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Brava, Ophelia.
Well done Ophelia. Keep telling it as it is. Too few do.
Ophelia is a treasure!
How sad that Ophelia takes religion to task so vehemently, yet ignores the similar brutal treatment women and children receive at the hands of the medical profession.
She is a promoter of vaccinations, not realizing (or ignoring) the obvious links between vaccines and the meteoric rise in auto-immune disorders, autism, neurological disorders, cancers, and all form of new diseases.
Please, Ophelia, do not continue to hide the complicity of the male medical establishment in all of this. I suspect you are a left-gatekeeper– only willing to go so far and no farther.
concerned woman,
The links aren’t actually obvious (to put it mildly). You do realize that correlation doesn’t equate to causation, yes? The mere fact that X happens at the same time that Y happens doesn’t mean that X caused Y.
One major reason for the ‘meteoric rise’ of many diseases is the fact that many many others have been wiped out, so people live longer and thus get diseases that develop later in life. Those other diseases were wiped out partly by…vaccinations. I wouldn’t say I ‘promote’ vaccinations, since I’m not in the advertising business, but I certainly think they are a good thing. Would you prefer to see women and children dying of smallpox and measles?
A little slow on the uptake, but this was a great piece. It really exposes the rampant misogyny that is practiced under the guise of adhering to culture and religion.
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