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‘Bodies with vaginas’?! Lancet slammed for ‘erasing women’
after promoting latest issue with controversial quote
24 Sep, 2021 23:49
The prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, is in hot water over its latest issue. A quote on the cover from a senior editor has triggered widespread outrage on social media for “dehumanizing” and “erasing” women.
“Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been neglected,”
says the pull quote on the cover of its latest issue, with a publication date of September 25.
By Friday evening, it had accumulated fewer than 300 likes and retweets combined – against the 4,600-plus replies and quote-tweets altogether, in a rather impressive ratio, which was also commented upon.
“Bodies with vaginas? You mean women? Where does this stop?!?” was the reaction by tennis great Martina Navratilova.
“The dehumanizing language has now infected the Lancet,” tweeted Dennis Kavanagh of Lesbian & Gay News.
“How completely awful. Just wrote the Lancet to tell them to take me off their list of statistical reviewers and cancel my subscription and never contact me about anything ever again,” tweeted Dave Curtis, a retired psychiatrist doing genetics research. “Absolutely inexcusable language to refer to women and girls.”
“We wish to make a formal complaint about the dehumanizing and straight-up sexist cover story on the latest edition of the Lancet,” said the group Women Make Glasgow.
Others commented that The Lancet editors seem to have “lost their minds,” or that “body with a vagina” is a step down from “birthing person,” the most recent politically correct phrase coming from the US.
The contentious phrase appears in the two-page article by The Lancet’s senior editor Sophia Davis, reviewing an exhibition called ‘Periods on Display’ at the Vagina Museum in London’s Camden Market. While the pull quote is accurate, Davis does use the term “women” several times, as well as “people who menstruate.”
There's a vagina museum?
Florence Schechter, who makes an appearance in Davis’ article, founded the Vagina Museum in 2017, after discovering there was a penis museum in Iceland. Surely in Iceland, it's a pretty small museum. How pathetic the world is becoming!
After doing pop-up exhibitions, the museum moved into its current space in 2019, but faces closure at the end of September when its lease runs out. Davis makes a case for providing it with funding because it has “a strong sense of social purpose and is bold and exuberant in its aim and messaging.”
The Lancet is among the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journals, established in 1823.
And yet, they found this ding-a-ling to be senior editor. Good grief!
Newsom Signs Bill Allowing Children to Hide Abortions,
Transgender Treatments from Parents
Michael Foust |
ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor |
Friday, September 24, 2021
ChristianHeadlines.com
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a bill into law that critics say forces insurance companies to conceal from parents the medical services their children are receiving, including when it involves such controversial ones as abortion, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
The new law, AB 1184, prohibits insurance companies from requiring minors to receive authorization from the policy-holding parents for “sensitive services.” The law defines “sensitive” services as “mental or behavioral health, sexual and reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections, substance use disorder, gender-affirming care, and intimate partner violence.” The phrase “gender-affirming” care includes gender-transition treatments for transgenderism.
Further, the law requires the insurance company to “direct all communications” about the service to the child and prohibits the company from disclosing the information to the parents unless the child allows it.
In signing the bill, Newsom said it was needed to protect the “privacy rights of people receiving sensitive health care services.”
Stark-raving madness! Is there an age limit in this bill or can a 3 y/o decide to become transgender without parental knowledge?
Critics, though, say it infringes on parental rights.
“How can moms and dads protect their children if insurance companies deliberately keep them in the dark?” said Jonathan Keller, president of the California Family Council. “Parents are responsible for the health and safety of their sons and daughters. Even the best-intentioned medical providers cannot replace the role of mothers and fathers. California should not force doctors to hide the truth about irreversible medical procedures like abortion and sterilizing hormone treatments.”
The California Senate’s nine Republicans urged Newsom to veto the bill, saying in a letter that “parents have a right to be involved in sensitive medical decisions for their young children.” The now-law, they said, puts “policyholders in the impossible position of being financially responsible for bills they did not incur and cannot verify as being legitimate.”
Astonishing! This will end up in court very soon.
“We should be encouraging parents and families to be involved in their children’s lives, not removing them further from it,” the letter said.
The new law passed the Assembly, 61-14, and the Senate, 29-8.
Majority-Catholic San Marino decriminalizes abortion,
over 77% vote to abolish 1865 law in historic referendum
27 Sep, 2021 00:44 / Updated 13 hours ago
San Marino, a predominately Catholic microstate surrounded by Italian territory, has voted to legalize abortion, thus rendering obsolete a more than century-old law that punished women with imprisonment.
About 77.3% of those eligible to vote in the referendum answered yes to the question whether women should be allowed to “voluntarily terminate pregnancy until the twelfth week of gestation,” and thereafter if a woman’s health is jeopardized by the pregnancy, or if the fetus’ “abnormalities and malformations” pose “a serious risk to the physical or psychological health of the woman.”
Turnout was low, however – around 41% of the tiny state’s population of 35,000 cast their ballots on Sunday. Just over 60% of San Marino citizens currently living in the city-state turned out, while only around 5% of those living abroad took part.
The result of the referendum means that San Marino will be abolishing its strict abortion ban, enshrined in law as far back as 1865. The parliament will now work out a draft bill that would make abortion legal.
Commenting on the results, San Marino’s interior minister, Elena Tonnini, called it “a clear victory of those in favor [of abortion legalization].” Under the old law, San Marino women faced up to three years in prison, while doctors who performed abortion risked being jailed for up to six years.
Women seeking to terminate their pregnancies would travel to countries where the abortion laws are more liberalized, including Italy, rendering the 1865 law effectively useless. No one has ever been convicted under its provisions.
While abortion and the moral questions surrounding the procedure remain among the most hotly debated issues across the globe, the general trend has seen abortion laws gradually relaxed in nearly 50 countries over the past several decades, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. Around 41% of women of reproductive age, or 700 million people, however, still live “under restrictive laws,” according to the advocacy group, while 90 million (5%) live in countries where abortion is banned under all circumstances.
Facebook is banning Christians but allowing sex traffickers on platform,
says Movieguide’s Ted Baehr
By Anugrah Kumar,
Christian Post Contributor|
Monday, September 27, 2021
The Instagram and Facebook logos are displayed at the 2018 CeBIT technology trade fair on June 12, 2018, in Hanover, Germany. | Alexander Koerner/Getty Images
While Facebook is known for cracking down on accounts linked to Christians and politically conservative individuals and groups, the platform is doing little to stop criminal organizations that use the networking site to profit off sex trafficking, said entertainment critic Ted Baehr.
The connection between human trafficking and drug cartels on social media is a “gigantic” problem, Baehr told CBN News.
“I was one of the founding board members of the National Coalition on Sexual Exploitation. It’s been a bigger and bigger problem, especially when we talk about the crackdown on conservative sites or Christian sites,” he said. “Because they say on Facebook that the cost of doing business in Africa and the Middle East is allowing all of these different businesses to use it. These businesses are sex slavery. These businesses are trafficking.”
"The cost of doing business in Africa and the Middle East is allowing
all of these different businesses to use it.
These businesses are sex slavery. These businesses are trafficking.”
Facebook employees sent numerous alerts to their bosses to report on human traffickers in the Middle East and armed groups in Ethiopia that are using the platform for sex trafficking and inciting violence against ethnic minorities, according to internal documents released by The Wall Street Journal in an investigative report.
Facebook was informed that a Mexican drug cartel was using the platform to recruit, train and pay hitmen, but the company didn’t stop the cartel from posting on Facebook or Instagram, the documents show.
“Anybody will tell you who’s concerned about this issue that there’s more slavery today than there’s ever been in terms of sex slavery," Baehr said. "So these cartels are using Facebook. Facebook has said, ‘We are going to address the issue.’ They’ve never really addressed it.”
For Facebook, harm in developing countries is “simply the cost of doing business,” Brian Boland, a former Facebook vice president who oversaw partnerships with internet providers in Africa and Asia before resigning last year, told the Journal.
Facebook’s safety efforts are focused on wealthier markets with powerful governments and media institutions, he added, noting that more than 90% of monthly users are now outside the U.S. and Canada.
“There is very rarely a significant, concerted effort to invest in fixing those areas,” he added.
In the U.S., Facebook and other social media platforms use Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act to protect themselves from lawsuits over what users post online. One of the clauses of Section 230 states that what users say or write online is not akin to a publisher conveying the same message. However, the same clause that shields online platforms from liability is often used to ban conservative viewpoints.
In 2018, Facebook restricted Republican congressional candidate Elizabeth Heng’s campaign from placing a video ad, deeming it too “shocking, disrespectful or sensational” because it featured her American immigrant parents who survived brutalities by the Khmer Rouge communists during the Cambodian Civil War.
In 2017, a Christian mother said Facebook censored her page, which was suspended over posts on what the Bible says about homosexuality and sin.
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