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Late night rantings:
H and I just watched this movie Intermission which was quite excellent. It has cops and love affairs and divorces and robberies and kidnappings and fistfights and wheelchair races and urine. I get my reccomends, plus it has Cillian Murphy, and it you don't know who that is...you need to do a better job keeping up with film. The film also features the actress who plays Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter movies, Collin Farrell, Colm Meany and much, much more!
On a completely unrelated topic, I've heard a lot of people talking about the FDA's recent blockage of over-the-counter sales of RU486. I imagine I'm going to get bashed for this, but here goes. If you're going to abort a foetus, you need to be seen by a doctor first. That seems like a no-brainer to me. If nothing else, it will guarantee that at least one other person in the world knows what you're doing for safety reasons. As we all know from our reading, terminating pregnancies can go terribly wrong. That's the whole point of keeping them legal in the first place: so that a reputable doctor can be involved. And while I support people's right to privacy, and to make thier own choices over their lives and thier bodies...at home abortions are just not foolproof. There are also many women who should not use RU486 because of certain health risks and sadly, many women with those risks who would probably take it anyway because of what they may percieve as severe need.
People have said what about poor women who can't afford a doctor? They should be going to a free clinic or other low cost medical facilities. There are many, at least in my state. And if there isn't enough low cost healthcare in some places, that should be remedied. At-home abortions are not the answer to not-enough clinics for the poor. Not to mention, that with choice, comes responsibility. Be responsible for your health and see a doctor if you want to terminate your pregnancy. And while your there, you might want to consider some form of birth control if you haven't already.
I have never subscribed to the philosphy that children are punishment for sex. Abortion should always remain safe and legal, but a doctor should always be involved. Just because a medicine is availible and safe doesn't mean it should be availible over the counter. The potential for misuse would be enormous, not to mention the issue of minors using it, likely in secret. *shudder*
On another crazy unrelated topic, I used to want a machine that could do this since I was a little kid. They used to have them at the movies theatres, before the film came on...this is back in the day when there were no commercials before films. But I didn't know they really made them for regular people to buy. Even though I would probably never spend on this, it's awfully cool to know it's there if I ever want one.
On a completely unrelated topic, I've heard a lot of people talking about the FDA's recent blockage of over-the-counter sales of RU486. I imagine I'm going to get bashed for this, but here goes. If you're going to abort a foetus, you need to be seen by a doctor first. That seems like a no-brainer to me. If nothing else, it will guarantee that at least one other person in the world knows what you're doing for safety reasons. As we all know from our reading, terminating pregnancies can go terribly wrong. That's the whole point of keeping them legal in the first place: so that a reputable doctor can be involved. And while I support people's right to privacy, and to make thier own choices over their lives and thier bodies...at home abortions are just not foolproof. There are also many women who should not use RU486 because of certain health risks and sadly, many women with those risks who would probably take it anyway because of what they may percieve as severe need.
People have said what about poor women who can't afford a doctor? They should be going to a free clinic or other low cost medical facilities. There are many, at least in my state. And if there isn't enough low cost healthcare in some places, that should be remedied. At-home abortions are not the answer to not-enough clinics for the poor. Not to mention, that with choice, comes responsibility. Be responsible for your health and see a doctor if you want to terminate your pregnancy. And while your there, you might want to consider some form of birth control if you haven't already.
I have never subscribed to the philosphy that children are punishment for sex. Abortion should always remain safe and legal, but a doctor should always be involved. Just because a medicine is availible and safe doesn't mean it should be availible over the counter. The potential for misuse would be enormous, not to mention the issue of minors using it, likely in secret. *shudder*
On another crazy unrelated topic, I used to want a machine that could do this since I was a little kid. They used to have them at the movies theatres, before the film came on...this is back in the day when there were no commercials before films. But I didn't know they really made them for regular people to buy. Even though I would probably never spend on this, it's awfully cool to know it's there if I ever want one.
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my mom & i watched it a few months ago & loved it.
(i like shirley henderson anyway).
i am SO sorry i wasnt able to make it on sunday.
i really super wanted to come but between mom sitting & my car being fucked up,
there was just no way. hopefully, we'll be able to hook up sometime soon. i have a
pile of stuff for you that just keeps growing.
:)
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That's making me want to plan another party. I'll probably have a movie night once I get a decent TV, which should be in about 2 weeks once I see my buddy who's loaning me one.
And yes, that movie kicked so much ass.
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you make some good points that I haven't even considered about RU486...my one worry, though, is all the doctors who won't prescribe the Pill to women because of their own personal moral objections...when women have a doctor who becomes a roadblock to access to birth control, I imagine it would be even more difficult for women to find doctors who would prescribe RU486...not necessarily impossible, but unnecessarily difficult...and that definitely needs to be remedied...
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and yes, it is very shocking!
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The point is, you shouldn't have a job that you can't do both correctly and objectively.
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If this were a completely insane belief(the idea that life begins at conception), then I would say that people would be correct in saying that a doctor has to prescribe the morning after pill if a patient wants it and it is safe. Plus, the guy probably shouldn't be a doctor if had completely bizarre delusional beliefs. But it's not completely insane. I'm of the opinion that we know so little about the origins and nature of life that almost no belief about these things is so bizarre that it should be completely discounted(Flying Spaghetti Monster, anyone?).
Now, I'm not saying that I believe in life at conception, but I'm also not prepared to say 100% for sure that it is not the case. We as human beings understand very little about the nature of life, individuality or the soul. Look at all of the different groups trying to explain it, but none of them adequately can. Religion, philosophy, science, but who knows which one(if any of them) are right. Not to mention that experts in each of these fields don't even always agree with each other. My point is that, to me, it actually seems quite wrong to basically force a doctor to do something that they believe is tantamount to murder or else they have to give up their job. Especially when it's possible(not very likely, but possible) that in the future, with more research or evolution or something, we could come to find out that they were right.
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However, if the doctor is a public doctor. In other words, he works at a free clinic, or he works at a public hospital. If the doctor receives public money to support his practice, then he doesn't get to decide. In that case, he is a servant of the people, and needs to abide by the law.
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And I hadn't even thought about the minors...go you for fully thinking about the issue!
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and Batman Begins leap to mind.
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28 Days Later is exceptional. But I can't possibly be the first person to tell you this. So scary...
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