People are constantly asking me what my favorite drink is and my pat answer is, “That’s none of your business. It’s very personal.”
But now that WordPress has asked this question, I feel it’s time to open up and come clean. I just hope that neither of these beverages are contributing to the Democrats’ woke liberal agenda.
Hot drink: coffee
Cold drink: Caffeine-free Diet Coke.
This came in the mail yesterday.
What the hell? The front of the envelope asks me if my cellphone provider has “gone woke” and is “supporting Democrats and a woke liberal agenda.”
The back of the envelope implores me to “stop supporting ‘woke’ liberals with my payments.” It advises me that I can pay “half the price of the competition with none of their left-wing politics.”
And the icing on the cake is a ringing (pun intended) endorsement from Fox News ultra-conservative on-air personality, Sean Hannity.
Politics seems to be invading every aspect of our lives these days and it’s very annoying.
I threw the unopened envelope into the recycling bin. Why? Well, first of all, my cellphone provider is not one of the “Big Three.” Second of all, I judge my cellphone provider based on the quality of the services it provides, not its alleged politics.
Finally, and most important, I am a woke liberal Democrat and I am proud of it.
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American socialite and actress.
Written for Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt. Image credit: Google Images.
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday that frozen embryos are people. The court ruled that anyone who mistakenly drops and destroys frozen embryos could be held liable in a wrongful-death lawsuit, writing that it had long held that unborn children are “children” and that that was also true for frozen embryos, affording the fertilized eggs the same protection as babies under the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.
So the destruction of a frozen embryo that resides not in a woman’s womb, but in a freezer in a fertility clinic in Alabama is now punishable in that state in the same way that causing the death of a child is. Yikes!
This ruling comes as at least 11 Repugnican-controlled states have broadly defined personhood as beginning at fertilization in their state laws.
Alabama’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker quoted the Bible as he examined the “sanctity” of unborn life. “Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God, who views the destruction of His image as an affront to Himself,” Parker wrote. “Even before birth, all human beings bear the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory.” Double yikes!
So let’s take a closer look. Most of these frozen embryos belong to couples that are attempting to have a baby through a process called in-vitro fertilization, or IVF. IVF is a medical procedure in which doctors extract eggs from ovaries and fertilize them with sperm outside the body, forming embryos that can subsequently be moved to the uterus.
To give a patient the best chance at a pregnancy, multiple embryos are created in the hopes that a patient can try again if an attempt at a pregnancy fails. As a result, as many eggs as possible are often fertilized and kept frozen. There are hundreds of thousands of patients who depend on treatments like this each year and countless embryos are frozen each year.
Think of all of the socio-economic and political implications that this ruling has. If frozen embryos are children, then…
These are just some of the questions that this decision by the Alabama Supreme Court raises that must be addressed.
Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “circulate.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
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