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Stream: Did Ohio’s New Abortion Law Cause An Increase In Adverse Events?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwn0QBhy2TQ Today's post is at The Stream: Did Ohio's New Abortion Law Cause An Increase In Adverse Events? ...The drugs mifepristone and misoprostol are sometimes injected into pregnant women to…

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Religious Leaders File Brief To Support Abortion

Here's the story: "Nearly 1,300 Religious Leaders Sign Historic Brief Urging Supreme Court to Preserve a Woman's Right to [Kill Their Unborn]". Why are women so special they get the…

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Secularists Solemnize? Abortion Sacred?

The Center for Inquiry sent me a solicitation asking would I like to be trained, for a modest consideration, to be a "Secular Celebrant." What is that? As many as…

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Abortion Safety: Doctors V. Nurses & Physician Assistants & Midwives—Part II

Update 4 Too late. 10 October 2013. Update 4 Moved this to top because the bill allowing non-doctors to perform abortions is on Gov. Brown's desk. He'll likely sign, but…

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Abortion Safety: Doctors V. Nurses & Physician Assistants & Midwives—Part I

Cautionary Introduction In Part II, we will examine the paper "Safety of Aspiration Abortion Performed by Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, and Physician Assistants Under a California Legal Waiver" in…

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Significance Magazine Announces Its Pro-Abortion Position

Significance Magazine waded into the culture wars by publishing "Deciding abortions by the toss of a coin?" by somebody called Michael A. Lewis. Here (in case the article is pulled)…

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Prime Minister Kenny’s Abortion Bill Would Save One Life A Year, Take Others

Ireland's Prime Minister Enda---that's Enda, not Edna, the creature---Kenny is being snubbed by Cardinal Sean O'Malley. Reason? Kenny is being "honored" by Barely Catholic---a.k.a. BC, a.k.a. Boston College---because Kenny is…

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Academics Call For The Killing Of Babies In “After-Birth” Abortions

Update This is back in the news. This (lightly edited) post originally appeared 28 February 2012. Academic philosophers Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva---shockingly working in Australia1, a land where commonsense…

Uncle Mike on Class 96: Can Bayesianism Quantify True Belief?October 10, 2026
I give this post a 10.
John Pate on Viewer Asks: Why Do I Bother?October 9, 2026
Pretty much anything I write is for myself. I lack the discipline to keep a journal. One of my favourite…
hudbwu on Academics Call For The Killing Of Babies In “After-Birth” AbortionsOctober 8, 2026
Does a spematozoid have an aim? Then frustrating it's aim (by ejaculating wherever) would be harmful to the spermatozoid. Interesting…
John Jorgensen on Top 10 Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: It Won’t Destroy Nor Save UsOctober 6, 2026
It’s not the machines that are of concern but the models they run with great speed and access to huge…
James on Top 10 Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: It Won’t Destroy Nor Save UsOctober 5, 2026
Assuming a 100% materialist world view, one must conclude that one's OWN thought processes are just so many particles exchanging…