#the dehumanization for profit is sickening

[shesunety]

Becoming a very well known figure within a piece of media you've created or taken part in is genuinely a frightening predicament. The thought of having numerous eyes observing you is disturbing. Besides, how people or rather fans treat you... Some might be obsessive enough to develop parasocialism, some might use you as a product to profit from and overall completely dehumanize you.

However, it does have its own positive sides. For instance, recognition and income.

Still, from my perspective, nowadays with malicious individuals encouraging ai and its further development as well as cloning voices, mind you, of real people... Also, generating nudity photos.. instead of ai being used beneficially.

Truly, It is sickening to take advantage of its advances to pleasure yourself. Needless to say, It is a selfish act.

To sum up my thoughts, society sucks most of the time.

[fawnbriscoe-blog]

UNITED, WE ARE STRONGER

I have done all I can on here.  I’ll be stepping back from the socials. There is so much irrelevant noise on Facebook & Twitter, that it is sickening.  I couldn’t care less about which team or celebrity is trending.  And the advertisements for more & more stuff just seems so wrong.  It’s 100 bloody degrees Fahrenheit in the Arctic! - July 2020 People are distracted, intolerant & fighting with each other over differences now more then ever (gender, skin colour, political affiliation,...)  It’s as though they are terrified, but don’t know how to constructively respond, so they resort to tribalism.  Me vs. a dehumanized other.  And the screens they stare at constantly feed them info that reaffirms that narrative.  You are right, all your friends agree with you, you need this product, you need to see this video. Our elected officials have failed us.  They work for whoever donates the most to their campaigns.  Water is sold for profit. Farmland is being paved over & renewable energy resources are being dismantled by Conservatives.  Trudeau is borrowing money and tossing it around like rice at a wedding trying to buy votes.  In 2019, Liberals changed their logo to be green with a leaf, due to pressure from the #FridaysforFuture protests, but have done nothing to reverse the #ClimateCrisis since. We need to elect new officials and give another party a chance.  One that works for us & our future on earth. Red & Blue have had 70+ yrs to act and have failed.  They can not be trusted to act now. Corporations & the wealthy don’t pay taxes, our jobs have been outsourced to third world countries or machines, yet we are expected to keep purchasing their products.  Refuse.  It’s that simple.  Leave it on the shelf & save your money.  We are headed into a Depression in #Canada and the #USA. Wealthy CEO’s, shareholders & banks won’t come to our rescue. We are on our own. Re-engage with the people around you.  Have old school face-to-face conversations.  Each of us can bring talents & skills to the table to help us adapt & survive what is coming.  Let’s work together & be united in our quest to implement bold solutions to the threats we face. Change is scary, but we can control how we respond to it. Love you all, Fawn

[lj-writes]

A meditation on Exodus and the United States

Tl; dr: The world’s richest failed state is increasingly making its failure official, an inevitable result of its criminal roots. It’s not just the U.S., though, we all have to start thinking of alternatives.

The news coming out of the U.S. in recent years is sad and sickening. With the retirement of Justice Kennedy and his inevitable replacement by a far-right Justice, the damage to American institutions will persist for decades at least and is likely to be permanent.

It may seem strange, but on hearing this last piece of news--which was just a matter of time really, you can only plug the dam with a finger for so long--my mind went to Exodus. I have heard that when Jewish people celebrate their ancestors’ emancipation from slavery in Egypt they also mourn the innocents who suffered in the Ten Plagues that God brought on Egypt. Many Jewish people have also questioned why the plagues were necessary at all, an admirable example of both critical thought and compassion. I can also see why God spent half his time being annoyed with y’all he freed you from slavery and here you are nitpicking his methods

I personally think, though, that it wasn't God's choice to bring the plagues. If we read God as a personification of universal forces, and that’s how I understand these stories as an atheist, the plagues were just the inevitable results of slavery and genocide. God no more brought the plagues than “Mother Earth” is “avenging herself” against humanity with global warming and the depletion of natural resources. These are symbolic ways to describe physical forces at work, except with Exodus we are talking about moral physics, or karma as they say in Buddhism.

In this view, God hardened the Pharaoh’s heart and brought the plagues similarly to how thermodynamics are warming the planet: The rules are simply there, unbreakable and unnegotiable, and the cause is the actions of humanity.

Take the precipitating cause of the plagues, the hardening of the Pharaoh’s heart against letting the enslaved Hebrew people go. Such refusal is a nearly inevitable reaction to institutionalized and profitable slavery, both because freeing the slaves will cause catastrophic economic loss and because an enormous amount of justification and dehumanization are required to make slavery socially and psychologically tolerable.

From the Pharaoh’s stubbornness, itself a consequence of slavery, came the other disasters, the frogs, the locusts and the rest, culminating in a direct callback to the Egyptians’ own crimes of infanticide against the Hebrews--the deaths of their firstborn, from which the Hebrew people were given the ability to save themselves. The story of Exodus has a happy-ish ending with the enslaved people leaving their captivity and setting out for the Promised Land, though the subsequent events are much more complicated. I like how these books don’t stint on the brutality that entailed the fairy-tale promise of the land of milk and honey; the Hebrews were not saved because they were inherently good, rather they were a people like any other just as capable of cruelty and hypocrisy once they had enough power. But that is a discussion for another time.

So what does this have to do with the United States? It’s essentially the same story as the Plagues because you can’t grow a just and well-functioning state from the roots of slavery and genocide any more than you can get wholesome fruit from a poisoned tree.

What’s more, unlike the link between the enslavement of Hebrews and, say, a swarm of locusts, there are direct and observable links between America’s policy of genocide and enslavement and its  failures as a country. The vast tracts of land stolen for Native Americans required an equally vast workforce to make profitable, and slavery was allowed to fill that gap. The accommodation of the slave-owning states with its large numbers of enslaved Africans is the root of much of the distortions in U.S. politics today, including the shameful vestiges of slavery in the text of the U.S. Constitution and, more saliently, the electoral college, which is how Donald Trump could be President of the United States and why conservative rural states have a disproportionate effect in national elections.

This is to say nothing of the gross social and economic injustices that persist long after legal chattel slavery is gone, the white supremacy that split the working class along racial lines and weakened them as a political force, the fact that states with large Black populations are  more reluctant to extend the benefits of health insurance to the population, the crisis of mass incarceration that drains the nation of its human and public resources for the bottom line of private prisons, the war on drugs that has pitted police against the communities they are pledged to protect, the changing of the electoral map in response to the passage of the Civil Rights Act, blatant gerrymandering to corral and limit the political effectiveness disfavored populations, voter suppression against targeted communities, the wholesale abduction of children from their parents, the list goes on.

The brutality, the enslavement, the genocide never stopped. They have come back to become plagues on the general American public, and they have been hurting and will continue to hurt the already exploited and wronged populations the worst. Even God, should he exist and should he wish to, cannot stop an unjust system from crumbling in on itself and taking the guilty and innocent alike with it. Voting for one party over another may slow the decline but cannot shore up a rotten foundation.

I have focused on the United States but the system of exploitation backed by state violence is a global one, and no one alive is free of it. We are paying and will continue to pay in the form of a degrading environment, more unequal societies, and the increasing inability to correct these ills through nonviolent electoral politics.

Physical removal of exploited minorities cannot be a solution this time, even a “voluntary” departure as when the Hebrews left Egypt in Exodus. And just how voluntary is it to leave when your alternatives are slavery and death? The ending of Exodus was bittersweet at best, and the sequels were increasingly violent with the Hebrews, ethnically cleansed out of Egypt, slaughtering and displacing other groups in order to survive.

No, we must all walk away together from the rotting empire or not at all. We must imagine different ways of life and live them. No one serious can pretend this will be an easy process. Our lives will change, our most deeply-held values may have to change, and many of us will die in the process. Chances are we will not muster the necessary willpower until the plagues have run their devastating course--and perhaps not even then. I don’t know if there is a way out or if the cure will be worse than the disease, as in the case of Soviet-style Communism. But we do have to look and look hard, because the state of affairs in the United States should be a warning to the world.

[how2pedia]

Something Is Rotten at Big Meat Inc. #Funny #HumorTimes #Humor Please subscribe my channel for future fun. https://ift.tt/2AFwfAW FaceBook - https://ift.tt/38F5SaW Twitter - https://twitter.com/LaughingAmerica Tumblr - https://ift.tt/2ChwdQl Pinterest - https://ift.tt/2DojRGz Big Meat profiteers employ a wholly unethical, cost-of-doing-business approach. Upton Sinclair’s landmark 1905 book, “The Jungle,” exposed the food contamination and worker exploitation hidden in the fetid stockyards and meatpacking plants of Chicago and other major American cities. The muckraking journalist dubbed the nasty and brutish meat factories “a monster … the Great Butcher … the spirit of capitalism made flesh.” The nauseating details of worker and consumer abuses that Sinclair exposed were so horrific that the ensuing public revulsion and outrage were transformative. Congress quickly passed a food purity law (the 1906 Federal Meat Inspection Act), and union organizing drives sparked nationwide contract bargaining that eventually gave long-oppressed meatpacking workers the clout to improve factory conditions and pay. Indeed, by 1970, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and the United Packinghouse Union had won enforceable safety rules and solid middle-class wages — about $25 an hour in today’s dollars. Now the median wage for hourly workers in meatpacking plants is down to about half that — $13.23 per hour — some 30% less than production workers in other manufacturing jobs. Around 1970, just when working families, consumers, environmentalists and others were making real progress against corporate powers, the baronies of industry and high finance initiated a radical counteroffensive. One of their core efforts was a long-term propaganda campaign to legitimize unethical, anti-social corporate behavior. “Shareholder primacy,” as they dubbed their malevolent principle, asserted that the corporate hierarchy’s SOLE purpose and overarching moral duty is to maximize stockholder profits. Under this self-serving theory, CEOs and board members must do everything legally possible to lower wages, shortcut safety, squeeze out competitors, cheapen quality, minimize environmental protections, dodge taxes, avoid scrutiny and safety, and otherwise manipulate the system to funnel revenues into shareholders’ pockets. When a corporation sets up a workplace that routinely results in maiming, mangling, sickening, disabling and even killing workers, those outcomes are not “accidents.” They are intentional, immoral decisions by executives and investors to increase profits by treating the human beings who produce the corporate product as disposable. To cover up this wholly unethical, cost-of-doing-business approach, meatpacking profiteers put out a stream of B.S. to extol their industry’s commitment to the well-being of its beloved family of employees. Shareholder primacy is, of course, pure hokum, a mumbo-jumbo mandate for greed with no basis in law, economics or ethics. Yet, over the past 50 years, the shareholders-made-me-do-it dictum has ruled nearly every industry, none more than meatpacking. By 1980, the largest meatpackers were buying up smaller competitors, relocating plants from unionized urban areas to anti-union rural counties, dehumanizing and de-skilling workplaces, slashing wages, setting injury-causing work processes and imposing strict labor rules that leave workers with little power to complain about, much less to stop, abuses. A century ago, Sinclair condemned the “unspeakable” practices that went on in “packing houses all the time.” But today’s conditions would leave him no less appalled. While unions and other reformers have set higher standards for cleanliness and safety, there’s a big difference between what’s put on paper and what actually occurs. Progress in standards, it turns out, has been efficiently canceled out by the sheer enormity of today’s facilities; the massive volume of animals slaughtered and butchered day and night; and the treacherous work speeds corporate bosses demand. The Big Three multinational giants dominating the U.S. meat market (Brazil’s JBS, Arkansas’ Tyson Foods and the Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods) run factories typically covering hundreds of acres. There, 1,000 or more low-paid workers stand elbow to elbow in “The Chain” — high-speed “disassembly” lines that snake through the factories. Slogging through 10- to 12-hour shifts, they wield as...

[me-mindfulexistence]

Hellish Conditions- By Professor Doug Morris

Take the opportunity to open your heart and then open your mind to reading something that might cause mental discomfort.  Why? Because it paints an “ugliness” about our tethered history, the dismantled current state of affairs and the harsh questions pondered of what it would take to improve things.  Professor Doug Morris of West Chester University is the sole author, and I’m privileged that he is allowing me to share this.  He is a former instructor to my son, and Zack stays in regular contact with him.  They have many conversations about world affairs and discuss what can be done to facilitate mass transformation in this country.  Professor Doug has a very unique resume as he has traveled all over the world and has experienced many cultures.  He started his life serving in our United States military before attending college and has shared many of his experiences with thousands of people.  He continues to not only educate others but also seek knowledge among anyone he comes in contact with (and truly appreciates a good political banter....no matter how different someone else’s views may be).  He really defines what a “teacher” should be.  

Hellish Conditions – doug morris

 George Floyd was publicly murdered. We know who killed him, but there are also questions as to what killed him and why he was killed.  The latter two questions are too seldom reflected upon and interrogated. We must work to understand the social, historical and cultural conditions and forces that made it possible for George Floyd to be murdered by a white policeman? And, what can we do to stop the flood of killings and the looting of black lives?  

 It appears that institutionalized racist terrorism has become normalized and even glorified in too much of the U.S.  A dominant white-nationalist authoritarian culture has inculcated the idea that black lives are disposable as witnessed in the mass incarceration, condemnation to poverty, denial of voting rights, a long and ongoing string of murders by the police, poisoned air and water, and the crushing and disposability of, and disrespect for, black dignity.

 The hyper-militarized racist state-apparatus is a punishing, predatory, and pilfering state, tending now toward neo-fascism with white supremacists in high office, an apparatus that legitimates multiple forms of assault on and pillaging of black lives and black communities.  In a white supremacist culture, the monstrous terror imposed on black lives and communities becomes a source of satisfaction for some, and a source of despair, protest, outrage, and death for too many others.

 This sickening and detestable stench of dehumanization seeps out of the White House on a regular basis as witnessed in the phrase: “When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” a clearly racist and ominous call for the killing of black lives and the suppression of our right to protest against injustice, inequality and indignity.

 Trump cannot figure out how to live a life that is free of the oppression and abuse of black lives and communities, so he perpetuates the absurd fantasy that black lives are expendable, not equal to, and worth less than white lives.  Of course, the racist oppression, plundering, violence and fantasy pre-exist Trump.

 The current regime, however, is grounded in various forms of interpenetrating fundamentalisms that shut down reason and morality: neoliberal capitalism; anti-intellectualism; global militarism and imperialism; anti-science; white supremacy; hatred of blackness; eco-system destruction to maximize profits, wealth and power, etc.  

 Reason, morality and accountability do not work in the world of fundamentalism, because the fundamentalists believe they have found the truth – they are above the rest of us…they believe. Reason, morality, responsibility to and for one another, and struggles for dignity, democracy, and freedom, are disparagingly called “political correctness” by the morally and rationally incorrect fundamentalists.

 What will it take to overcome the punishing, militarized racist state? How many murders of black men and women can we watch until all of us shout: “No more! Transformation is required!”?  When 12 year old Tamir Rice was murdered, some thought that would finally cause enough people to say “No more!”  When Eric Garner was choked to death, some thought it would mean: “No more!”  When LaQuan McDonald was shot sixteen times by Chicago police, it was thought that now all would say “No more!”  But the killing continued.  Now it is George Floyd publicly lynched, and sadly, disgustingly, it seems we can say “It will happen again,” even as more of us say “No more!”  

 So again, people are in the streets, outraged, frustrated, agonized, protesting -- this time will it finally be enough to at least stop the killing?  How much protesting and outrage will it take; how much vandalism, burning and looting will it take?  

 Yes, we’ve seen some devilish behavior in the street rebellions, but devilish behavior is produced by hellish conditions.  Why the hellish conditions?  What and who produced them?  The root causes of those hellish conditions too must be interrogated, understood and overcome.  

 “Looting” is a peculiar word.  Looting refers to ravaging, plundering, devastating, pillaging.  Must we be reminded again that all too many black lives and black communities in the U.S. have been devastated, ravaged, plundered and pillaged over the centuries, and right up to the present.  Too many people forced to confront hellish conditions daily, and robbed of dignity, options and life.

 Any talk of “looting” should focus on that and use that focus to overcome the long-term terror imposed on black communities and black lives.  For example: imposed poverty; absence of health care; mass incarceration; high unemployment rooted in outsourced and downsized jobs; poor housing; under-resourced and collapsing schools and terrible education; grim forms of malnutrition; workplace exploitation; social, political and economic inequality; police-state repression, humiliation, and murder; voter suppression;  poisoning people with toxic chemicals, etc., are all forms of devastating, plundering, ravaging, and pillaging black lives and communities. The hellish conditions continue to tyrannize and inflame.  We know it is happening, but too many of us look the other way.  

 Jogging, driving, walking, sleeping, thinking, playing, breathing while black, sitting on the couch while black are now punishable by a death sentence. How can this be? Why this hell?  What about the ten times higher death rate from asthma for black kids, and the three times higher death rate from the COVID-19 pandemic for black folk?

 Can we expect the police to be in the streets or hallways of power assaulting and arresting those responsible for all of this looting of black lives; will they be harassing and arresting the hedge fund managers, the big bankers, the corporate CEOs, the executives of Big Pharma, and the political system’s sycophants who together have imposed so much structural suffering and systemic agony onto black lives and communities?  

 Why are the police not now in the streets with the people (some are) rather than against the people? Working with the people to overcome the hellish conditions.

 It is the privilege of the privileged to condemn those who violently lash out in the face of oppression, subjugation, trauma and murder.  But such condemnation is sanctimonious. The moral and rational role of the privileged must be to struggle to overcome a society based in privilege, and it must be a collective struggle in solidarity with those who experience the terrors and horrors of institutional racism, economic exploitation, and social oppression.

 The other side of morality and reason is immorality and insanity; that is dangerous, deplorable and destructive, and that is what we are facing from the dominant institutions of the society, personified in the president.  It is time to say and act: “No more! Transformation is required!” before it is too late (and time is running out for all of us, as it has run out for George Floyd).  

 The rebellion in the streets must be connected to and nourished by transformative modes of education and organizing geared toward addressing and overcoming the root causes of the systemic forms of racist oppression, economic exploitation, and the looting of life and nature by the “profits at all costs” system of capital, while also imagining and constructing commendable, sustainable and viable institutional alternatives. That is the harder, but possible and necessary, step in a country often lacking in knowledge and memories of our long history of popular struggles and victories for the people.  

 Do we feel too hopeless and powerless, have we been made too cynical and pessimistic, or can we find hope in the collective power of the people to mobilize our collective intelligence and imagination, energy and enthusiasm, anger and outrage, courage and commitment, solidarity and support to stay in the struggle for the long-haul to not only abolish the destructive racist, classist, sexist, ecology-destroying, money-loving dominant systems, ideologies and institutions, but also to construct a meaningfully free, equitable and democratic society organized for the good of each and all?  We cannot afford to lose this struggle.  

 Doug Morris, Ph.D

https://youtu.be/uGyFQ4I6evg

[dremilyb]

All lives matter when Black lives matter.⁣ ⁣ I live on land looted by white European settlers whose greed for profit through extraction, genocide, and displacement had no regard for the indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. All in the name of "God," "modernity," and "progress" --colonial constructs used to savagize and justify the desecration of land and mass destruction of life. ⁣ ⁣ The wealth of this stolen land was built on the blood and backs of enslaved Africans who still found ingenious ways to resist dehumanization and repression to sustain the dignity of their lives and roots. The amount of legal, political, social, and economic institutions, policies, and practices created to protect the profit and power of rich heteropatriarchal European male settler colonists is a sickening and disgusting cycle that continues to manifest in the white supremacist violence waged against Black lives today like #AhmaudArbery #BreonnaTaylor #GeorgeFloyd #TonyMcDade and so many others.⁣ ⁣ My ancestors come from a land that is also entangled in this web of Western European imperialism, a home to so many riches found in the lands and the people. My very existence is a testament to the ways this country's capitalist interests drain resources and labor at a global scale and disposes people once our precious knowledge, labor, or land has been maximized for their interests. ⁣ ⁣ This is why my freedom is deeply tied to so many interconnected struggles for land and liberation. "No one is free until we are all free." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.⁣ ⁣ I am a Pinay for Black lives.⁣ ⁣ #BlackLivesMatter #SayTheirNames #FilipinxForBlackLives #FilipinosForBlackLives⁣ art by @kalamendoza⁣⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/CA2ZkmagZI5/?igshid=ieq9p2d6unf6

[principle139-blog]

The Methods of Abortion at Planned Parenthood

In discussing abortion in any depth, eventually the methods of how abortions are performed will come up.  Depending on the methods used, the results can be some moderately-concerning pain and discomfort, or they can be the stuff of nightmares.  I've seen anti-abortion protesters (who I must take a moment to point out are completely distinct from pro-life advocates) picketing with posters of babies killed by abortion; as a pro-life advocate myself I find this behavior sickening and repulsive, and in no way do I condone or support such displays.  However, blatantly displaying the mutilated corpses of infants is one thing, and explaining what happens during an abortion is something else entirely.  What I'm about to write is somewhat graphic, but it is the truth, and I will present it with as much tact as possible.

Since the early- to mid-1980s abortionists have been prescribing mifepristone, also known as RU-486, for chemical abortions of pregnancies up to 10 weeks of gestation. RU-486 is given to patients in a dosage of two pills to be taken separately, about 48 hours apart. The first pill, mifepristone, is designed to poison the fetus to end its life. As Planned Parenthood words it, "Mifepristone blocks your body's own progesterone, stopping the pregnancy from growing." The second pill, called misoprostol, causes the patient to go into labor to deliver the dead fetus, or according to PP, "causes cramping and bleeding to empty your uterus." They go on to say that, "It's kind of like having a really, heavy crampy period, and the process is very similar to an early miscarriage.It's interesting that PP should word it quite that way, describing it as "similar" to a miscarriage, since that's exactlywhat's happening - a forced miscarriage. Physical effects of RU-486 include painful cramps, severe bleeding and, as just mentioned, miscarriage of the fetus. Women can be emotionally scarred from the experience. Planned Parenthood sells chemical abortion as 'very safe', stating that 'serious problems are rare'; the Food and Drug Administration reports that 24 women have died as a result of using mifeprex (another name for mifepristone) since December 31, 2018. Another ethical problem with the drug is that it can cost the same as a surgical abortion, yet it eliminates the need for surgical staff of Planned Parenthood, which then increases profit margin for the abortion provider.

Between 10 and 16 weeks of pregnancy, an abortion is performed by suction, or vacuum aspiration.  At this stage, the body of the fetus is small enough and soft enough to be sucked through a plastic catheter about an inch or so in width, using a powerful vacuum.  As you can imagine, the procedure tears apart what little there is of the fetus in its early development, and can be messy as it passes through the catheter.

Abortions performed later than 16 weeks are done by dilation and evacuation, or D & E, using a set of stainless steel, toothed forceps. These procedures may or may not be ultrasound-guided.  If an ultrasound is not used, the surgeon simply reaches blindly into the uterus until he finds something to grab onto, then pulls and twists until an arm, leg or some other body part is removed.  This continues until all the parts of the fetus/baby are accounted for.  The surgeon has to take inventory of what has been removed; any part of the fetus left behind is, of course, dead tissue, and would result in infection and serious illness or death of the patient.

Third-trimester abortions are not as common as those performed earlier in the pregnancy, but they do happen, up to the end of the ninth month.  In cases like these, the abortionists may use a drug called digoxin to end the life of the baby; the use of this drug allows the abortion facilities to avoid the legal entanglements of violating existing partial-birth abortion laws.  Digoxin may be injected into the amniotic sac, where the baby will ingest it; the drug will poison the baby, resulting in its death.  The other way that digoxin is administered is to inject it directly into the baby’s heart, inducing cardiac arrest.  Once fetal death occurs, the D & E procedure begins as described above.

Planned Parenthood on their website, in describing different types of surgical abortions, says that "In clinic abortion works by using suction to take a pregnancy out of your uterus."  Did you notice the term they used?  "To take a pregnancy out of the uterus."  Not a fetus, and certainly not a baby.  A "pregnancy".  It's a clever use of semantics they have to dehumanize an unborn baby, ignoring the truth that a 'pregnancy' isn't a thing, not a person, but a physical state of being pregnant.  In a similar way, they will refer to the unborn - an embryo, fetus or baby - as "pregnancy tissue" so their prospective and current patients will see the baby as nothing more than a clump of cells rather than a human being.

Many abortion workers - surgeons, clinic directors and other clinic personnel - have left the abortion industry after eventually realizing the truth of what abortion does to a tiny human body, and what it does to the girls and women who undergo the procedures.  I imagine they had lucrative careers doing what they were doing.  But I can also imagine that they had their eyes and their hearts opened to the reality of what it was they were doing or supporting, and knew they could not sell their souls by taking lives for a handsome salary.   I would never launch personal attacks against someone in the industry, or try to guilt someone because of a career in abortion.  But I will end this post with the point that every baby conceived, whether planned or not, whether wanted or not, is a miraculous creation and is intended by God to be someone's son or daughter.