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All Our Institutions Are Controlled by Democrats
Just before the midterm elections, the Journal of the American Medical Association released an “abortion issue.” JAMA generally summarizes the latest research in various fields of medicine. But in this issue, every article was about abortion. And, shockingly, every article took the same view, and they made no effort to hide their biases in articles such as “Advancing Birth Equity in a Post-Dobbs US,” “Health Care Access and Reproductive Rights,” and on and on.
Note the cover art — a huge man in a suit, with a sad-looking doctor and woman cowering in his shadow. Again, this is ostensibly a medical journal, seeking only objective truth in scientific research, right? No. This is political advertising that the Republicans just can’t buy. And the Democrats don’t have to buy it – it’s free. Nearly all of our institutions are like this. It’s a miracle that Republicans ever win anything…
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At some point, non-woke doctors should form their own institutions, to replace the decayed institutions.
Great idea. Ditto for educators and other professions. The sooner the better.
And very few on the Left understand that today’s very pretty socialism, with its lavender unicorns, its lavish promises of a Universal Income, the “imagined” one world government that will forever end wars, will be tomorrow’s communism.
And that communism comes complete with NKVD officers, rousting the Lefties from their beds at 4Am, so they can earn their universal incomes inside a US gulag.
One way would be to have people show up in AZ and other states where cheating has been proven. In the hundreds of thousands.
But no, people who could afford to do this in terms of time and money would much rather be keyboard warriors typing out whether Trump is better than DeSantis or vice versa.
I’m sure that’s correct, but I don’t think most Republicans get what we did wrong in the 90s.
The whole West did every single thing wrong in the face of the wage deflation and job destruction from automation and globalize labor.
Deirdre McCloskey is right about everything. Look it up. Bourgeoisie values.
We need libertarian-almost-everything and we need to stop being so stupid about how human capital is actually developed.
Trading with the Chinese mafia was Western suicide. We could have imported deflation from anywhere else.
When You Vote Democrat You Are Not Getting Scoop Jackson, Lloyd Bentsen, Or Daniel Patrick Moynihan™
None Of Those Guys Are Coming Back™
To the extent I can figure out that gobbledegook, the complaint is that trying to prevent abortion interferes with the original and continuing racial aspect of the purpose of abortion – eliminate black babies.
Note, some explicitly right-wing orgs. still become left-wing.
It is hard when you see things like “Black Therapists Tea ” promoted and defended when people point out the issues with that.
We had a proposition on our Tuesday ballot here in Calif and it was positioned at the top of all the other propositions.
Its major reason for being there was to have citizens declare whether they were for or against abortions on demand at any stage in the pregnancy.
One odd thing about it is that when you looked into this issue, this exact piece of legislation has already been put into law here. So why there is a need to have a second confirming proposition on hand, I can’t figure out. (The proposition passed. No surprise there.)
Second thought I need to express – I’m over 70 and in my entire life, I have known of only two women who sought out a late term abortion. One was a HS aged individual whose mother steered here into that route. (Mid seventies – I know the procedure was gruesome but do not know if it meant leaving the MidWest for New York or what.)
The other was a rather flaky woman who in the 1970’s was six months along before she thought about her pregnancy one way or another. I never met this person but no one I knew could figure out why she didn’t just end the pregnancy by letting the baby be born and adopting it out. (And I knew some rabidly pro-abortion people at the time.)
So where I am going with this is that I believe it is very very rare that a woman would abort her baby at the 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 month mark.
However, if the law is such that a mother is not responsible for the baby’s life or death even if the baby is 8months along or is actually born, who else does this absolve from criminal penalties?
My answer to that question is: absolution goes to the hospitals, Silly!
I forget the amount of monies that hospitals are paid for the organs of a five month old fetus. It is something around 20K to 30K. But if it is a full term baby, who is kept alive til the moment that the hospital admin knows where to send the organs, the total to be paid to the delivering hospital is 50K.
The immorality of hospital staff in terms of delivered babies is nothing new. In the mid 1970’s I knew of a couple living n Wisconsin whose baby was born with hydroencephalopathy.
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The delivering doctor convinced the couple that it would be best to surrender their baby to the hospital as that way the best care available would be provided.
But a nurse who worked there and was their close friend let them know, after they had handed the baby over, that there would be no “best care” provided to the infant.
Instead their son would be kept in a dark room, with no liquid nourishment or even water provided, until “it” died.
The parents took the only route they could figure out that would get the infant back in their arms before he died. They snuck in the hospital at night and kidnapped their baby back.
Then they had relatives who knitted bonnets so the infant had the afflicted part of his head covered. The baby had mother’s milk and lots of love from everyone in the family and community. He was not going to live long, less than a month. But he was alive in every sense of the word. He radiated an angelic presence, as though he was put on earth to experience his parents’ love and also so that they would experience his.
Such a kidnapping would not be possible in this day and age. Hospitals now have top of the line security systems and plenty of security guards. The local press, which would have been called in to report the dastardly cruelty of this hospital’s staff had criminal proceedings been begun against the parents, still employed actual journalists. It was still a free press.
In this day and age, the editor at even a local paper would most likely nix such a story, as the advertising revenue from some local hospital franchises is just too much for a small local newspaper to lose.
Will the doctors doing the genital mutilation on kids today regret their actions in a few decades? Or, will they quietly deny their participation in these atrocities like doctors did after their crimes in the 1930’s.
If the PTB were sincere about “birth equity” then no father would be denied seeing his wife give birth due to vaccine mandates.
No woman whose older child had already become autistic due to a vaccine would be inanely pressured by hospital staff – during her actual delivery – to sign paperwork to allow the Hep b vax to be given soon after the baby is born. Without her signing that, the pain meds are denied.
Hospitals in the Deep South would not be currently restricting the right of a woman to check her and her baby out due to the intense nastiness of nursing staff, and then CPS is called and right at the door of the hospital, police grapple with the woman and take her infant away.
Perhaps these doctors’ participation should be made public; very public.
For example, The Republican Party.
I think it is happening but only on the fringes: concierge or direct pay docs and homeschool co-ops. (I suppose there may be truly private hospitals but I don’t know of them and couldn’t access them at the likely price.) It’s hard to say which is more destructive and immediately damaging: The corporatization of medicine with government oversight; or, the dilution and transformation of public and perhaps secular private education as well. Patients are no longer the customers and their well being isn’t necessarily the priority and children aren’t learning necessary and illuminating knowledge.
I would bet A LOT that the reason for unlimited abortion is the financial incentive for viable baby organs. Planned parenthood wants the income and researchers want unfettered research.
No, but I’ll put it this way, her appearance and manly presence said a lot.
A recent New England Journal of Medicine defense of masks in schools couldn’t stop with masks in schools and had to jabber about structural racism.
Thinking that masks do anything at an aggregate level should be a sign of mental illness.
Yeah.
And the idea that they are needed to slow down transmission of the unstoppable virus among kids who don’t need it–also a mistake.
It’s alot more than a mistake; it limits a kids development.
No, they will safely enjoy the financial gain acquired performing the proceedures.
Yes.
And we still have barely begun to list the problems with these policies.
Yeah, a tranny is right about everything. Whatever. McCloskey is insane, literally. He is a man pretending to be a woman and calling himself “Dierdre.”
You libertarians are a big part of the problem. You enable all of this evil, by preventing decent people from stopping it in the name of Liberty for the depraved.
Democrats:
Someone needs to use that as a post title sometime.
You should see how upset local Democrats are after the election. Much of the county government flipped to red. They long acted as if government office belong to them.
The reason I put a large picture of the cover in my original post, was so that people could read the names of the articles in the journal. Our editors have shrunk the size of that picture, so you can’t read the titles. I will paste a larger copy below, for those who are interested.
I think they will come to regret their actions when these mutilated and/or chemically castrated kids grow up, are horrified when faced with the long-term consequences of these procedures that they were too young to understand fully at the time, and start suing. Then there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Another one may be the reasoning in the article itself. Wait for a new post, or . . . or ask me later.
I mean the public policy. I have no idea of what to do about his / her psychological problems.