There's something seriously wrong with these #ChristianNationalist lunatics. Nothing will ever be enough for them when it comes to imposing oppressive, draconian laws related to #reproduction. They'll just continue going further and further for as long as they're allowed. The only answer is to stop them now. Opposition to #IVF is pure insanity, and out of touch with the views of the vast majority of Americans. And they know this, which is why they also oppose #democracy.
In addition to a 17th-century Dutch theologian (Petrus van Mastricht) and the King James bible, one of the authorities cited by Alabama chief justice Parker in his ruling on IVF is the medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas. Parker's ruling cites Aquinas six times.
As someone with an M.A. and Ph.D. in historical theology — from a Catholic university — I know a little about Aquinas. Here are some salient points:
• Aquinas' neoscholastic theology was long the foundation of Catholic theology in general.
• Aquinas' natural-law theology, which draws heavily on the philosophy of Aristotle (and on Aristotle's biological assumptions), remains foundational for official Catholic teaching about sexual morality.
• This theology teaches that "nature" demonstrates, if we think about it, that the purpose of sexual intercourse is reproduction.
• Therefore anything — anything at all — that interferes with the "natural" purpose of human reproduction is deeply sinful. Whether that "anything" be masturbation, homosexual sex, contraception, coitus interruptus: anything.
• With this line of reasoning, Aquinas taught that for a man to rape a woman is less sinful than for a man to masturbate. Rape at least does not thwart the "natural" purpose of sexuality, while masturbation does.
• Hovering in the background of this thinking is the assumption — here Aquinas is indebted to Aristotle, who knew nothing much about the actual biological facts of reproduction — that sperm is sacred. Sperm is life itself, in this way of thinking. Wasting sperm militates against life itself.
• Aristotle and Aquinas thought that reproduction involves the penis placing in the passive receptacle of the womb a "little man," a homunculus.
• In pregnancy, a woman is merely an incubator for what really matters in the process of reproduction, the "little man" that the male, as the active agent of reproduction, places in the passive receptacle provided by the female.
• Sperm, what happens to it, where it goes, what it does, whether its potential to create life is respected, is supreme in this sexual ethical system. Males count supremely. Women are…just there.
So OF COURSE Alabama judge Parker would be a fanboy of Thomas Aquinas, since what he and his party want to do with their attacks on abortion and IVF and, in all likelihood soon, contraception, is to control women.
What Parker et al. are about is finding ancient authorities imbued with patriarchal, pre-scientific assumptions, to impose as "the" authorities on 21st-century thinking about human reproduction.
Parker et al. intend to impose those ancient, pre-modern, pre-scientific, misogynistic authority figures —by way of highly selected texts — on all of us, and to claim that these highly selected texts represent "the" tradition set in stone for all eternity. Take it or leave it. "The" tradition says. And law now says, as it cites these authorities.
Reject this and call it nonsense, and you're rejecting God and calling down "His" wrath.
Alabama IVF ruling divides devout Christians: 'Fewer children will be born'
When Alabama's Supreme Court defined frozen embryos as children, the shock and confusion was immediate. Major hospitals pulled fertility services and would-be parents scrambled for clarity on what would happen next.
Thinking about the Alabama Supreme Court decision.
There has to be a group of people who are in shock that their votes for pro-life policies mean that they might not become parents or grandparents.
One of the implications of the decision is that doctors can only make one embryo at a time, and that embryo must be transferred no matter the quality. If the cycle fails, the process must start again.
"Each transfer requires months’ worth of expensive medication, including injectable, both before and after the procedure. And each failed cycle requires the patient to start all over again. Most states (including Alabama) do not require insurance to cover IVF, and each cycle can cost up to $30,000."
Un nouveau puzzle utérus pour une commande spéciale incluant deux particularités : l'utérus est en deux couches, permettant de distinguer la paroi de la cavité utérine et de montrer le positionnement d'un DIU ("stérilet") et le bois est deux fois plus épais, permettant de montrer l'insertion d'une coupe menstruelle !
Le rectum, que je n'avais pas placé sur les précédents puzzles, est également représenté, afin de pouvoir expliquer les conséquences de l'endométriose.
Egalement, l'une des trompes présente une ligature :)
Enfin, vous aurez peut-être remarqué quelques changements dans la nomenclature ! "Trompes de Fallope" est remplacé par "Tubes utérins ou Salpinx" (qui sont les termes communément acceptés, et permettent d'expliquer la salpingographie !) et "Glande de Bartholin" est remplacé par "glande vestibulaire".
Et ses petits frères terminés aujourd'hui pour deux autres commandes :)
Endometriosis: It’s time to change the pattern of pain, stigma and barriers to diagnosis and treatment.
“Patients described being dismissed, that their pain was “just muscle pain,” “all women go through this,” and “this is the way cycles are for women,” and to live with it.”
“…endometriosis patients need more research, more options and more attention to be paid to the disease.”