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How about not cutting up babies period? The American Academy of Pediatrics has suggested a new way to fight female genital mutilation in the United States: Allow doctors to give girls a “nick” down there. In a policy statement titled “Ritual Genital Cutting of Female Minors,” the Academy suggests that allowing such a ritual could [...]

Even if you’ve only existed for a few seconds: “He wasn’t t turning pink fast enough,” Tracy said. “When they listened to his chest, they realized he had an issue.” That turned out to be d-transposition of the great arteries, a defect in which the two major vessels that carry blood away from the heart are [...]

From Reddit: A French mother murdered six of her newborn babies in almost as many years and hid their bodies in a basement, a court was told yesterday. Celine Lesage, 38, from Valognes, a village in northwestern France, faces life in prison for “aggravated homicide” after choking four babies by placing her finger in their mouths [...]

CNN: Should parents be allowed to bring their babies and children to bars? It is a question in Brooklyn, New York, that’s fired up online arguments, prompted unofficial protests and made outsiders giggle. And while the issue may not be exclusive to that area, it’s the stuff disputes are made of in what Sasha’s dad, [...]

On May 21, 2009, Oklahoma’s governor signed the Statistical Reporting of Abortion Act pdf. The act requires, as a condition of having the procedure done, that each woman fill out an “Individual Abortion Form” containing personal details, including age, county where abortion was performed, race, marital status, years of education, state of residence, number and [...]

It’s also bull to say that religious beliefs are more fundamental than sexuality, because you do not choose to be gay or straight, but religious views are completely socialized. Babies don’t come flying out of the womb crying “Save me Jesus!!” via Comment on Jezebel on the APA Declaring “Reparative Therapy” For Gays Is Useless [...]

What really got their blood up was those horrible abortions and the poor little babies–they got high off of their self-righteousness, because they were warriors of the Lord, protecting the helpless little babies.. I mean, prevent one abortion, and you’re like a superhero who saved a baby from a speeding train. What can compete with [...]

Tucking this away for reference: I am also the prime sponsor of HR 300, which would negate the effect of Roe v Wade by removing the ability of federal courts to interfere with state legislation to protect life. This is a practical, direct approach to ending federal court tyranny which threatens our constitutional republic and [...]

From Boston Globe: Actually, parent-child play of this sort has been virtually unheard of throughout human history, according to the anthropologist David Lancy. And three-fourths of the world’s current population would still find that mother’s behavior kind of dotty. American-style parent-child play is a distinct feature of wealthy developed countries — a recent byproduct of [...]

I like events like this – when doctrine is revealed to be fluid and human (even if it is centuries behind): “The conclusion of this study is that there are theological and liturgical reasons to hope that infants who die without baptism may be saved and brought into eternal happiness even if there is not [...]

Holy hymens, Batman! A teacher out in the burbs had the nerve to teach sex ed and suggest that maybe – just maybe – genitals go other places besides other monogamous child-making one-ping-only genitals: “How to penetrate the vagina, ejaculation and stuff like that,” Hampton said of the materials. “I think the parents felt it [...]

I don’t give a shit about Tom and Katie. Hugs, Andy p.s.  A much more exciting story is the rumors that Tom carries a genetic marker to sire cyclops babies or that Nicole was really an XY-chromosome woman.

Yes, I am completely immature. I read the website for the souped-up beanbag, the LoveSac and chortled at a select few quotes and the implications of scrotal imagery: Utility straps reduce the size of your Sac to fit through doors and crevices. For those who can’t handle the sheer girth of a SuperSac, we offer [...]

(spent the hour of the Oscars watching 24 on A & E but I did see the montage of homoerotic western quotes including Gregory Peck propositioning (was it?) Charlton Heston) I like all the constant references to how you can only experience the power of cinema in front of a big screen. I think this [...]

Okay not really. But it is a nice video mix of Oprah’s Jame Frey shakedown and the legendary ‘I WILL EAT YOUR BABIES’ Tom Crusie episode.

(from the Thanksgiving trip – written on Wednesday, November 24) It is Wednesday morning and I am zooming to Midway in a taxi. It is 6:17 am and it is snowing. Yes, friends, snowing. One annoyance with this old Sony PCG-SRX87 is that the hard drive never seems to shut up. There’s over half of [...]

Cherie goes for the Lysistrata approach: (not agreeing with her equating pregnancy as hosting a parasite) This is about women having sex, and who gets to be in charge of that sex. Most of the people who object to the wide, easy availability of birth control are men. These men have the luxury of assuming [...]

Arcim Perri blogs this nugget: For every hour of television watched daily, two groups of children — ages 1 and 3 — faced a 10 percent increased risk of having attention problems at age 7. Unrealistically fast-paced visual images typical of most TV programming may alter normal brain development. “The newborn brain develops very rapidly [...]

The funniest faux commercial ever (QuickTime movie) for Nutrigrain. Another film asks the question: Someone, please think of the pinatas!

Metafilter dicussion regarding the right-to-die case in Florida: “The Florida legislature just decided that the governor has the right to not only override the court, but in a way that authorizes him to decide on his own whim who lives and who dies.” The thread also includes news about the ban on partial-birth abortions that [...]