the same question.
He said "No."
Yes. Very.
From the article:
"The law, which passed on March 6th, bans abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy—the age by which an ultrasound can usually detect a fetal heartbeat—except to save the life of the mother and in pregnancies resulting from rape or incest."
This is not complete. A fetal heartbeat (and limbs) can be detected 5 weeks after gestation.
Pro-choicers wouldn't admit the presence of a heartbeat until birth. I guess science only counts when it supports a liberal agenda.
Your anti-enlightenment comment makes no sense. It is pro-lifers (well, pro-life up till birth anyway) that have made detectable heartbeat another in a series of unscientific and utterly meaningless criteria for getting emotional about a non-sentient foetus.
Divest yourself of religion and use logic, reason and empathy to make decisions. Not myths and superstition.
A significant part of the public is revulsed by Roe. They are determined to subvert it, chisel away at it and do anything they can to defang it.
This is no surprise. It has been this way since 1973. A patriarchy of nine old unelected white men meeting in secret (where's the outrage about THAT, ladies?) shoved this down the nation's throat. What did they expect the nation to do -- say "Thank you?"
From a political standpoint this issue all but keeps the GOP in business. It is like an albatross around the neck of the Democrats.
Until this issue is returned to the voters to decide it will continue to fester in the American body politic.
Another significant part of the public likes to have options, and doesn't want to have to break laws in the pursuit of their life.
I know people who have had abortions, and they live with the moral conflict, but simultaneously know it was the right decision.
Intentionally stigmatizing something that people do is social engineering, and it will not eliminate the behavior. It's why prohibition failed. It's why Roe v Wade came to be in the first place - people were dying in alleys with coathangers.
I'm not a Democrat, but I'm okay with abortions and it doesn't feel like an albatross to me. Quit attempting to limit individual freedoms already granted by the Supreme Court.
Anti-Abortionists don't respect courts and you would have us believe they would respect a vote?
I disagree. The voters elected Obama by quite a bit. The anti-Obama crowd only got louder if anything.
It would be interesting to see how long these laws would survive if Roe is gone. My reasoning is that Roe is a form of subsidy to these states: by providing a minimum for abortion, it subsidizes conflicting social policies that might have more trouble existing without that minimum. My reasoning depends on all the opinion polls which say abortion is favored by a significant margin and is favored more by women. (I'm not familiar with how those polls run in each and every state, but let's assume they run true in at least some of the anti-abortion states.) Without Roe, these states would be choosing policies not favored by most and not by most women. Given the number of abortions that occur despite this hostility, that suggests it's possible the victory over abortion wouldn't last. Maybe it would; abortion is not gay marriage because being gay is lifelong while abortion is an incident. But maybe having to compete in the actual marketplace for young women and young people in general would over time have an effect.
(Roe v Wade held that states can ban abortions only after the fetus is capable of surviving outside the mother, a point that varies but that the Supreme Court defined as being at "23 to 24 weeks" in 1992)
Hasn't medical science improved since then?
Maybe in the sense that the survival rate has increased, but earlier than that there's really no getting around that a premature baby's lungs, digestive system, etc. aren't fully formed.
No, there's still a pretty fundamental hurdle of viability at around 24 weeks. Even then children born that prematurely are likely to be severely disabled, assuming they survive for any length of time at all.
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