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Category Archive: Reproduction
Mar 13 2013
Strident Catholics hurt my brain
I can call them ‘strident,’ can’t I? They apply it to atheists all the time, and this is clearly a case where the adjective is perfectly appropriate. It’s an opinion piece by a militant (I can use that, too!) Catholic who traces the fall of America to a court decision in 1972. This year, the …
Mar 06 2013
DON’T TELL MY WIFE!
An organization called the Susan B. Anthony List — it’s an adamantly anti-choice group that has neatly named itself after an icon of women’s liberation — has a wonderful president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, who not only opposes abortion, but is dead set against contraception. She argues here that increasing availability of contraception leads to increasing rates …
Jan 25 2013
Science doesn’t say that!
Have you ever noticed how the religious regard ‘scientism’ and ‘reductionism’ and demands for concrete evidence as barely a notch above obscenities? That is, until they need to reduce complex issues to simplistic claims and don the mantle of Science to support their beliefs. Then they become Holy Writ. You can really see this behavior …
Nov 15 2012
Aaaaaieee! Why did you have to tell me that?
I lived in blissful ignorance, once upon a time. And then people told me about symphysiotomy, a medical procedure in which doctors sawed through the pubic symphysis to crack open the pelvis and open it wide…to make childbirth easier. From the comments at that link: They viewed symphysiotomy (wrongly) as a gateway to childbearing without …
Nov 05 2012
Think of it as God’s bloody practical joke
Wow. I had no idea that some Catholics would go so far as to prevent simple procedures to remove ectopic pregnancies. These are conditions in which the zygote implants in the wrong place — the fallopian tube, rather than the uterus. The embryo can grow for a while, but not long, before it reaches a …
Nov 02 2012
A better recording of the Matt Dillahunty vs. Kristine Kruszelnicki debate
I’m not sure why you’d want a higher quality recording of that beat-down, but here’s the official Texas Freethought Convention recording of the abortion debate.
Oct 30 2012
Screw those women and neuroscientists, we should let Kant make abortion decisions!
William Egginton has an op-ed in the NYT in which he suggests that neuroscience might challenge Roe v. Wade. It’s long — about 1900 words — and it’s revealing that in all the ambiguous fudging about whether a fetus is conscious, there is no consideration at all for the woman wrapped around it. In fact, …
Oct 24 2012
What the embryologists really say
The anti-choice advocates are always citing a handful of embryologists in order to claim that scientists say human life begins at fertilization. The one fellow who is always getting cited in these claims is Keith L. Moore, a very familiar name in embryology circles, because he wrote several introductory texts on human embryology. I thought …
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