Posts by Simon

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UK Contaminated Blood Scandal

by Simon in

up to 30,000 people contracted hiv and hepatitis c in the 1970s and 80s after being given blood treatments or transfusions on the nhs.. thousands have since died.. it just goes to show there is no such thing as a sure thing.. the wts may be wrong about their blood doctrine, and their bible interpretation to justify it, and how they enforced the rules about it, but ultimately may be correct in claiming that "bloodless surgery" was a safer option medically.. canada also had a contaminated blood scandal, where 30,000 were infected with hepatitis c and hiv.. in other news, paying for blood from high-risk donors is a bad idea.

who knew?

well apparently the people behind the schemes did, and that's why they covered it up.. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61929986.

Simon

Up to 30,000 people contracted HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 80s after being given blood treatments or transfusions on the NHS.

Thousands have since died.

It just goes to show there is no such thing as a sure thing.

The WTS may be wrong about their blood doctrine, and their bible interpretation to justify it, and how they enforced the rules about it, but ultimately may be correct in claiming that "bloodless surgery" was a safer option medically.

Canada also had a contaminated blood scandal, where 30,000 were infected with Hepatitis C and HIV.

In other news, paying for blood from high-risk donors is a bad idea. Who knew? Well apparently the people behind the schemes did, and that's why they covered it up.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61929986

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Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

by Simon in

i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

Simon

If you don’t accept abortions, you either don’t care about any circumstance that could warrant an abortion or most circumstances.

Can you point to anyone saying anything remotely like this?

It's possible to be against abortion in general, the frivolous use of abortion and promotion of abortion as some "wonderful achievement" for political purposes, and simultaneously have sympathy for individual cases where people are in difficult situations.

One particularly sad group are trafficked women, forced into prostitution, that Planned Parenthood could do more to help and rescue but instead perpetuate their suffering by erasing the "problem" so they can be put back to work.

Laws should be viewed holistically. Human traffickers should face the death penalty.

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Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

by Simon in

i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

Simon

If prostitution is the oldest profession, then performing abortions for those women is probably the second oldest.

At one time, birth control was difficult and had a high failure rate. And pregnancy & childbirth was dangerous and had a higher death rate.

But we're in 2022 now, not the 1800's. Things have changed.

Birth control is surely easier and safer than abortion.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

And, in my opinion, if it does some large percentage of Witnesses will just go find somebody else to run their lives for them

Exactly, the WTS fills a niche. If they were removed something else just like them would fill that same niche.

So don't waste your life and energy on a pointless crusade.

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Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

by Simon in

i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

Simon

with stigma and shame attached.

Really? I don't think there is any shame for anything nowadays.

It'd be a tough situation, but make better choices and choose better partners.

There are lots of stories of people who go through the same thing and stick together and have a wonderful family and child as a result.

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Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

by Simon in

i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

Simon

But every government statistic i've found states that less than 1% of abortions take place after 21 weeks and usually for medical reasons. ... Has it ever been done unnecessarily? Probably. But I suspect "late term abortion" is mostly a bogeyman used to appeal to people's emotions.

Likewise with claims about rape and incest.

It makes it all the more bizarre that they want to push for this to be allowed, given that it's so rarely necessary. it certainly shouldn't qualify as "elective".

Viability before 22 weeks is zero. There is no dependability. The body cannot depend on anything and still survive at that stage

Viability is the wrong thing to talk about. Science changes, and lots of people are not viable without medical care. Can we just kill all them too?

I think 18 weeks is a safe limit. Plenty of time to make the choice.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

I just hope to see Watchtower collapse soon

Seriously, stop hoping. It's a waste of energy because it's not going to happen. Spend you hopes on things with actual potential. The people selling this are snake-oil salesmen (possibly deluding themselves, or just haven't thought it all through properly).

As a thought experiment, can you think of any religious group anywhere close to their size that has simply evaporated to nothing and vanished?

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Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

by Simon in

i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

Simon

If someone has an objection to 1st trimester abortion, then it seems that throws the morning after pill out the window as well

I don't, but it wouldn't. The latter is really preventing a pregnancy starting, as far as I understand, more like "taking root", vs undoing something already started.

It depends a lot on the definition of "conception" - whether that is sperm meets egg, or fertilized egg sticks to tube (hard to believe I'm not a doctor, right?)

But either way, I don't see many people arguing against that. Which takes us back to this being something the left did to themselves by pushing the line way past where most decent people think it should be.

Chopping up just-delivered babies is simply sick and evil and anyone pushing for it should be investigated. Anyone who's done it for a non-medical reason should face the death penalty.

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Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

by Simon in

i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

Simon

Regardless of a person's personal and religious feelings on the subject, the tie-in to the Constitution (i.e. That the right to privacy guaranteed in the 1st, 3rd, 4th & 5th Amendments speaks to the legality of a medical procedure) was fanciful, to put it mildly.

Exactly, it was piss-poor "legaling" and the original case and ruling were an aberration that has now been corrected. The ruling was aborted you might say.

You could use that same reasoning to effectively make any crime legal and protected as a right by the state. Getting caught doing anything, including murder, could be ruled a violation of your privacy, but someone else's more fundamental rights take precedence.

The right to life.

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Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

by Simon in

i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

Simon

I think this is a good summary of why Roe vs Wade got overturned (apart from it being legal garbage). The left did this to themselves by pushing for partial-birth abortions:

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1540880126576996352