In order for me to write poetry that isn't political, I must listen to the birds
and in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent
// Marwan Makhoul
A social institution cannot be understood in abstraction from its wider social context, nor can any person. No mental phenomena makes sense without reference to its surroundings. This is why bio-reductionism feels cold, mistaken & remote, for to 'work' it must first dehumanise.
We are so excited about our new journalism dean. He has a wealth of real world experience in the news business. The decline of local newspapers, the cutting of content and staff? That was him!
Clinicians, do you have something to say, or stories to tell, about practicing medicine in post-Roe America?
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SCOTUS’s decision represents a dangerous erosion of rights, privacy and bodily autonomy for all people. For survivors in Texas, where reproductive coercion & health disparities are acute, removing options diminishes safety & will gravely exacerbate risks.
The final paragraph of the three liberals' Dobbs dissent:
"With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent. "