“Each of you, for themself, by themself, and on their own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians. Each must, for themself alone, decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic, and which isn’t.
You cannot shirk this. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country. Let them label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country. Hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of.”
- Mark Twain -
"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it."
- Declaration of Independence of The United States of America -
It’s odd how casinos use firearms detection technology such as this on their floors and their resorts. But still somehow didn’t detect the +400lbs of firearms and munitions 64 year old Stephen Paddock had with him that he walked up to the 32nd floor.
Unpopular opinion: people with anencephaly ought to be born & loved for as long as possible. They deserve palliative care, not murder in the womb. Abortion is not euthanasia.
This little girl is not in agony. She coos and smiles at her mother's touch. She is loved. She wouldn't have known any of that love had she been violently stabbed with a lethal injection and born dead. According to her mom on YouTube she lived for 3 weeks and her family cherished her.
When I say later abortion is not euthanasia, I mean: the children are killed without general anesthesia. We wouldn't even kill a horse or someone on death row this way. Later abortion, even for medical reasons, is horrific violence. The babies are stabbed with an overdose of digoxin or lidocaine. They may be exsanguinated or dismembered alive.
If you want your disabled child to live with dignity and die humanely, with the least suffering possible, then do not abort them. Love them. You will suffer less in the long run knowing you protected them, that you did not pay for their brutal murder.
And for the record, you still have to go through labor when you get a later abortion for fetal anomaly. Unless, of course, you get your child ripped out piece by piece in mangled shreds. The chances of uterine perforation and sepsis from this are extreme.
Disabled children are not "choices". Perinatal hospice is ethical. Murder is not.
Learn more about anencephaly.
For anyone feeling pressured to terminate for medical reasons, I highly recommend
On the night of 17 November 1961, 27-year-old photographer Douglas Kirkland photographed Marilyn Monroe for Look magazine’s 25th anniversary issue.
According to Kirkland, Monroe came up with the idea of him shooting her in bed. “I know what we need,” Monroe told him. “We need a bed, and we need white silk sheets – they must be silk. Frank Sinatra records, and Dom Pérignon champagne.”
"I got overhead so I could shoot directly down on her,” Kirkland said. “I started to take pictures, but I didn’t need to direct her – I just talked with her. It was like flirting, both ways… . At one point she suggested that we should do something more than just talk, in other words, embrace each other. This is where my small town boy came in, I acted like I didn’t understand, I was embarrassed. I looked down into my camera and just kept shooting pictures, over and over, as quickly as I could. I think that’s why the pictures are so strong, because that sexual desire was channeled into the camera instead of into action.”
“That shoot took place on 17th November, 1961 and Marilyn died the following August – August 5th. I was working in Paris at the time. I had finished on a Friday afternoon and I was going back to my hotel. I was walking along when I caught sight of a newspaper stand where all the papers’ headlines said, ‘Marilyn is dead’. I thought, they can’t mean my Marilyn, maybe it’s a different Marilyn. When I got back to the hotel, I asked the concierge and he said, ‘Yes, she’s dead.’”