Posts by Lilith __
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to Hilary Stace,
That society could be personified in someone like Michael Laws saying, as happened earlier this year, that parents of children with Downs are as flawed as their children (for not aborting them).
This sounds like a variation on Whatever Mums Do Is Wrong.
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Actually, the more I read the footnotes, the less clear I am about the mechanism of the morning after pill.
But on either side of the implantation line, an embryo is a small cluster of cells, a long way from being a person.
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to B Jones,
People who emphasise the implantation mechanism tend to be of the sort who think that preventing fertilisation is morally different in an important way to preventing implantation, ie, prolifers.
Exactly my point.
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to B Jones,
Lilith, that’s not actually true. Both work primarily by preventing ovulation and therefore conception.
I was meaning the non-hormonal IUDs. Even the hormonal ones don’t reliably stop ovulation. They may help prevent conception by providing a hostile environment for sperm; they definitely prevent implantation (they have a 99% rate of success when inserted post-coitally as an emergency contraceptive).
With the morning-after pill, I think it’s debatable. It can prevent ovulation if it hasn’t already occurred, but it’s postcoital contraception taken when a woman’s most likely to be fertile. Nobody seems to know for sure what the mechanism is:
To make an informed choice, women must know that ECPs—like the birth control pill, patch, ring, shot, and implant, and even like breastfeeding—prevent pregnancy primarily by delaying or inhibiting ovulation and inhibiting fertilization, but may at times inhibit implantation of a fertilized egg in the endometrium
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Speaker: The problem of “horror tenants”…, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
You'd expect a rent increase for providing some form of heating?
In this instance it was an oil-column heater, costing around $60.
I'd like to offer a bouquet to the excellent landlords out there who deal fairly, provide safe and healthy houses, order prompt repairs when required, and don't unduly bother their tenants. Sadly, you're not the norm. We need a rental WOF system.
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to BenWilson,
IUDs and the morning after pill don't prevent conception, they prevent implantation. It's the difference between a zygote and an embryo. If we can argue about the importance of that, it's a very short step to arguing that contraception is wrong.
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to BenWilson,
If we allow that a fetus is a potential person, and we decide we should advance the rights of potential people, we are in danger of finding contraception morally wrong. And from there, every sperm is sacred, etc...
I fundamentally believe a woman should not be forced to bear a child against her will, whatever her reason.
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Rik Mayall Presents had some real gems. Dancing Queen, with Mayall opposite Helena Bonham-Carter, is my all-time fave. What can be done with a 50-minute time-slot. Wow.
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Hard News: The People's Poet is dead!, in reply to HORansome,
For me Rick Mayall and Ad Edmondson’s greatest achievement was “Mr Jolly Lives Next Door”
Who would have thought Fairy Liquid could be so ominous? :-)
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A friend just reminded me that one of her landlords refused to provide more than one plug to the household. It had to be moved between kitchen sink, laundry tub and bath.