A little late on announcing this but…
This is De-Lurking Week.Â? If you’re a lurker, comment and say “hi” to me so I can get to know who you are.
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Category Archives: Personal Issues
Hear the Words of Lauren Winner…
In the spirit of Dreama’s post today, hear this passage from Mudhouse Sabbath:
… the shopping expedition [where she finds that she can’t fit into a medium dress] was good proof that, though I believe God has something to say about human bodies, I generally tune God out and listen to Cosmopolitan instead.Â? I’m pretty sure that God, if he called to chat about my body, would say things like, “I like your body.Â? I created your body, and if you have read the first chapter of Genesis lately, you might recall that I called Creation good.” (pp.66-67)
I dunno… the quote just came to me while reading the post.Â? And duuuuude, I want the scale from the article that she cites.
(Oh yes… this book needs to be on the wishlist of a certain Episcopalian I know.)
Being a CopyCat
From Dreama:
Ask me three questions, no more no less. Ask me anything you want about anything youâ????d like. I will answer almost anything, though I reserve the right to answer evasively, coyly or jokingly as necessary.
To Donald Rumsfeld Re: My Moral Confusion
I’m putting this letter behind a cut so that people have a choice of whether they want to read this. If you click on the cut, you are choosing to listen to me and what I believe. If you don’t like it, deal with it. My blog = my choice of content.
–The Management
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Let’s Get Some Things Straight Here
CNN.Com: Plan B advocates seek access for all
Since one of the idiot LCMS seminarians on LJ has proclaimed that “now you don’t even need a doctor to murder children” and I’ve heard others refer to it as “candy for sluts”, I think we need to get some things straight:
- This is not an abortion pill. It creates conditions in which the fetus is unlikely to form. (It causes the endometrium to change.)Â? If the fetus doesn’t form, you don’t have a living being and thus cannot be killing. I’m not sure what’s so difficult about the idea of not being able to kill something that isn’t alive. The abortion pill is RU-486. That one *is* actually dangerous and there have been women who have died while using it. Go rip that drug company a new one!
- This is simply a more concentrated dose of birth control. It’s the equivalent of taking 2 doses of 4 birth control pills at 12-hour intervals. How do I know this? I’ve lived in a part of the country where they don’t dispense it and so doctors will prescribe birth control pills and give specific dosing instructions.
- It will not cause a rise in promiscuity. Ironically, the group that would be most promiscuous in this circumstance is the “under 17” group who still needs a prescription to obtain the medication. The 18+ crowd would either remain constant or drop due to correct contraceptive usage.
- It will not cause a rise in teen pregnancy. OK… if the under-17 crowd can’t get their hands on it, exactly how will its OTC status raise the teen pregnancy rate? Most 18 year olds are at least smart enough to use contraception if they are going be sexually active.
- It will not be taken like candy. OK… this is emergency contraception. One does not take it unless… it’s an emergency!!!! Those who have taken it report moderate to severe nausea and cramping being among the side effects. If a medication is going to make you severely nauseous, why would you be taking it on a regular basis?!?!?!?
I hate to break it to those in the pro-life community but… you either need to be pro-choice or pro-contraception. You can’t have it both ways because morality cannot be legislated. While I am pro-life in that I do not believe that abortion should be a viable form of birth control, I also believe that we live in a fallen world and if people are going to be engaging in sexual relationships outside of the context of marriage, there needs to be adequate contraception.