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Holidays 6.13
Holidays
Beyond the Solar System Day
Dia de Exu (Brazil)
Flag Day (Palau)
International Albinism Awareness Day (UN)
International Axe Throwing Day
International Community Association Managers Day
Inventors’ Day (Hungary)
Jason Voorhees Day
Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
Loeys-Dietz Day of Giving
Miranda Day
National Albinism Awareness Day
National Chamoy Day
National Dance/Movement Therapy Advocacy Day
National Day of Abortion Storytelling Day
National Day of Productive Business Civility
National Doe B Day
National Elderflower Day
National Frances Day
National Jane Day
National Pigeon Day
National Productive Business Civility Day
National Random Acts of Light Day
National Weed Your Garden Day
Outdoor Marketing Day
Random Acts of Light Day
Roller Coaster Day
San Antonio Day (Ceuta, Spain)
Sewing Machine Day
Suleimaniah City Fallen and Martyrs Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Swiftie Day
Tench Day (French Republic)
Weed Your Garden Day
The Wicket World of Croquet Day
World Softball Day
Yawn-a-thon
Yeats Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Cupcake Lover’s Day
National Cucumber Day
Rosé Day [also 2nd Saturday]
2nd Tuesday in June
Broadcast Good Day [2nd Tuesday]
Call Your Doctor Day [2nd Tuesday]
National Forklift Safety Day [2nd Tuesday]
National Time Out Day [2nd Tuesday]
Waldchestag (Forest Day) [Tuesday after Whit Sunday]
World Pet Memorial Day [2nd Tuesday; also 2nd Sunday]
Independence Days
Princian Commonwealth (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Annie Sprinkle Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church (Christian; Saint) [Portugal]
Aquilina (Christian; Saint)
Buddha's Parinirvana (Bhutan)
Cetteus (Peregrinus; Christian; Saint)
Damhnade of Ireland (Christian; Saint)
Day of the Living Children of Nut (Ancient Egypt)
Feast of Epona (Celtic; Pagan)
Felicula (Christian; Saint)
Festival of Jupiter Invictus (Jupiter the Unconquered)
G. K. Chesterton (Episcopal Church (USA))
Gerard of Clairvaux (Christian; Saint)
Gin Day (Pastafarian)
Gotthard Graubner (Artology)
Green Day (Pastafarian)
Ides of June (Ancient Rome)
Leon Chwistek (Artology)
Psalmodius (Christian; Saint)
Quinquatrus Minusculae (Old Roman Festival to Minerva)
Ragnebert (a.k.a. Rambert; Christian; Saint)
The Spaniel (Muppetism)
St. Theresa (Positivist; Saint)
Thomas Woodhouse (Christian; Blessed)
Triphyllius (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Premieres
The Apocalypse Watch, by Robert Ludlum (Novel; 1995)
Back to School (Film; 1986)
Backwoods Bunny (WB LT Cartoon; 1959)
BrainDead (TV Series; 2016)
Day of Infamy, by Walter Lord (History Book; 1957)
Faith and Courage, by Sinead O’Connor (Album; 2000)
Forever Your Girl, by Paula Abdul (Album; 1988)
Hercules (Animated Disney Film; 1997)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Animated Film; 2014)
The Incredible Hulk (Film; 2008)
Jagged Little Pill, by Alan’s Morrisette (Album; 1995)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Film; 1949)
Lolita (Film; 1962)
Make It With You, by Bread (Song; 1970)
Mona Lisa (Film; 1986)
Pat and Mike (Film; 1952)
Post, by Björk (Album; 1995)
The Prince and the Showgirl (Film; 1957)
Prozac Nation (Film; 2003)
Roadie (Film; 1980)
Texas Flood, by Stevie Ray Vaughan (Album; 1983)
22 Jump Street (Film; 2014)
…Very ‘Eavy …Very ‘Umble, by Uriah Heel (Album; 1970)
Vida La Vida, by Coldplay (Song; 2008)
The Washout Chronicle, by John Cheever (Novel; 1957)
Wholly Moses (Film; 1980)
The World is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman (Economics Book; 2005)
Yodeling Yokels (WB LT Cartoon; 1931)
You Only Live Twice (US Film; 1967) [James Bond #5]
Today’s Name Days
Antonius, Bernhard (Austria)
Antonija, Antun, Toni (Croatia)
Antonín (Czech Republic)
Cyrillus (Denmark)
Monika, Mooni, Moonika (Estonia)
Raila, Raili (Finland)
Antoine (France)
Anton, Antonius, Bernhard (Germany)
Trifilios (Greece)
Anett, Antal (Hungary)
Alice, Antonio (Italy)
Ainārs, Tautvaldis, Tobijs, Uva, Zigfrīds, Zigrids (Latvia)
Akvilina, Antanas, Kunotas, Skalvė (Lithuania)
Tanja, Tone, Tonje (Norway)
Antoni, Chociemir, Herman, Lucjan, Maria Magdalena, Tobiasz (Poland)
Achilina (România)
Anton (Slovakia)
Antonio (Spain)
Aina, Aino (Sweden)
Kalyna (Ukraine)
Ivey, Ivy, Lara, Larissa (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 164 of 2024; 201 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 2 of week 24 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 2 of 28]
Chinese: Month 4 (Ding-Si), Day 26 (Red-Yin)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 24 Sivan 5783
Islamic: 24 Dhu al-Qada 1444
J Cal: 14 Sol; Sevenday [14 of 30]
Julian: 31 May 2023
Moon: 20%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 24 St. Paul (6th Month) [St. Theresa]
Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 4 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 85 of 92)
Zodiac: Gemini (Day 23 of 32)
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Holidays 6.13
Holidays
Beyond the Solar System Day
Dia de Exu (Brazil)
Flag Day (Palau)
International Albinism Awareness Day (UN)
International Axe Throwing Day
International Community Association Managers Day
Inventors’ Day (Hungary)
Jason Voorhees Day
Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
Loeys-Dietz Day of Giving
Miranda Day
National Albinism Awareness Day
National Chamoy Day
National Dance/Movement Therapy Advocacy Day
National Day of Abortion Storytelling Day
National Day of Productive Business Civility
National Doe B Day
National Elderflower Day
National Frances Day
National Jane Day
National Pigeon Day
National Productive Business Civility Day
National Random Acts of Light Day
National Weed Your Garden Day
Outdoor Marketing Day
Random Acts of Light Day
Roller Coaster Day
San Antonio Day (Ceuta, Spain)
Sewing Machine Day
Suleimaniah City Fallen and Martyrs Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Swiftie Day
Tench Day (French Republic)
Weed Your Garden Day
The Wicket World of Croquet Day
World Softball Day
Yawn-a-thon
Yeats Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Cupcake Lover’s Day
National Cucumber Day
Rosé Day [also 2nd Saturday]
2nd Tuesday in June
Broadcast Good Day [2nd Tuesday]
Call Your Doctor Day [2nd Tuesday]
National Forklift Safety Day [2nd Tuesday]
National Time Out Day [2nd Tuesday]
Waldchestag (Forest Day) [Tuesday after Whit Sunday]
World Pet Memorial Day [2nd Tuesday; also 2nd Sunday]
Independence Days
Princian Commonwealth (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Annie Sprinkle Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church (Christian; Saint) [Portugal]
Aquilina (Christian; Saint)
Buddha's Parinirvana (Bhutan)
Cetteus (Peregrinus; Christian; Saint)
Damhnade of Ireland (Christian; Saint)
Day of the Living Children of Nut (Ancient Egypt)
Feast of Epona (Celtic; Pagan)
Felicula (Christian; Saint)
Festival of Jupiter Invictus (Jupiter the Unconquered)
G. K. Chesterton (Episcopal Church (USA))
Gerard of Clairvaux (Christian; Saint)
Gin Day (Pastafarian)
Gotthard Graubner (Artology)
Green Day (Pastafarian)
Ides of June (Ancient Rome)
Leon Chwistek (Artology)
Psalmodius (Christian; Saint)
Quinquatrus Minusculae (Old Roman Festival to Minerva)
Ragnebert (a.k.a. Rambert; Christian; Saint)
The Spaniel (Muppetism)
St. Theresa (Positivist; Saint)
Thomas Woodhouse (Christian; Blessed)
Triphyllius (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Premieres
The Apocalypse Watch, by Robert Ludlum (Novel; 1995)
Back to School (Film; 1986)
Backwoods Bunny (WB LT Cartoon; 1959)
BrainDead (TV Series; 2016)
Day of Infamy, by Walter Lord (History Book; 1957)
Faith and Courage, by Sinead O’Connor (Album; 2000)
Forever Your Girl, by Paula Abdul (Album; 1988)
Hercules (Animated Disney Film; 1997)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Animated Film; 2014)
The Incredible Hulk (Film; 2008)
Jagged Little Pill, by Alan’s Morrisette (Album; 1995)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Film; 1949)
Lolita (Film; 1962)
Make It With You, by Bread (Song; 1970)
Mona Lisa (Film; 1986)
Pat and Mike (Film; 1952)
Post, by Björk (Album; 1995)
The Prince and the Showgirl (Film; 1957)
Prozac Nation (Film; 2003)
Roadie (Film; 1980)
Texas Flood, by Stevie Ray Vaughan (Album; 1983)
22 Jump Street (Film; 2014)
…Very ‘Eavy …Very ‘Umble, by Uriah Heel (Album; 1970)
Vida La Vida, by Coldplay (Song; 2008)
The Washout Chronicle, by John Cheever (Novel; 1957)
Wholly Moses (Film; 1980)
The World is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman (Economics Book; 2005)
Yodeling Yokels (WB LT Cartoon; 1931)
You Only Live Twice (US Film; 1967) [James Bond #5]
Today’s Name Days
Antonius, Bernhard (Austria)
Antonija, Antun, Toni (Croatia)
Antonín (Czech Republic)
Cyrillus (Denmark)
Monika, Mooni, Moonika (Estonia)
Raila, Raili (Finland)
Antoine (France)
Anton, Antonius, Bernhard (Germany)
Trifilios (Greece)
Anett, Antal (Hungary)
Alice, Antonio (Italy)
Ainārs, Tautvaldis, Tobijs, Uva, Zigfrīds, Zigrids (Latvia)
Akvilina, Antanas, Kunotas, Skalvė (Lithuania)
Tanja, Tone, Tonje (Norway)
Antoni, Chociemir, Herman, Lucjan, Maria Magdalena, Tobiasz (Poland)
Achilina (România)
Anton (Slovakia)
Antonio (Spain)
Aina, Aino (Sweden)
Kalyna (Ukraine)
Ivey, Ivy, Lara, Larissa (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 164 of 2024; 201 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 2 of week 24 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 2 of 28]
Chinese: Month 4 (Ding-Si), Day 26 (Red-Yin)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 24 Sivan 5783
Islamic: 24 Dhu al-Qada 1444
J Cal: 14 Sol; Sevenday [14 of 30]
Julian: 31 May 2023
Moon: 20%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 24 St. Paul (6th Month) [St. Theresa]
Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 4 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 85 of 92)
Zodiac: Gemini (Day 23 of 32)
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Ambiguous (by anonymous, 2019)
CW: Abortion, rape, religion, Christianity, scripture, debate, infant death, violent descriptions.
The Alabama senate passed a ban on abortion today. The strictest ban since Roe V. Wade. It’s a strange time to be a woman or person with a uterus.
It’s a strange time anyway.
I’m reeling, because...
If abortion is killing an innocent life, what was it when God killed every first born in Egypt?
You’re rolling your eyes, but I mean, he’s god.
—your god.
He’s perfect, so you trust him. You trust everything. Even bitter waters.
But how is god perfect? Site your sources. Was it when he established patriarchy between equal minds? Or gave command for care of a slave? Or when he passed down his word through the most fragile and malleable venue imaginable?
Genisis 6:6 said God regretted making us. Tell me how something perfect can experience regret?
Maybe I’m taking liberties with the word “perfect”. Someone will say in the original Hebrew, it actually translates to, whatever. Maybe I’m taking liberties with the word “regret.” See what I mean about that malleable venue?
I can go on and on, but you’re not trying to hear it.
I guess I lean atheist, but I leave room for god.
Truly.
But I can’t leave room for perfection. Too many errors.
I can leave room for something bigger. A powerful entity, a little like a us. Maybe just another byproduct of gasses, carbon, and stardust. An imperfect artist, trying their best. Something that never meant to make smallpox, but lead us to vaccines. Something that never meant for a conscious species to become so burdened by reproduction, but lead us to abortion.
I consider a broader god. A harder-to-love god. Maybe it doesn’t love us so much either.
I leave room for godlessness too. Cosmos and universe—a house that assembled itself in a vacant lot. No carpenters, no electricians, no architects.
I’ll leave room for anything, because my thoughts will trap themselves if I don’t make a way out for them.
The most perfect thing your god ever said was, Lean Not On Your Own Understanding.
That means about Him too.
The truth is, you don’t know shit.
And whatever confluence you reach, it’s yours.
It’s not mine.
Abortion is murder for you. Maybe you were born to be a mother. It’s salvation to someone else, because it’s not time yet. Because there's already been two other times. Because there may never be a time.
I don’t know if there’s a god, but I know some women get raped by their fathers and brothers. I know some women lose themselves on summer nights with counterparts that take the breath from their lungs, turn their blood into fire, bending them like flowers in a harsh breeze. I know condoms break and pills go missing between the good days and the impossible ones.
I know a pregnant woman right now living at the motel I work at, just nineteen years old. Two babies already here and one on the way. The babies have blisters all over their mouths and eyes. I drive her to the hospital because she doesn’t have a car, and she clutches the two-year-old to her chest because she doesn’t have a car seat.
I say it because someone should, because no one has yet: Why are you continuing to have children when things are this bad? I will buy you birth control myself. A year’s worth, for after you have this one.
Her nose runs, putting a glistening shine to a patch of flaking eczema on her upper lip.
“Josiah says we can’t stop until we have a boy.��
I look at her, then back at the road. “That’s rape, hon. If you don’t want to and he’s making you, that’s rape.”
She shrugs. “I mean, I don’t tell him no. He’s my husband, it’s just how he was raised.”
Raised.
I look at the baby girl with sores on her mouth. We pass more churches than businesses on this drive, but it’s me, the Agnostic, taking this sick, broken family to the hospital at two in the morning.
Raised. Like lesions on sallow, infant flesh.
Like hands to the sky in praise. Like this baby’s climbing fever.
Josiah is a biblical name.
I leave room for god. But you should leave room for abortion. It came from the same god who brought us penicillin.
And if abortion is killing an innocent life...
What does it mean to keep trying to conceive if a doctor says you have a high probability of miscarriage? Does that mean you’re a willful murderer to every zygote your womb rejects? Since you knew the odds?
If abortion is ending a life, was it murder to pull the plug on my braindead mother?
And how late term will this abortion be if we wreck this car tonight and this baby flies through my windshield and splays across the pavement?
I’ll give the discourse its nuance. I’ll concede the ambiguity. But these are matters for us to take apart and hold up to the light.
Just us.
Not senators. Not justices. And damn sure not men.
Georgia is pushing new abortion laws. Texas has been weakening access to abortion for years. It’s a strange time to be a woman—was there ever a good time to be a woman? Is this the best it’s ever been?
I think if you’re against abortion, you should volunteer free childcare services. I think you should run food drives. I think you should insist on easier, affordable adoption policies. I think you should support queer parent adoptions, birth-control-centered sex education, and family planning clinics.
It’s harder than writing scriptures on a poster board and yelling at people, but it yields better results.
I think you should drive impoverish mothers to the hospital at two in the morning.
I think you should get your very small god out of the senate and actually love your neighbors.
I can spin my thoughts on a hamster wheel for hours trying to get somewhere, but this is easy.
Love is black and white.
No ambiguity.
Use love.
#abortion#heartbeat bill#roe v wade#christianity#christians#agnostic#agnostisizm#religion#abortion ban
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“There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.“
- Richard Brautigan
#richard brautigan#revenge of the lawn#trout fishing in america#in watermelon sugar#the pill vs the springhill mine disaster#rommel drives on deep into egypt#a confederate general from big sur#please plant this book#the octopus frontier#lay the marble tea#willard and his bowling trophies#the abortion an historical romance 1966#the hawkline monster#dreaming of babylon#the tokyo montana express#sombrero fallout#so the wind wont blow it all away#the galilee hitchhiker#all watched over by machines of loving grace#loading mercury with a pitchfork#june 30th june 30th
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birth control throughout history
Birth Control: A History
Although the birth control pill and other hormonal contraceptive devices are modern inventions, birth control has been around for thousands of years. The earliest known recordings of birth control methods date back to ancient Mesopotamia, around 1850 BC. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all had various forms of birth control. Thankfully, today’s modern women have a chance to take advantage of safer, more reliable contraceptives. The following article will explore the history of birth control, and how the pill has changed women’s lives.
What were the earliest forms of birth control?
The earliest forms of birth control, as well as abortion, were found in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia as far back as 1850 BC. Papyrus scrolls were found to contain directions on how to make birth control, using honey, acacia leaves, and also lint as a form of cervical cap to prevent sperm from entering the womb. In the Kahun Gynecological Papyrus from 1850, it contains descriptions of pessaries of acacia gum as a contraceptive. Extended breastfeeding for up to three years was also used as a form of birth control in Ancient Egypt. Perhaps one of the most famous ancient forms of birth control was the silphium plant, native to North Africa. This plant was used as a contraceptive and was incredibly popular in ancient Greece and Rome. The plant could only be grown in a small area of what is now modern-day Libya. Over-cultivation of the plant led to its eventual extinction.
In ancient Greece, many plants were used as a form of birth control, including asafoetida, a close cousin of the extinct silphium. Queen Anne’s Lace was another popular contraceptive plant, and in some parts of India, it is still used for birth control today.
The withdrawal or pull out method was also used by ancient peoples to prevent fertilization. Modern historians believe that most ancients forms of birth control were ineffective, except for the pull out method. Even today, the pull out method if used correctly and consistently has an effectiveness rate of 78%.
Were ancient forms of birth control dangerous?
Yes, many ancient forms of birth control would have been quite toxic and potentially dangerous, not to mention ineffective. Pregnancy and childbirth alone killed millions of women in antiquity without modern medical interventions. In ancient Greece, women were advised to drink copper salt dissolved in water as a way to prevent pregnancy for up to one year. Copper salt is toxic.
What superstitions and wives tales surrounded birth control before the modern
In the middle ages in Europe, the Catholic Church deemed birth control immoral. That didn’t stop unintended pregnancies, however. In some cases, families would sometimes resort to infanticide. Despite the Catholic church’s teachings on birth control, women would still use the pull-out method and experiment with inserting different herbs and plants into the vagina to block sperm. During the middle ages, women also took certain herbal concoctions to induce a miscarriage. Papal bulls and other religious edicts were issued from the Catholic church, condemning women who performed abortions and administered contraceptives as witches.
Barrier methods, mainly condoms, have been around since at least the Renaissance. However, they were primarily used to prevent STIs, not pregnancy. Their invention was necessitated by outbreaks of syphilis across western Europe. Condoms were not used for pregnancy prevention until the early 1600s.
In the early 1800s, the U.S. had one of the highest birth rates in the world. The average woman in the U.S. in 1800 had given birth to 8 children. By the late 1800s, the average woman had given birth to 3 children. At this time, many religious and political organizations issued many warnings against the moral and the physical dangers of family planning. But despite these warnings, early U.S. women continued to implement family planning methods.
In the 1840s, many state legislatures banned the sale and use of contraceptives. By 1873, the federal government prohibited contraceptives. In 1888, abortion was outlawed. These laws were part of the Comstock Act. Before the mid-1800s, contraceptives and abortion were legally accessed across the fledgling country, though not all methods were effective or even safe.
Before chemical and hormonal contraceptives were invented, people in the U.S. used a combination of the withdrawal method, and also vaginal suppositories and pessaries which blocked sperm from entering the cervix. Antiseptic spermicides and even douching solutions were used. After the mid-1800s, condoms became more and more popular as a means to prevent both pregnancy and STIs. New manufacturing techniques, and also a decrease in the price of rubber attributed to their increased popularity in the Victorian era. Contraceptive products were marketed as “feminine hygiene” products, or “Mother’s friend,” “female wash, female tonics, and female remedies.”
Abortions were also used in the 1800s in the U.S. They were considered legal until the time of what was called “quickening” or when the woman could feel the fetus moving. From 1830 to 1860, abortion rates steadily rose, to an estimated one in five pregnancies. Women used drugs to induce miscarriage and also physicians, and other trained practitioners would also perform surgical abortions. At the time, white, middle-class Protestant women were the most likely to use abortion.
As the Victorian era came to a close, birth rates continued to decline as women became more educated about birth control methods. Industrialization also made birth control devices more affordable than ever before.
The Modern Birth Control Movement
In 1909, the first intrauterine devices made out of silkworm gut were introduced, and further developed throughout the 1920s in Europe. In the U.S., the banning of information surrounding safe sex and also contraception made it dangerous for doctors and other advocates of women’s reproductive health to distribute information and birth control products.
Margaret Sanger popularised the term “birth control” around 1914. She opened the first birth control clinic in 1916, but it was shut down nine days later because it violated the Comstock Act and its associated laws. Sanger was arrested and put on trial. The coverage of the trial helped to spark the birth control movement in the U.S. Donors, and other people associated with the feminist movement supported Sanger and funded her future endeavors in the arena of reproductive health. In 1921, Sanger went on to found the first birth control league in the U.S.
The work of Margaret Sanger and other prominent feminists and doctors helped to promote birth control and the idea of separating sex from procreation. Birth control, although it was still a divisive topic, found its way into the mainstream. From the 1920s to the 1950s, U.S. attitudes toward birth control changed dramatically. The entire concept of birth control began to raise questions about personal freedom, liberal and conservative values, government intervention, religion and politics, and ideas regarding sexual morality and social welfare.
When was the pill invented?
In the 1950s, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Gregory Pincus and John Rock created the first birth control pills. The pills did not become widely available until the 1960s. In the mid-1960s, the landmark Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut overturned the ban on contraceptives for married couples. In 1972, the right to contraceptives was extended to unmarried couples.
With the restrictions on contraceptives lifted, many scientific and medical advances in the arena of fertility, family planning, and birth control came to fruition. Now, women have access to not just the pill, but also highly effective and safe intrauterine devices, patches, rings, and emergency contraceptives.
How has the pill changed women’s lives?
The pill and also widespread access to many methods of safe and effective birth control has completely revolutionized women’s lives. When women can plan when to have children, and how many to have, women and also society experience an untold number of benefits from the pill.
Birth control has advanced women’s economic opportunities and empowerment.
Access to birth control has been the top economic driver for women in the last 85 years. Research indicates that one-third of the wage gains that women have made since the 1960s is the direct result of access to the birth control pill. Children, whether they are planned or unplanned, cost money directly and also indirectly. When women are not able to decide when to have children, they miss out on work and experience significant decreases in lifetime earnings.
The pill has empowered women to achieve higher levels of education than ever before.
Achieving higher levels of education is also directly correlated with higher levels of lifetime earnings. Women who can delay childbearing have more opportunities to pursue their studies and obtain degrees and certifications. Having access to the pill before turning 21 is the biggest driving factor in enabling women to stay in college if they are already enrolled. Also, college enrollment in 1970 was 20% higher among women who could access the pill than women who could not. College dropout rates are also lower for women with access to the pill than those without.
Choosing when to have children leads to better health outcomes for both mother and baby.
When women can space out their pregnancies, they experience better pregnancy outcomes and also lower the risk of giving birth to low birth weight or premature baby. Family planning programs are also associated with significant decreases in the child poverty rate as well as the poverty rate of adults.
Birth control has come a long way from herbal pessaries and copper salt water. Now more than ever, accessing safe and effective birth control pills has never been easier.
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Ok. I’m not sure how this sounds, or how it will go over. And I know it may seem fake or made up or inconsequential. But I swear to god I was considering swallowing a bottle of pills before I saw the post you reblogged. So I just wanted to thank you. You’re amazing. And I wish you happiness in everything you do.
It doesn’t sound made up or inconsequential. Not at all. Please remember your are so loved and valued, and that your are neeeded here. The world would not be the same without you.
I know a lot of people with mental illnesses and who have been or are s**cidal, and something that I have realized people don’t notice is how much they mean to other people. Not just to family and/or friends, though you are a crucial piece in the puzzle of their lives, but to aquaintences or strangers. I bet you’ve smiled at a homeless person who nobody else even looked in the eye that day. You’ve held the door for a single parent who was utterly exhausted after working a 16-hour shift to support their family. You’ve said hello to a teacher who was harassed and hated by their students. You’ve been patient with a waitsperson who’s been a screamed at five times that day. You’ve made people’s day.
Because it isn’t just whos child your are or who’s best friend you are that makes you important. Its your humanity.
The world is a mess, there’s no doubt about it, and it is very easy to feel hopeless, but it’s people like you that give me hope. It’s people like you who are going to pull us out of this chaos. And that may sound like a tremendous stressful burden, but it’s not because you already are doing it with your small acts of humanity. As someone who struggles with their mental health, you have a certain empathy for others that you probably haven’t even noticed. You recognize that everyone is fighting their own silent battle, because you yourself are fighting yours. You know what a big impact kindness can have, so you are kind naturally.
The world will be saved by people who are no strangers to hardship. People who struggle just with themselves. Because you know that it is the little things. Reblogging a post. Smiling. Holding a door. Saying hello. Being patient. It’s the little acts of humanity that make all the difference.
So when you struggle to value yourself, try to look at yourself through someone else’s eyes. Someone who’s day you’ve made. I promise it’s more people than you think. They wouldn’t ever want you to leave us. They would do everything they could to keep you here.
So please, stay safe and please reach out for help. After all you have done and for all you are going to do, you deserve it.
Lifeline Chat and Recources: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/
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* Depression Hotline: 1-630-482-9696
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OITNB 7x11: God Bless America
I swear- Linda is on some sort of power trip. She is a little too excited about stuff.
SOPHIA! She seems to be doing well.
Uh-oh, another random sweep!
Oh, McCullough, could you be more suspicious?
So, Gloria’s getting out in a few weeks! Good for her.
I was wondering if we were ever going to see Carol Chapman again.
Aww, I kind of wanted to hear the other reasons Piper loves Alex.
Taystee’s back! And she wants to start a microloans program for recently released inmates.
Sophia’s working at a hair salon! And she wants to leave prison in the past where it belongs.
Well, at least Alex ended her affair with McCullough, who looks upset about it.
Ohhh....that’s why Shani was so desperate to see Nicky. They’re taking her back to Egypt. She left a note for Nicky, though.
Oh, Jesus, they’re cross-examining children now? “Not even the younglings survived”.
Judy King wrote a memoir?! Speaking of memoirs, what happened to Piper writing a memoir, writers?
Fig’s going soft...sort of. And she’s pregnant, but she wants an abortion because she can’t bear the thought of bringing a child into this world.
And Bell phone the cell phone. I guess Karla neglected to tell her sons not to call on the number she called on.
McCullough showed up on Piper’s doorstep and told her about her affair with Alex, and she went running to Zelda. Bitch.
Fig gave Caj an abortion pill, didn’t she?
Awww, poor Nicky.
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There are tons of english words that can not be replicated in the 10001 African languages that exist.
For even in Yoruba alone we do not have pronouns like she or him or even plural words for people in our languages. Saying that there is no word for Abortion in African languages as some sort of justification that Abortion is bad is a dumb false equivalence.
There are tons of english words like Biochemistry. Or biology or physics that have no language equivalent in tons of Sub-Saharan languages.
Abortion is not bad. Its not new. Its a neutral act of life that has been happening since the dawn of time.
@papirouge you have a very woeful misunderstanding of the history of gynecology past and before western medicine and the different practices of gynecology practiced by the African people before British ppl hell even the spaniards got to the continent.
There are a plethora of way to get an abortion that does not include the surgical route.
Abortion is not peak western degeneracy considering their is even archeological evidence of their being what we call today "abortion pills" that were found during Ancient Egypt.
Women and girls would take small amounts of poison with a mixture of herbs and turn them into teas, food or drink to induce a miscarriage.
That was one of the most original forms of abortion...
Abortion is especially important for African women & girls because no fucking shit their are countries that still practice CHILD MARRIAGE.
Their is still ethnic cleansings and wars and a specific tactic called war rape where women & girls are brutally raped & impregnated to erase another ethnic group off the face of the earth. Bc their children would be considered mixed
This incident was predominantly seen with the Rwandan war and the wars in the Congo.
But war rape is much much older than that.
There is no way you can be African and justify why an 8 or 11 year old should be carrying a pregnancy to full term.
This actually happened in Nigeria a couple months back where a 11 year old child was raped by Fulanese heardsman and was forced to carry the child to term bc abortion is illegal in Naija.
Abortion did not start or begin with the creation of the west. Or planned parenthood.
It has roots in B.C time. As old as humans have been having sex or women have been getting raped is as old as where u will find abortion.
And that is a fact.
just bc many African languages dont have a word for abortion doesn't mean they wouldn't benefit from it. and why don't you ask @amoei what she thinks? she lived in Africa for a while
"I'm trying to shove such a foreign ideology onto Africans so much they don't have any word for it in their language, but I'm actually a good person because *I* think they would benefit from it" 🤡
Said like a true nu colonizer👌🏾 Like Frieza, you keep changing forms but still remain as toxic, entitled and WRONG as ever.
And I'm not interested about the opinion of a pro abortioner just bc they're Black/African. Amoei being African doesn't debunk the objective reality of a significant amount of Subsaharian languages not having a word for abortion. I've already did witness a bunch of them getting pissy about it and going on unbelievable hoops to justify how abortion is actually pro African women but they never made sense... They are some of the most delusional people ever. They'll cuss westernized beauty standards and Western cultural imperialism but somehow when it comes to abortion culture (which is peak Western destructive degeneracy) they'll welcome it with open arms. Make it make sense.
Straight up rehashing White imperialism propaganda but oh African people need to be safe from the Whites uwu Yeah well, if you want to protect African people from White supremacy maybe make sure to not endorse an ideology that actual White supremacists have been proponent for since centuries to destroy the negro race ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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🎸 ❌❗️
🎸what kinds of music do you like?
I wish I could describe my music taste accurately. Problem is, I'm really not a music snob, I have a really wide music taste. I like everything from 1920s jazz to Classical Music to 80s synth pop to all time classic hits.
❀But if I were to summarise it: Classic Rock would be the top of the list (The Smiths, Nick Cave (I knew him from Harry Potter, way before Peaky Blinders, and I had to study him for A Levels), Arctic Mokeys, Queen, The Killers, the Beatles, Maroon 5 (specifically Songs About Jane), etc. ❀I also really like film scores, it's such a weird niche, and I have so many favourite composers, like Hans Zimmer (obviously), Alexandre Desplat, Nicholas Hooper, etc. ❀MUSICAL THEATRE is a big one. I'm a HUGE theatre kid. Les Mis, Phantom, Beetlejuice, Little Women, Anastasia, The Prince of Egypt, you name it.
I think it's just easier if I link my spotify account lmao: https://open.spotify.com/user/queen-of-melodys?si=2de8a4728c174741 (lmao mini face reveal)
❌what’s an unpopular opinions you have?
Ooooh, good question.
❀I think people should like what they like. It's not really controversial sounding until you start getting specific. I abhore snobs. So if you like cheesy romance, erotica, twilight, 50 shades, the dirtiest books alive— sure. Don't ask for people's permission. If you wanna read about kinky slave stuff, GO AHEAD. As long as you keep it in the fiction book/bedroom/trusted spaces and you don't involve people who can't consent. What I mean by that, is that a lot of people seem to think you can't seperate fact from fiction (and maybe some can't) so if I say I like arranged marriage plots (which I do) people will come at my throat for being anti-feminist, because I'm essentially buying into marriage slavery blah blah blah. No. I can seperate a book with reality. If I really was in a position where my father put me in a business arrangement, I would see fucking red and immidiately become homocidal, i would kill him there and then. If a man really treated me the way Tommy Shelby did, I'd spit in his fucking face and cut him with his own razor cap.
But he's not real. None of it is real. I can seperate fact from fiction.
❀Attractive people aren't treated with respect, they are exploited. Our entire society runs on sex, the male gaze and the notion that women are viewed as objects, we know that much. But when someone who is seemingly attractive suddenly complains about the behavior: It's immediately labeled a "pretty problem" AKA not a real problem worthy of merit or revision. This is stemmed from our societal jealousy and biological belief that attractive = good, and good = no complaints. But we see the way models and people in the film industry have and are treated. And we think NOW is bad, just research Classic Hollywood (forced marriages, hiding gay actor's sexualities, forced abortions, eating disorders, it was a fucking mess). But we seem to have this notion that this affects only people who are attractive in the industry. But what if someone is equally attractive outside of the industry? They're treated similarly, that's what. They're only good feature is their looks, they are rarely regarded for anything but (think Elle Woods) to the point of it becoming dehumanising. Eventually, these women believe that the only thing they have to offer is their face and their body, leading them to be perpetually insecure and get into relationships with people that will dull that insecurity whilst also nurturing it. Eventually, when they start to age, or their body changes because of hormones of pregnancy, etc, they will go to extremes to regain their beauty. Like develop an ed, if they don't have one already, become addicted to pills, overworking their bodies, etc. Because to them, what they have had engrained in their head, is that beauty = good and they have beauty. aging = ugly. if they have no beauty, then what? people will actively treat attractive people badly, because they can get away with it. I've rambled on enough. Anyway, in conclusion, attractive people are exploited.
❀Feminism means that a woman can be ANYTHING SHE WANTS. That means if she wants to be a big name in business, then it is our job as feminists to support her and help her break the glass ceiling NOT tear her down. That logic also applies to a woman who wants to be a housewife. The progressivism of early feminism rejected feminine expectations to express solidarity against their patriarchal society, which caused them to reject parts of themselves that conformed to the expectations for women, which in turn created an era of internalised misogyny. This manifests in our intolerance toward women entering "feminine-coded" fields. A woman is NOT less than because she wants to do "feminine coded things". She is not brainwashed, she is not playing into gender roles, she is being herself. And if she wants to spend her life raising children and caring for her home: FUCKING LET HER AND SHUT YOUR GOB, CAPISCE?
❗️what’s something unusual about you?
Idk about unusual but, something you guys may not know about me is that I'm a singer and actress myself. I've done stage work at around age 7-9 for a theatre company in Spain, where I've been on the stage, and have once been the lead, and my production was featured on a magazine where a critic was reviewing it. A review I never read because I was young and didn't care and made a paper christmas tree out of the magazine. I sing occasionally (my go to is Dead Mom, I Dreamed A Dream, In My Life (Les Mis) or Think Of Me (Phantom)), and I actually do voice acting, (of which I just got a huge gig 👀, maybe more soon)
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Anyway, sorry about that. Here are the questions.
#tag you're it#feminism#music#my thoughts#musical theatre#tw ed#eating disorder#tw forced abortions#i went on a RANT#just gonna get off my soap box#SHEESH this is long#sorry
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Slavery and genocide are ancient bedfellows. I first became aware of this fact as a child while watching the opening number of DreamWorks’s 1998 film, The Prince of Egypt. In the first five minutes of the movie, enslaved Hebrew men construct monuments to the Pharaoh as their wives beg for their infant sons’ lives. All, save Moses, are ripped from their mothers’ arms and tossed into the Nile.Of course, with 21st-century technology, crocodile-infested rivers are no longer needed to get rid of minority children. We have “medicine” for that.Last week, drone footage, verified by Western intelligence agencies, emerged from Northern China. It showed Uighur Muslims bound and blindfolded, with shaven heads, being loaded onto trains that were likely headed for detention camps. In a BBC interview, British journalist Andrew Marr demanded answers from Liu Xiaoming, the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom. Xiaoming accused “so-called Western intelligence agencies” of making “false accusations against China.” The population of Xinjiang had doubled in 40 years, he said, which clearly proved that “ethnic cleansing” and “so-called forced abortions” had not occurred. Marr, unconvinced, retorted, “According to your own local government statistics, the population growth in Uighur jurisdictions in that area has fallen by 84 percent between 2015 and 2018. 84 percent.”How can that be so? A recent report by the Associated Press, compiling “government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor” gives an idea.Over the past four years, the Chinese government has spent tens of millions of dollars to violently hijack the functioning reproductive systems of minority women. In 2017, according to official directives uncovered by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, government officials backed by armed law-enforcement officers were instructed to “leave no blind spots,” “contain illegal births and lower fertility rates,” “test all who need to be tested,” and “detect and deal with those who violate policies early.”The AP report found that “having too many children” is a “major reason people are sent to detention camps,” that “parents of three or more [children] are ripped away from their families unless they can pay huge fines,” and that “police raid homes, terrifying parents as they search for hidden children.” The report also contains shocking witness testimony: * “Tursunay Ziyawudun said she was injected until she stopped having her period, and kicked repeatedly in the lower stomach during interrogations. She now can’t have children and often doubles over in pain, bleeding from her womb.” * “Gulbahar Jelilova confirmed that detainees in her camp were forced to abort their children. She also saw a new mother, still leaking breast milk, who did not know what had happened to her infant. And she met doctors and medical students who were detained for helping Uighurs dodge the system and give birth at home.” * Gulzia Mogdia was also forced to have an abortion when she became pregnant with her third child. “Medics inserted an electric vacuum into her womb and sucked her fetus out of her body,” after which she was “taken home and told to rest, as [officials] planned to take her to a camp.”Some survivors recalled being suddenly “force-fed birth control pills” and “injected with fluids.” One had to recite her crimes (“I gave birth to too many children”) whenever officials came near her cell. Another remembered that a pregnant woman in her camp’s “class” had suddenly disappeared.In The Prince of Egypt, when Moses demands an explanation, Pharaoh retorts that the victims were “only slaves.” Since slavery doesn’t go down so well any more in the West, the Chinese government justifies its actions as a means of preventing terrorism, which is likewise blatant nonsense. These are victims of the state: innocent women and children, the most vulnerable members of an already vulnerable minority. As for the men, one Uighur, Abdushukur Umar, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for the crime of having seven children. Umar’s cousin, who fled China, said that Umar “spent all his time taking care of his family, he never took part in any political movements.”In the past, Westerners have been too squeamish to issue a full-throated condemnation of China’s inhumane population policies. During the era of the so-called one-child policy, sex-screening technology meant widespread gendercide, since baby girls were seen as less valuable. The Nobel economist Amartya Sen estimated that the policy resulted in 100 million aborted girls. Where was the feminist outcry then?For that matter, where is the outcry now? China’s treatment of the Uighurs is reminiscent of the kind of abuse fictionalized in The Handmaid’s Tale, yet even the AP report is replete with Western euphemisms, such as involuntary “birth control” and “population control.” Get into the details and what the Egyptians did to the Israelites almost seems tame by comparison. Men and women of conscience in the West have a duty to call this out for what it is -- evil.
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Slavery and genocide are ancient bedfellows. I first became aware of this fact as a child while watching the opening number of DreamWorks’s 1998 film, The Prince of Egypt. In the first five minutes of the movie, enslaved Hebrew men construct monuments to the Pharaoh as their wives beg for their infant sons’ lives. All, save Moses, are ripped from their mothers’ arms and tossed into the Nile.Of course, with 21st-century technology, crocodile-infested rivers are no longer needed to get rid of minority children. We have “medicine” for that.Last week, drone footage, verified by Western intelligence agencies, emerged from Northern China. It showed Uighur Muslims bound and blindfolded, with shaven heads, being loaded onto trains that were likely headed for detention camps. In a BBC interview, British journalist Andrew Marr demanded answers from Liu Xiaoming, the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom. Xiaoming accused “so-called Western intelligence agencies” of making “false accusations against China.” The population of Xinjiang had doubled in 40 years, he said, which clearly proved that “ethnic cleansing” and “so-called forced abortions” had not occurred. Marr, unconvinced, retorted, “According to your own local government statistics, the population growth in Uighur jurisdictions in that area has fallen by 84 percent between 2015 and 2018. 84 percent.”How can that be so? A recent report by the Associated Press, compiling “government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor” gives an idea.Over the past four years, the Chinese government has spent tens of millions of dollars to violently hijack the functioning reproductive systems of minority women. In 2017, according to official directives uncovered by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, government officials backed by armed law-enforcement officers were instructed to “leave no blind spots,” “contain illegal births and lower fertility rates,” “test all who need to be tested,” and “detect and deal with those who violate policies early.”The AP report found that “having too many children” is a “major reason people are sent to detention camps,” that “parents of three or more [children] are ripped away from their families unless they can pay huge fines,” and that “police raid homes, terrifying parents as they search for hidden children.” The report also contains shocking witness testimony: * “Tursunay Ziyawudun said she was injected until she stopped having her period, and kicked repeatedly in the lower stomach during interrogations. She now can’t have children and often doubles over in pain, bleeding from her womb.” * “Gulbahar Jelilova confirmed that detainees in her camp were forced to abort their children. She also saw a new mother, still leaking breast milk, who did not know what had happened to her infant. And she met doctors and medical students who were detained for helping Uighurs dodge the system and give birth at home.” * Gulzia Mogdia was also forced to have an abortion when she became pregnant with her third child. “Medics inserted an electric vacuum into her womb and sucked her fetus out of her body,” after which she was “taken home and told to rest, as [officials] planned to take her to a camp.”Some survivors recalled being suddenly “force-fed birth control pills” and “injected with fluids.” One had to recite her crimes (“I gave birth to too many children”) whenever officials came near her cell. Another remembered that a pregnant woman in her camp’s “class” had suddenly disappeared.In The Prince of Egypt, when Moses demands an explanation, Pharaoh retorts that the victims were “only slaves.” Since slavery doesn’t go down so well any more in the West, the Chinese government justifies its actions as a means of preventing terrorism, which is likewise blatant nonsense. These are victims of the state: innocent women and children, the most vulnerable members of an already vulnerable minority. As for the men, one Uighur, Abdushukur Umar, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for the crime of having seven children. Umar’s cousin, who fled China, said that Umar “spent all his time taking care of his family, he never took part in any political movements.”In the past, Westerners have been too squeamish to issue a full-throated condemnation of China’s inhumane population policies. During the era of the so-called one-child policy, sex-screening technology meant widespread gendercide, since baby girls were seen as less valuable. The Nobel economist Amartya Sen estimated that the policy resulted in 100 million aborted girls. Where was the feminist outcry then?For that matter, where is the outcry now? China’s treatment of the Uighurs is reminiscent of the kind of abuse fictionalized in The Handmaid’s Tale, yet even the AP report is replete with Western euphemisms, such as involuntary “birth control” and “population control.” Get into the details and what the Egyptians did to the Israelites almost seems tame by comparison. Men and women of conscience in the West have a duty to call this out for what it is -- evil.
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Slavery and genocide are ancient bedfellows. I first became aware of this fact as a child while watching the opening number of DreamWorks’s 1998 film, The Prince of Egypt. In the first five minutes of the movie, enslaved Hebrew men construct monuments to the Pharaoh as their wives beg for their infant sons’ lives. All, save Moses, are ripped from their mothers’ arms and tossed into the Nile.Of course, with 21st-century technology, crocodile-infested rivers are no longer needed to get rid of minority children. We have “medicine” for that.Last week, drone footage, verified by Western intelligence agencies, emerged from Northern China. It showed Uighur Muslims bound and blindfolded, with shaven heads, being loaded onto trains that were likely headed for detention camps. In a BBC interview, British journalist Andrew Marr demanded answers from Liu Xiaoming, the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom. Xiaoming accused “so-called Western intelligence agencies” of making “false accusations against China.” The population of Xinjiang had doubled in 40 years, he said, which clearly proved that “ethnic cleansing” and “so-called forced abortions” had not occurred. Marr, unconvinced, retorted, “According to your own local government statistics, the population growth in Uighur jurisdictions in that area has fallen by 84 percent between 2015 and 2018. 84 percent.”How can that be so? A recent report by the Associated Press, compiling “government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor” gives an idea.Over the past four years, the Chinese government has spent tens of millions of dollars to violently hijack the functioning reproductive systems of minority women. In 2017, according to official directives uncovered by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, government officials backed by armed law-enforcement officers were instructed to “leave no blind spots,” “contain illegal births and lower fertility rates,” “test all who need to be tested,” and “detect and deal with those who violate policies early.”The AP report found that “having too many children” is a “major reason people are sent to detention camps,” that “parents of three or more [children] are ripped away from their families unless they can pay huge fines,” and that “police raid homes, terrifying parents as they search for hidden children.” The report also contains shocking witness testimony: * “Tursunay Ziyawudun said she was injected until she stopped having her period, and kicked repeatedly in the lower stomach during interrogations. She now can’t have children and often doubles over in pain, bleeding from her womb.” * “Gulbahar Jelilova confirmed that detainees in her camp were forced to abort their children. She also saw a new mother, still leaking breast milk, who did not know what had happened to her infant. And she met doctors and medical students who were detained for helping Uighurs dodge the system and give birth at home.” * Gulzia Mogdia was also forced to have an abortion when she became pregnant with her third child. “Medics inserted an electric vacuum into her womb and sucked her fetus out of her body,” after which she was “taken home and told to rest, as [officials] planned to take her to a camp.”Some survivors recalled being suddenly “force-fed birth control pills” and “injected with fluids.” One had to recite her crimes (“I gave birth to too many children”) whenever officials came near her cell. Another remembered that a pregnant woman in her camp’s “class” had suddenly disappeared.In The Prince of Egypt, when Moses demands an explanation, Pharaoh retorts that the victims were “only slaves.” Since slavery doesn’t go down so well any more in the West, the Chinese government justifies its actions as a means of preventing terrorism, which is likewise blatant nonsense. These are victims of the state: innocent women and children, the most vulnerable members of an already vulnerable minority. As for the men, one Uighur, Abdushukur Umar, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for the crime of having seven children. Umar’s cousin, who fled China, said that Umar “spent all his time taking care of his family, he never took part in any political movements.”In the past, Westerners have been too squeamish to issue a full-throated condemnation of China’s inhumane population policies. During the era of the so-called one-child policy, sex-screening technology meant widespread gendercide, since baby girls were seen as less valuable. The Nobel economist Amartya Sen estimated that the policy resulted in 100 million aborted girls. Where was the feminist outcry then?For that matter, where is the outcry now? China’s treatment of the Uighurs is reminiscent of the kind of abuse fictionalized in The Handmaid’s Tale, yet even the AP report is replete with Western euphemisms, such as involuntary “birth control” and “population control.” Get into the details and what the Egyptians did to the Israelites almost seems tame by comparison. Men and women of conscience in the West have a duty to call this out for what it is -- evil.
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What Is Jojoba oil
The word "jojoba" (noticable ho-HO-ba) refers both to the desert plant and to the extract gotten from its seed. Sadly, lots of people and business continue to describe jojoba as "jojoba oil". Jojoba is NOT oil, and you'll comprehend why as you continue to check out.
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Nature of the Plant
Fully grown jojoba plants (Simmondsia chinensis) are woody seasonal bushes belonging to the Sonoran (or Gila) Desert of Arizona, Northern Mexico and dry California. Jojoba does not shed its leaves with the modifications in seasons.
The jojoba plant is dioecious. The gender of jojoba plants can just be determined from their flowers. When planted from seeds, jojoba plants can use up to 3 years to produce flowers.
The female plants produce seed from flowers the male plants pollinate. Jojoba leaves have an aerodynamic shape, producing a spiral impact, which brings wind-born pollen from the male flower to the female flower.
The pollinated female flower ends up being a solidified pill, which includes several establishing seeds. As the growing seed fills the pill, the pill wall ends up being gradually thinner till the sun dries it. The sun-dried pill eventually divides open, and the developed seed drops to the ground.
Jojoba Seed and its Extract
The color and shape of jojoba seeds are similar to coffee beans, nevertheless close assessment exposes considerable distinctions. Jojoba seeds are far bigger, and their shapes and sizes are not consistent.
The distinctions in between jojoba and coffee are more than skin deep. Of more than 350,000 determined plant types, jojoba is the just one which produces substantial amounts of liquid wax esters similar to the natural corrective esters human sebaceous glands produce.
The following is a chemist's diagram comparing the jojoba particle with a particle of human sebum
diagram comparing the jojoba particle with a particle of human sebum.
Research study has actually revealed the existence of substances called tocopherols in jojoba. The delta, alpha and gamma tocopherols discovered in jojoba are all types of Vitamin E, which remove totally free radicals.
It is thought that jojoba's molecular setup is less reactive than setups of normal plant oils. As can be seen in the above diagram of a jojoba particle, jojoba's double bonds are spread out far apart and are approximately equidistant from the. In normal plant oils, the double bonds are close to one another and might be separated by just a couple of atoms.
While it might be useful quickly to break down a plant oil particle under specific conditions, for example to supply energy (as many oils and fats do), that particular makes oils a bad conditioner for one's skin. Exactly since Jojoba is NOT oil, it's is a far remarkable item for preserving and promoting healthy skin.
The extractable liquids material of our developed jojoba seeds varies from 50% to 54%. (For more technical details about jojoba, please consult our Bibliography.).
Native Americans found the significance and flexibility of jojoba. Throughout the early Eighteenth Century Jesuit missionaries in Baja observed them heating jojoba seeds to soften them. Pregnant ladies consumed jojoba seeds, thinking they helped throughout giving birth.
Intake of jojoba seeds is drawing in more attention, today. Scientists have actually discovered that Jojoba seeds consist of simmondsins, which are monoglucosides not discovered in any other plant types.
Jojoba Farming in the United States Jojoba is a reasonably brand-new crop, specifically when compared to corn, wheat and other staple grains, which have actually been under human growing for countless years.
The U.S. Department of Farming examined the industrial farming capacity of jojoba throughout the 1930s. There were at that time propositions for Native American people of the southwest to cultivate jojoba.
Major business production of jojoba truly started throughout the last 3 years of the Twentieth Century, after global treaties banned the searching of sperm whales, which had actually offered natural oils to the individual care market for years. Business owners in California and Arizona planted more than 45,000 acres in jojoba, a lot of them with seed gathered from jojoba plants growing in the wild.
This took place while promoters were hailing jojoba as the brand-new wonder crop. The incautious character of the times sustained unchecked speculation and extravagant claims, none of which clinical research study in fact supported. Promoters promoted jojoba both as a remedy for cancer and a remedy for baldness!
A Klondike-like craze defined the early years of jojoba financial investments in the United States. System rates for a pound of jojoba seeds were extremely unstable, varying from less than a $1.00 a pound one season to more than $4.00 per pound the following season.
There are stories of hand-harvesters whom underhanded seed buyers cheated out of a reasonable return for their seed. Law matches pitting grower versus grower or financial investment group versus financial investment group were not unusual in the jojoba market.
In a more favorable vein, universities in California and Arizona and members of personal market carried out major research study on jojoba. Real jojoba growers, who represented, by far, the bulk of financial investments in jojoba and who took the greatest threats, might not pay for and were not geared up to carry out research study.
Farm ownership structures, plant quality, farming and gathering approaches, and management strategies differed extensively in the United States. Standards, at first non-existent, were sluggish to establish in a market identified by jealousy, skepticism, and extreme competitors.
The only individuals who regularly made cash throughout those developmental years of the jojoba market were the financial investment lenders offering restricted collaborations in jojoba acreage. When the U.S. Congress took away the tax benefits of putting loan into real-estate financial investment trusts throughout the late Eighties, the blossom on jojoba financial investments was off.
Throughout the Nineteen Eighties some growers and university scientists discovered in the wild and in fields planted from seed, a few of them in arboretums, a variety of appealing ranges of jojoba, which acted as mom plants for rooted cuttings.
Growers might materially enhance the ratio of female to male plants (typically 50:50 in seeded fields), getting rid of the expenditure of eliminating or "roguing", male plants. The usage of cuttings likewise enhanced the development rate of the female plants, which no longer required to complete with faster growing male plants for nutrients and water.
Poor management; regrettable plant choice; serious imbalances in between supply and need, which produced wild variations in costs; badly selected growing locations; and absence of enough capital accounted for many of the failures. By the start of 1990, more than 40,000 acres of jojoba (88% of the overall) had actually been deserted in the United States.
A significant downside to growing jojoba oil in the Sonoran Desert is environment. Jojoba flowers are extremely prone to frost. And, jojoba plants under growing end up being stressed out in extremes of heat.
One practice did get currency: to put plants into inactivity prior to the beginning of winter season. Growers using this technique attained some procedure of success. Denying plants of water for 5 to 6 months lowered both yields and the possible size of the jojoba seeds.
While winter seasons in the North American desert are bothersome, summer seasons are simply plain harsh. Summertime temperature levels in southwest Arizona, where nearly all jojoba is now commercially farmed in the United States, will, sometimes, surpass 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Commercially grown jojoba can make it through the heats, however the overbearing heat worries jojoba plants, triggering bud abortion and/or fruit abortion, which affect adversely on yields.
Jojoba Farming Outside the United States.
The terrific misunderstanding about jojoba has actually been that it does not need a great deal of water. If one is not making every effort for constant production, this is just real. Individuals residing in locations with limited water resources are typically chagrinned to find out that growing jojoba commercially needs a numerous and constant supply of water, which need to be utilized sensibly.
Famers are now growing jojoba in Argentina, Israel, Peru and Australia, nations where enough water and ideal environment and soil conditions have actually lain. More just recently, growers in Egypt, Tunisia, India and even in China are making a stab at it.
Jojoba oil acreage planted in Israel and Argentina, mainly from rooted cuttings, started business production in the early Nineties. Jojoba grown in Peru started concerning markets in 2003.
In Peru, farmers grow jojoba, actually, in the sand (silica). Without continuous and constant application of water and fertilizer, the plants, according to one grower, would pass away within weeks.
Foreign jojoba manufacturers found out from the errors and downsides of their American equivalents. The particular federal governments of Israel and Argentina have actually supplied moneying to support jojoba farming.
It is precise to explain, nevertheless, that all jojoba grown worldwide today is traceable to jojoba seeds and/or jojoba cuttings coming from The United States and Canada.
Jojoba farming stays a work-in-progress. Significant difficulties stay.
Lessons Found Out: A Medical History.
The Jojoba oil Business's own farm, which the business offered throughout October 2004, is an illustrative example of things done right; of particular things that must have been done and were not; and of things that were just done incorrect.
The Jojoba Business's Arizona affiliate, A.I.N.V. (Arizona), Inc, owned the farm, which previous owners had actually currently developed. The rows of plants in the cutting fields were totally consistent: every 6th row included male plants.
The area the previous owners had actually picked for the farm was ideal. Arizona's Hyder Valley has excellent soil, outstanding water, and microclimates, which might be fairly beneficial for jojoba farming. The previous owners had actually leveled the fields with lasers, guaranteeing a great facilities for furrow watering.
Balancing out these positives were cold winter seasons, which might produce flower-killing frosts, and completely hot summertimes, which worried all greenery.
In hindsight, a number of the initial owners' choices worrying the structure of the farm were doubtful.
Rows of plants were put 15 feet apart, and plants within the rows were spaced every 2 to 3 feet. Within simply a couple of years, plants were crowding one another and completing for water and minerals. The more quickly growing male plants were restraining the development and production of the female plants.
Preferably, rows ought to have been positioned a minimum of 20 feet apart, and the spacing in between the plants need to have been set at a minimum of 10 feet. The more generous spacing would have reduced crowding and offered the female plants more space to produce and grow seed.
Had they understood more at the time, the initial financiers may not have actually planted their 620 acres with jojoba seeds. We now advise fields be planted with 90% to 96% female plants, the staying 4% to 10% of male plants being distributed amongst the female plants in a way which guarantees the optimum dispersal of wind-born pollen.
Furrow watering throughout Arizona's hot summertime loses incredible quantities of water to evaporation. Furrow watering is likewise more generalized to particular locations in a field (the middle of the row, for example) as opposed to particular plants, an extra waste of water.
Leak watering systems do need more up-front capital to set up. They lower running expenses, authorization identify precision in water application, and considerably lower losses both to evaporation and to the end-of-row tailings issue come across with furrow watering. Using fertilizers with drip systems is likewise more effective, as the product can be presented through the drip system straight to the roots of the plants.
All of these benefits essential into the high expense of supplying the water, itself, which requires considerable quantities of energy. A more effective water application system brings straight down line. The pumping system our farm utilized shows the point.
The farm's source of water was 4 wells, each of which surpassed 800 feet in depth and took advantage of an underground aquifer, which supplied warm, clear water abundant in minerals. Getting that water out of the ground needed, at first, turbo-powered gas engines, and consequently, when gas costs increased, electrical motors, each in excess of 425HP. The motors turned phases of "bowls" set well listed below fixed water levels (325 feet), which pressed the water out of the wells and into the watering ditches, where siphons carried the water to furrows produced each of the rows of plants.
A more effective shipment system would have needed less pump operating time, leading to less power being taken in running the watering motors. The power utilized to get the water would have attained more bang for the dollar by increasing the quantity of water made offered to each plant.
A word about planting cycles. After 10 years, the cycle would start once again, i.e. the plants on the tenth of the farm very first planted would be ripped out and changed, ideally with a more respected, much better adjusted cutting specimen than was planted the very first time.
After farming for 10 years, and discovering so much about the market and the short-comings of our own farm, the unpleasant choice to stop farming was made less uncomfortable. Farms outside the U.S. were producing in excess of 3,000 pounds of seed per acre.
We were extremely worried about the well being of its wildlife when we reached the choice to offer our farm. Deer entered our fields to feed; coyotes consumed water from our watering furrows and hunted burrowing packrats and bunnies; and grieving doves and coveys of quail looked for shelter from the hot summertime sun amongst our plants. We were happy, when we offered our farm that it was taken control of by a grower of dates, who will continue to make sure the connection of animal life in the location.
Throughout April of 2005, when were we ready to tire our stock of jojoba pushed from seeds we had actually grown on our farm, we sent out each of our clients a letter to reveal the sale of our farm and to describe our future procurement policies.
Organic Farming.
For as long as we owned our jojoba oil operation, we farmed as close to natural as we could. Jojoba is susceptible to thrips, loopers, spider termites, bore worms, and insects. Imbalances did happen from time to time in particular parts of the farm.
Considering that 1997, we had actually utilized no pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or chemical fertilizers on our plants. We had actually utilized natural approaches to process our jojoba seed. In addition, we did carry out pesticide screens on every lot of jojoba we produced from our farm.
In 2002, the United States Department of Farming developed standards for natural requirements. The USDA has an extremely helpful website, which explains the department's standards: http://usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=ORGANIC_CERTIFICATIO&navt ...
Our company believe the USDA's efforts in this regard are extremely beneficial. We do take extremely strong exception to authorizations given worrying usage of the "USDA Organic" seal, and we estimate from the USDA's own web page:.
While all natural food manufacturers should be accredited by the USDA, usage of the "USDA Organic" seal on items made with a minimum of 95% natural components is voluntary.
From our perspective, it's definitely unreasonable to call something "natural" that is made from 95% natural products. An item is either "natural" or it is not. A total conversation of our natural jojoba is offered by click on this link.
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Safe Termination of Pregnancy | Contraceptives for family planning | Wonder Parenting
It is important to know the methods of Safe Termination of Pregnancy for all the age groups and the types of contraceptives available.
World over the unintended pregnancy rate is high and this was estimated as 70 per 1,000 women aged 15–49 in India in 2015 (The incidence of abortion and unintended pregnancy in India, 2015 S Singh et al, Glob Health 2018; 6: e111–20 Lancet) which is similar to the rates in neighbouring Bangladesh (67) and Nepal (68), and much lower than the rate in Pakistan (93). Thus it translates into an abortion rate of 47 per 10000 women.
safe termination of pregnancy-wonder parenting Most unintended pregnancies happen because of lack of information about contraception or a lack of responsibility about preventing pregnancy. Hence the responsible use of contraception prevents unwanted pregnancies, abortions, and their complications
What is Safe Termination of pregnancy (TOP) or Abortion?
It is the removal of products of conception or the fetus and placenta (afterbirth) from the uterus. The terms placenta and fetus usually are used after eight weeks of pregnancy, while the other terms describe tissue produced by the union of a sperm and an egg before eight weeks. The commonest reason for voluntary safe termination of a pregnancy is an unintended or unwanted pregnancy. Malformations or abnormalities of the baby incompatible with life are also a reason for a medically indicated termination. Safe Termination of Pregnancy _ Contraceptives for family planning _ Dr. Prathima Reddy-wonderparenting What is the legal limit of safe termination of pregnancy in India? According to the MTP act of India, it is illegal to terminate a pregnancy beyond 20 weeks of gestation.
Unsafe Abortions On average, 56 million abortions took place all over the world during the years 2010 – 2014. Of this 25 million were unsafe abortions. Most of the unsafe abortions take place in the developing world. Even in the 21st century on an average of 13 women die due to unsafe abortions in India. And this happens despite the safe termination of pregnancy is legal up to 20 weeks in this country. Unsafe abortions can cause morbidity, mortality and long-term sequelae leading to pain and infertility. So they also have a huge emotional impact on the woman. What are the methods of safe termination of pregnancy (TOP)? TOP can be performed with tablets or with a minor procedure or surgery. It must be performed by a doctor trained to perform terminations. Pre and post procedure counseling is very important to ensure that the complications and sequelae associated with the procedure are minimal. A checklist before the procedure would include:
An ultrasound scan to determine the location and the age of the pregnancy. Blood tests to check that the woman is not anemic and to note the blood group and to check for sexually transmitted infections. Counseling may be required for women to prevent psychological sequelae. Women with Rhesus negative blood group would require an injection called Anti D post-procedure to prevent Rhesus isoimmunization in future pregnancies. Antibiotics may need to be administered as also painkillers. Post-procedure an ultrasound scan would be required if tablets were used, to confirm that complete abortion has taken place.
What are the different types of Contraception available?
For thousands of years, contraceptives have been in use. In France, a cave painting which is 15,000 years old shows what is possibly the first illustration of a man who is wearing a condom. Around 1500 BC in ancient Egypt, women would mix sodium carbonate, honey, and crocodile dung into a pessary and insert it into their vaginas before sex. In ancient China, concubines used a drink of mercury and lead in order to prevent pregnancy. Over the centuries contraception has advanced into what is accessible today. Contraceptions can be divided mainly into two categories.
Methods with no user failure – methods that don’t depend on you remembering to take or use them eg. Intrauterine Device (IUD, commonly known as CuT or the loop) /Intrauterine System (IUS), Contraceptive Injections, Implants, Sterilization.
Methods with user failure – methods that depend on how well you use them eg. Pills, Condoms, Diaphragm, Natural Family Planning methods, etc. They are also divided into Reversible and Irreversible or Permanent Methods. The latter include female and male sterilization. All the other methods fall into the Reversible category.
The most commonly used contraceptive methods in India are Condoms, IUD, Contraceptive pills, Injectables, and Female sterilization. Other less commonly used methods are Natural Family Planning methods, Withdrawal, Vaginal ring, Contraceptive patch, Female Condoms, Diaphragm with spermicide. Is Contraception 100% effective? No! Each one of them has a failure rate including the sterilization operation. However, depending on how well they are used, most of them are very effective.
So you can discuss failure rates with your doctor. consult doctor-wonder parenting I need contraceptive advice should I see a doctor? Yes, it would be preferable to see your doctor since he/she will need to take a thorough history and do a full examination to help decide which contraceptive method is best for you. Your doctor will also discuss with you the failure rates of the various birth control methods and advise you as to what is to be done in the event of “contraceptive failure”. And Finally……………… With all the Contraceptive methods available, be responsible, be safe, use contraception and hence prevent unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. You owe it to yourself. Authored by Dr. Prathima Reddy MBBS, MRCOG (London), FRCOG (London), FACOG (USA) Dr. Prathima Reddy Director – Fortis La Femme, Bangalore Chairperson – Medical Council Committee – Fortis La Femme Senior Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Also Read: 11 Symptoms and Signs of Pregnancy Wish you a Happy and Healthy Life! abortions family planning how to terminate pregnancy safely Safe Termination of Pregnancy unintended pregnancy unsafe abortions unwanted pregnancy We hope you love this information and if you want to know more about a sign of pregnancy or Safe Termination of Pregnancy so you can read a wonderful parenting blog, it is one of best parenting blog of India for parenting knowledge.
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Misotac is a dual-use medication for ulcer prevention and medical abortion. Learn about its uses, dosage, side effects, and precautions to avoid complications. #Health #Misotac #Ulcers #MedicalAbortion #Healthcare
Misotac is a medication that plays a critical role in both ulcer prevention and medical abortions. Derived from Misoprostol, a synthetic version of prostaglandins, it mimics natural substances produced by the body to protect the stomach lining and promote healing. This dual-action drug can also be used to terminate unwanted pregnancies, particularly when combined with other medications like…
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