@outsidelife0987@micyoung75 That’s your opinion, not proof. There is no statistical tracking for abuse related to sexual orientation of parents. Since many gay couples adopt through the foster care system, it’s the heterosexual couples who caused the abuse in the first place and lost custody.
@outsidelife0987@micyoung75 I was a CASA volunteer for 10 years, and am a mother & grandmother. I saw abuse and neglect regularly from heterosexual couples, never from gay foster parents. Doesn’t mean it can’t happen but being gay should NOT be disqualifying.
@BlondieCtina@hockeygrl28@HQNewsNow I’m sorry if you feel that people are attacking you. I certainly am not. However this is a very personal, private matter and the government should not be involved. I am thankful my daughter was not denied the opportunity to have agency over her body and life.
@BlondieCtina@hockeygrl28@HQNewsNow You are free to have an opinion & voice. You have freely expressed it here. Your focus remains on the doctor making an error rather than the woman in the article, and many others, not being allowed to talk freely with their doctors AND not allowed to make their own decisions.
@BlondieCtina@HQNewsNow The cuddle cot my husband amd I donated to St Francis hospital in Indianapolis in our granddaughter’s memory. Women deserve the right to bodily autonomy.
@BlondieCtina@HQNewsNow My daughter lost a baby to anencephaly. She planned & prayed for her baby too. The diagnosis came at 12 wks & she chose to continue the pregnancy. My granddaughter was full term & died 2 hrs after birth. It was heartbreaking but we are thankful that SHE was able to decide.
@BlondieCtina@HQNewsNow The point remains that both women had agency over their decision. In the above case, this woman wasn’t even allowed to have an honest discussion with her doctor. That is wrong.
@BlondieCtina@HQNewsNow Doctors don’t just guess. Fatal anomalies are rarely missed due to multiple ultrasounds & blood work. Any misdiagnosis is generally due to gestational age or fetal position of the baby. It’s never just one doctor reviewing and diagnosing.
@BlondieCtina@HQNewsNow Or maybe the doctor is RIGHT, and a woman actually has a baby with a lethal genetic diagnosis (anencephaly), and the baby dies immediately after birth. Frankly, it’s none of your business and certainly not the states business to interfere in these tragic situations.
Imagine Trump ever being invited to join a photo like this — not in a million years.
Four presidents. Zero drama. Just smiles, respect, and a shared love of country. 🇺🇸
@covlynne@cb67c01d9b2547a@TownsendLe30460@Patrickwebb The vaccine didn’t kill them. The elderly were more vulnerable to a novel virus because their immune system naturally weakened in old age. Over 5.5 billion people received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine. We’d have lost 72% of the world population. 🙄
@covlynne@cb67c01d9b2547a@TownsendLe30460@Patrickwebb Lynne, 96% of all physicians and almost 90% of all other healthcare professionals got the COVID vaccine. They were on the front lines treating patients. If the vaccine killed, we would have lost our entire medical community and you know that did not happen.
I’m a chemist. I need to say this - because it’s getting dangerous out there. The biggest health myth in the world isn’t about vaccines.
Or GMOs. Or fluoride.
It’s the root of all of them.
It’s called chemophobia - and it’s killing science.
Fear of “chemicals” now drives vaccine rejection, GMO bans, food hysteria, and entire political movements.
From tampons to tap water, people have been taught to fear chemistry - the very thing that keeps us alive.
Chemophobia tells us:
“Natural is good.”
“Synthetic is bad.”
That’s a lie.
Botulinum toxin is 100% natural and one of the deadliest molecules known. Aspirin is synthetic and life-saving.
We’ve gone from banning harmful substances for good reason…to banning safe, well-tested molecules for emotional reasons.
You’ve seen the slogans: “If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.” “Paraben-free.” “Clean beauty.”
They sound empowering. But they’re not science - they’re marketing. And they’re making the world dumber, poorer, and sicker.
Your body doesn’t care if a molecule comes from a plant or a lab. Vitamin C is vitamin C.
Formaldehyde is formaldehyde and your body makes more of it every day than any vaccine ever could.
Dose matters. Source doesn’t.
This fear isn’t harmless.
It shapes public policy.
It blocks innovation.
It raises food prices.
It slows down cancer treatments.
Chemophobia is now mainstream and it’s costing lives. Scientists aren’t losing because we’re wrong.
We’re losing because fear spreads faster than facts. Because influencers sell fear for clicks.
Because lawyers monetize doubt. And because scientists are too tired to fight back.
So here’s my message, as a chemist and as a citizen: Learn how toxicology works.
Call out chemical fear-mongering. Support policies based on evidence, not emotion.
Chemistry isn’t the enemy. It’s the reason you have clean water, safe food, and modern medicine.
If we let fear win, we lose all of it.