atlanticwire.com wrote:After a years long legal battle, federal prosecutors in Belgium now believe their investigation is complete enough to charge the Church of Scientology and its leaders as a criminal organization on charges of extortion, fraud, privacy breaches, and the illegal practice of medicine.
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Yeeeeaaah Belgium!!!!
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Body Thetans.
Body Thetans everywhere.
Body Thetans everywhere.
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Today Scientology, tomorrow, the Vatican...
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i see proponents of our favourite delusion of peace are keeping it classy...
religiously sanctioned gang rape...
Muhammed al-Arifi, a Wahhabi religious cleric, officially calls this act an “intercourse marriage” that can last only a few hours – “in order to give each fighter a turn” -- and restricts the men to Syrian females at least 14 years old, widowed or divorced.
religiously sanctioned gang rape...
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What reasons would they use if there were no gods?
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but... but... there are none... never have been...Tribble wrote: if there were no gods?
my brain feels melty...
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Lol in their minds there are - so hence there are (to them)
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littlegreenfootballs.com wrote:To Avoid Wrongful Death Lawsuit, Colorado Catholic Hospital Argues a Fetus Isn’t a Person
St. Thomas More Hospital, operated by Catholic Health Initiatives, argues its way out of a wrongful death lawsuit by claiming that fetuses are not people. The case is heading to the Colorado Supreme Court.
The lead defendant in the case is Catholic Health Initiatives, the Englewood-based nonprofit that runs St. Thomas More Hospital as well as roughly 170 other health facilities in 17 states. Last year, the hospital chain reported national assets of $15 billion. The organization’s mission, according to its promotional literature, is to ‘nurture the healing ministry of the Church’ and to be guided by ‘fidelity to the Gospel.’ Toward those ends, Catholic Health facilities seek to follow the Ethical and Religious Directives of the Catholic Church authored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Those rules have stirred controversy for decades, mainly for forbidding non-natural birth control and abortions. ‘Catholic health care ministry witnesses to the sanctity of life ‘from the moment of conception until death,” the directives state. ‘The Church’s defense of life encompasses the unborn.’
The directives can complicate business deals for Catholic Health, as they can for other Catholic health care providers, partly by spurring political resistance. In 2011, the Kentucky attorney general and governor nixed a plan in which Catholic Health sought to merge with and ultimately gain control of publicly funded hospitals in Louisville. The officials were reacting to citizen concerns that access to reproductive and end-of-life services would be curtailed. According to The Denver Post, similar fears slowed the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth’s plan over the last few years to buy out Exempla Lutheran Medical Center and Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in the Denver metro area.
But when it came to mounting a defense in the Stodghill case, Catholic Health’s lawyers effectively turned the Church directives on their head. Catholic organizations have for decades fought to change federal and state laws that fail to protect ‘unborn persons,’ and Catholic Health’s lawyers in this case had the chance to set precedent bolstering anti-abortion legal arguments. Instead, they are arguing state law protects doctors from liability concerning unborn fetuses on grounds that those fetuses are not persons with legal rights.
And lest we think that this is merely some legal trick conjured by the lawyers, the client had to approve this defense from the outset.
There are other potential methods of defending a malpractice suit in this case, but the hospital chain, and the Church official at the hospital chain who were involved in the decision, agreed that they would go against the stated church doctrine on abortion and treating a fetus as a person.
In this case, it was the monetary interests of defending the hospital against a malpractice suit to bring out the hypocrisy of the church on this matter. It also presents a test case to show the limits of church doctrine as it relates to health policy, abortion, and the treatment of pregnant women.
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lol
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Hopefully they'll create some case law that would aid stem cell research and open a few people's eyes about what the Catholics are really about.
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I doubt that
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Hope is free, but in some cases delusional I guess.
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In this case at least
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Here's a gem from my favourite bastion of human rights...
Hey Israel, you know who else dabbled in eugenics and enforced mandatory birth control on people he deemed less than equalwww.independent.co.uk wrote:Israel gave birth control to Ethiopian Jews without their consent
Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent.
The government had previously denied the practice but the Israeli Health Ministry’s director-general has now ordered gynaecologists to stop administering the drugs. According a report in Haaretz, suspicions were first raised by an investigative journalist, Gal Gabbay, who interviewed more than 30 women from Ethiopia in an attempt to discover why birth rates in the community had fallen dramatically.
One of the Ethiopian women who was interviewed is quoted as saying: “They [medical staff] told us they are inoculations. We took it every three months. We said we didn’t want to.” It is alleged that some of the women were forced or coerced to take the drug while in transit camps in Ethiopia.
The drug in question is thought to be Depo-Provera, which is injected every three months and is considered to be a highly effective, long-lasting contraceptive.
Nearly 100,000 Ethiopian Jews have moved to Israel under the Law of Return since the 1980s, but their Jewishness has been questioned by some rabbis. Last year, the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who also holds the health portfolio, warned that illegal immigrants from Africa “threaten our existence as a Jewish and democratic state”.
Haaretz published an extract from a letter sent by the Ministry of Health to units administering the drug. Doctors were told “not to renew prescriptions for Depo Provera for women of Ethiopian origin if for any reason there is concern that they might not understand the ramifications of the treatment”.
Sharona Eliahu Chai, a lawyer for the Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), said: “Findings from investigations into the use of Depo Provera are extremely worrisome, raising concerns of harmful health policies with racist implications in violation of medical ethics. The Ministry of Health’s director-general was right to act quickly and put forth new guidelines.”
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That policy should be implimented for everyone in our country for a couple of years I'm tired of paying other people to have kids and we sure as heck have enough people sitting around as is
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Off to Israel with you - I hope you get picked off by Hamas
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So the "real" Israelies cant breed quick enough so they introduce population control for the "false" ones... Who says history does not repeat itself?
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My nanny's comment was "Do you know how many kids they have?!" And this from someone with 4 kids
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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/ ... s-20130130
I am posting this link because of the humour involved in the news24 comments.
I am posting this link because of the humour involved in the news24 comments.
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i reported every comment...
should i not have done that?
i mean... it was right there...
should i not have done that?
i mean... it was right there...
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Damn, comments have been closed for the article.
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This reminded me of something I read a while ago: Xhosa Wars: Cattle killing movement.
How sad is that? And little has changed since then.
Gullibility kills - Carl Sagan
This reminded me of something I read a while ago: Xhosa Wars: Cattle killing movement.
How sad is that? And little has changed since then.
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Goodness that was an entertaining read!
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When you really have no idea what you are talking about, sometimes comic gems inadvertently pop out of your mouth. This is a guy over at the science forum who describes himself as having "underperformed" in school and is prone to the most random thought processes I have seen in quite a while:
Has to be the sentence of the year so far!
theorist wrote:OK, so the photon is a sub atomic particle that can not exist in the dark.
Has to be the sentence of the year so far!
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StarPheonixKALSTER wrote:This is a guy over at the science forum who describes himself as having "underperformed" in school and is prone to the most random thought processes I have seen in quite a while