As a bisexual person, the fact that abortion advocates are now trying to equate pride with killing babies is barbaric. You can’t say love is important and then kill human beings. You can’t say you are progressive and kill human beings.
Bi trans guy here. This is so fucking disgusting I don’t know what to say. I want so badly to have children of my own, and the fact that this is being celebrated… God.
Also PLEASE do not skip past how she ended up pregnant with five children.
IVF.
Likely more than five embryos were created. Some may still be in cold storage, forgotten by a mother who got the children she wanted and doesn’t need them anymore.
It’s also possible that more than five were implanted, but only five survived that initial process.
These two women intentionally embarked on a process where they knew they would be intentionally creating more children than they wanted to bring to term, with the expectation that any “extra children” would sit in storage indefinitely, be thrown away, or be “donated” for research where scientists would pull them apart for their DNA or their stem cells.
The surprise wasn’t that she was pregnant with five. The surprise was that four babies survived who were expected to die in the process of implantation. So two were killed, and two of the “extras” were spared.
IVF is an unethical process that leads to death, destruction, heartbreak, and often financial hardship.
If you did IVF in the past and still have embryos in storage, please consider reaching out to Nightlight Christian Adoptions and placing those children with an adoptive family through the Snowflake Adoptions program. Don’t leave your children waiting in a freezer.
If you are struggling with infertility, please don’t choose IVF. If you are in the United States, go to FertilityCare.org to find a provider near you who will help address the root causes of infertility in a natural, safe, ethical way. If that’s not an option and you really want a child, please consider adopting instead.
In fact, if you have been told you’re a candidate for IVF, you may also be a candidate for adopting an embryo! Instead of creating more embryos to sit in storage, help one of those who have already been created have a chance to be born.
Selective reduction is horrifying, but it’s a symptom of the tragedy of IVF, which itself is a symptom of a society that treats children as property who can be created, bought, sold, and destroyed at will.
I had never heard of this snowflake adoption process and was immediately intrigued since i am a single woman and desperately want to adopt but can in no way afford $20k+ to adopt a child. I’ve been told that i have PCOS so this would be a great option for me.
Well it turns out that it costs $9k+ which should break down to
$3k drugs to assist receptivity but not increase ovary fertility + thawed eggs and implantation service
$1500 to try to match prospective parent with up to three different donor couples…who can choose to reject you even though it’s meant to be 100% anonymous (an additional $500 an application thereafter)
$500 initial application fee
$4k for ?… social service interviews and home visits? And of course they can permanently reject you from consideration anywhere along the process up to implantation appointment
Zero mention of whether single women or same sex couples are eligible. Though you are allowed to use a surrogate to carry the adopted embryo.
Seriously? This reads like an attempt to pocket cash without actually homing embryos or providing a service. It sounds like a scam with government approval. The embryos were donated to them free of charge and they’re making a profit of 50% overhead (as if those other services were provided at cost)? Sounds totally legit.
Why is adoption only permissible for the elites? Just another example of blatant policies that are discriminatory towards the poor and helpless. I wish i could afford to spend $40k, 60k, etc., on some siblings from anywhere in the world that are in desperate need of parents, and to home and raise them, but this seems unlikely when U.S. policy seems hell bent on keeping people like me forcibly relegated to the lower class. I was raised middle class, the lower middle class, but the point stands. The elitists just want to control everything and don’t care who they walk on along the way.
^ exactly, I’ve been meaning to make a post on this. Adoption, whether of a born child or an embryo, is so overcharged and the agency gets all the profit. It’s a total scam and a way to profit off of tragedy.
If you are interested in more affordable options, beginning with foster care usually doesn’t cost as much but it takes a huge emotional toll. There are also some charities that raise money to help people with fertility treatments and probably embryo adoption, I just don’t remember them off the top of my head.
And it’s totally a way to keep “poor” poor away from having babies. We’ve seen how abortion targets impoverished communities, now they don’t want anyone besides rich people to adopt. Which is ridiculous because most of the terrible parents I’ve met have actually been rich people.
TLDR: giving a child a loving home should be affordable and accessible.
fun alternative: cruise ships. cruise ships exploit workers and can pollute as much as a million cars on a daily basis while dumping endless shit into the ocean and endangering all passengers on board because the on board air quality rivals some of the most polluted cities in the world while being a breeding ground for disease. cruise ships deserve to have negativity associated with them
also all crimes commited aboard a cruise ship is under the juristiction of whichever country they’re registered to once they’re a certain distance away from land so you have the added bonus of the crimes being very unlikely to be properly investigated (due to usually being physically so very far from the actual police whose juristiction they’re under)
terrifying!
On top of THAT cruise ships tend to have their own morgue, as people tend to die on ships all the time. Good for those spooky scenes.
plus u can just like…leave a hospital. good luck escaping a killer or a monster or a curse or w/e in the middle of the fucking ocean
As an ex cruise ship employee, let me give you some stuff to work with!
Water tight doors! You get a special training video on interacting with these correctly because they will literally cut you in half if you try and go through them while they’re closing!
Freezer vaults for food in the sub decks - you can only get into these with the correct code and they have very thick walls. Good luck if you get shut in one of these just after the last round of checks bucko
There are cameras everywhere…except in the crew cabin corridors. Also there are no windows down there because unless you’re an officer, you live below the waterline. Day and night have no meaning because everything is in the same slightly unsettling yellow light.
Don’t piss off the guys who deal with the rubbish. They have machines down there that can crush metal barrels
As well as morgues, cruise ships usually have one basic operating theatre with all the attendant horrifying equipment in it
One cigarette thrown carelessly in the wrong place WILL start a fire that will gut half the ship.
When we’re pitching side to side, the anchor swings out and then back in, striking the metal outer shell with a noise that shakes half the ship
People disappear overboard more often than you’d really want to be a thing
A lot of cruise ships now have theatres on board (usually towards the front) with all the potential for dark corners, creepy costumes and electrical calamities you could want.
And as op says, you can’t really escape a ship in the middle of the ocean. Particularly during a storm, as then you can’t even evacuate to lifeboats unless the whole ship is going down. On the upside being on board during a storm means most guests hide in their cabins and the staff walk around like drunks, which would likely throw off a skilled murderer’s plans.
Takes notes
You also have the bonus of a corporate overlord who doesn’t give a shit about anything but profits and can be reliably counted on to downplay any disaster in an attempt to avoid publicity.
I know C2 is over but I’ll NEVER be over how Caduceus Clay, a canonically aroace character, is so strongly characterized by love. After so m a n y aroace characters that are heartless, or alien, or manipulating because they don’t fall in love, it’s like a breath of fresh air to see Caduceus Clay, this little lanky boy from the Blooming Grove, love so much, and so many things?
Just… he loves his family! He loves his temple! He loves his goddess, and his calling, and all of the Nein like his own siblings. He loves cooking and making tea and playing pranks! And most of all, faced with the revolting evil that is Trent Ikithon, he meets its eyes, and tells it that pain doesn’t make people. Love does. I just… love Caduceus Clay so much.
Awwww this is adorable! Gosh OP i love your art so much. I’m in awe of how you handle lighting and colors!! They’re so soft but well-defined. And… I’m not sure of what you did here or how but there’s a bit of a 3D glasses-esque effect? Sort of? Like in the borders of the figures and I think that’s very Neat
