Asia facing tobacco-related disease ‘epidemic’: experts
Not for our children, but other children…! Ugh I hate people.
Probable Carcinogens Found in Baby Toiletries
Oh my, the FDA needs help.
$125 Million Is Pledged to Big Medical Center
I love that he lives modestly and gave anonymously. I also love this quotation:
“Just think,” Mr. Feeney said Thursday, reflecting on the global economic downturn, “if wealthy people had given away more of the money they had over the last decade, they wouldn’t have lost it.”
Nine-Year-Old’s Abortion Outrages Brazil’s Catholic Church
Archibishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of the coastal city of Recife announced that the Vatican was excommunicating the family of a local girl who had been raped and impregnated with twins by her stepfather, because they had chosen to have the girl undergo an abortion. The Church excommunicated the doctors who performed the procedure as well. “God’s laws,” said the archbishop, dictate that abortion is a sin and that transgressors are no longer welcome in the Roman Catholic Church.
Nevermind that a young life was saved. Would the Archbishop have preferred that two innocent children die? This is not a case of a promiscuous woman using abortion as birth control.
Edit:
Vatican backs abortion row bishop
The girl, who lives in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco, was allegedly sexually assaulted over a number of years by her stepfather, possibly since she was six.
The fact that she was four months’ pregnant with twins was only discovered after she was taken to hospital in Pernambuco complaining of stomach pains.
Her stepfather was arrested last week, allegedly as he tried to escape to another region of the country.
He is also suspected of abusing the girl’s physically handicapped 14-year-old sister.
Yet still let the girl birth twins?
I have faith that gay marriage will become legal.
The entire debate is about semantics. The government is not regulating that churches sanction homosexual marriages. When individuals marry, the government grants certain rights and the church (if they so choose to also be married by a church) grants other rights. These rights exist in different spheres. Government endowed rights and religious endowed rights are not the same. This needs to be recognized. There is a marriage license authorized by the government, and marriage license authorized by a religious institution. They are separate. The government needs to grant and recognize heterosexual and homosexual marriages. This license operates in the legal realm. Government acknowledgement of marriage has no relevance in the religious sphere.
The government must grant the same rights to all people. This is equality. There is nothing about religion here, except that the failure of morality describes separate but equal.
To express my disgust with inequality, support for those who are oppressed, and bewilderment that forms of love can be viewed as illegitimate, I will not marry until gay marriages are legally recognized by the U.S. government.
BACTERIA ON MY BAWL