VirusHead - Mutating bits of contagious discourse, because language is a virus.

I ended up writing such a long reply to a question posed on a previous post that I’m posting it as well.
Vance from Meditations on an Eyeball asked:
Heidi, as a “pragmatic contextual ethicist with a spiritual sensibility” do you think there are situations where it would be wrong for a woman to choose to [...]

The FDA has approved a spray-on cocktail of six viruses for ready-to-eat meat (they say “meat and poultry,” but last time I checked, meat from chickens and turkeys was still meat).
The purified bacteriophages are designed to eat up the Listeria monocytogenes bacterium.

The bacterium can cause a serious infection called listeriosis, primarily in pregnant women, [...]

I don’t think I had ever seen South Dakota’s State Senator Bill Napoli speak before tonight. He was commenting on the abortion ban there that would close down - gulp - the only operating clinic that’s left in the entire state (this one clinic has to fly in medical volunteers from out-of-state). Guess there wasn’t [...]

Interesting blog from Heavenly Kisses:
Snips:In just three years Colorado’s abortion rates went up 111%.
BushBanned the morning-after pill, which wouldn’t kill a baby just prevent a pregnancy. Stopped federal funding for sex education that teaches teens how to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy as well as help prevent the spread of diseases. Economic policies [...]