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“But Li’s paintings of children were not just a recreation of his own childhood identity, but an exploration of what was happening in China. The one-child policy, he says, has had unimagined consequences. ‘There are the hidden children,’ he says.”

H/T The Crescat.

“Personhood USA has also thrown significant financial support behind the Oklahoma Personhood Act making its way through the legislature, though the effort was actually begun by Oklahoma Right To Life. Still, Personhood paid for 200,000 patch-through robocalls, as well as media spots featuring a young Asian-American ‘abortion survivor’ named Josiah, who tells the camera, ‘When my mother was two months pregnant, she decided to abort me. But I survived, and a loving family decided to adopt me. I’m a person now, and I was a person then.’”

As the quotation marks indicate, she is not a fan.  But she does allow the opposition to speak.

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“In other words, not only was Mary Shelley pregnant during much of the period that she was writing Frankenstein, but she had already suffered the birth and death of an infant. Unsurprisingly, she was tormented by the loss: A journal entry in 1815 reads, ‘Dream that my little baby came to life again; that it had only been cold, and that we rubbed it before the fire, and it lives.’ The echoes of Frankenstein—in which the scientist, who hopes to ‘infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet,’ at last sees it open its eyes and breathe—are unmistakable. And the birth of the “creature,” as he calls it at first, occurs only after ‘days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue’; later he refers again to the ‘painful labor.’”

Hello, Alphonse!

H/T S.E.

Spread the word.

In all centuries, through all history, ______ have _______ somehow.  They feel so strongly about this that they will attempt ______ even when it’s illegal, unsafe, and often lethal.

Therefore, we should legalize ______.

Spread the word.

Toying with a rewrite:  “Fetuses’ World to End Tomorrow; Women and Minorities Hit Hardest.”