Sometimes you have to be a dick as an advocate for your family/friends etc to get anything done. The business and ego side of hospitals are disgusting.
Rabbi Rachael Pass writes her abortion was "deeply Jewish" and expressed concern over Jews denied religious freedom by anti abortion laws. https://www.businessinsider.com/jewish-rabbi-abortion-first-amendment-religious-rights-2022-7
I suppose there are some doctors out there who rely solely on textbooks, but I suspect that most have learned to use a new-fangled thing called the Internet. Edit: for some reason this showed as the latest reply, I see now that I'm responding to a older message. Feel free to ignore. barfo
I don't think anybody is disagreeing with this. I just don't know what can be done to address it, aside from removing the profit motive from healthcare and implementing an easily searchable nationwide database... Which sounds awesome. I'm all for it.
And how do you access these parent groups? Do y'all meet in a basement somewhere? Or is it on... the internet? No doubt. I think most doctors would agree with you on that as well. It's a bummer that you ran into one who didn't try to refer you to an appropriate specialist. barfo
1. Doctors aren't perfect 2. Some are better than others 3. For major decisions, get a second opinion from a specialist 4. None of that has anything to do with forcing women to carry pregnancies against their will.
Accused child sex trafficker Matt Gaetz came out with the same old line, women who talk about our rights are too ugly to be fucked. That's their idea of political discourse. I guess anyone over 18 is an old bag to Matty.
Some people might think you are exaggerating if they haven't read or listened to his vile words. But holy shit, his speech was absolutely disgusting. Like to the point that any Christian that supports him and a party that props him up is definitely on their way to hell (I don't believe in hell, but you get my point). You Republicans and Christians need to police your own, or you will lose all respect and agency in politics.
This right here. Very well said. Republicans and Christians who aren't loudly denouncing this are killing their party and religion.
I don't know who Matt Gaetz is, but it sounds like I don't want to. I will say, if I had to take the time to denounce every person who claimed to be a Christian yet behaved in an unChristian way, I'd have little time for anything else.
If you care about the popularity of Christianity I would suggest paying attention. It's not going to end well. *And I don't mean that as an insult to you. It's literally just a suggestion.
The thing is, I literally don't care about "the popularity of Christianity". My role, scripturally, is to grow in my my relationship to God, to seek to glorify Him with my words, my actions, my life, to serve Him within my local church, to share His love with others through service in my local community, and if called to do so, to move outside of my community to spread the gospel. If in the course of those Biblical responsibilities, I encounter a member of the church community who is behaving in a way not befitting of the body of believers, then I have a responsibility to correct gently, with the goal of restoring relationship with God and others. Jesus told a parable about seed being scattered in different types of ground; one of those was among thorns, in which the seed grew up and was choked by those thorns, thus remaining unfruitful. He then said that the thorns were representative of the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth. This is one of many reasons generally don't get involved in the political discussions on this board--I know that getting too wrapped up in worldly matters is only going to hinder me. If I knew this guy personally, if he were part of my church body, I would absolutely speak to him and try to show him the error of his ways. I do not, so I will continue going on with my life, with my relationship with God, hoping that the love of Jesus and the peace of the Holy Spirit will shine through.
Amazingly (but really, unsurprisingly), my reading this morning fits in with this sentiment: The message of the Bible is not about control or about condemnation, but about reconciliation. God made a way for our relationship with Him to be restored, and our job is to continually pursue closeness in that relationship, while also sharing that way of reconciliation with others whom we encounter. So I'm not going to go out of my way to denounce people--especially people I don't know and have never met--because that doesn't really fit in with the message and goal of reconciliation with which I've been tasked.
