#that she finds her greatest fulfillment in service and being bred

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An excellent example of how evangelical propaganda works.

This claim is blatantly ridiculous on the face of it—to those who know anything about either 1) fetal development, or 2) the stages at which most abortions take place, or 3) what the donation and use of fetal tissue actually looks like.

The target for this propaganda, therefore, is "people who know nothing about any of those three things."

Everyone starts ignorant. There's no shame in that. The shame is in using people's lack of knowledge against them; in selling them lies to justify taking away their freedoms.

Most of my readers are now thinking, "But Isaiah, even if I didn't know anything about fetal development, when almost all non-emergency abortions happen, or how fetal tissue donation works, I still wouldn't take a claim like that at face value.

"It's so extreme. Where's the evidence? I'd have to look into it before I believed!"

That's very rational of you.

But what if your rationality had been deliberately derailed by things like, say, a set of deceptively edited and presented videos that claimed to show Planned Parenthood using pregnant people as a source for immensely valuable teeny-tiny, adorable baby parts that these baby-killers then sold to the highest bidder?

No, I know. That's an even more extreme claim, requiring even more evidence to support it—but if you're upset enough even questioning the claim feels like siding with the (imaginary) monsters you've just been presented.

This is how evangelical propaganda works.

If they can sell you a lie with high emotional impact, they can get you to agree with the lie even when it's presented with low emotional impact: your brain's now primed to provide the rationality-derailing emotion all by itself.

Facts don't care about your feelings—and your feelings don't care about facts. That's very useful for a propagandist.

In this way, they can force pregnancy onto people who don't want it (either because they never intended to be pregnant or because being pregnant is threatening their health, life, future fertility, etc).

Why would they want to do that?

How, you wonder, could these people possibly benefit by taking such an essential freedom—the ability to control your own body—away from so many Americans?

Well.

Being pregnant has many physical downsides. On the more obvious side of things, it's difficult to work while something's growing inside you: decreased energy levels alone can take you out of the workforce, even without the more flu-like symptoms (and, of course, the assumption that you shouldn't be earning money to live while pregnant).

This makes a pregnant person more likely to end up dependent on a non-pregnant person: typically someone who can't get pregnant, and so doesn't have to worry about accidentally getting knocked up.

And now this person essentially owns you.

You have no (or very little) money. You can't get money (at least, not much of it).

And when your pregnancy reaches full term and the new human tears their way out through your most sensitive bits, you can either dump the child on an already overwhelmed foster system… or rely on the person with the financial power even more than you already were.

Evangelical Christians love that.

Coverture is one of their favorite things. They hate that it's been eroded over the years, and love every bit of it that remains.

A woman (by which they mean something like 'someone whom I, as a man, find sexy and think ought to be able to bear my children') should be subordinate to her husband, obeying him as the church obeys Christ.

They love women like that—that is, women who are sweet, submissive bits of breeding stock that they get to own and control.

Which is fine for everyone who's into that kind of BDSM.

The thing is, evangelical Christians have a sincerely held belief that everyone ought to be into their specific 24/7 BDSM kink—their deity demands it, they believe, and it wouldn't be kind of them to let people who aren't into that dynamic live their whole lives outside it.

The god they worship might torture you forever if you don't conform, after all. How hateful would they have to be to want that for you?

So they must control your body.

They must force you to stay pregnant.

They must take away your freedom and force you to participate in their kink.

Yes, even those few who haven't fallen for their own lies re: fetal development—even they will insist that it's totally moral to force someone to donate their entire body to a nascent potential human, suffering permanent damage as a result… because they genuinely believe the end result will be good for everyone involved.

And so they'll tell lies like the one above.

And people who have never looked into the facts around pregnancy and abortion will fall for them.

— A few references for the intellectually curious.

Fetal development:

"Prenatal development is a continuum, with no clear defining feature distinguishing an embryo from a fetus. However, in general a fetus is characterized by the presence of all the major body organs, though they will not yet be fully developed and functional, and some may not yet be situated in their final anatomical location. In human prenatal development, fetal development begins from the ninth week after fertilization (which is the eleventh week of gestational age) and continues until the birth of a newborn." Fetus, Wikipedia

A human fetal lung at 14 weeks of gestation https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/150716160004-restricted-fetal-lung.jpg?q=x_4,y_0,h_2038,w_3622,c_crop/h_653,w_1160/f_webp Fetal tissue: How it's used in medical research, CNN [Ah Tumblr, forever you fail me—why is there no image embed option here? Well, copy and paste to see the "lung," interested reader.] .

When most abortions occur:

"In 2020, 80.9% of abortions were performed at ≤9 weeks' gestation, and nearly all (93.1%) were performed at ≤13 weeks' gestation." Abortion Surveillance Summary (2020), CDC

"In 2021, just under half (44.8%) of reported abortions occurred within the first six weeks of pregnancy. Another 36.0% happened between seven and nine weeks, and 12.7% within 10 and 13 weeks. Put another way, 93.5% of reported abortions were performed before two and half months of pregnancy." How far into pregnancy do most abortions happen? by usafacts.org (useful pie chart on linked page) .

What the donation and use of fetal tissue actually looks like:

"Fetal tissue research involves cells from dead fetuses that are harvested for the purpose of establishing cell lines or for use as transplantation material and other purposes. There are two sources of such fetal tissue—elective (or induced) abortions and spontaneous (or natural) abortions.

"…

"Fetal research involves both invasive and noninvasive techniques (some of which are no longer used) and has led to improved techniques of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, and to major advances in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions that threaten the survival of fetuses and pregnant women. Some of these include

tests of efficacy of rubella (German measles) vaccine;

detection and treatment of Rh incompatibility (an immune system mismatch between the mother and fetus);

development of diagnostic techniques including amniocentesis, ultrasonography, and chorionic villi sampling;

detection of genetic and metabolic diseases in the fetus and assessment of other developmental problems, including fetal lung immaturity; and

development of better techniques for obstetrical anesthesia and treatment of maternal hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes." Fetal Research and Applications, 1994

"Human fetal tissue is defined as tissue or cells obtained from a dead human embryo or fetus after a spontaneous or induced abortion or stillbirth. This definition does not include established human fetal cell lines. … The statute specifically prohibits any person from knowingly acquiring, receiving, or transferring any human fetal tissue for valuable consideration. The term "valuable consideration" is a concept similar to profit and does not include reasonable payment for costs associated with the collection, processing, preservation, storage, quality control, or transportation of these tissues." NIH Grants Policy Statement .

Some highlights from the making of the deceptive outrage-bait videos:

・Despite Daleiden's three-year effort to entrap Planned Parenthood, he "failed to succeed in convincing even a single affiliate to enter into a procurement contract with his fake company."

・Daleiden offered one Planned Parenthood affiliate $1,600 for two specimens—more than 25 times the amount of expenses affiliates typically recoup—but the affiliate never agreed.

・Planned Parenthood affiliates that participate in fetal tissue research "recover only their costs, as allowed under the federal law and our [Planned Parenthood's] guidance."

・Tissue procurement companies confirm that they reimburse Planned Parenthood only for "reasonable costs," including "processing, preservation, quality control, transportation, and storage."

・Planned Parenthood does not conduct partial birth abortions.

・The first video released by Daleiden intentionally omitted ten instances in which Planned Parenthood's Director of Medical Services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, unequivocally stated that Planned Parenthood does not profit from tissue donations.

・A forensic analysis of the so-called "full footage" videos found that they still contain "cuts, skips, missing tape, and changes in camera angle," and "numerous intentional post-production edits."

・Daleiden created the Center for Medical Progress in 2013 with the sole purpose of entrapping Planned Parenthood.

And the court case, for those interested in that.

"Defendants [the lying video-makers] also point me to the recordings of Nguyen and Farrell from PPCG as showing evidence of illegal activity. These excerpts were reviewed by the Hon. Donna M. Ryu, who concluded they did not, in fact, contain evidents of actual criminal wrongdoing regarding the sale or transfer of fetal tissue."

TL;DR CMP: These videos show PP doing bad things! Federal Magistrate: [watches them] No they don't. .

"That the HCP videos have led to multiple government investigations (and indeed some criminal pleas from entities who are not parties in this case) does nothing to bring defendants' allegations regarding plaintiffs' illegal or unethical conduct (which, again, have not been substantiated against these plaintiffs) into the sort of 'direct relation' to the causes of actions plaintiffs' assert in this case."

TL;DR CMP: We helped turn up the fact that some other entities are doing bad things, so the people who're harassing and threatening PP employees are doing it because PP is definitely doing bad things! Judge: That's an incredibly stupid argument.

Professor David S. Cohen: Targeted harassment of individual abortion providers and the making of egregious claims against them with the implicit message that something must be done are the tactics that in the past have triggered those on the fringes of the anti-abortion movement to engage in violence. CMP: Shut up shut up shut up!

It's a decent read if you can translate legalese.

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Paz of clan Ruhk

There’s always tales of lost lands full of riches but like all myths and legends there’s a origin point firmly embedded in truth and the isle of Shal ath Kuhn or, if we’re speaking in common, the isle of prophets, a place where it is said the original speakers and bearer of the wills of gods came from to enact their will on a land thriving in chaos and unlawfulness.

Because of the nature of what happened there it is said the very land was bless with a bounty of valuable minerals from which the prophets were able to take what they would have needed to travel, defend and establish the divine will. These stories have of course been floating around bars, scholars, guilds, clans, the old families and many a unscrupulous map seller longer than any remember. It had become such a common fable that it was common to joke about it to suggest someone’s recent endeavors are foolish.

This is where Bignal the Dwarf, Thruk the Orc, Casten the Human and Serkat the Elf enter our story, a group whose tenuous relationship was motivated by greed. They may not have liked each other but they recognized each others skills and usefulness for maximizing their potential haul. They had done well with it too, they were known by the darkest corners of the shadiest towns as a group that could get things done and that brings the start of the greatest adventure they ever had. They had been contracted to pull a job, the target was a magic ring for some pirate stored in the vault of some opulent lord, no one remembers their names, they are not important to this story beyond setting the group on their path. The reward was not a monetary one directly from the pirate (though he did offer some hearty rewards to motivate them to actually give the procured ring to him) the primary reward was the vault with the ring also had many other riches and they’d be able to fill their packs with enough items to happily live for a long time if they so wished to do so. Our dubiously dubbed hero’s of redistributing wealth had a solid plan, they had acquired an item that would open a portal for a period of time that would allow two way travel, they would set an anchor point in their hideout and just empty the vault into their hideout (or as much as they could before the portal collapsed) , they only had one shot with the spell as it was old and expensive magic and very hard to come by, they had it waiting for years and knew this was the perfect use for it, it was risky but there’s no rewards without risk and part of them were in it for the thrill anyway, the riches were just a bonus.

Everything was pretty smooth, they got in, disabled guards, cracked the magical locks on the vault, worked around the wards on the ring and secured it. Here’s where things weren’t so smooth, as they were setting up the portal the owner of the vault had for some random chance of fate, wanted to bask in the radiance of his wealth so insecure he was about so much else that his cold collection of magic and riches fulfilled him to a deluded degree, he had his personal guards, alarms were raised. They opted to flee with what items they had in their packs and the ring. They used the unethical redistribution of wealth to take one of the smaller boats in the lord’s personal dock and fled the scene.they had to make way for safe harbour and either disappear for a while or or at least get to their hideout to lay low, the plan became find land, use the portal spell and return to the hideout. Lucky for them the ring they had stolen, its purpose was to guide to safe harbour. Serkay slipped it on his index finger and a beam of light showed them the way. Now here’s the thing about magical items, they don’t have a lot of nuances around definitions that sentient beings have, the ring didn’t define safe in the same way the group did, the ring defined it by anywhere that someone may have ill will to the wearer would be unsafe and the possession of the ring increased that because anyone that learned of it and what it can do would likely take some sort of aggressive action against the owner. It sat in a vault for this reason, it was an oddity, not exactly useful but interesting nonetheless.

And with this and with a tense alliance building tension that they came to an island, it was all steep imposing cliffs like a wave had been changed to stone mid roll except for one small parting with a narrow waterway leading deep into the island through stone tunnels till it came out into a small bay. They beached their boat and found the land formed some natural steps climbing to the top of the island. One thing they all instantly noticed is that along the cliffs and the walls of the tunnel coming in there was clear and deep veins of minerals, of interest to them was the gold and iron, there was much more of things they didn’t recognize as well but the gold and iron was all that mattered to them. Gears turned, mutually agreed on but unspoken alliances with each other were being dropped, each knew that if they brought the location of this to their homelands they would be highly rewarded, dubbed heroes, maybe made lords and given land to rule. Each marked their location using the stars, they knew that they had to work together to get out through the portal, any outward betrayal would result in all the others turning and killing the individual betrayer and seeking allies to take the others down wouldn’t work. The portal was raised, each went through and with a level of individually earned respect, they parted ways to beat the others to claiming that land in the name of their people.

Each made their journey successfully and that is where we will leave off with Bignal, Thruk, Casten and Serkat. They’ve served their purpose for what we needed them, they do have other marks left in history like deep blemishes on skin but as far as the isle of prophets, they are catalysts and having fulfilled that purpose we refocus to the next on the settlement on the isle. It’s not clear who arrived first of the Orcs, Elves, Humans and Dwarves, all would contest to the last breath that it was them and all the others were invaders to their fairly claimed land. No matter though, whoever it was the outcome would be the same, all arrived, anger and misplaced and self-imposed righteousness led to many battles, battle lines shifted, land became more and more contested, years went on at a stalemate. The battles halted eventually not because of any overpowering force or lack of soldiers (for what are people to war but and easily renewable resource) but the cost was starting to outweigh the gain that the land would produce. It was also making trade and diplomacy more difficult on the mainland, borders were being closed, crafts weren’t being exported, Races outside of the conflict were feeling pressure to align with a side and often more than not, just withdrew. Diplomats met to find a resolution, a goblin diplomat was assigned to oversee the fair resolving of the whole event. A treaty was made dividing the land equally and in the center a city was founded as neutral ground as both a place for further diplomatic meetings and as a gesture of good faith to encourage their peoples to intermingle with each other and help bring down racial tension. The City of Tunfir Baash grew fast, there was industry and work to raise up, a new land to stake claims in and become wealthy from. Though the intention was the to promote friendly exchange between the races distinct districts rose up in a naturally forming segregation seeded from the bigotry founded from greed of the past.

That’s not to say there wasn’t any crossover, there were half elves born occasionally, humans and dwarves had a natural trade in industries. The Orcs were the biggest outliers though half breeds still happened there but there was little friendship shown towards any of the other races but they on occasion had use for half bred Orcs for they were often of much high guile and of sharper mind than their full blooded kin.

This is where we meet Kuhth of clan Ruhk, a strong and particularly proud Orc, she had proven herself in battle many times over until a particularly fierce battle had injured her leg meaning she was no longer mobile enough to engage in the grand art of war anymore. The leader of her tribe recognized her honor and offered her a chance to still gain great honor, they wanted her to Sire a child of mixed human and orc blood so that it might have her rage and prowess in battle and the mind to lead and train troops to great glory. She accepted the proposal as a great honor. Daleth was human, he was once a soldier, he was actually the one who crippled Kuth Ruhk’s leg, he was quick, fierce and had a reputation of someone you don’t take on lightly. That was in his prime, the fit in which he had injured Kuhth Ruhk did not leave him unscathed, he had taken a serious blow to the head which had made him blind in one eye making work as a soldier very difficult, he now did guard work  around the city and spent his evening drinking to excess. It was in such an evening that an orcish figure hobbled into the tavern, came right up to him, grabbed him and advised he had taken honor from her and he must pay to return that to her. In the more outlying hordes of Orcs would not concern themselves with such ideas of proposals or consent. They would find who they need and take what they need but such actions within the city would be unlawful and create potential trouble for the orcs so they played at the games of other species to bolster themselves and their honor.

A deal was struck, Daleth would sire a child with Kuhth Ruhk for taking her out of the glory of battle and they would also pay him for his services and then he would go back and drown his life in whatever he wanted to do with the remainder of it. Through this, Pahz Ruhk was born and was presented to the leaders to deem if she would be worthy to lead and bring the desired honor to clan Ruhk. fate was cruel, through no fault of her own, through a random chance of genes mixing in certain ways, aside from her tusks, green skin and pointed ears, she lacked the much more pronounced facial features of the orcs, in fact, she looked almost human, there is no way a battle horde would follow a leader that didn’t look anything near a true Orc. She was born and the first thing she did was dishonor her name before she could even understand the concept of honor. They still weren’t a race to waste potential though, she grew, she learned to be quick and smart when dealing with her more physically bigger and powerful peers who tended to scorn her mixed blood. She gained a healthy amount of scars from these altercations though that was normal for maturing Orcs anyway, at one point one of her tusks was snapped in such an altercation. Being one of her few defining Orc traits she (through much gold) got a silver one fitted. This only got her targeted further as something a human would do for vanities sake.

Her mother took much pride in her daughter, raising her to not back down no matter the odds, raising her to be proud and fierce, to live to the standards of her ancestors. Honor was everything, Honor is her birth right, she wore the Ruhk braid and she will continually earn the right to keep wearing that braid. She was strict, she was firm but she was fair, she knew Paz could never punch as hard as the other orcs so she taught her to punch smart and that edict led her in all aspects of her life.

There was a point in her life where she did seek out Daleth, the man who sired her out of some level of curiosity. She was not impressed, she found him in the darkest corner of a tavern, he was bloated, one working eye yellowed from the years of drinking, a barely functional echo of someone who once commanded respect. She didn’t approach him, she didn’t speak to him, she observed and then left, closing a chapter in her life that wasn’t even worth starting.

As Paz grew she was put into service of a Shaman, she did have that sharper half blood mind and that would serve well for the magics, Khar of clan Tor became her master. He was brutal, the service to Shaman’s was hard, many didn’t survive the rise to become a full Shaman, Paz wasn’t the only apprentice to him but she was one of the smartest and charismatic which led her to generally being trusted with some of the more complex tasks. Kar Tor didn’t necessarily like Paz but he recognized talent and was very willing to use that to progress his own agenda. It was one such task that had led Paz to a section of woods near the edge of the Isle, she was to read a scroll and commune with the spirits to get direction on where to find a particular component for something Khar Tor was working on, she didn’t have the full picture of it as was typical of Khar Tor’s methods, he kept key details out to ensure full secrecy and avoid his projects being used against him.

She had come to the clearing she had been instructed and it was here she met a figure, it had stepped out of what appeared to be a seam in reality itself but the seam wasn’t there when she looked again. The figure itself looked like someone had cut a whole in the world and you could just see the stars in the outline of a person. It said nothing, Paz could only stand transfixed as the figure reached out, touched Paz’s forehead and engulfed her in a pillar of light. The light faded, Paz found herself in a hexagonal room with no exit or entrance, there was no windows only the oppressive weight of a world outside trying to break in but never getting through. There was no source of the light in the room but the room was lit. The figure of stars was not here but there was a new figure, one of light, it stepped forward to be directly in front of Paz, toes almost touching, Paz couldn’t move, she did her mother proud, she showed no fear. The figure stepped into her, walls opened up around her with light pouring in from all sides, she felt drawn back, she could see herself standing there from behind, she was pulled back further, she could see the room from outside floating in chaos of imagery, shifting too fast to focus on, she was pulled back further, she was herself, standing in the glade again, night had fallen and she knew, she knew she had to leave the Isle, she wasn’t sure why but she knew she had purpose out there. She returned to Khar Tor, task unfinished, he was angered, he went to strike her, hard. The light in her mind, the purpose she had gave her the knowledge she needed it, she channeled her focus and opened a portal to another realm, chains burst out of the ground and struck Kar Tor down. She left him on the ground. She went to her mother and told her that her daughter has been given divine purpose beyond the clan. To demonstrate her point she summoned water out of nothing and filled a wash basin with it, she then turned it to beer. Kuhth Ruhk told her daughter she would bring much honor by serving whatever divine force guided her and gave her blessing. With that Paz of clan Ruhk traveled to the mainland, the first oracle to be born of the isle of prophets in hundreds of years. She did not know for what reason or purpose or for who, but her drive was strong, she would show those warring full bloods that though she might be of mixed blood, her Orc blood runs as strong as theirs.

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