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In situations like that, Tor is your friend: https://www.torproject.org/It was invented specifically to help people bypass repressive regimes.

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they can target a laser that effectively? (checks amazon for lead codpiece)

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Religion is a crippling mental disease. Together we can find a cure.

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Dignity Health has the world's cheesiest ads; they seem like PSAs from the 80s, only even worse. Their actual tagline is the barf-worthy 'hello human kindness'. Based on those, though, and being in California, I assumed they were run by hippies, not Catholics.

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Like most congenital disorders, the only practical approach is to prevent the transmission of the disease to another generation. Hence the hatred of the Church for birth control.

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What is my password is my password.

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Well, stupid is certainly genetic. You may have it confused with ignorant, which is self inflicted.

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What's wrong with that? Didn't GEE-zus charge for his miracles? ;-)

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No, actually, they are two distinct phenomena. Fucked is what choir boys get by pedophile priests. Fucked over is what we all get from the religio-psychos on the supreme court.

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So, because my parents are stupid, they shouldn't have been allowed to breed me? I really deny any such eugenic nonsense.

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Oh this makes me so angry. I am sorry that happened to you, and glad you said screw the ridiculous hospital rules.

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So urologists have more clout than obstetricians?

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I was taking it more along the lines of humans not being so great at doing what's in their own best interest, ie taking their BC every day (or not bothering to get it and relying on less reliable methods) and having an oopsie. The in the water thing, though, that's universal, so the doc is probably worried about the planet having too many humans, not being specific about which ones get to breed.

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I think the comment refers to boys being raped by Catholic clergy. But girls are also raped by them, also, too. It does beg the question -are they against abortion because they want all those babies for raping?

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Wait. What? Since an UID placement is an office procedure, this "affiliation" means they get to tell her what she can offer patients in her own office? that is beyond fucked up.

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OK I looked at the Wikipedia page on Dignity. The organization itself is not Catholic. It used to be until somebody did a mother-saving abortion and the Catholics went nuh uh you cants be Catholic no mo. However, it owns SOME Catholic hospitals which are still in good standing, but Dignity doesn't have to hold to the Catholic dogma and I am guessing the Woodland health center what does vassies is not Catholic.

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