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Redefinition of Everything
This is World Breastfeeding Week. Every year, from August 1st to 7th, more than 170 countries recognize this week as a way to promote and encourage breastfeeding. For almost all of human history, all children thrived on breast milk. In centuries past, elites often hired wet nurses, so the infants still got breast milk. Even the commoners would arrange for a wet nurse if the mother died or was unable to breastfeed for some other reason.
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture, Sexuality
Tagged birthing person, bodyfeeding, Breastfeeding, CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, chestfeeding, dry nurse, father’s milk, nursing
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Marketing Death and Alzheimer’s Disease
An April, 2019 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Attitudes Toward Physician-Assisted Death From Individuals Who Learn They Have an Alzheimer Disease Biomarker” found that approximately 20% of cognitively normal older adults who had elevated beta-amyloid — a biomarker that is thought to increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease — said they would consider physician-assisted suicide if they experienced a cognitive decline. Not everyone with amyloid plaques goes on to develop Alzheimer’s disease.
Although no state with legalized physician-assisted suicide currently allows lethal overdoses for people with Alzheimer’s or other dementia, Emily Largent, JD, PhD, …
Posted in Sanctity of Life
Tagged Alzheimer's, Assisted Suicide, Compassion and Choices, Death Cafes, dementia, economics, Ellen Goodman, Emily Largent, Hemlock Society, Journal of the American Medical Association, Living wills, medical ethics, nursing, The Conversation Project
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What You Need to Know About Medical Abortion and Abortion Reversal
[Last] month Governor Butch Otter signed a law making Idaho the fifth state to mandate that women getting a medical (drug-induced) abortion be told that the abortion may possibly be stopped after the first dose if the woman changes her mind about having the abortion. This abortion reversal process involves taking the hormone progesterone to counteract the first abortion drug mifepristone and before taking the second drug misoprostol 36-72 hours later that causes expulsion of the unborn baby.
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Tagged Abortion, Butch Otter, medical ethics, mental health, nursing, Planned Parenthood
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