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shakatany ([personal profile] shakatany) wrote2007-11-08 11:41 am
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This and That again

I came across this post on feministe about Lakshmi, a little girl in India born with 4 extra limbs and what this means in light of the anti-choice belief that life begins at conception. Lakshmi's extra limbs are actually the remnants of her twin. If each fetus has a unique soul, does Lakshmi now have 2 souls? Nature commits more abortions (miscarriages) than humans and the debate is far more complex than anti-choice advocates would like to admit.

I found Free Rice via [profile] wisteria_where you take a vocabulary quiz and for each correct answer they will donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger. It's rather addictive and I got up to 700 grains before I had to quit to do other things