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For seven years, protesters had targeted LeRoy Carhart and his abortion clinic in Maryland, one of just three places in the country where women could go for late-stage abortion care. Two months ago, the protests finally worked, as Carhart's landlord abruptly bowed to pressure and shuttered the clinic, selling the space to anti-abortion protesters instead.
But Carhart is back with a new Maryland clinic.
Since 2010, he has commuted weekly to Maryland from his home in Bellevue, Nebraska. Carhart is a 76-year-old retired Air Force surgeon who has also owned and operated a Bellevue-based clinic with his wife Mary Lou since 1992. He began traveling to Maryland regularly when Nebraska passed the nation's first 20-week abortion ban in 2010. Carhart's mentor, George Tiller, used to provide later-stage abortions at his clinic in Wichita, Kansas, but was murdered in 2009 while attending church.
Maryland is one of the most supportive states in the nation when it comes to access to abortion at all stages of a pregnancy, according to Diana Phillip, the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland. Nebraska, on the other hand, is one of the more restrictive.
Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives voted along party lines in favor of a 20-week abortion ban based on the dubious scientific claim that fetuses can feel pain at that stage of gestation. A similar bill passed the House in 2015 but was blocked by Senate Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised to bring this new bill to a vote, and President Donald Trump has also said he strongly supports it. Though reproductive rights advocates say any 20-week federal ban would face immediate constitutional challenge, the measure nonetheless targets abortion providers like Carhart, who could face up to five years in prison for their services.
Carhart is undeniably committed to his work. In addition to the four days he spends working in Maryland, the physician works out of his Nebraska clinic two or three days per week, meaning he spends 26 out of every 28 days on the job.
"I just know it needs to be done, and it doesn't bother me," Carhart told me, as we sat together in his new clinic, located at the Wildwood Medical Center in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Bethesda. The walls are adorned with art and posters championing female resilience. "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people," reads one framed poster hanging on a wall. "Females are strong as hell," says another.
Carhart's former Maryland clinic — Germantown Reproductive Health Services, located about 11 miles away — had been owned by Todd Stave and his sister, Nancy Stave Samuels. The two inherited it and another Prince George's County abortion clinic from their parents; their father had been a gynecologist and obstetrician who long provided health services including abortions in the D.C.-area. While the Staves and their abortion facilities have always faced harassment, including a clinic firebomb in 1982, the pressure ramped up in 2010 when Carhart started working in Maryland. The Maryland Coalition for Life, an anti-abortion advocacy group, formed that year in response to Carhart's arrival.
In addition to regular protesters outside the clinic, calls to the landlords' homes dramatically escalated over the last few years. A group of protesters even picketed Todd Stave's daughter's middle school in 2011, holding up gruesome signs along with her father's picture and contact information.
The Maryland Coalition for Life helped raise money to close both the Germantown and the Prince George's County clinics in one fell swoop. About half of the $1.2 million offered to Stave and his sister came from an anonymous Christian businessman, who now owns the property, and the other $600,000 from roughly 400 donors, according to Rewire.
In interviews, Stave said he felt conflicted about the move to close the two clinics, but that at the end of the day it was a dollars-and-cents decision. "There's a lot of sadness, yeah, a feeling that we're letting the public down," Stave told the Washington Post. "It's a tough thing to do, there's no question about it." He said the rising costs of security and the declining demand for abortion ultimately drove his decision. The Guttmacher Institute reported this year that the abortion rate has fallen to its lowest level since Roe v. Wade, though the exact reasons are unclear.
It wasn't easy for Carhart to find a new location for his clinic. "We looked at other spaces and unfortunately it's really hard to find contractors, vendors, and landlords for abortion clinics because of the harassment," said Chelsea Souder, a spokesperson for Carhart's Bethesda and Bellevue clinics. "We had two other possible places and they both fell through when the [anti-abortion activists] got wind of where and started making threats. We were really lucky to find this place."
"I've got a really, really supportive landlord," Carhart added. "I can say he's definitely pro-choice. I have no idea if he's pro or anti-abortion for himself, but he's pro-choice, and that's my ideal. That is the middle ground."
In some ways, the new facility is more secure than the previous Germantown one. According to Souder, local police officers canvas the building and parking lot on a regular basis, and they also coordinate with local and federal law enforcement. While anti-choice activists still plan on staging regular protests — and have already started — they can't stand on the medical center property or outside the adjacent SunTrust bank, which has the same owners. The closest anti-choice activists can stand is on the main road, which is far enough away that they can't be seen or heard from inside the medical facility. "And our patients have to park in the back so they don't have to walk by protesters," Souder said.
"We will definitely maintain a prayerful presence on the sidewalk there," Maryland Coalition for Life Regional Director Andrew Glenn told The Intercept.
Before protests successfully bought out Carhart's Germantown clinic, they tried other tactics to shut his facility down. In 2013, a 29-year-old teacher from White Plains, New York, died from complications resulting from a late-stage abortion Carhart performed. The activists blamed Carhart and urged the state to close his clinic, but the autopsy report produced by the state's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner found that the woman's death resulted from natural causes, not medical malpractice.
The Maryland Coalition for Life also bought a building across the street from Carhart's Germantown clinic in 2012, launching Germantown Pregnancy Choices, a so-called crisis pregnancy center. CPCs are facilities that work to persuade women against having abortions, providing them with resources and support, but also often disseminating misleading or patently inaccurate medical information. With an estimated 3,500 nationwide, crisis pregnancy centers outnumber abortion clinics 3-to-1.
Shortly after Carhart's clinic was bought out, Germantown Pregnancy Choices closed too. Janet Kotowski, the crisis pregnancy center's former manager, told The Intercept that their focus had been on connecting women who came in from outside Maryland with supporters back where they came from. (More than two-thirds of Carhart's Germantown patients were from outside the state.) "Because we have multiple other pregnancy centers in Maryland that offer ultrasounds, counseling, and post-abortive services for women, we felt ours was no longer needed," she said.
When asked if she expects a new crisis pregnancy center to open near Carhart's Bethesda clinic, Kotowski said she doesn't know. "I know that people are motivated to help these women, and we have seen women who change their minds when we offer help, so we would like to have that opportunity again," she said.
Glenn of the Maryland Coalition for Life also said the group is currently exploring all its options with regards to opening a new crisis pregnancy center in Bethesda.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a little more than 1 percent of abortions in the United States occur after the 20th week of pregnancy, which is halfway through a woman's second trimester. Carhart's website states that the clinic's most common reasons for providing later-stage abortions include "the very late diagnosis of a pregnancy in a woman with a severely compromising medical condition, very young maternal age, rape and incest."
Anti-abortion advocates insist that Carhart and the services he provides are dangerous.
"I've been tracking Mr. Carhart since the mid-1990s and he's one of the most ghoulish individuals you'll ever meet," Troy Newman, president of the anti-choice Operation Rescue, told The Intercept. When asked if he worries the procedure will become even less safe for women if it's forced underground, Newman shot back that it's already unsafe. "There's nothing safe about abortion, certainly not for the baby," he said. "Carhart is a butcher."
Kotowski agreed, pointing to a lawsuit filed in 2016 by a former patient alleging negligence and misconduct, but the suit settled out-of-court, with no admission of liability. Carhart's new clinic is licensed by the Maryland Department of Health and certified by the National Abortion Federation.
Newman of Operation Rescue spoke excitedly about the progress his allies have made in restricting access to abortion across the country. "We got Trump elected — we put a lot of effort into that, we're putting Supreme Court justices in place, and now stacking legislation that is going to end abortion as we know it," he said. "I think these guys should be very worried they'll soon end up in jail."
Despite years of threats and harassment, and the escalating anti-choice political climate, Carhart remains undeterred in his commitment to providing abortion care. One goal he has set for his new clinic is to train new abortion providers, both to increase the number of doctors who can perform the procedure across the country, and also to help him balance his substantial workload. There are fewer and fewer places that offer abortion provider training opportunities to medical residents, especially later-stage abortion care, according to Phillip of NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland.
"I'm looking to train two or three other doctors to work with me here [in Bethesda] and then start a training program for residents and fellows to work wherever they want to work," Carhart said.
"Morale is good, it's really good," Souder added. "Everyone feels really excited to get back to work."
The abortion protesters did not force Carhart out of Germantown. The owner of the clinic sold it. Everything you could ever want to know about this late-term abortionist is available at PrayForGermantown.com
lol, talking about hypocritical oats… (mass murderer)
This of course will be censored by "pro free speech" Intercept. No data allowed.
Approximate weight of a piglet at birth: 3 lbs
-> must be saved according to Glenn
Approximate weight of a 30 week gestation human 3 lbs-
->humans to be killed, especially if black, to allow gentrification of "poor" neighborhoods so that white hipsters that save piglets can move in.
Per year there are about 15,696 murders (FBI) in the US, about 8637 late term abortions (CDC) and 20 executions, all 3 disproportionately amongst black.
The "rape and incest" part always strikes me as disturbing. I mean, whether we are talking law or personal philosophy … if someone thinks something is murder, or bad, why would the baby's genetics matter? Especially, targeting a child of incest for abortion seems no different conceptually than targeting Jews for abortion. Do you believe that they have inherently unclean genes and have to be exterminated?
It is indeed disturbing for a woman who is pregnant by rape to endure pregnancy, and yet, if she was able to endure most of a pregnancy, is it really so impossible to make it to the end, so that some childless couple might have an infant they want very badly? It says in the Talmud that Mary was raped by a soldier named Panthera; though it is presented as a disproof, in fact it proves her virginity. We should not doubt that God has a plan for any child conceived by rape.
I can't tell you there is never a case where the only sane option is a very late abortion — that is biology, and absolutely anything is possible in biology. But when the abortion is being driven by some kind of judgment of the baby's genetics, it seems like eugenics to me.
The progeny of people who are closely related has a higher likelihood of recessive genes coming to expression. That is also biology.
Also, leave god out of this. I don't know why you think that god is on your side, but the women who choose abortion may have other beliefs. They are not bound by your religious beliefs.
It is true that looking it up the rate of problems from incest is substantially higher than I thought ( https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animals-and-us/201210/the-problem-incest ). Nonetheless, the infant is still probably healthy — even before the extensive screenings that can be done. And bear in mind that if the infant *is* healthy, then he or she has had a substantial proportion of his or her genome shown to be free of recessive genetic conditions – it is actually the "cleanest" genome you would find for purposes of further breeding, and so his or her descendants are spared the syndromes that might have struck the descendants of a child with more normal parentage as they randomly encountered matching alleles over the generations.
Now to be sure, if testing shows that the baby is in for a short and terrible life, then that is another matter – but that isn't aborting for incest, that's abortion for euthanasia… wherever people stand with that.
An optimist might have said, some decades ago, that the genetics of future generations wouldn't matter because there would be easy gene therapy for all in need … but how many optimists do we have now? In a world where all the tech dreams of man seem to be on automated cities that spy on the loyalty of the worthless human scum the robots have replaced, the oncoming Dark Age looms over us with such an intensity few are left who deny its inevitability, or even its justice.
"– it [the offspring of incestuous relations] is actually the "cleanest" genome you would find for purposes of further breeding, …"
Followed by more bullshit.
Name a recessive condition, any recessive condition. I dunno… sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, whatever. If a person from a given ethnic background has a 1% chance of having the disease (that's too high, but just to illustrate) then there is a 10% chance that a given copy of the gene is the faulty allele. You get two copies, one from each parent, so 10% of 10% is 1% that you get both. But people who are NOT affected have a 10% chance of one copy plus a 10% chance of the other copy, minus the 1% who actually get the disease, i.e. 19% chance of having one copy of the gene and being carriers.
But — a brother-sister or mother-son mating means that 50% of the genes are shared. So suppose one of the parents is a carrier (we'll say 19% chance). Then the other parent has a 50% chance of being a carrier (same exact copy) plus the usual chance of being a carrier in the other 50% of the cases. So the chance of the child getting two copies in that case is 50% (from the first carrier) x over 25% (other parent) or more than 1/8 of the time. That's obviously bad.
But—- if the first parent is NOT a carrier, then that allele is shared 50% of the time in the other parent, who in that case has only 1/2 the normal chance of being a carrier. Thus, just as there is an unusual rate of kids getting two disease alleles, there is ALSO an unusually high rate of the kids getting NO disease alleles.
Alright, I realize I've been being confusing there. Try drawing some Punnett squares, look up "genetic purging" on Wikipedia, and if you don't take my word for it, listen to the dog breeders: https://adbadog.com/constructive-breeding/
"Name a recessive condition, any recessive condition."
This is not about 1 condition, but about several hundred possible conditions. So, your premise is wrong, there won't be a 'clean' genome in practice. That is a fantasy.
Also, this is not about dogs but about your kid being raped by her uncle. On top of that she is forced to carry the pregnancy by pious people and her child is given to a childless couple.
Some religious people think that she is being tested by god. If your god does indeed test people, consider that it may be you who is tested and that you failed miserably.
If the anti-abortion supporters really care about innocent life then why do 20% of children in the U.S. live in poverty? Take care of those kids first and then maybe we can talk about the welfare of fetuses.
That right Amber, kill the poor, gentrify their neighborhood and move in with your hipster white friends and go save some piglets.
This is such a brilliant argument. Why don't we kill us some smelly homeless? If anyone objects, they must feed the hungry first, then we're talking.
Yeah… Amber the Brilliant… lol
I said "pro lifers" might have a valid argument against abortion if they actually did something for the 15 million children who live in poverty. But you don't really care about innocent life. You disingenuous hypocrites can't be bothered to do anything productive or positive for the people you supposedly care about. Instead you just hold up signs, spout nonsense on in the internet and harass abortion clinic patients and staff. Just like Jesus would want you to do I'm sure. Ignore the poor and judge women and girls who have been raped or have severe pregnancy complications. Save the fetuses! But after they're born, "pro lifers" lose interest in their noble concern humanity.
RTL'ers are full of propaganda because underneath their phony bravado is an inferior powerless cowardly dissolved skeleton which they have replaced with an insectly exoskeleton.
Ms. Cohen
"…….Despite years of threats and harassment, and the escalating anti-choice political climate, Carhart remains undeterred in his commitment to providing abortion care……"
That sentence can be reworded to reflect a different view of abortion: "Despite years of threats and harassment, and the escalating anti-abortion political climate, Carhart remains undeterred in his commitment to providing abortions". Wording is important in the abortion debate.
I am not quite sure why anyone wants to be known for providing late term abortions.
"I am not quite sure why anyone wants to be known for providing late term abortions."
Because it is an important procedure and women have to know where it is provided. Obviously, a doctor can be proud of providing such important work in the current repressive climate. The article already mentions that:
"Carhart's website states that the clinic's most common reasons for providing later-stage abortions include "the very late diagnosis of a pregnancy in a woman with a severely compromising medical condition, very young maternal age, rape and incest." "
I'm generally against State restrictions on abortion, but I have a problem with progressives who frame this debate such that any proposed limitations on even late-stage abortions amount to an assault on womens inalienable right to terminate her pregnancy at any stage.
Properly framed, the issue is not over the right to ownership of your body, the issue is when does a fetus become a rights-bearing individual?
Some of the babies that Carhart aborted could have survived outside of the womb. It's hard to make a huge distinction between a baby at the late stage of pregnancy and just after birth.
I think the correct position should be to legally permit abortion but, at least in many cases, socially stigmatize it.
What these social conservatives don't seem to understand is that people who desire abortions will usually find a way to get them, whatever the law allows. A sincere pro-life person should be trying to persuade women who are considering abortion to voluntarily opt for an alternative. They could work to improve and streamline adoptions, so more people could consider that a viable solution to an unwanted pregnancy. They could open a pro-life competitor to planned parenthood that would help young women and make opting against abortion easier.
And they could pursue sex education initiatives and innovative forms of contraception that could limit the number of unwanted pregnancies in the first place.
Social conservatives generally aren't doing any of this. Abortions are being performed every day, and young women need help dealing with unwanted pregnancies, but the pro-life crowd just wants to wait until they get enough Supreme Court nominees so they can overturn Roe v. Wade, which would just kick the issue down to the States.
Abortion is a great issue for Republicans to kick around as a political football to galvanize their base. I doubt the Republican Establishment would ever actually overturn Roe v. Wade. It's too valuable for them to raise money, and garner support from their base by promising that they will but never succeeding.
Yet their base seems unwilling to do anything that could actually reduce the number of abortions that are being performed now.
With all that said, there are a few sincere pro-life people who support some State restrictions on abortion that I respect. There is a compelling case to make for restricting late-term abortions.
As a libertarian, I'd put Ron Paul in that category. Even as someone who favors a very limited role for the State, he sees the government as legitimate in protecting life, even before birth. As a doctor and OBGYN, he's got some credibility on the topic.
I don't agree with Ron on this issue, but I respect his position. Abortion is an example of the continuum problem. There is no clear-cut precise moment when a life ceases to be an appendage, a parasite or tumor that can be excised from the body at the "owner's" discretion and becomes a separate rights-bearing entity. Since we don't know exactly, there is a compelling argument to make that we should err on the side of life.
I maintain that it is too dangerous to leave this matter to the State.
"Some of the babies that Carhart aborted could have survived outside of the womb. It's hard to make a huge distinction between a baby at the late stage of pregnancy and just after birth."
"babies" aren't aborted, fetuses are. Fetuses which are no more self-aware (probably much less) than a fish or cow, much less elephant or dolphin or pig or corvid.
"Since we don't know exactly, there is a compelling argument to make that we should err on the side of life."
Such a compelling case must first insist that simply being a human is somehow deserving of special rights. It certainly isn't based on level of pain awareness or sentience a being experiences, since if so these protesters would instead protest the much more death-causing beef, fishing, and other meat industries.
"As a doctor and OBGYN, he's got some credibility on the topic."
What? Why?
I maintain that a fetus should have as much rights as a tapeworm. Both should have no rights until they're outside of her. And she shouldn't be forced to have surgery or give birth in order to put the fetus or tapeworm outside of her. If you disagree, you'll have to explicate what exactly is so special about proto-humans as opposed to mature tapeworms.
My position is that abortion should be legally permitted, but I think some pro-life arguments are worth respecting. I think this subject is much more ethically complex than you do.
Since we are both in favor of permitting abortion, do you think that there should be any general social stigma against late-term abortions? I'm not talking about forcefully preventing any abortions, but rather voluntary social pressure that discourages it. I say yes, with the exception of very narrow situations where the procedure could be ethically justified.
I find it hard to believe that you see no moral distinction between expelling a tape worm and aborting a late-term pregnancy. Even for the staunch pro-choice advocate, I'd think late-term abortions are something to be avoided.
A compelling pro-life argument must first prove that humans are deserving of special rights? Our entire culture and society already takes for granted that humans have special rights above and beyond other animals. In no society on earth is killing an animal considered the same morally as murdering a human.
Discussing how aware a late-term fetus is or how much pain they are capable of feeling is somewhat beside the point. Not only do we not really know the answers to these questions, the distinction is that an infant will develop into a full rights-bearing adult human being without an abortion being performed.
If it's morally permissible (or at least less objectionable) to kill an infant because they are at an early stage of development compared to fully mature adult, then killing a newborn infant should be much less objectionable than murdering an adult. But, if anything, society views the killing of an infant as more objectionable because an infant is inherently innocent.
You can make a separate case that killing animals for meat is immoral if you'd like. But society generally and the law specifically regards the killing of higher intelligence species as more immoral than killing less intelligent species.
Humans are intellectually capable of both advocating for their rights and respecting your rights. Less intelligent animals are not. A Grizzly bear is not capable of respecting your property rights and self-ownership rights so you are not obligated to respect theirs as if they were a human. Not saying that we shouldn't refrain from animal cruelty or even avoid killing wild animals as much as possible.
Pain awareness, sentience or even intelligence are not the criteria. If they were, then it should be more legally permissible to kill newborn human infants than a number of relatively intelligent animal species. Many intelligent-breed adult dogs and certainly gorillas and dolphins display more of all three categories at full maturity than do day-old babies.
By this logic, all infants of any species are less worthy of legal protection simply because they are undeveloped. We should rather be considering what they will inevitably develop into unmolested.
Early-stage fetuses are not even recognizable as infants at almost any level. But late stage fetuses have developed brains, hearts, and some level of pain awareness and consciousness however rudimentary.
This topic is just so much more morally complex than you're acknowledging. In fact it's too complex for the State to be involved.
Abortion should be legally permissible but (in many cases) socially discouraged.
I respect Ron Paul's position on this topic, even though I disagree, because he delivered babies as his profession. He witnessed many early abortion procedures first-hand and spent decades evaluating Ultrasounds of pregnancies at all stages of development. How could this not help inform your views of the morality of abortion?
As health care professionals, we are bound to do "no harm". The fetus is innocent and unprotected. We as a society must stand in the way of those who want to harm them.
"one of the most ghoulish individuals you'll ever meet," Troy Newman"
What an ironic quote from a fanatic who basically leads a domestic terrorist group.
When a pregnancy is in trouble late term it means the Mother's health is also in trouble and the baby may already have died. These Doctor's save lives, but the nut-cases who went into Dr. Tiller's church Sunday morning in Kansas to murder him in front of his family were given a walk in the red state of Kansas. They are guilty of murder and need to be held accountable even if they have been getting away with their murders and terror for decades..
All the anti-abortionists out there need to put their great minds together and come up with some really good birth control–something that is safe, convenient, comfortable, 100% reliable; something you don't have to remember every day; birth control for men! (This is one area where men really do need to be empowered).
Instead of stalking and destroying and terrorizing people, study up on your biology and physiology, and come up with a real solution. Or is this the same group that doesn't believe in science?
Yes, only leftists believe in science. The same people who think there is an unlimited number of genders and also deny biology has any role.
Glad to hear you believe in science. Now name some Christian groups that are funding scientific research into better birth control so that woman can avoid the dreaded abortion.
Can you site any source that's made the claim of having an unlimited number of genders? No, you can't.
Reactionaries only ever seem interested in science when it involves denying someone constitutional rights. Even then it's only the "good science" that validates their biases. Global Warming? A hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. Evolution? No, God made people out of dirt and bones. Abortion? Noooooooo! This debunked psuedo-scientific article says that babies have a heartbeat as soon as the sperm attaches itself to the uterine wall!
It's also the same group that doesn't believe in birth control. They are pro forced birth.
Exactly. It's not about saving babies. It's about controlling everyone's sex life.
Religious people are idiots. And I mean that whether they're Christian, Jewish, Muslim…but maybe not Buddhist.
First and foremost, Buddhism is not a religion in the sense that the other three that you mentioned are. There are no gods, for example (Tibetan Buddhism might be an exception, though any gods in it are strictly figurative and Tibetan Buddhism is a really weird form of Buddhism).
Even many Buddhists are idiots. For example, many (if not most) believe in literal reincarnation, which even the Buddhist monks don't actually believe in (they'll tell you this if you gain their confidence). A friend who's dating a Thai Buddhist told me that she thinks that bad things that happen to her are because of something she did wrong a in a previous life, instead of what she did wrong in this one or because of bad luck.
This of course is not what real Buddhism is about, but like all other religions, it's been perverted into this garbage. It's just that there is also a lot of real Buddhism around, so you're correct that SOME Buddhists are not idiots.
BTW, the reason that Buddhist monks push the reincarnation story is to control people or, in their words, to keep people from killing, harming, and stealing from each other. A noble goal, but a bad way to go about it since it totally detracts from what should be a great philosophy.
The error of reincarnation is supposing it is somehow sequential in time rather than simultaneous. If a mugger hits you over the head, that bad karma you've suffered is the result of evil you did in another life … when you were the mugger.
Great commentary!
why are comments closed on the manafort article? haven't seen this at the intercept before.
Because the article was first published back in September.
ah, so why are they rerunning it? i expected some take on the indictments, didn't check the date.
Since anti-abortionists won't care for an unwanted child they should mind their own business.
It's the woman's choice, she has to go through pregnancy, birth and care for the child.
Many husbands/partners leave and make a fuss to pay child-support when they get tired of family obligations and grandparents aren't always helpful either.
No one has the right to tell a woman, not her partner, parents or any stranger how to live here life and what to do with her body.
Sometimes contraceptives don't work the way they should and making a woman pay for the failure for many years of her life is wrong.
Why stop at abortion? If anyone is "poor" "unwanted" just kill them. Gentrify and move in.
"Everyone feels really excited to get back to work."
Pretty horrific statement considering the choice of work
You should see slaughterhouse factories.
You should see what the effect a botched illegal abortion has – both physically and psychologically – on a 12 year old child. Denying legal access to a medical procedure is beyond contempt.
The "work" is providing information about a decision that is only right for that persons situation. And who are YOU to force them to not give out that information.
Where did I say anything about forcing anything on anyone?
I just pointed out the obvious, abortion is a horrific business whether you think it should be legal or not.
Not sure why you're so excited for it.
Oh please stop with the disingenuous BS. Your meaning was explicitly clear.
So you think providing health care to women is horrific? I didn't realise that you could get a good WiFi signal from 1890.
Once again, where did I say anything like that? Infer much? You should sign up for my critical thinking course. Think there are still a few slots left for the Spring semester.
I like your little rhetorical trick of changing late-term abortion to "providing health care to women". Ha
Why are you so excited for abortions? I'm not against it being legal, but you would think that we could all agree that it is a horrific choice for the mother and obviously the unborn child.
"Why are you so excited for abortions? I'm not against it being legal, but you would think that we could all agree that it is a horrific choice for the mother and obviously the unborn child."
Why in the hell should we all agree on that? Unless they're lying, I've heard from plenty of women online and IRL that said the choice wasn't difficult. Of course it's difficult for many, but not all, and isn't by default more "horrific" for many than removing a gall bladder.
As for the unborn child, "horrific"? Yeah, as horrific as stepping on a roach or throwing a clam in a boiling pot of water. What is horrific about removing a parasite from one's body, that is no more conscious than an ant? It isn't unless you think there's something inherently and possibly mystically special about being a human. If not, gtfo with "horrific". If so, what're you–a theist, a humanist? Bah with your fetishism of one species.
And screw things such as Clinton's "abortions should be safe, legal, and rare". Why rare? I don't care if a woman aborts 30 fetuses over her lifetime because she thinks it's amusing, or is saving the aborted remains for an art project. Who cares, and why it is their business? Her body, fetuses are non-sentient nothings, so whatever.
HippoDave, Hugh Culliton, and Dez, I find your comments fascinating, since they seem to touch upon some of the deep philosophical differences which underlie the abortion debate.
I would be very interested to hear your views on the following questions:
1) Are some actions moral or immoral? If so, what makes certain actions moral, and others immoral?
2) Is it ever morally justifiable to take the life of a living thing? If so, under what circumstances?
3) Is it ever morally justifiable to take the life of a human being? If so, under what circumstances?
4) Is there a moral distinction between taking the life of a human being and taking the life of a non-human living thing? If so, what distinguishes human life from non-human life?
5) Is the life of a fetus a human life? If not, at what time does a fetus become human?
Wow – you still don't understand that it has nothing to do with you or your morality. That wasn't a rhetorical trick – I was deliberately trying to point out that you're still inserting your morality and approval between a woman and her access to legal abortion services. What you or I think of a woman's medical choices – if they're good/bad, horrific or spiffy doesn't mean sweet FA.
Her body – her rules.
Not sure if you ever studied biology. The baby in the womb is not a part of the women's body anymore a child is the part of a man's body that holds a child. The baby in the womb has its own disctinct DNA, immune system etc. The women's body would reject the baby if it was not for the protective effect of the womb. The Middle Ages were long ago. Spontaneous generation was debunked centuries ago. Learn science.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
08:01 am March 11, 2015
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is betting that new meaningful use rules will become publicly available in time to talk about them during the upcoming HIMSS15 next month in Chicago.
03:13 pm March 10, 2015
(SPONSORED) Jonathan Niloff, MD, vice president and CMO for McKesson Connected Care & Analytics, details the top foundational strategies for managing population health.
10:06 am March 09, 2015
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' first Chief Data Officer Niall Brennan talks about his first few months as CDO, and offers advice for providers looking to tap into their own data to drive efficiency and improve care.
10:51 am March 06, 2015
In a letter this week to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, more than 100 medical societies aired "a number of concerns that do not appear to be addressed" as the ICD-10 deadline looms.
11:21 am March 04, 2015
The 100 Top Hospitals recognized this week by Truven Health Analytics boast shorter lengths of stay, fewer complications, lower 30-day readmission rates and "have been objectively proven to provide high value to their communities."
10:21 am March 03, 2015
Thanks to committed pursuit of its quality measurement programs, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says the U.S. has made "clear progress" in achieving better care at lower cost for healthier populations.
02:55 pm February 27, 2015
The signs coming out of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are crystal clear: New policies will continue to push hospitals toward value-based care -- whether they're ready or not.
10:33 am February 27, 2015
"CMS is ready for ICD-10," said outgoing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner this week, pointing to 660 providers and billing companies that submitted some 15,000 test claims.
10:51 am February 10, 2015
The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, which has already achieved Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics scale, will pick up its 2014 enterprise Davies Award at HIMSS15 this April. How did they do it? We ask their leaders.
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It looks like the stars could at last be aligned for ICD-10. After years of angst and multiple delays, a new government report indicates that CMS has done the necessary testing to move forward.


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Tacoma Narrows Bridge
A lot of things can go wrong when building or designing a major building, plane, bridge, or even a road. Engineers face the challenges to overcome these flaws or problems everyday when they are trying to design structures. The primary causes of engineering disasters are usually: Human factors, design flaws, material failures, extreme conditions or environments, and combinations of these reasons put together. There are many things an engineer has to look for when designing a major structure such as the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
On July 1, 1940 the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was open to traffic and was the third longest suspension bridge in the united state during the 1940's. It had a span of 5939 feet measuring the approaches. It had two towers of 425 feet tall that were connected to the bridge. During the design they picked that it should be a suspension bridge because it was only supporting cars which were much lighter then trains. Due to only have cars on the bridge they used shallow plate girders instead of trusses because they didn't cost as much and the bridge didn't need to hold as weight up. The plate girders however did not allow the wind to pass through as the trusses did so it moved a lot and got the nickname of "Galloping Gertie." The bridge collapsed on November 7, 1940 due to winds plus a broken cable in the middle of the bridge which made it unbalanced. The wind would come up and under the bridge and get it in a motion where it turned one way and then bounced back and the wind would hit it there. It sent it into a twisting motion till it broke into pieces. The winds started at 35 mph that day and it was enough to get the bridge moving but then it went up to 42 mph which stayed constant for a while and broke the bridge. In 1950 they built the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It used truss girders this time and they also put stiffeners into the bridge so it didn't move. The truss girders also allowed the wind to pass through so it didn't...
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I got a damn you autocorrect calendar for my desk last year & kept all the ones I thought were kinda funny. None of them were actually that funny, but I thought it would be interesting to see how many of them made me laugh, or at least smirk. So, I'm sharing how many I kept & my thoughts on the calendar, let's do dis.
CALENDAR PAGES SAVED: 42 out of 365
You ever get a calendar & it's just sorta meh? I think my least favorite thing about this one was the 'I'm sending this to damn you autocorrect' joke. I don't feel it has to be part of the text exchange. So meta, don't like it. Which actually brings me to my next point. Are these real or fake? My boyfriend thinks they're fake & I've always thought the same thing. I did about 2 minutes of googling & didn't see a definitive answer, so I'm asking the internet.
If I'm being really honest, this desk calendar overall wasn't that funny, but I didn't hate it or anything. I only saved 42 in one year, that's about 11.5% so that's not amazing, lol. Although I did enjoy my little game of saving the ones I liked & seeing how many I would have at the end of the year.
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The profound history of this legendary neuroscientist in the medical field is widespread all over the globe. From his favorite quote, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" you can tell the kind of person he is. Jorge Moll started his successful journey in the Federal University's medical school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where he graduated in 1994 and completed his Neurology residency at the same University in 1997. He later joined the University of Sao Paulo where he received his Ph.D. in Experimental Pathophysiology in the Faculty of Medicine. He also did his Post-Doctorate in National Institutes of Health in the Cognitive Neuroscience Section in Bethesda USA.
Jorge Moll is currently the Head Director of the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Unit (CBNU) and also Neuroinformatics Workgroup which is one of the top-ranked diagnostics and imaging laboratory in Rio de Janeiro. Consequently, he happens to be the President and a Board Member of the D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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June 28, 2015 from 10am to 2pm – Zia Queenbees Farm & Field Institute Zia Queenbees Farm & Field Institute invites NM Bee Certification Level II participants and the ABQ Brood Squad members to visit and learn about rearing queens in New Mexico's diverse & adver… Organized by M&M-ZQB | Type: field, day, workshop, bbq, zia, queenbees, queen, rearing
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April 23, 2016 from 10am to 4pm – The High Road: Penasco Theatre & ZQB farm It's that time of year again…and in celebration of this year's upcoming Earth Day- we are sponsoring the 5th annual Northern NM Rocky Mountain Sweet Spring Sting Pollinator Symposium featuring Dr. Va… Organized by Melanie Margarita Kirby | Type: lecture-, workshop, pot, luck, bee, blessing
July 16, 2016 to July 17, 2016 – ZQB Farm & Field Institute * Want to learn why & how queens are the heart of their hive? *Interested in learning how to find, select and propagate quality honeybee genetics in and out of the apiary? *Jazzed to mingle with… Organized by Melanie Margarita Kirby | Type: workshop, field, practicum, queen, rearing, course
August 6, 2016 at 9pm to August 7, 2016 at 1pm – Cleveland, NM, just north of Mora HONEYBEES Aug. 6 & 7 A biodynamic apiculture event – the ecological, regenerative and spiritual dimensions of our relationship with honeybees, presented by Michael Thiele, hosted by Dancing Soph… Organized by Ami Spangler | Type: workshop
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Well hello there! It's been awhile since I last posted. And given that it's been awhile I'm assuming I should catch y'all up on my latest read (after all, this blog was created to track my reading life).
First things first, I finally picked out my AP novel! I've made the decision to read Jonathan Swift's classic novel Gulliver's Travels, which thus far has been a challenging read but I'll explain why later in this post. I also have gone through another broadway phase and after continuously listening to the musical Dear Evan Hansen and doing some crazy-fan research I've found that this amazing musical (that I HIGHLY recommend) was based off a book. Currently, I haven't been able to get a copy of the book, but hope to do so in the near future.
To my more "challenging" read. In short, Gulliver's Travels is about Lemuel Gulliver and how he travels to mystical lands where reality is just "slightly" tainted. Disclaimer: I'm still reading the first of the four parts within this novel and therefore not to far in so what I'm about to say may just because the book has a slow and long start. This has been a challenging read because, for the most part, Gulliver's Travels bores me. There's been a few good parts like where *spoiler* Gulliver is captured, released and takes the empire of Blesfuscu's boats *end spoiler* but besides that Swift just writes about so much unnecessary detail that the reader simply doesn't care about. For example "They [the people of Lilliput] bury their dead with their heads directly downwards; because...the earth will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet"(56), now I love that Swift had such an imaginative mind to come up with something like this (don't get me wrong that's talent to come up with stuff like this from scratch), but as a reader who is looking for more of a plot, details like this seem to do more harm than good. And it's not as if it only one or two random tid-bits of information but it's pages of writing is dedicated to information that I couldn't care less about. And that is why I haven't enjoyed Gulliver's Travels. However, I still need to read the rest of the book and sadly cannot abandon it because I will need it for the final.
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Well hello there! It's been awhile since I last posted. And given that it's been awhile I'm assuming I should catch y'all up...
Well hello there! It's been awhile since I last posted. And given that it's been awhile I'm assuming I should catch y'all up...
During the four and a half day weekend I finished Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson. However, instead of achieving my...


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Friday, April 13, 2018
Toss Them Tuesdays
We are out there every Tuesday at noon on Main Street in Greenville, SC. We plant ourselves in front of the offices of our senators, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, as well as our especially-embarrassing congressman, Trey Gowdy. In photos above, there are two candidates running against Gowdy, who is pointedly and surprisingly not running for re-election.
My choice is LEE TURNER, so give generously!
Yall come on out and join us if you are local.
And if you aren't--how about you plan on flying in and joining us anyway? :) We need everybody!!
Posted by Daisy Deadhead at 10:50 AM
Labels: congress, Donald Trump, Greenville, Lee Turner, Lindsey Graham, politics, protests, Senate, South Carolina, taxes, Tim Scott, Toss Them Tuesdays, Trey Gowdy
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- Scott Mayo said...
If you voted for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries of 2016, instead of Bernie Sanders, you are more responsible for Donald Trump's presidency than those who voted for Donald Trump in the Republican primaries of 2016.
Also, if you do not petition your senator and representative to impeach and remove Donald Trump from office, you are not doing anything to remove Donald Trump from office.
And finally, Donald Trump is just a diversion---to keep your attention away from Nimrata Randhawa Haley. As Republican Donald Trump's star continues to fall, Republican Nikki Haley's star continues to rise. And you do not want her to be the next president of the United States, and the first female president of the United States. In Bakari Sellers' own words: "[Nikki Haley] is one of the savviest, most cunning, and cutthroat political operators we've ever seen." And the Dishonorable Nikki R. Haley is "as ambitious as Lucifer," and as evil as Satan.
Don't let the liberal/neocon, sensationalistic press distract you from the most dangerous political developments---and the most dangerous politicians.
- April 14, 2018 at 6:43 PM
- Daisy Deadhead said...
Is there really a tag on your blog that says "THE POSTHUMOUS EXTERMINATION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA IS DESTRUCTIVE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" ???
Looks like it to me.
This means I do not have to take you seriously. As Axl Rose famously asked, do you know where you are? I very much doubt we would agree on anything, hon. (giggles)
Yes, Nikki Haley is bad, but way too dependent on attention and adulation (like so many beautiful women) to be too evil, especially with the likes of Trump around. She is a mere beginner compared to someone like him.
And... Wayne LaPierre? LOL.
- April 15, 2018 at 4:56 PM


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What Is A Spike?
Many people underutilize or overemphasize the essence of a spike. Therefore, it's necessary to gain an understanding of their advantages and disadvantages. Many organizations use it to scale their ideas or launch of a new product and features.
In this post, you'd get insightful details and understanding of how a spike works. You'd also discover the reasons many teams make use of spikes. The post also addresses the essence of creating a spike. Also, the different forms it can take during an experiment or investigation. Furthermore, the identification of shortcoming related to spikes. Along with, how to make use of the concept for better results.
So What Is A Spike?
A spike is an Exploration Enabler Story in SAFe. It has two different forms of expression. First, a spike actively seeks to unravel possible solutions to a design challenge. Second, a spike provides answers to present issues related to the product. The word 'spike' comes from Extreme Programming (XP).
The Agile Alliance states that a spike refers to any task that aims at collating information. Also, it answers specific questions related to products and services. A spike is an investigative story done in the absence of sufficient information. It helps when there are several approaches to decide between. In all cases, the focus is to resolve, enhance or achieve product functionality. They help with product research, design, exploration, investigation, experiments, and prototypes.
Since, spikes represent activities like research, investigation, design, and prototyping. It seeks to get the right knowledge to enhance the reliability of a story. A spike helps to reduce the risk of a technical approach, or understand the prerequisite of a task. Whenever a new story comes in, if the team knows how to approach it, they will estimate it and move forward. Without this understanding, the team will have difficulty estimating it. Hence, rework becomes an acceptable trade-off. When a spike is added, prioritize both the spike and the story in the product backlog, accordingly.
How Do Teams Use Spikes?
There are several ways to use spikes for diverse situations. They include, but not limited to the following:
- Researching familiarization with a new technology
- Get confidence in technical and functional processes
- Lower risk and uncertainties of new products
- Appraisal of product features and its potentials
- Conduct feasibility studies to find out the viability and reliability of epics
Technical And Functional Spikes
People use spikes for many reasons. Typically, there are two forms of spikes – technical and functional. Let's address their usefulness in the validation process of a product.
Functional spikes analyze solution behavior and to determine the best approach to take. You may use functional spikes to assess the following:
- How to break down a process into manageable parts
- How to organize your work
- To learn where risks exist as well as other intricate details.
Technical spikes research various approaches and processes in the solution domain. It is used to determine the following:
- To define the process in a build-versus-buy decision process
- Access the implementation of specific technical approaches
- Build assurance on the solution path being sought after
Let's consider the following:
As an acute care & teaching hospital, I need to provide secure access to medical records, so we are ready for the new age of healthcare.
The story will be broken down into manageable pieces. Let's consider user roles. There are doctors, administrators, insurance companies and many others. The patient workflow steps for hospital admissions is different than leaving the hospital. What about various HIPAA guidelines? All this and more can result in functional spikes. Furthermore, the team has to consider the technical direction. There could be a packaged software that meets the requirements or some of them. The new age of healthcare requires that we understand new ideas and technologies, like the blockchain. There is an unlimited number of paths that need a technical spike. It will position the team to make the best technical decision.
For this user story, the team would need to come up with both types of spikes. Refer to Splitting Strategies for more techniques.
When To Use A Spike?
A spike should only be used for situations that are highly uncertain. Everyday mundane work activities should not need the research process. Furthermore, they should only be used to reduce any unusual amount of uncertainty. The design of the product or functionality doubts provide great opportunities for spikes.
Spikes are used for the research process of a product and not for refinement or grooming. They negate risk or uncertainty while attempting a new approach in an experiment. A spike should be used to learn when it is necessary to lower risks. For instance, it helps handle working on some unknown code or complicated scenarios.
Guidelines For Spikes
Spikes don't directly offer consumer value, so it's best to use them mildly. The rule of thumb that should be adhered to while making use of spikes and they include the following:
- Demonstrable: The output of a spike is demonstrable to all concerned parties. It engenders visibility to the architectural and research work elements. It helps to establish collective ownership for making decisions.
- Acceptable: The result should be testable. It includes the standards that help to define the outcome.
- Quantifiable: Spikes should fit into the smallest agreed upon timebox. The outcome is different from a story because the information supports a story.
Every story has uncertainties and risks associated with it. Therefore, it's natural to be aware of the implications of research. Hence, the members of the team identify the right solution to the problem. They achieve this outcome through brainstorming sessions, negotiation, collaboration, and by conducting experiments. Every user story created has activities to determine the functional and technical risks.
Shortcomings Of A Spike
The creation of a spike points to a potential solution to an intricate design or technical problems. However, more often than not, they help to address the specific issue under investigation. But can ignore other challenges that may spring up later. Nevertheless, spikes represent risks and way to deal with it.
Sometimes, the concept of a spike is being misused and abused to a large extent by agile teams. Some team members do their regular design work masked as a spike. It leads to a waste of time and resources. Another typical pattern is open-ended spikes. Without any definite or specific goals, they go on forever. It's unnecessary for teams to engage in doing 4-5 spikes per sprint or a spike for every user story. Spikes are best used when there's uncertainty beyond what can be handled in the usual circumstances of work.
Spikes Pay It Forward
Everyone should regard a spike as an investment in the delivery of a product. Therefore, it goes without saying that you could increase delivery time by adding a lot of spikes. The cost of spikes is acceptable when it has a time-box. It will boost confidence in the product delivery.
It's essential to have an atmosphere of trust with the chance for failure. It enables team members to go faster, to innovate, and come up with creative ideas. It is a good trade-off for the team feeling safe. In the absence of an enabling environment, the team is afraid to risk anything. It will hinder their performance.
Team members use spikes to identify work processes that they don't wholly understand. Ultimately, making the task more comfortable for them. They will reduce concern about new technology or an approach to handle an old technology for your investment to be paid in full.
Spike Timing
Care should be employed in determining the timing of spikes. They represent uncertainty in potential stories for new technology. The key to creating and making use of spikes is time-boxing. While conducting experiments, it's necessary to include the time-box to guide the activities for the research. At times, both the spike and the resulting story can be implemented in the same iteration.
It's never ideal to allow a spike to take an entire sprint. Hence the need for a time-box which would serve to constrain the amount of time spent on devising a spike. Spikes intend to remove ambiguities and to understand a story to the extent of estimating it accurately. A time-box encourages the team to stay on track and adds some predictability. The time-boxed spike (not an estimate) is included in the team sprint backlog.
For clarification, spikes don't always result in more work. It's a fast way for management to know the worth of a specific idea. So, it's best to limit the amount of time the team spends on spikes. Otherwise, people can fall into a rabbit hole (a situation where you chase down numerous trails without achieving anything). Agile teams carry out little experiments. When a question, uncertainty, or risk arises, a spike may the answer. Teams prefer to be precise in their activities rather than indulging in guess works regarding the outcome of their decisions. In summary, the team should know when and how to make use of spikes appropriately for best results.
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Bonus Episode: Top 10 Potentially Incorrect Projections with Chris Wassel
August 5, 2017
With Brian on vacation, Elan brings in a ringer in Chris Wassel, senior fantasy hockey writer at dobberhockey.com and daily fantasy writer for FanVice, to talk some August Fantasy Hockey. Chris presents a list of players he thinks the majority of projections will peg incorrectly for the next season and of course the conversation veers at times towards other players and general fantasy strategy.
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Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam is the founding President of the New England Complex Systems Institute, 9/21/05
Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam is the founding President of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), an independent nonprofit educational and research institution dedicated to advancing the study of complex systems. NECSI was established as a collaboration of faculty from Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Brandeis, and other academic institutions. In his research, Professor Bar-Yam has contributed to both physics and complex systems. On the technical side, he developed multiscale analysis, representations, and modeling, and contributed to the fundamental concepts of evolution and understanding the structure and dynamics of networks. He has also used complex systems concepts to advance a variety of diverse fields including the understanding of genetic regulatory networks, conservation biology, and systems engineering.
Professor Bar-Yam has lectured at and advised numerous corporations and government agencies, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, the World Bank, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Military, the Department of Defense, and the intelligence community. His most recent research has applied complex systems ideas to complex problems facing companies and societal networks. He has developed the understanding of how the structure, processes, and information flow of organizations can be designed to meet challenges at all scales.
Professor Bar-Yam is the author of two books and over 150 articles in professional journals. His newest book, Making Things Work, explains how the basic concepts of complexity theory can solve complex problems in healthcare, education, international development, ethnic violence, and terrorism.
NECSI is an independent educational and research institution dedicated to advancing the study of complex systems. Complex systems have multiple interacting components whose collective behavior cannot be simply inferred from the behavior of components. The recognition that understanding the parts cannot explain collective behavior has led to various new concepts and methodologies that are affecting all fields of science and engineering, and are being applied to technology, business, and even social policy.
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Back in Ancient Greece, religion was a critical part of daily life. In addition to their rich, extensive mythology, the Greeks could be initiated into mysteries, secretive and occult groups, almost like secret societies, such as the infamous Eleusinian Mysteries. The groups all coexisted, and they all had unique rituals, and some taught different stories about the creation of the world. The idea of reincarnation, thought outlandish by some, is actually a commonly accepted belief practiced worldwide, and one particular creed in Greece, called Orphism, played a monumental role in Greek culture, not to mention philosophy, its teachings adopted by Pythagoras and even as far as Plato. Little can be said about the creation of the group, no less about the founder; further, the literature that is attributed to the society is scant, and authors have yet to be identified.
According to Orphic cosmological tradition, the universe was conceived of in a cosmic egg. In other words, the cosmos was initially an embryo, self-contained, which at a certain point hatched, the upper half of the egg forming the Heavens, the lower, Earth. There was chaos at first. Then, the three realms—Heaven, Earth, and Sea—were bound by Æther. This substance, described as the fifth element by Aristotle, was like a belt that held the three realms together tightly, creating a compact universe. The Orphics believed in an omnipotent creator, a demiurge, whom they called Phanes, who was the embodiment of both male and female, and thus the objective progenitor of humanity. Phanes was the mightiest of the deities, the god of all gods, until he was devoured by Zeus—a common motif in Greek mythology. It is considered by scholars that this creation story was most likely inspired by contemporary civilizations like Egypt, India, and Babylon, each of which had a creation story of the almost exact structure. Orphism was named after the mythical musician Orpheus, who, so skilled at playing the lyre he could lull rocks and Hades' three-headed dog Cerberus, tried to retrieve his wife from the Underworld under the condition that he not look at her. He failed in the end and was killed by mænads, passionate followers of Dionysus. The actual religious foundations for the society derive from another myth: that of Dionysus. Born to Zeus and Persephone, Dionysus was dismembered and eaten by the Titans. An angered Zeus struck the Titans with his thunderbolt, disintegrating them, and reviving from their ashes a reincarnated Dionysus, along with man.
Man, born divine and depraved, half-god and half-Titan, was therefore impure. His holy blood from Dionysus' ashes was tainted with the blood of the corrupt Titans. This mirrors the Christian doctrine of original sin in that it assigns man an innate evil that is up to him to remove, through virtuous action. For this reason, the Orphics thought the body (soma, σωμα) was a tomb (sema, σημα). The body was an impediment, something of which to be ridden, as it reminded man of his corporeality, as opposed to his spirituality, his imperfection, as opposed to his perfection. Plato attested, "I have heard a philosopher [Pythagoras] say that at this moment we are actually dead, and that the body is our tomb…".[1] To the Orphics, the body was on the same plane of being dead; so tainted is it, that it is like a sarcophagus. Only through certain religious rituals could an individual temporarily transcend his earthly tomb and become one with his divinity. During rituals, the goers would try to enter a state of "enthusiasm," or an intense and passionate fervor, usually achieved through music, dance, or meditation. The objective of the participant was to escape his body, to relinquish his consciousness, to relieve his sense of self, and to unite with his divine side, in an attempt to reunite with God. Thus, Orphics tried to induce ecstasy, which means etymologically "to stand outside oneself"—literally to escape oneself. In the afterlife, said the Orphics, the soul would be put through judgment, where it would be subject to rigorous testing to see whether its bodily owner was virtuous or not. Sinners would be punished accordingly. The luckier ones had to face Hades, while those who were worse off would be reincarnated until they purified their soul. On the other hand, those who properly tended to their soul were able to be reunited with the World-soul, an overarching, all-inclusive spirit that permeated the world—a pantheistic spirit—from which they came. Central to Orphic doctrine was metempsychosis, a nice way of saying reincarnation, or transmigration of the soul. This concept is similar to the Buddhist idea of Samsara, the wheel of rebirth: If, when we die, we have not balanced our Karma, we are condemned to another life, ad infinitum, until we do so.
When one brings up Orphism, the next topic that will come up, most probably, would be Pythagoreanism, the philosophical brotherhood started by Pythagoras, inventor of the Pythagorean Theorem, since he took many of their doctrines and implemented them into his teachings. Historians accredit Pythagoras with being the first to call himself a philosopher; as such, he took philosophy seriously, considering it a way of life. To him, the happy life was one of contemplation; philosophy was a theoretical life, lived in inquiry, in discussion, in experimentation. He is said to have "intellectualized" Orphism, applying scientific thinking and reasoning to its beliefs, making it a viable way of life, rather than a mystery. Again, we have Plato to testify: "[T]hey say that the soul of man is immortal, and at one time has an end, which is termed dying, and at another time is born again, but never destroyed. And the moral is, that man ought to live always in perfect holiness."[2] Here, Plato describes the ethical system of Orphism, explaining the idea of purification, which is required if one wants to join the World-soul. Moreover, he sets up the idea of the immortality of the soul advocated by Pythagoras—an idea that Socrates would have taught him and that would play a crucial role in his philosophy. The soul exists eternally and can never be destroyed; if it is impure at the end of its body's life, it is to take the body of a new person, and then another, until purification; if, however, at death, the soul is pure, it can go to the World-soul. This last sequence can be detected in Platonic thought in the Phædrus. If Pythagoras considered philosophy a way of life, if a good life was one of purity, what then did purification look like, and what good did philosophy do anyone? For Pythagoreans, a virtuous life consisted of dutiful moral responsibility and ascetic self-constraint. The body, remember, was a tomb, but the soul was holy and needed to be pure if it wanted to return to divinity; hence, the life of the Pythagorean was dedicated to caring for and tending to the soul, cautious not to commit any vices. In the afterlife, the soul was judged by its scars, which of course were not physical, but spiritual, symbolic of the vices of which the body was guilty. Based on this belief, the soul was of paramount importance and took precedence over the well-being of the body.
One of the key beliefs of the Pythagoreans, derived from Orphism, was the transmigration of the soul. In fact, there are several stories about Pythagoras and his belief therein. "Once they said that he [Pythagoras] was passing by when a puppy was being whipped, and he took pity and said: Stop, do not beat it; for it is the soul of a friend that I recognized when I heard it giving tongue," reported Xenophanes.[3] In this story, Pythagoras remembered the voice of a friend of his and reasoned that his soul must have been reincarnated as a dog. Pythagoras was famously a vegetarian. Anyone who joined the Pythagorean creed was a vegetarian, on the basis that animals could be the host of either a friend's or an ancestor's soul. Similarly, beans were to be refrained from, for Pythagoras said they were the seeds from which humans were birthed. To eat a bean, was to eat a fellow human. Interestingly, it is worth pointing out that, according to legend, Pythagoras died because he was chased to a bean field by an angry mob, and, not wanting to trample the beans, decided to surrender himself to the mob instead. The eating of meat or beans was called Adikia (αδικια). It was a grave vice. Plato recounts, "[M]en are said to have lived a sort of Orphic life, having the use of all lifeless things, but abstaining from all living things."[4] Orphism was practically synonymous with vegetarianism as a result. The Pythagoreans, it can be entertained, were pantheistic, insofar as they believed all life was interconnected, like a web, which was connected to the World-soul, of which all living things were a part. Another story in Pythagorean tradition tells of a man named Æthalides who was bestowed by Hermes the gift of being able to remember his past lives. Upon passing, he was reincarnated as Euphorbus, who was slain by Menelaus in the Trojan War; his soul went to Hermotimus, who went to a temple and allegedly pointed out the shield used by Menelaus, proving he was Euphorbus in his previous life; then, Hermotimus died and became Pyrrhus; and finally, the soul went on to inhabit yours truly, Pythagoras. Pythagoras urged his followers every night to go through their previous day, recalling as much detail as possible, as a way of strengthening their memory, whereby they could eventually remember as far back as their own previous lives. Herodotus also mentions a strange ritual practiced by the Pythagoreans in his Histories:
Nothing of woolen, however, is taken into their temples or buried with them, as their religion forbids it. Here their practice resembles the rites called Orphic and Bacchic, but which are in reality Egyptian and Pythagorean; for no one initiated into these mysteries can be buried in a woolen shroud, a religious reason being assigned for the observance.[5]
Another Presocratic philosopher who borrowed from Orphic thought was Empedocles, the originator of the four elements, who claimed, "For by now I have been born a boy, girl, plant, bird, and dumb seafish."[6] It is important to note how exactly Pythagoras—and Empedocles for that matter—came into knowledge, specifically, of the Orphic teachings, and generally, his own teachings. Scholar Theodor Gomperz suggested that Pythagoras was influenced by nearby civilizations, like Egypt, Babylon, and India; as I explained earlier, the creation stories of the Orphics, Egyptians, Babylonians, and Indians were all related. Of these traditions, Gomperz said, India was most likely the connection. After all, it is not that unreasonable, seeing as Pythagoras was a contemporary of the Buddha through the 6th- and 5th-centuries BC. More evidence is that during this time, India and Greece were united under Cyrus' Persian Empire, meaning there were definitive interactions between the two. The similarities between Pythagoreanism and Buddhism are numerous, from the shared tradition of vegetarianism to the theory of reincarnation.
Conclusively, Orphism, while now outdated, impacted ancient civilization on a considerable scale, having been used by Pythagoras, the Buddha, Empedocles, and Plato. Categorizing Orphism is as difficult as categorizing Buddhism, as it is neither a religion nor a philosophy in its proper sense, although it does share some characteristics of the ritualistic mysteries of Ancient Greece, along with its literature. The practices of vegetarianism, pantheism, and immortality and transmigration of the soul, while seemingly foreign to the Western world—the latter two more so—have undeniably defined Western culture.
[1] Plato, Gorgias, 493a
[2] Plato, Meno, 81a
[3] Diogenes Läertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, 8.36.12-15
[4] Plato, Laws, VII, 782c
[5] Herodotus, Histories, II.81
[6] Empedocles, 117
For further reading: Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy by Forrest E. Baird (2000)
A History of Ancient Western Philosophy by Joseph Owens (1959)
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy Vol. 6 by Paul Edwards (1967)
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy Vol. 7 by Paul Edwards (1967)
A History of Philosophy Vol. 1 by Frederick Copleston (1993)
The Greek Thinkers Vol. 1 by Theodor Gomperz (1964)
The Story of Civilization Vol. 2 by Will Durant (1966)
The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb (2013)
History of Philosophy by Julian Marías (1967)
Socrates to Sartre by Enoch S. Stumpf (1982)


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The anti-graft court has spoken and the nation will again just have to live with its decision. Like former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, former senator Jinggoy Estrada has obtained temporary liberty, courtesy of the Sandiganbayan's Fifth Division.
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Estrada will continue to face trial after the court rejected his plea for dismissal of the case. With his release on bail, Bong Revilla is the only former senator left in detention in connection with the scam whose accused mastermind is businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles.
While the court deliberates on the former senators' defense that they are not the "main plunderers" in the scandal, the nation continues to wait for the Office of the Ombudsman to file more indictments in court. Napoles' nephew who blew the whistle on the scam, and whose complaint against her for serious illegal detention sent her to prison, had implicated many other lawmakers in the scam. The Commission on Audit also presented what was described as a "truckload" of evidence, gathered over several years, against nearly 200 former and incumbent lawmakers who allegedly funneled their pork barrel allocations to personal accounts using bogus non-government organizations.
In that long list, only the three senators were arrested and held without bail, and it is significant that all three were leaders of the opposition. Estrada and Revilla had planned to run for higher office in the 2016 race. Those circumstances led to criticisms that the ombudsman was dishing out selective justice. The criticisms persist, and the best way to dispel them is to speed up the preliminary probes and file more cases in court.


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I'm going to break down each sentence in the InnSaei trailer to see how they relate to unschooling. The movie has nothing to do with unschooling, or even with homeschooling. And is unaware of the connection yet illustrates unschooling principles so well. I'm sorry I don't have names to go with these quotes. They are all embedded in the movie for anyone who gets curious.
1) "We have to be really ready to fail. Failure has to be part of the journey."
I just love that this was the first editorial sentiment they want you to hear. We've left the realm of winning and even of success. We're in a separate paradigm where trying, extension, and curiosity are more valuable than demonstrating prowess in the safe comfort of known ideas. Failure is a byproduct of trying, especially of trying new or unknown things, so a high rate of failure correlates with growth and enrichment in an organic and diverse way. If parents can get comfortable with and embrace failure, they'll have a much easier time seeing their children as individuals who are valuable as they are, rather than as they measure against the static system of education. Acceptance of failure allows us to more easily step away from what is easy and expected into what is wild and unknown. We aren't interested in winning. We are interested in exploring.
2) "Modern people in general are really not in touch with intuition. And we've forgotten how to be aware of sensory data of many of the dimensions of life."
Sending little children (often babies) away from home is the first and possibly the most brutal push we give them away from their intuition. Exactly in the moment where we look at them asking to stay close to us and we walk away, we over ride their wisdom (and often our own, as we were so taught) and everything evolution has encoded in human DNA about how to stay safe and happy (foundations of smart growth) as a child. Holding them in the system reinforces this message daily, sometimes hourly, at a time when they have no intellectual way to understand or process why we override their own instinct. Worse, there is almost nothing intrinsically valuable in school. So the payoff of overriding children's judgment is vapid. It's no wonder then, intuition is lacking in our culture. And probably no accident that in our society intuition, famously a strength of motherhood, is devalued as motherhood is devalued, as childhood is devalued.
Even worse, we put the children in rooms in buildings on fenced property under institutional rules and we drastically limit their sensory input by limiting their access to the world and access to LOVE. I'm convinced all of this causes a form of brain damage. Said another way, institutionalization.
3) "The world today is very different from the world I grew up in. I had a burn out. I just worked and worked without taking a moment to reflect. I reconnected with my Icelandic friend when I was a kid who now lives in London. As most people, we are finding it hard to have work/life balance. And so we listed down names of people who have inspired us who perhaps could help us find answers to our questions."
Institutionalization creates a hollow life based on shallow values and it leads to burnout. Humans find it very difficult to achieve work/life balance living shallow lives -- working for nothing but money and material gain. Even though they have been schooled from a very young age to accept institutionalization and the sensory blindness it causes. Getting together with a friend (love) and brainstorming new ways to live (creativity) and seeking independent expert advice (access to the world) are common and successful unschooling strategies.
4) "Our world seems like a heap of fragments and it's hard to see how they cohere. Wisdom has been replaced by knowledge and knowledge has been replaced by information, pieces of data, chunks of data."
Looking deeper into the institutionalization of our minds, the patterns of separation, limitation, and working for material gain (expressed in school as competition for the best grades) are repeated in the way we attempt to train children to think. Not only are children held apart from their families, their selves, the world, and free time with friends, children are specifically schooled to digest information in tightly controlled blocks of curriculum. Which, by the way, is a form of pedagogy that is not supported by current research on what creates smart human beings. Nor by our empirical experience in school nor by our feelings when we were kids. Or, for that matter, our feelings as adults. Compartmentalization creates isolation and time has shown it to be a false unwise God.
5) "One of the challenges we've had recently in business is that by going to this completely rational side, we have ground out, expunged, creativity from our company."
Speaking of false Gods, we school children to work for nothing but material gain only to discover that compartmentalization inhibits healthy growth and so, as growth is intrinsic to wealth, our system is fundamentally broken.
6) "I give this to my students, I think. Consider this people: you are awake in a scant 2 tablespoons of your brain. What about the rest of it?! Right?
This professor isn't referring to the outdated adage that we only use 10% of our brains as a function of evolution or natural biology. She is saying we've been trained to live only in our rationality, to disregard environmental stimulation and everything in us that is not rational. It's thought that the neurons transmitting our rational thought process equal about 2 tablespoons of tissue. Our brains are roughly 8 pounds. The potential lost connectivity is large -- a lot of potential brain damage.
7) "The prefrontal cortex is a bit of your brain that will help you with your learning. It will help you do the wise decisions that makes your prefrontal cortex the wise owl." (a child speaking)
Science has offered intriguing neurological evidence that most of our teenagers do not have a fully formed prefrontal cortex. We've used this information to suggest that teenagers are just not as smart as adults as a matter of biology. Rather than using this information for what it is -- suggestion of brain damage. Though not covered in this movie, there is emerging neurological evidence that infants register high levels of prefrontal activity. Where is the literal disconnect between infancy and teens -- it's schooled.
8) "To me, going to non is the absolute number one."
I'm not certain I have the correct words transcribed. But intuitively, I love this. I think it's a reiteration of the idea that we have to be comfortable with failure in order to grow a healthier society.
9) "Intuition is not just some pink and fluffy feeling."
Unschooling is the opposite of compartmentalization as a way of life and intentionally does not separate children from their innate sense of wonder or intuition or access to reality or ability to proceed. Partly because life is an interconnected phenomenon and not well accounted for by pure rationality. Integration is crucial to health and sustainable growth.
10) "The Polynesians were able to map almost the entire Pacific ocean without a tool because they listened to the ocean. We can't do that anymore."
Polynesian children, as in all indigenous cultures, were purely unschooled. The loss of unschooling has created a loss of aptitude.
11) "I think another thing that has been lost in our world is a sense of wonder, a sense of awe, a very rational appreciation that we can't know everything."
Obviously, right? They surely aren't teaching awe, a sense of wonder, or the idea that expert knowledge is drastically limited in school.
12) "It's awareness here and now on the world and that's everything."
Everyone getting this? Is this penetrating the institutionalization of your brain yet? Because it would be a really good idea to start paying attention to what's actually going on in our world right now, before we destroy it.