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Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html

Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html

Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html

Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html

Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html

First-time mother scared to feed her daughter after varying advice from multiple practitioners

Maddy Barrett wanted more than anything to feel “empowered” enough to make informed decisions after becoming a first-time…
#Australia #atenatalcare #AU #Australianstandardsforpostnatalcare #Austrlia #birth #Breastfeeding #Clancytrial #Cope #gidgetfoundation #latching #newborns #Post-patrumpsychosis #Postnatalcare #Postnataldepression #postpartum #postpartumanxiety #pregnancy
https://www.europesays.com/australia/89083/

‘Grief becomes a routine’: Farhana lost five babies. A ‘culture of silence’ exacerbated her pain
By Achol Arok

A first-of-its-kind study shows the prevalence of miscarriage in Australia but experts fear multicultural groups remain underrepresented

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/06/grief-becomes-a-routine-farhana-lost-five-babies-a-culture-of-silence-exacerbated-her-pain-ntwnfb

#Health #Miscarriage #Sydney #Australianews #Pregnancy #TheGuardian #AcholArok

‘Grief becomes a routine’: Farhana lost five babies. A ‘culture of silence’ exacerbated her pain
By Achol Arok

A first-of-its-kind study shows the prevalence of miscarriage in Australia but experts fear multicultural groups remain underrepresented

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/06/grief-becomes-a-routine-farhana-lost-five-babies-a-culture-of-silence-exacerbated-her-pain-ntwnfb

#Health #Miscarriage #Sydney #Australianews #Pregnancy #TheGuardian #AcholArok

‘Grief becomes a routine’: Farhana lost five babies. A ‘culture of silence’ exacerbated her pain
By Achol Arok

A first-of-its-kind study shows the prevalence of miscarriage in Australia but experts fear multicultural groups remain underrepresented

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/06/grief-becomes-a-routine-farhana-lost-five-babies-a-culture-of-silence-exacerbated-her-pain-ntwnfb

#Health #Miscarriage #Sydney #Australianews #Pregnancy #TheGuardian #AcholArok

https://www.europesays.com/ie/674187/ Irish women’s birth stories: ‘Women are so vulnerable when they’re pregnant’ – The Irish Times #Éire #ForYou #Health #hse #IE #Ireland #JenniferCarrollMacNeill #Pregnancy #RotundaHospital

Strictly star Karim Zeroual splits from mother of his child and is dating again

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/strictly-star-karim-zeroual-splits-37630408

Whether or not you decide to have kids is entirely up to you, but it is perfectly normal to have doubts. Many people will try to pressure you into having children, especially your own family. But if you feel that it's not right for you, then you should stick to your guns. There is nothing wrong with being childless. #Antinatalism #ChildFree #Parenting #Pregnancy

Even the best lives are never free of disappointments and hardships. But for a countless number of people, life is a vexation that must be endured rather than an experience to be enjoyed. Gradual, self-imposed extinction is a ready-made cure for all life's vexations, no matter their severity.

#Antinatalism #Parenting #ChildFree #Children #Pregnancy

Rural America’s Maternal-Health Crisis Is About to Get Much Worse https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/giving-birth-rural-hospitals-danger-mortality/688091/?utm_source=feed #uspoli #TrumpRegime #BlameTrump #BlameGOP #BlameElonMusk #BlameRFKjr #MAHA #pregnancy #RuralHealth #PublicHealth #MaternalHealth

The Pregnancy Complication Series (Part two)

https://theobnp.com/2026/07/26/the-pregnancy-complication-series-part-two/

NHS says 'call 999' now if you spot this sign on your tongue

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/nhs-says-call-999-now-37438594

Couple with unfortunate last name hilariously mourns the baby names they couldn’t use

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/unfortunate-last-name-for-new-baby-ex1/

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 👨‍🚀🤰 A #space gynecologist examines why human #pregnancy in space remains largely theoretical.

High #radiation and #microgravity pose serious risks to both parent and fetus, while female #biology is historically underrepresented in space #research. With more #Artemis missions approaching, scientists urgently need more #data before #births beyond #Earth can be considered safe.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/birth-pregnancy-in-space/

#science #humanbody #astronaut #medicine #reproduction #cosmos

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 👨‍🚀🤰 A #space gynecologist examines why human #pregnancy in space remains largely theoretical.

High #radiation and #microgravity pose serious risks to both parent and fetus, while female #biology is historically underrepresented in space #research. With more #Artemis missions approaching, scientists urgently need more #data before #births beyond #Earth can be considered safe.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/birth-pregnancy-in-space/

#science #humanbody #astronaut #medicine #reproduction #cosmos

Parental mental health — not medication — drives autism correlation, study finds

A sweeping new review of prenatal antidepressant use underscores a finding that has surfaced repeatedly throughout the last…
#NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #ADHD #antidepressant #autismcorrelation #CA #Canada #child #childneurodevelopmentaldisorder #depression #Health #Medication #mother #paper #parentalmentalhealth #Pregnancy #prenatalantidepressantuse #researcher #risk #woman
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/709598/

Le gars a fait une chanson avec l'IA en utilisant tous les messages envoyés par sa femme enceinte 🤣 « Turned my pregnant wife’s texts into a pop punk song an it’s an absolute banger tbh #pregnant #pregnancy #pregnancyhumor #pregnantwife #husbandwife » (via #WhitEthanLap) (source : www.instagram.com/reels/DXcjbQ1j9mO/)

Performing vesicoamniotic shunt implantation during the first trimester of #pregnancy significantly improves survival rates and preserves kidney function in unborn children with congenital lower #urinary tract obstruction.
#PrenatalMedicine #FetalSurgery #Pediatric #Nephrology #DevelopmentalBiology #Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/med03172601.html

My wife is pregnant and needs the following medications:

Iron – 5 EUR

Omega 3 – 5 EUR

Calcium – 5 EUR

Vitamins – 5 EUR

Folic Acid – 5 EUR

Any support, no matter how small, will help her have a healthier pregnancy. 🙏

https://gofund.me/55f61573

#Pregnancy #HealthSupport #HelpNeeded #Donate #MedicalAid #HealthyMom #ExpectingMom #SupportUs #PregnancyCare #EveryEuroCounts

Husband's 'insane' pizza order for his 'very' pregnant wife has people losing it

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/pizza-order-for-pregnant-wife

Moirai

In ancient Greek religion & mythology, the Moirai (a.k.a. in English as the Fates) were the personification of destiny.

There were 3 sisters named: Clotho, who was the spinner; Lachesis, who was the allotter; & Atropos, who was the inevitable, a symbol for death. Their Roman equals are the Parcae.

The Moirai’s role was to make sure that every being, mortal & divine, lived out their destinies. For mortals, this destiny went their entire lives & is pictured as a thread spun from a spindle. A spindle is the thing that Sleeping Beauty touched to become Sleeping Beauty.

Usually, they were considered to be above even the gods, in their role as enforcers of Fate. Zeus was even scared of them. Even though, in some stories, Zeus is able to command them. But these are rare.

The word Moirai (also spelt Moirae or Moerae) comes from Ancient Greek. This means “lots, destinies, apportioners.” It also means a portion, or lot of the whole.

In Dante’s Divine Comedy, the Fates are mentioned in both Inferno & Purgatorio by their Greek names. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the Weird Sisters (or 3 Witches) are prophetesses, who are deeply rooted in both the real & supernatural worlds.

The Moirai are:

• Clotho, the spinner. She spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle. Her Roman equal was Nona (“the 9th”), who was originally called upon in the 9th month of pregnancy.
• Lachesis, the allotter or drawer of lots. She measured the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rod. Her Roman equal was Decima (“the 10th”).
• Atropos, “inexorable,” or inevitable,” literally “unturning.” She was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner of each person’s death. When their time has come, she would cut their life-thread with her shears. Think about the end of Disney’s Hercules, when our main man, Herc, went to save Meg from Hades’ domain. Herc’s life-thread turned gold when he saved. Her Roman equal was Morta (“the dead one”).

In the Republic of Plato, the 3 Moirai sing together with the music of the Seirenes. Lachesis sings the things that were, Clotho the things that are, & Atropos the things that are to be. Pindar, in his Hymn to the Fates, holds them in high honor. He calls them to send their sisters, the Hours (Eunomia, “lawfulness”; Dike, “right”; & Eirene, “peace”), to stop the internal civil strife.

In the Theogony, Hesiod describes the Moirai as daughters of the primeval goddess Nyx (“night”), & the sisters of the Keres (“the black fates”), Thanatos (“death”), & Nemesis (“retribution”). Later in the poem, Hesiod instead calls them daughters of Zeus & the Titaness Themis (“the Institutor”), who was the embodiment of divine order & law. This places them as sisters of the Hours.

In the cosmogony of Alcman (7th century BC), first came Thetis (“disposer, creation”) & then simultaneously Poros (“path”) & Tekmor (“end post, ordinance”). Poros is related to the end of all things.

Later, in the Orphic cosmogony, first came Thesis, whose ineffable nature is unexpected. Ananke (“necessity”) is the primeval goddess of inevitability who is entwined with the time-god Chronos, at the very beginning of time. They represented the cosmic forces of Fate & Time. They were sometimes called to control the fates of the gods. The 3 Moirai are daughters of Ananke.

In the Theogony of Hesiod, the 3 Moirai are personified as the daughters of Nyx & are acting the gods. Later they were daughters of Zeus & Themis, who was the embodiment of divine order & law. In Pluto’s Republic, the 3 Fates are daughters of Ananke (necessity).

The Moirai were supposed to appear 3 nights after a kid’s birth to determine the course of its life. At Sparta, the Temple to the Moirai stood near the communal hearth of the polis. Polis means “city” in Ancient Greek.

As the goddesses of birth who even prophesied the fate of the newly born, Elieithyia, the ancient Minoan goddess of childbirth & divine midwifery, was their companion.

The Erinyes, a group of chthonic goddesses of vengeance, served as tools of the Moirai. Chthonic means concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld. They inflicted punishment for evil deeds, particularly upon those who sought to avoid their rightful destiny. The Morai were confused with the Erinyes, as well as the death-goddesses, the Keres.

In earlier times, they were pictured as only a few, or perhaps only 1, individual goddess Homer’s Illiad speaks generally of the Moira, who spins the thread of life for men at their birth. She’s Moria Krataia, “powerful Moira,” or there are several Moirai.

In the Odyssey, there’s a reference to the Klothes, or spinners. At Delphi, only the Fates of Birth & Death were revered. In Athens, Aphrodite was called Aphrodite Urania, the “eldest of the Fates.”

In the older myths, they’re daughters of primeval beings like Nyx (“night”) in Theogony, or Ananke in Orphic cosmogony.

The Moirai could be placated as goddesses. Brides in Athens offered them locks of hair, & women swore by them. They may have originated as a birth goddesses & only later their reputation as the agents of destiny. The Moirai were also credited to be the inventors of 7 Greek letters – A, B, H, I, T, & Y.

The Fates had at least 3 known temples: Ancient Corinth, Sparta, & Thebes. The temple in Sparta was situated next to the grave/tomb of Orestes.

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Exposure to a mix of #pesticides raises risk of #pregnancy complications 🌾🍼, study suggests. At least one pesticide was found in the urine of 81% of women, and 64% showed multiple pesticides. Of those, 34% had pregnancy complications. 70% of rural women showed multiple pesticides, compared to 55% urban.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/19/pesticides-mix-pregnancy-complications-study

#PesticideExposure #PregnancyHealth #WomensHealth #RuralUrbanDivide #PublicHealthResearch #Health

https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5929807

Saheli, a 'non-steroidal non-hormonal contraceptive pill'. Saheli dosage starts 1 pill per half-week for ... (?), then 1 pill weekly. Basically induce a brief, mini-menopause that stops when you stop the pills. https://saheliinfo.com/clinical-evidence

Then! ONE-YEAR vaginal ring Annovera. Unlike monthly-ish vaginal rings, (https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/6449/smpc) this thicker vaginal ring holds enough for 13 cycles with one week bleeding breaks, or 12 if you skip periods. Think "buff NuvaRing". https://www.annoverahcp.com/

Speaking of intra-uterine system / device options: the UK does several! We are no longer stuck with the larger, higher dose Mirena hIUS. https://www.mirena.co.uk/ I want the smaller, lower dose (but shorter duration) Jaydess https://www.fsrh.org/Public/Public/Documents/ceu-product-review-jaydess-apr-14.aspx or Kyleena. https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/769/smpc

(You can fit a non-hormonal IUD copper coil as emergency contraception, within 10 days of unprotected sex. Fitting it as regular birth control anytime otherwise is also fine, when not pregnant.) https://patient.info/sexual-health/long-acting-reversible-contraceptives-larc/intrauterine-contraceptive-device

Finally, vasectomy. New part is "I found multiple cases where doctors did their own vasectomies". This may be helpful for hesitant cis men and AMAB people to know. Vasectomies are reversible ("easily", according to a medical nerd friend, but obv different people's bodies respond to things in weird, cool ways, so everything depends). https://www.baus.org.uk/_userfiles/pages/files/Patients/Leaflets/Vasectomy.pdf

I am not a doctor. Even if I were, I am not YOUR doctor. I do not have access to your medical records.
I'm just infodumping useful info to prevent unwanted pregnancies, minimise unplanned pregnancies, and mitigate risks. https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/contraception-sterilization/management/male-sterilization-vasectomy/

#contraception #contraceptive #sexEd #POP #progesterone #hormones #HRT #HormoneReplacementTherapy #birth #BirthControl #familyPlanning #PlannedParenthood #sex #Sexual #SexualHealth #healthcare #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #pregnancy #InternalCondoms #ExternalCondoms #Condom #ContraceptiveDiaphragm #CayaPhragm #spermicide #vaginalRing #NuvaRing #patch #injection #IUS #hormonalIUD #IUD #copperCoil #medicine #UnitedKingdom #UK #England #Scotland #Wales #NorthernIreland #GreatBritain #Britain

How to Get and Abet an Abortion:
Everything You Need to Know to Help Yourself or a Friend, No Matter Where You Live in America - advice from writers at the @thestranger

https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/02/03/79904283/how-to-get-and-abet-an-abortion

#Abortion #Healthcare #AbortionRights #Abortionpill #Mifepristone #misoprostol #Pregnancy #Medicaid #ComstockAct

She ate a #poppyseed #salad from #Costco just before #givingbirth. Then the #state took her #baby away.

#Hospitals use #drugtests that return #falsepositives from #poppyseed #bagels, #decongestants and #Zantac. Yet #newborns are being taken from parents based on the #results.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #California #Healthcare #Pregnancy #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Misogyny

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/09/drug-test-pregnancy-pennsylvania-california/75103949007/

Texas women denied abortions for #ectopic #pregnancies
☀️demand federal investigation

Two women say hospitals violated emergency care laws by denying treatment for life-threatening condition

Two Texas women who were denied abortion care for life-threatening ectopic pregnancies have filed complaints with the Biden administration calling for investigations into the hospitals for violating federal law.

An #ectopic #pregnancy is a dangerous condition in which the fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tube instead of the uterus.

♦️It has no chance of developing into a healthy pregnancy.

👉One of the complaints details how Kyleigh Thurman, a 25-year-old woman from Burnet, Texas,
was turned away at Ascension Williamson hospital in February, ⚠️even though her OB-GYN told the hospital she probably had an ectopic pregnancy.

Days later, she returned, #bleeding and in severe #pain, but only received treatment after her OB-GYN traveled to the hospital
“to plead with the medical staff” to terminate Thurman’s ectopic pregnancy.

However, 💥the delay caused her ectopic pregnancy to rupture.

🔥Thurman nearly bled to death and was forced into emergency surgery to remove her fallopian tube.

Her ability to have children is now compromised.

👉According to the second complaint, Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz experienced a similar harrowing ordeal at Texas Health Arlington Memorial hospital, outside Dallas.

By the time she received treatment, her pregnancy was near rupture.

💥Norris-De La Cruz lost a fallopian tube and most of her right ovary.

♦️Ectopic pregnancy is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the first trimester, comprising up to 10% of all pregnancy-related deaths nationwide.

“Despite the fact that my life was clearly in danger, the hospital told me that they could not help me.

I ended up losing half of my fertility and if I was made to wait any longer, it’s very likely I would have died,” said Norris-De La Cruz in a press release

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/texas-abortion-ectopic-pregnancy-investigation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Allyson Felix, the most decorated track and field athlete of all time, famously left her Nike partnership after the brand asked her to accept a 70 percent pay cut when she was pregnant. But the now-retired runner and mother of two doesn't just advocate for herself. She has created a nursery — the first of its kind — at the upcoming Olympic Games, which will be in the heart of the Athlete Village Plaza. "I think it really tells women that you can choose motherhood and also be at the top of your game and not have to miss a beat," Felix told CBS News. Here's more.

https://flip.it/dGfoDV

#Lifestyle #Pregnancy #Sports #Olympics #AllysonFelix #WomensRights

#TX Sends Millions to Crisis #Pregnancy Centers. It’s Meant to Help Needy Families, But No 1 Knows if It Works. Yr aft yr while #RoeVWade was law of and, Texas #legislators passed measures limiting access to abortion — who could have one, how and where. And with the same cadence, they added millions of dollars to a program designed to discourage people from #terminating #pregnancies. #WomensHealthcare #legalresearch #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #courts #legislation #pregnancy https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-funding-anti-abortion-crisis-pregnancy-centers

Supporting people with #disabilities in #pregnancy https://bit.ly/3xfcXiD
One in eight #pregnancies in #Ontario is to a person with a physical, sensory, or developmental #disability. And that number is rising due to advancements in medicine and human rights.
#WomensHealth #DisabilityPolicy #WomenWithDisabilities #DisabilityPolicy #InclusiveHealthcare

“Fetal personhood” activists struggle to maintain the fiction they are neutral on birth control

When asked about their intentions to restrict or protect access to birth control, Republican lawmakers and leaders of the anti-abortion movement will typically point out the fact that there’s no bill currently under consideration explicitly aimed at banning #contraception.

As journalist Jessica Valenti noted in her "Abortion, Every Day" newsletter, the president of Ohio Right to Life mocked a state Democrat who warned of the risk to birth control by saying,
“she can’t cite a piece of legislation that bans contraception … it’s fear-mongering.”

Susan B. Anthony #Pro-#Life #America’s website calls it a “MYTH” that Republicans want to stop people from getting birth control.

“FACT: No state anywhere has banned birth control,” it says.

And yet taking one big swing to restrict access has never been the strategy of the anti-contraception playbook.

Rather, activists either maintain neutrality on birth control or say nothing while actively working to conflate abortion with birth control and pass laws that redefine life as beginning at conception.

As journalist Christina Cauterucci pointed out at Slate, the anti-abortion group #Americans #United #for #Life claims on its website that it takes “no stance on the underlying issue of contraceptive use,”
but elsewhere it insists that people who use emergency contraception
“take the lives of their unborn children.”

When Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler attended the annual conference of the anti-abortion group #Heartbeat #International in 2022, she found restriction of birth control to be a major theme, with several sessions dedicated to the topic.

The push to redefine the start of #personhood as the point of #conception holds real implications for fertility treatments and the wide range of available birth control methods.

Many lawmakers in states with such “fetal personhood” laws on the books have not fully grappled with the practical consequences of how enforcing those laws in the post-Roe era might work.

In the near future, most Republicans will likely continue to dismiss the idea that there’s any threat to birth control at all, and leaders of anti-abortion organizations will surely do their best to change the subject.

But ♦️pay attention to how fights over expanding access to birth control
— including nonhormonal methods like condoms
— play out.

♦️Pay attention to proposals to gut funding for #TitleX, a federal program that provides birth control to millions of low-income people in the United States.

♦️Pay attention to efforts in Congress to restrict access to contraception in foreign aid spending bills.

♦️And pay attention to how courts and lawmakers aim to expand the definition of abortion.

(4/4)

https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf

#Human #Life #International #IUDs #Students #for #Life #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene #PlanB #Lauren #Boebert #Matt #Rosendale #Pulse #Life #Advocates #Tea #Party #Catholic #Church #Hobby #Lobby #Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry

In rationalizing the idea that 😨birth control can somehow abort a pregnancy before a pregnancy begins😨, activists make a number of claims.

#Human #Life #International, a global Catholic group, maintains that anything that prevents implantation is an abortion-inducing agent.

#IUDs, they insist, cause “early abortions.”

#Students #for #Life of America likewise claims all forms of hormonal birth control, including IUDs and the Pill, are abortifacients.

Georgia Republican Rep. #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene went so far as to proclaim that #PlanB emergency contraception “kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant” even though studies have shown the drug interferes with ovulation but does not inhibit implantation.

Greene isn’t the only Republican lawmaker blurring the lines.

Colorado Rep. #Lauren #Boebert tried to block funds for “abortifacient contraceptive drugs,” while Montana Rep. #Matt #Rosendale tried adding emergency contraception to a bill barring use of the federal funding for abortion.

In 2022, in perhaps one of the most glaring examples, Missouri Republicans pushed unsuccessfully to restrict public funding for IUDs and emergency contraception, with one of the state senators who led it proclaiming that “life begins at conception,” and “anything that destroys that life is abortion, it’s not birth control.”

Just this past week in Iowa, House Republicans attempted to amend a bipartisan bill to legalize over-the-counter birth control by adding new language that would require pharmacists to provide misleading and inaccurate information implying contraceptives are dangerous and a form of abortion.

#Pulse #Life #Advocates, an Iowa group opposing the contraception bill, claims on its website that birth control “kills babies.”

Many of these objections will sound familiar to anyone who followed the fight around the Affordable Care Act 15 years ago.

The political groundwork was laid in 2010 when the #Tea #Party movement came into power and fought alongside the #Catholic #Church against requirements that employer health insurance plans cover birth control.

And in 2014, the retail chain #Hobby #Lobby won its case before the US Supreme Court in which it argued it shouldn’t have to provide employees with IUDs or emergency contraception since its ownership viewed such things as abortion.

(3/n)

https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf

#Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry

Inside #ShadowDragon, The Tool That Lets #ICE Monitor #Pregnancy Tracking Sites and #Fortnite Players
ShadowDragon tracks BabyCenter, a website for people expecting children, as well as social media sites specifically for Black people, bodybuilders, and the fetish community.
It's capable of monitoring:
- sites for tracking #pregnancies
- #socialmedia site specifically for Black people
- #fetish communities
- even the game Fortnite
https://www.404media.co/inside-shadowdragon-ice-babycenter-pregnancy-fortnite-black-planet/

FDA issues safety alert on pregnancy tests after bust on illegal medical lab - Enlarge / A picture of containers taken from the illegal UMI lab in Ree... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1961109 #universalmeditech #prestigebiotech #ovulation #pregnancy #covid-19 #science #reedley #health #fresno #tests #cdc #fda #lab #umi

Zum #SilberSonntag so silber, wie es nur werden kann - mit einer #Babybauch Aufnahme auf #Kollodium Nassplatte.

Kaja, #Kiel 2019⁣
⁣⁣
#⁣Tintype (Kollodium Nassplatte auf Aluminium) mit 13×18cm FKD Kamera und Voigtländer Euryscop N°1 von 1882.

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The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #5 Temptation, assault and curse

After the choice Adam and Eve made to go against the Will of God, eating of the fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil, God came to deal with three parties in the fall of mankind: Adam, Eve and the serpent. An alleged fourth – the devil – is not mentioned in Genesis narrative. This for the simple reason the symbolic tempter (satan), the serpent, or the evil thoughts in Eve’s mind are the evil itself.

The most common presentation of Adam and Eve does not reflect clearly enough their theological significance, at least as seen in the New Testament. Too many people forget where the trouble started and do not come to see the essence of our suffering today being the cause of man its own choice. Eve decided herself, by her own choice to go against the wishes of God. She herself wanted to be like God. The apostle Paul, being a Jewish scholar knew very well the problem of evil and suffering. For him it was also clear what choice Adam and Eve had made and why.

For Paul the wrath on mankind was caused by the anger of God (Romans 5:9) It does not have to mean we are enemies of God, but Eve her action showed God how man doubted His position. For the opposing attitude of Eve God reckoned against the sinner. In the story of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis, we hear God giving a first commandment: not eating of the fruit of the tree of conscience (the Tree of knowledge of good and evil). He is aware that they could see death reigning in the world form Adam’s time to the time of Moses (Knox).

Romans 5: 14 1But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over 2them also that sinned not after the like 3manner of the transgression of Adam, 4which was the figure of him that was to come.

In his letter to the Romans we get to hear that Adam foreshadows another person who had to come. The first Adam or the first man, corresponds in some degree to the man who was to come, and whose birth 2020 years ago we remember this year. That man being born was a gift to mankind, from God, which more powerfully affected mankind.

Romans 5: 15 1But yet the gift is not so as is the offense: for if through the offense of 2that one, many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Adam and Eve committed an offence on which God had to react. He could directly destroy them and start all over  again by creating some new living beings in his likeness which would keep to His commandment. Moreover, the boon of God exceeds the fruit of Adam and Eve’s sin. On that contrast between the gift and the results of that one sin, we shall come back in later chapters.

By their act, going against God’s Will, and by wanting to be like God, their Maker gave them the opportunity to show how much they themselves could make of it all. God’s right to govern was doubted, so know they could come to govern themselves and could come to make something of the world. Because all the children of Adam and Eve came after their choice of adversary they all fell under the spell or curse God came to bring over them. Adam and Eve after eating of the Tree of knowledge came to know the difference between good and evil and became weaker than before, because they now had knowledge. We can not escape the relationship from the first human beings. For just because of their relation to Adam and Eve all men fall under the spell of God and have to bear the consequences of that rebellion of the first carnal man. Being the descendants of Adam and Eve we all became members of a sinful race and we all shall have to face death.

1 Corinthians 15: 21 1For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be 1made alive.

In the letter to the Corinthians we are also told there is a solution. In those Greek Writings we find another confirmation of the same consequent: for Christ is to be considered as opposite to Adam, that as from one man Adam, sin came over all, so from one man Christ, life comes unto all: that is to say, that all the faithful, as they die, because by nature they were born of Adam, so because in Christ they are made the children of God by grace, they are quickened and restored to life by him. {annotation of the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition}

The way the apostle Paul looks at the 1° and the 2° Adam places the Adam-story within a royal context, because the essence of the matter were Adam and Eve impeaching the Divine Creator. Them to query God His Most High position, is the biggest issue. This way a battle over kingship and its relation to the universe was initiated. The position of the one sent from God as a solution is too often missed by the majority of people, even by those who call themselves Christian.

In the Garden of Eden sin entered in the world of man. In a royal garden or orchard Jeshua (Jesus Christ) accepted the fact he must follow not his will but the Will of the Most High God, and should go to the stake. (Matthew 26:36-46)

In the Holy Scriptures a garden is used to express joy, peace and satisfaction.

Jeremiah 31: 12 Therefore they shall come, and rejoice in the height of Zion, and shall run to the bountifulness
of the Lord, even for the 1wheat and for the wine, and for the oil, and for the increase of sheep and bullocks: and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall have no more sorrow.

Adam and Eve had no sorrow in the Garden of Eden. They had everything they needed. But God did wanted to teach them a lesson and did not want them in His Garden any more. Since Adam listened to his wife and ate from the tree whose fruit Jehovah God commanded him not to eat, the ground is cursed because of him.  So his deed became the cause of the earth coming in problems by man. It is often by the wrong actions of men that something bad happens in the world, for example mudslides because men took away all the trees.
All our life now we will have to struggle to scratch a living from it. God told man that it will grow thorns and thistles for us, though man will eat of its grains. This time not for nothing any more, like it was in the Royal Garden. From then onwards man had to make his own garden and work with his own hands for it. By the sweat of our brow, will we have food to eat until we die, i.e. return to the ground from which man were made. Because we shall have to be reminded that we were made from dust, and to dust we will return.
But woman certainly could not escape. For him and her there was first no pain, but knowing now good and bad they also came to know pain and sorrow. The pain of woman’s pregnancy was going to be sharpened, and in pain she will give birth. She still was going to be able to give children, but concerning having control over things it would be more difficult. God warned her that though she still will desire to control her husband, it will be him who is going to rule over her.

Genesis 3: 16  Unto the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy 1sorrows, and thy conceptions. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thy desire shall be subject to thine husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17  Also to Adam he said, Because thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, (whereof I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it) cursed is the earth for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou return.
20 (And the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living)
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God 1make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22  And the Lord God said, 1Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now lest he put forth his hand, and 2take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever,

23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the earth, whence he was taken.
24 Thus he cast out the man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sword shaken, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Adam, Eve, but also we should see that the transgression of God’s commandment was the cause that both mankind and all other creatures were subject to the curse God spoke in that Kingdom of God, the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve, fell from the estate of integrity in which God had created them and now had to build their own kingdom (a kingdom of man) in their own world.

Temptation was the occasion; it was not the cause. To be subjected to temptation is not sinful for the tempted. Embrace and acquiescence constitute sin, i.e. going in against the Will of God.
Eve succumbed to the ideas in her head. Her heart wanted to have so much as God. She herself made the choice to take the fruit and to eat it. She came to the point of overt disobedience to the divine prohibition. Adam trusted his partner and with her in the adventure, hoping also to get the knowledge of good and evil and wanting to become wise (Genesis 3:6 ASV)

The tempter had gained the trust of the first human beings. Eve had accepted as true what was a blasphemous assault upon the veracity of Good and came to regard the tree as desirable in the direction that contravened the divine prohibition. Eve served herself as carnal creature  rather than the Divine Creator.

The mannin her failure to recoil with revulsion from the temptation and the idea that she would not die (Genesis 3:4) is evidence that defection had already taken place and that she exemplified the invariable psychology of sin that overt action proceeds from the inward disposition of heart.

Proverbs 23: 7 For as though he thought it in his heart: so will he say unto thee, Eat and drink: but his heart is not
with thee.

Man loves to give the fault of their wrong doing to others or say it is not from them. But In the Messianic Scriptures the sent one from God clearly warns man that there is nothing outside man. Summoning the multitude rabbi Jeshua (Jesus Christ) addressed the crowd close to him and told them that we should worry about what comes out of man. It is that what is inside and comes outside that pollutes or defiles man. It is from inside, out of man’s heart that come evil thoughts and actions, like self-seeking, pride, jealousy or envying, slander, malice, double-dealing, lying, deceiving, misleading, betraying, sexual vice, adultery, fornication, theft or stealing, wickedness, murder, all things that make a person unclean.

Mark 7: 21 For from within, even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, a wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishness.
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.

We may not be mistaken, it is all from within ourselves.  The satan or adversary comes from our inner thoughts which we allow to go wrong and where we give in. We can choose not to follow certain ideas, but when we chose to follow the wrong path then we sin. There may be manyfold temptation but it is how we react on them.Whenever you find yourself surrounded by various temptations do know that it all depends on your choice and on your faith which shall demand action (works of faith), leading to steadfastness, developing endurance. But to withstand such temptation man shall need now the courage to choose the right path and let patience finish its work that you may become fully developed and perfectly equipped, lacking in nothing or in no respect deficient. So when you are drawn away, enticed and baited by your own evil desire, like Eve was, let yourself not be beguiled and allured by your own evil desire and enticed by a bait. Remember that when passion or desire conceives and gives birth to sin, than when the bad act or sin runs its course and get fully matured it shall give birth to death. We may not be mislead and make no mistake about this.

James 1: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own concupiscence, and is enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth 1sin, and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 1Err not my dear brethren.

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* Bible quotes from 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition

Preceding articles

The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything

The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind

The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #3 With his partner

The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #4 The Fall

The Seed Of The Woman Bruised

Jesus begotten Son of God #10 Coming down spirit or flesh seed of Eve

Sayings of Jesus, what to believe and being or not of the devil

Not about personal salvation but about a bigger Plan

A book of life and a man born more than two thousand years ago

When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith

Next: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #6 Curse and solution

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Additional reading

1. Looking for a primary cause and a goal that can not offer philosophers existing beliefs
2. A multifold of elements in creation and a bad choice made
3. First mention of a solution against death 1 To divine, serpent, opposition, satan and adversary
4. First mention of a solution against death 2 Harm or no harm and naked truth
5. First mention of a solution against death 3 Tempter Satan and man’s problems
6. First mention of a solution against death 4 A seed for mankind
7. First mention of a solution against death 5 Evil its law of death
8. Necessity of a revelation of creation 1 Works of God and works of man
9. A promise given in the Garden of Eden
10. Set free from any form of mental torment or self-condemnation
11. No curtain placed over tomorrow
12. Around pre-existence of Christ
13. Satan the evil within
14. Additional comments to the 3rd Letter to the Romans
15. Luther’s misunderstanding
16. Solution for Willing hearts filled with gifts
17. Redemption #2 Biblical solution
18. When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith

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Further reading of interest

1. Images of God 1: Big and Close
2. Genesis 3
3. Day 7: Adam and Eve’s Relationship
4. Creation and The Fall – A Dramatic Reading
5. Did He Really Say That?
6. What Happened in the Garden… Doesn’t Stay in the Garden
7. There’s a Serpent in Your Bible.
8. When Everything Went to Smash
9. What Satan Offered Adam And Eve…
10. Me-Centered More
11. Adam and Eve and Us: Part Two
12. Eve as a symbol for the Church
13. Where is your Garden of Eden?
14. Puzzling over Genesis and the Fall
15. Wednesday-(Created & Fallen) Devotion
16. The Existence Of The Snake
17. Friday-(Created & Fallen) Devotion
18. Recap: What Every Christian Should Know About Genesis 1-4
19. Gospel Theology (Pt. 3) – Original Sin
20. Adversary. Accuser. (Zechariah 3:1)
21. Occasions of sin
22. Watching Ourselves
23. The Life of a 21st Century Prophet: Introspection 
24. Scripture for Thursday, October 13 (10/13)
25. Temptation, Treadmills & Grace
26. Temptations
27. I Have a Confession To Make…
28. Hell
29. Believing Is Not Seeing
30. 1 Corinthians 9-16: I Struggle With These Chapters
31. Why Did God Flood The Earth If He Later Allowed The Same Thing To Happen Again?
32. A Deceitful Trick that Leads to Less
33. JES31 – He Comes Loking For Us
34. living in a messy world
35. The Apple of Discord — Thomas Hart Benton

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