In the first part and the second part of the series, I have attempted to make the case that our culture has a concerning deficiency in ethics and morality (henceforth morality will refer to both), and this deficit negatively impacts many areas of our society including the financially driven practice of medicine. Because abortion is such a complex topic that touches on the core of life itself, it provides an excellent perspective for cutting to the essence of the fundamental decisions that guide our lives.
It is highly regrettable that abortion, which is a complicated and sometimes dangerous medical procedure, a family planning tool, a population control tool (preventing some births with known fetal abnormalities), sometimes a medical tool (if the mother has certain health problems) is discussed with such fervor, toxicity and hate on both sides.
My dream is being able to discuss it with some compassion, understanding of many circumstances, and yet ALSO respect for the young life being carried, and for the complexity of intersecting interests.
Do the mother's interests matter? Yes
Is the unborn child a child? Yes
How to balance it? That's a hard question. But do NOT shy away from it.
A world with no abortions, or a world with no regard for life of the child, would be a mean world.
Unfortunately, abortion is a wedge issue, useful to exploit politically for both parties and their sponsors, so it will remain a toxic topic.
Let me say that I am against abortion in all cases. I am also not "pro-life," because I believe that abortion should be treated like any other murder, where the murderer is looking at capital punishment.
The issues become clear once you look at things that way. Is a pregnancy caused by a rape unfair? Assuredly, but do we punish the child for the sins of the father?
There is a tendency among "pro-lifers" to let the female murderer get away scot free. This is not a plus.
"abortion is a wedge issue" - Precisely, which is why diluting the decision allows the public to select the balance locally. I suspect that once all the compromises become accepted by the majority, the issue becomes less of a wedge. I think that places on the far sides of the debate will eventually return to a middle ground. I suspect the Row reversal become necessary when NY applauded (!) extension up to the moment of birth. That applause was to celebrate a political point with little consideration for the lives imvolved.
BTW in these decisions there are three people involved.
The abortion issue is a very emotional issue for many people. And both sides of the issue use extreme edge cases to push an agenda. And that's why it's nearly impossible for me to talk about with most people, they simply get too emotional.
Excellent paper from a spiritual, emotional and physical level. As an obstetrician, these discussions are encountered on a daily basis. I have never in my career nor as a resident done an abortion. There are so many stories from an infection from a metal clothes hanger to a woman who delivered, and 4 weeks later decided to put enough dirt down her baby’s mouth and soffocate him. To a young gal who knew she couldn’t raise the baby and I coordinated the adoption. Another incident where, during the csection the girl crying finally said her father did this to her. You try, as a physician to navigate these social issues the best you can and take them home with me , hoping and praying that God has given me (or any physician) , the wisdom to help your patients and honor the oath you took. These times we live in are so politicized that nativigating through them have been terrifying for me . I loved my job but no longer happy I picked this specialty. I pray that someday, when I am judged I always advised my patients appropriately. Thanks amidwesterndoctordoctor and Tritorch for your enlightened and heartfelt discussions.
That's very kind of you to include me in the ranks of amidweserndoctor, m, but he is among the best of the very best, and I am learning a ton from his writings.
You too are an actual hero, not only for your tireless advocacy for your students and patients, but also for your genuine compassion, empathy, and concern.
A very wise and accomplished doctor who spent years learning from the most wise Lamas in Tibet told me recently that God ranks compassion and humility as His most prized virtues in his children. Both of these traits define you, and for that it is an honor to know you.
I am aware of that too. A lot of people in there on the Buddhist community up in very bothered by the fact we all are Buddhist they interact with are forcing them to be vaccinated to do any type of practice with them.
Brandon! You ARE the Bikram bro! It is incredulous that people doing hot yoga close to others believe a mask is their savior! 😫
I actually never tried Bikram, but I did hot yoga. It felt like the purgatory I was taught about as a child 😭🥵
I’ve done 4 yoga certifications. My favorite yoga is Kundalini Yoga with
Jai Dev of Life Force Academy. His wife is a musical artist whose music is used as a background when he teaches. It is ethereal and beautiful. I’ve met both of them in Miami and have attended several of her concerts. They are the real deal.
I know Brandon is not your bro, and their username still confuses me to this day because they are a very different doctor from the one I would have assumed would use that username.
It’s a funny story. I was sitting at the dinner table with my kids, very upset about the vaccine rollout ect. My son told me to start posting on substack. I’m not a social media person at all. So they helped me navigate it and the one boy says pick Brandon as your name and I said NO , he’s not my bro! That’s how it came to be . Now they tell me to get off substack, that I will get in trouble one of these days!😅
The clinics double as tissue factories delivering high volumes of butchered baby parts to colleges and government agencies like the FDA. In one experiment, the HHS was caught using human fetal cells to try to humanize mice, meanwhile these same cells can be found in many food products and cosmetics and are often a primary incubator for growing and culturing vaccines. Meanwhile satanist consider abortion a religious right and are lobbying states to pass legislation to enshrine their right to practice it into law.
Anyone who can look at any of what follows and think it is a sane and rational way to treat the most innocent and vulnerable among us is both spiritually bankrupt and morally dead:
I was thinking that while reading your post. Why should people be charged for an abortion, or charged full price, when they're going to turn around and make more money on it? Along with other aspects, that's really wrong.
Part of why Madison is able to do all the different things you can do is because of how much money can be invested in it. But part of why medicine does such a poor job and so many regards is because there are financial incentives that go beyond taking care of patients.
I enjoyed that part the most. It made me want to be able to sit and have a discussion with you about many of the things you mentioned in that section of your essay.
Agree. It IS who we are. When we die we are not lugging that physical body with us, but the soul will continue (or for the secularists, the "consciousness").
I think it's important to discuss all aspects of what we believe to be human life? Do we have a soul? Maybe? We use the term often enough in our everyday life. I am not a religious person, so I think exploring all avenues of human existence is something that we should be open to. Fabulous article.
I had a stillborn at 28 weeks and 4 miscarriages ranging from 8 weeks to twelve weeks. I also had a pregnancy that lasted 28 weeks and he survived, but he is autistic. Ten years later at the age of 37 I fell pregnant again and that pregnancy lasted for 38 weeks. They wanted to give me an amnio to check for Down Syndrome, but I refused because of the risk of miscarriage. But, even going through all that and, as you can imagine, life is very precious to me, I still think that women need to be able to make their own decision on abortion, with parameters.
I am now 65 and remember when abortion was illegal in the UK. If a woman is desperate, she will do anything and that concerns me deeply. I dont feel I have the right to sit in judgement. I know of women who have had abortions and I know of women who went through with the pregnancy and had them adopted, the wound never heals.
I am adopted. It's actually a spiritual conundrum - because apparently, I got ONE set of genes from birthparents, and an upbringing from an entirely different set. I have a clear image of nature vs. nurture!
HOWEVER, the generation before birthmother was filled with musicians and engineers, and the generation before mother - and her siblings - were filled with musicians, doctors & engineers. Middle class.
The miracle - I was raised by people perfect for my genes. When I met my birthfamily in my 30's, I was astounded at the nature vs. nurture. Yes, I had a lot in common with my birthsiblings and family - amazingly so (I was a middle child in that set). (including my birthmother getting diag-nonsensed with "bipolar," and her religious & partnership choices) But - if she had kept me, I would have been thrown out on the streets at age 11 (my birthsister was 13 when this happened to her), and I wouldn't have made it. My birthsister is tougher than me, I'm more like the birthmother. I would have fallen into the gutter at 11 under those circumstances. I don't think I would have survived.
So - now I have a clan of people like me - and - I have love for my parents who raised me and put up with my shit.
I'm a lucky one. It doesn't always turn out this way.
Good question. From my perspective it is very appropriate as this is clearly a spiritual battle we find ourselves in, but whether it is appropriate for others really depends on the type of audience you are looking to attract, ie strictly fact based seekers or a more diverse group open to more philosophical discussions.
I am going to help out my best friend's daughter with her 2 month old baby girl today. I love newborns/babies. They are a such a blessing to be around. Pure souls <3
It's interesting. Scientology teaches that all mothers want to abort their child (?????) and that this is one of the "Thetans" that need to be cleared, to overcome that "I could have killed you," energy, that apparently scars every human being alive.
Thank you for raising the question(s). More than ever, solutions are called for.
Discussing ethics, strangely, tries to establish a common denominator between the profane and the divine. With religion used for justifying the established order, it was easier, although not easy.
Any standards, including "ethics," must be rooted in the prevalent ideology of a culture. Such ideologies have been used in civilizations to justify the power of the rulers and the "well-deserved fate" of the disenfranchised.
In the US, the last widely-proclaimed ideology was the "American Dream," but even according to George Carlin, it's called a dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
When it comes to canonizing "ethics," the age-old question always sticks out of the box:
"Who is going to watch over the watchers?"
Once enforcers are given power, the same power can be abused against anyone...
That's why your site is so exceptional and that's exactly why I don't care to convince anyone, either. Once the reader makes their own decisions, they have to take responsibility for their decisions and for their actions.
Other than that, I aspire to attain my goal by inspiring, entertaining, and informing my readers, while I also learn from others and might provide a forum for decent communities to be formed, perhaps even locally.
That makes the two of us, and as I said it in previous comments, I am finding you the most respectable player on Substack!
The platform is great, but it still takes my whole day to maintain and feed my site, and my wife is not quite happy about my making no money (after like 10k subscribers, I might hit a poverty-level income!), although she is proud of me because of the speed at which subscribers have been flocking to my site. :)
Substack itself could use some more publicity; even the most popular site owners here (who usually cannot be taken seriously) don't seem to have more than a few thousand subscribers, which is perhaps the reason why free speech is still respected here; the numbers seem to be considered inconsequential. I tend to disagree: we have the most intelligent readership I have ever encountered. Even the trolls are few and far between and cannot adjust to the standards! :D
FYI, I keep leaving links on my site and in my comments on other sites to your articles, many of which being far the best within their range I've ever encountered!
It doesn't matter how far we disagree as long as people are making decisions on their own.
Ultimately, we will prevail... "Those, who prevail until the end of times, will be saved."
In the last 35 years of my life, I have seen it all coming, yet I was only concerned because "at the end of days, many people's hearts will grow cold." Well, growing up in a crime-ridden neighborhood, took care of that for me. Yet one thing they cannot teach you, unless you are one of those for whom nobody cared, "living in fear is worse than death." I can attest to that. Nobody after my age of 10 ever beat me up... You can only guess, why...
As opposed to the psychopaths, I am still shedding tears for all the goodness and beauty lost after humanity is gone... No kidding, I was already bawling in the car in August, 2020, listening to Mozart...
Substack has been a honey pot from the very beginning. The plentiful limited hangouts, red herrings, and bait-and-switch "authors" are also line up in the same direction:
I LOVE YOU. What a wonderful world it would be if people could with good will sit down and talk things through like this. I agree with most of what you said here.
My own tendency is to be a materialist about consciousness, but I realize that a conversation about these issues must include other perspectives. The road to ruin is looking down ones nose at opposite perspectives. If we want to dissent from accepted narratives, it behooves us to respect those who dissent from our narratives.
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Wonderful collection!
During my 23 years of academic teaching, I was probably the only professor, who welcomed "controversial topics." Abortion was one of them. I emphasized that evaluation of a student's performance was based on the applicability of his/her argument. I never presented my opinion, so even at the end of the semester, a student or two usually asked me what I though. In response, I said, "It doesn't matter what I think, what matters in your life is what you think."
When practicing one-sided arguments (or call them rhetorical speeches), I also instructed my students that the most convincing form of an argument convinces the other party that accepting my point of view if the best for THEM! That is exactly where the article excels the most: making an attempt to prevent all the damages caused by abortion to the mother. After all, most people don't care for what I say, but they care for what's best for them...
A thoughtful and complex exploration in these times when everything is shunted into an oversimplified inflammatory binary. I'd love to hear more about shared death experiences. I just recently read After by Bruce Greyson on his 50 years of study of NDE's, and I've read a little of the alternate theories and rebuttals, all of which seem like Kuhnian desperation rather than strong arguments.
There's a Japanese ceremony for children lost to abortion or miscarriage https://www.lionsroar.com/for-the-children-weve-lost/. We are going to need something like this here since some parents are so lobotomized by the sophisticated propaganda that there will be many child deaths. I think your experience of and knowledge about SDE's would be helpful in this regard as it is almost impossible to take in that this is happening. It is comforting to read such an in depth almost rabbinical analysis when we are barraged with incendiary enraging soundbytes masquerading as news every second.
I feel really hesitant to claim any type of expertise on the subject of share death experiences. I have had two times I have experienced one, and more importantly, I found out that they have been documented within the academic literature. There are certain times where the boundaries of one's individual consciousness start to become more ephemeral, and my own belief is that these experiences hint at the existence of a soul. The problem is that there is a major resistance within conventional science towards studying the subject because of the implications of the topic.
I personally feel one of the greatest innovations of modern medicine is the cardiac resuscitation protocol, not because it saves lives (most attempts to revive someone who has had cardiac arrest fail) but rather because of the fact that many individuals who are resuscitated were still consciously aware while they were "dead," although their awareness and conception of the world was different (i.e.. They were outside of their bodies). The same effect is sometimes observed when individuals go under anesthesia (every now and then there's someone who observes their surgery happening even though they are completely sedated), although to my knowledge I have never heard of a shared anesthesia experience occurring.
I was cheered by your pointer to the shared experience in response to an earlier comment. While the concept of a soul can be useful it touches areas that make some uncomfortable because it implies greater forces at work that we cannot grapple. That somehow a collection cells brings forth a life force is beyond our knowledge.
I have a lot of things I have to deal with in life and work and I don't like to right quick articles I throw together (I don't feel it's respectful of my readers time to throw things I didn't put thought into at them so I have a daily article), but I have been trying to get a few out each week.
You are more productive than I might expect, particularly given the insights you bring. There is a bit of wander in your writing that reflects how many facets you address. Each facet, subtopic, might even engender more detail. But given the limitations of time that effort is asking a lot.
I have to make a good balance between having a critical information present and not having to watch the people don't read. For this reason I try to touch on a lot of subjects and hit the essence of him that is relevant and then once that's done and move onto something else. I do however leave links in when it is something I suspect a few people would want to read and learn more about.
It's really a great body of work, and I'm always interested in the topics you choose, because I know I'm going to learn something new. I'm one of the Forgotten ones, and I am well represented by your writing. (and - despite your 2 full time jobs, you still write faster than I can read!)
I would love to say I had high moral and spiritual principles at age 20 when I did NOT have an abortion amid great pressure to do so........ I did not have an abortion because I was deathly afraid of doctors and the medical system. Thank God! (And my first son is awesome.)
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I also tried to educate my yoga students (and clients) on the many side effects and dangers of statin drugs! I’m still reading your article, but felt compelled to comment before finishing it :)
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It is ironic that at a time when DEI is shoved down the throats from corporate America & her government that there is a refusal to see diversity in populations when it comes to the vaccination protocols and in medicine in general.
I have a theory that some of this is related to medicine's relationship with insurance. I have worked in life sales for much of my career and as a result I am comfortable with the topic of risk management and I have read more than my share of APS records. As guidelines are released to the field, the goal is to field underwrite as much as possible to determine a possible price, because frankly, you don't want to waste everyone's time. Underwriting is an art and it takes time to learn to do it well and like many industries, the lack of training is now seen as an expensive nuisance. As automation came in, I found myself having to constantly go back and argue with 'the machine ' that was penalizing the customer for the minutiae where an experienced human underwriter would take the 40,000 foot view and the back and forth wouldn't be necessary. For example, a total cholesterol number might be high at 230, but the ratio low at 3.5, with great BP and family history. It has improved, but more than once I had to explain 'insurance medicine' (populations) vs individual when a client complained that his/her doctor said there was nothing to worry about. There may be some truth to how insurance is influencing medicine, but maybe not quite in the way people think. It sounds more like they have migrated to a risk management platform more than anything.
I am speaking from a life perspective, but the idea is attributable to other lines as well. One teacher of mine drew a picture for me one day of 100 dots and proceeded to draw little x's through them saying the actuaries know that this many dots will die from a heart attack, this many in a car accident, etc. They just don't know who, so the best guess is to look for those people that have a likelihood that will increase the chances.
Obama once said the sad thing about abortions is a society that pushes young women to do such things. Whist I agree, it is a naïve view of the inherent risk/reward model that is offered to many sexually active women. Access to abortion gives women a unique tool that drastically decreases the risk and alters the balance of the decision.
You let slip that you only count abortion as murder if you consider a soul present.
Personally I believe the unique, self replicating DNA to be the touchstone that dictates all abortion is murder. The unique DNA in a mothers womb is not a virus and will never grow be a tree or a dog. Since a human womb is an organ for generating human babies, the DNA that is nurtured in that womb is therefore at all times a human and all humans are persons (unless you're in Canada!). The argument about viability is a distraction: An infant will die if it is not cared for. It is inconsequential as to the number of parties that *could* care for an infant, it will die without help.
I believe the Catholic viewpoint to be logically consistent with a scientific/quantitative worldview in this case. The moment of conception creates new human life.
Exactly how you define life gets very tricky because I feel almost everything around us is alive and has a consciousness (hence why I won't eat meat and I try to minimize killing pests), and having spent a lot of time with animals I sincerely believe they hold a real degree of consciouness that goes beyond instinct or emotion (animals also feel) so functionally no matter how you try you can't live a life that completely avoids harming life. The buddhists address this problem by 100% pro-life in every area, whereas I try to differentiate between sentient beings and non-sentient beings.
My best guess from having looked at this for a long time is that sentience emerges in babies between 4-7 months, and setting 4 months as a cut off (I forgot to mention this but I have met people who can remember when they were in the womb and many more under hypnosis) makes the whole topic go from an abstract concept that can be put out of sight out of mind to something manageable they can't run away from.
On the DNA subject, there are a lot of real amazing and exotic properties to DNA that have been kept out of conventional science (but have been scientificially proven) and one of the things I've concluded over the years from understanding all the things that begin to go wrong once you use GMO tech is that one thing god was very clear humans were not supposed to was mess with the genome...or put differently genetic engineering is the equivialnt of opening pandoras box and is a sin with profound consequences that will appear over the years.
In biblical terms that would be an abomination, and also resembles something... It seems they're using the Book of Revelations as an instruction manual.
I've seen this abomination before, but it hurt to see it again.
How can the perpetrators get away with all this after all the WEF, Club of Rome, Bilderberg etc. "conferences" that only confirmed the objectives on the Georgia Guidestones and, for that matter, in The Book of Elders, too (although I do believe that "Jews," "Zionists," along with low-ranking Freemasons et al. have been and are being used as either red herrings or useful idiots).
It's like the monkey-doo moronic are being constantly taunted:
I remember when I was in my mother's womb. I specifically remember seeing the living room of my mother's new house, it had metal blinds and a braided rug rolled up against the wall (my parents were moving in at that time). Everything I saw had a red tinge to it. Decades later I asked my mother about it and she said, yes, everything I saw was correct. How did I know? Another womb/soul story. I am a twin and my mother had us in the 60's when there was no sonograms or pictures of the babies, so she thought she was only having one child, because only one heartbeat was heard right up to birth. Lo and behold, here comes two! I once asked God why I was born a twin, and he said "so you won't be alone." He was right and good. My twin and I can rely on each other totally, even as other relationships come and go. God literally sent me a soul mate.
Consciousness is a red herring in my opinion. I am of the same mind regarding pests, but disagree on eating meat. A physicist convinced me that the purpose of all life is to reduce entropy and flows from the "laws" of the universe. Killing a pest is a waste of entropy reduction if that pest does not threaten higher level life. However, if we do not eat other animals, the entropy reduction is wasted when they die. The reason we don't eat people is our entropy reduction takes the form of glorifying the God of Life (e.g. creation and order outside of randomness), which no other animal can do, hence our special place.
Plus it is part of the food chain. Every living organism is a part of the food chain, with the exception of humans (hopefully). I eat meat although I am a staunch animal lover/protector. Plants are also among the living even though they supposedly don't have a consciousness. It's ok to eat them? I too do not kill pests unless it's a kill or be killed situation, which it never has been for me
Plants "scream" when you kill them. Something I remind my vegan friends.
It's about the honouring of life. Thank you for the energy you give to sustain me. May your tribe be blessed. (at least that's a shamanic sort of perspective, but could translate into many faiths)
Time for girls to realize that they are not in a movie, where everybody goes to bed with everyone else.
Making love must be preceded with love that both parties embrace, willing to take responsibility for themselves, each other, and accept the potential of new life springing from the relationship.
I started working on these once the draft report was leaked and I wanted to try and get them out once the ruling was released since I feel morality in medicine is an important topic and this was probably the best way to look at it.
Oh my Lord you write long posts. You are testing my mental acuity. 😏
Let me begin by saying that you are an uncommonly kind person.
Watching world events unfold on our nightly TV news programs can lead us to believe that "our culture has a concerning deficiency in ethics and morality." However, I don't agree. I believe that these impressions are all manufactured by those in control of the media. Turn the TV off and look around you. People are ethical and moral. What you see in the media is mostly lies. Actors paid to riot, paid to protest, paid to hold up signs saying stupid things like, "I will aid and abet abortion" and others equally idiotic. Noone, in reality, thinks like that. They are lying to you. Some young women might get caught up in the furor but the rogue ones are paid.
I believe we are born knowing right from wrong and if we are fortunate, we have parents that instill these morals further in us but even if we don't, our intelligence requires us to be moral. Being moral and ethical is the biggest part of being human. It's as simple as that.
I agree with your assessment of sensitivity and specificity with regard to prescribing medication and medical procedures as being skewed toward favouring the highest profit margin of all players involved. Unfortunately that sounds all too common, repeated in industries across the globe ad infinitum.
As I have suggested before, with regard to the Roe v. Wade case, I would argue that it may have been a diversionary tactic by those in control to get attention off the vaccine injuries and other government bungling. They massage and control the masses through the intelligence agencies, military, government and media. 'All the world is a stage' is true.
In reality, I don't think any woman wants to have an abortion but bad choices sometimes makes it necessary. The woman then has to live with that choice for the rest of her life and despite what the media puts out there, noone takes that lightly.
As far as covid and lockdowns go, I must diverge from your theory again. I believe it happened in lockstep around the world for a reason. A small minority of those in control wanted it that way. It was choreographed and coordinated across the globe. Evil people decided the parameters and I would argue that questions of sensitivity and specificity were not even considered. ☹️ If they had been, we would be in a much better place now.
It is highly regrettable that abortion, which is a complicated and sometimes dangerous medical procedure, a family planning tool, a population control tool (preventing some births with known fetal abnormalities), sometimes a medical tool (if the mother has certain health problems) is discussed with such fervor, toxicity and hate on both sides.
My dream is being able to discuss it with some compassion, understanding of many circumstances, and yet ALSO respect for the young life being carried, and for the complexity of intersecting interests.
Do the mother's interests matter? Yes
Is the unborn child a child? Yes
How to balance it? That's a hard question. But do NOT shy away from it.
A world with no abortions, or a world with no regard for life of the child, would be a mean world.
Unfortunately, abortion is a wedge issue, useful to exploit politically for both parties and their sponsors, so it will remain a toxic topic.
Let me say that I am against abortion in all cases. I am also not "pro-life," because I believe that abortion should be treated like any other murder, where the murderer is looking at capital punishment.
The issues become clear once you look at things that way. Is a pregnancy caused by a rape unfair? Assuredly, but do we punish the child for the sins of the father?
There is a tendency among "pro-lifers" to let the female murderer get away scot free. This is not a plus.
"The issues become clear once you look at things that way."
Did you miss all of the 'sensitivity vs specificity' discussion above? Did you read the article at all?
"abortion is a wedge issue" - Precisely, which is why diluting the decision allows the public to select the balance locally. I suspect that once all the compromises become accepted by the majority, the issue becomes less of a wedge. I think that places on the far sides of the debate will eventually return to a middle ground. I suspect the Row reversal become necessary when NY applauded (!) extension up to the moment of birth. That applause was to celebrate a political point with little consideration for the lives imvolved.
BTW in these decisions there are three people involved.
The abortion issue is a very emotional issue for many people. And both sides of the issue use extreme edge cases to push an agenda. And that's why it's nearly impossible for me to talk about with most people, they simply get too emotional.
Needed asking "Who/What (if spirit) we are. I,d think same 8 days and months prior birth.
Consider the drilling of fetus...
Then, even father have consequences as Bipolar disorder, acc/ (my) Family Constellations
While mother has an stressing dilemma, needing information & compassion
This is not my strongest suit as I am not a religious person, although I am touched by various spiritual considerations.
The topic of abortion is EXTREMELY TOXIC and tends to make people unhappy on both sides
Excellent paper from a spiritual, emotional and physical level. As an obstetrician, these discussions are encountered on a daily basis. I have never in my career nor as a resident done an abortion. There are so many stories from an infection from a metal clothes hanger to a woman who delivered, and 4 weeks later decided to put enough dirt down her baby’s mouth and soffocate him. To a young gal who knew she couldn’t raise the baby and I coordinated the adoption. Another incident where, during the csection the girl crying finally said her father did this to her. You try, as a physician to navigate these social issues the best you can and take them home with me , hoping and praying that God has given me (or any physician) , the wisdom to help your patients and honor the oath you took. These times we live in are so politicized that nativigating through them have been terrifying for me . I loved my job but no longer happy I picked this specialty. I pray that someday, when I am judged I always advised my patients appropriately. Thanks amidwesterndoctordoctor and Tritorch for your enlightened and heartfelt discussions.
Mothers need more support. Whether they want to keep their babies or give them up. Our society does a terrible job of that.
Horrible job…. Heartless and ruthless.
Let's change that! Shall we?
That's very kind of you to include me in the ranks of amidweserndoctor, m, but he is among the best of the very best, and I am learning a ton from his writings.
You too are an actual hero, not only for your tireless advocacy for your students and patients, but also for your genuine compassion, empathy, and concern.
A very wise and accomplished doctor who spent years learning from the most wise Lamas in Tibet told me recently that God ranks compassion and humility as His most prized virtues in his children. Both of these traits define you, and for that it is an honor to know you.
I believe the Dalai Lama has the spiritual ability to justify his title.
He was pushing the vaccine agenda...
I am aware of that too. A lot of people in there on the Buddhist community up in very bothered by the fact we all are Buddhist they interact with are forcing them to be vaccinated to do any type of practice with them.
I do Bikram yoga regularly. Many that go are very frightened of the virus, wearing masks in that heat , it makes me sad.
Brandon! You ARE the Bikram bro! It is incredulous that people doing hot yoga close to others believe a mask is their savior! 😫
I actually never tried Bikram, but I did hot yoga. It felt like the purgatory I was taught about as a child 😭🥵
I’ve done 4 yoga certifications. My favorite yoga is Kundalini Yoga with
Jai Dev of Life Force Academy. His wife is a musical artist whose music is used as a background when he teaches. It is ethereal and beautiful. I’ve met both of them in Miami and have attended several of her concerts. They are the real deal.

To me, that put him in the category of the Vatican who is also pushing the shots...what am I missing? 
She! She is a woman! 💃🏻💃🏻
Thanks Tritorch, for the kind words.
🙏🏼🙏🏼Brando Bro! God Bless You!
I know Brandon is not your bro, and their username still confuses me to this day because they are a very different doctor from the one I would have assumed would use that username.
It’s a funny story. I was sitting at the dinner table with my kids, very upset about the vaccine rollout ect. My son told me to start posting on substack. I’m not a social media person at all. So they helped me navigate it and the one boy says pick Brandon as your name and I said NO , he’s not my bro! That’s how it came to be . Now they tell me to get off substack, that I will get in trouble one of these days!😅
Your username always makes me smile. Nice to know its history :D
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HA HA HA!! I love it! How old are your boys?
23 and 26
Sweet! My two youngest daughters will be 23 & 27 in November
LOL! I love her name. It makes me laugh each time I read it or see her name in a thread! :)
And to each and everyone. Life is not simple. 😘
Agreed! <3
Excellent article. On the subject of abortions:
The clinics double as tissue factories delivering high volumes of butchered baby parts to colleges and government agencies like the FDA. In one experiment, the HHS was caught using human fetal cells to try to humanize mice, meanwhile these same cells can be found in many food products and cosmetics and are often a primary incubator for growing and culturing vaccines. Meanwhile satanist consider abortion a religious right and are lobbying states to pass legislation to enshrine their right to practice it into law.
Anyone who can look at any of what follows and think it is a sane and rational way to treat the most innocent and vulnerable among us is both spiritually bankrupt and morally dead:
https://tritorch.com/abortionslope
Oh yeah...I completely forgot to repeat that part of the ethical determinant on abortion is that they make money.
I was thinking that while reading your post. Why should people be charged for an abortion, or charged full price, when they're going to turn around and make more money on it? Along with other aspects, that's really wrong.
Part of why Madison is able to do all the different things you can do is because of how much money can be invested in it. But part of why medicine does such a poor job and so many regards is because there are financial incentives that go beyond taking care of patients.
They should be paying the mothers not charging them
I thought that, too, but knew that was WAY too much to ask.
also as a quick question, do think the content in this article is appropriate to post or to outside the box since it discusses the soul?
I enjoyed that part the most. It made me want to be able to sit and have a discussion with you about many of the things you mentioned in that section of your essay.
More human beings SHOULD discuss the soul. In my opinion, it’s elementary to what/who we all are.
Agree. It IS who we are. When we die we are not lugging that physical body with us, but the soul will continue (or for the secularists, the "consciousness").
I think it's important to discuss all aspects of what we believe to be human life? Do we have a soul? Maybe? We use the term often enough in our everyday life. I am not a religious person, so I think exploring all avenues of human existence is something that we should be open to. Fabulous article.
I had a stillborn at 28 weeks and 4 miscarriages ranging from 8 weeks to twelve weeks. I also had a pregnancy that lasted 28 weeks and he survived, but he is autistic. Ten years later at the age of 37 I fell pregnant again and that pregnancy lasted for 38 weeks. They wanted to give me an amnio to check for Down Syndrome, but I refused because of the risk of miscarriage. But, even going through all that and, as you can imagine, life is very precious to me, I still think that women need to be able to make their own decision on abortion, with parameters.
I am now 65 and remember when abortion was illegal in the UK. If a woman is desperate, she will do anything and that concerns me deeply. I dont feel I have the right to sit in judgement. I know of women who have had abortions and I know of women who went through with the pregnancy and had them adopted, the wound never heals.
I agree; it is a very challenging issue.
I am adopted. It's actually a spiritual conundrum - because apparently, I got ONE set of genes from birthparents, and an upbringing from an entirely different set. I have a clear image of nature vs. nurture!
HOWEVER, the generation before birthmother was filled with musicians and engineers, and the generation before mother - and her siblings - were filled with musicians, doctors & engineers. Middle class.
The miracle - I was raised by people perfect for my genes. When I met my birthfamily in my 30's, I was astounded at the nature vs. nurture. Yes, I had a lot in common with my birthsiblings and family - amazingly so (I was a middle child in that set). (including my birthmother getting diag-nonsensed with "bipolar," and her religious & partnership choices) But - if she had kept me, I would have been thrown out on the streets at age 11 (my birthsister was 13 when this happened to her), and I wouldn't have made it. My birthsister is tougher than me, I'm more like the birthmother. I would have fallen into the gutter at 11 under those circumstances. I don't think I would have survived.
So - now I have a clan of people like me - and - I have love for my parents who raised me and put up with my shit.
I'm a lucky one. It doesn't always turn out this way.
Good question. From my perspective it is very appropriate as this is clearly a spiritual battle we find ourselves in, but whether it is appropriate for others really depends on the type of audience you are looking to attract, ie strictly fact based seekers or a more diverse group open to more philosophical discussions.
The lady saying “I could have killed you”, has been rattling around in my brain all day….God help us.
Shocking! I’ve never seen such a thing. I Pray for that baby’s safety.
Me too Myriam
WTH? Right?
I am going to help out my best friend's daughter with her 2 month old baby girl today. I love newborns/babies. They are a such a blessing to be around. Pure souls <3
It's interesting. Scientology teaches that all mothers want to abort their child (?????) and that this is one of the "Thetans" that need to be cleared, to overcome that "I could have killed you," energy, that apparently scars every human being alive.
Just a different perspective on it.
Psyche. The original meaning of it is "soul."
I believe that the essence of Psyche/soul is exactly what is "Forgotten," in modern science/medicine.
Dear Lord! That woman is not fit to be that angel’s mother!! Where is @Laruren. She’s not commenting on this post?
Thank you for sharing this 😢😢😢😢
Thank you for raising the question(s). More than ever, solutions are called for.
Discussing ethics, strangely, tries to establish a common denominator between the profane and the divine. With religion used for justifying the established order, it was easier, although not easy.
Any standards, including "ethics," must be rooted in the prevalent ideology of a culture. Such ideologies have been used in civilizations to justify the power of the rulers and the "well-deserved fate" of the disenfranchised.
In the US, the last widely-proclaimed ideology was the "American Dream," but even according to George Carlin, it's called a dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
When it comes to canonizing "ethics," the age-old question always sticks out of the box:
"Who is going to watch over the watchers?"
Once enforcers are given power, the same power can be abused against anyone...
Any solutions?
Empower people with the ability to become aware of the nature of morality.
That's why your site is so exceptional and that's exactly why I don't care to convince anyone, either. Once the reader makes their own decisions, they have to take responsibility for their decisions and for their actions.
Other than that, I aspire to attain my goal by inspiring, entertaining, and informing my readers, while I also learn from others and might provide a forum for decent communities to be formed, perhaps even locally.
I must not take my gifts to the grave. :)
I feel really lucky I have a platform that allows me to do this with minimal cost to do so.
That makes the two of us, and as I said it in previous comments, I am finding you the most respectable player on Substack!
The platform is great, but it still takes my whole day to maintain and feed my site, and my wife is not quite happy about my making no money (after like 10k subscribers, I might hit a poverty-level income!), although she is proud of me because of the speed at which subscribers have been flocking to my site. :)
Substack itself could use some more publicity; even the most popular site owners here (who usually cannot be taken seriously) don't seem to have more than a few thousand subscribers, which is perhaps the reason why free speech is still respected here; the numbers seem to be considered inconsequential. I tend to disagree: we have the most intelligent readership I have ever encountered. Even the trolls are few and far between and cannot adjust to the standards! :D
FYI, I keep leaving links on my site and in my comments on other sites to your articles, many of which being far the best within their range I've ever encountered!
Thank you so much for your support.
No, thank YOU so much for being a human being!
It doesn't matter how far we disagree as long as people are making decisions on their own.
Ultimately, we will prevail... "Those, who prevail until the end of times, will be saved."
In the last 35 years of my life, I have seen it all coming, yet I was only concerned because "at the end of days, many people's hearts will grow cold." Well, growing up in a crime-ridden neighborhood, took care of that for me. Yet one thing they cannot teach you, unless you are one of those for whom nobody cared, "living in fear is worse than death." I can attest to that. Nobody after my age of 10 ever beat me up... You can only guess, why...
As opposed to the psychopaths, I am still shedding tears for all the goodness and beauty lost after humanity is gone... No kidding, I was already bawling in the car in August, 2020, listening to Mozart...
I'm a little concerned that Substack is a corral, where they can find us all in one sweep.
Substack has been a honey pot from the very beginning. The plentiful limited hangouts, red herrings, and bait-and-switch "authors" are also line up in the same direction:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/bait-and-switch-for-the-masses
Still, beyond the bots, trolls, and agents, readers can also find useful information and, perhaps, friends as well:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-most-important-thing-anyone-can
Gnosis. Once you Gnow That, you can't un-Gnow That.
Might transparency help? Would people still do certain things if all their neighbours knew?
Definitely. Transparency was behind the idea behind Common Law. The ideal size of a self-governing community is supposed to be below 300.
I LOVE YOU. What a wonderful world it would be if people could with good will sit down and talk things through like this. I agree with most of what you said here.
I was really worried this post would cause me to lose a large number of my readers so it is a relief it has gone over well so far.
My own tendency is to be a materialist about consciousness, but I realize that a conversation about these issues must include other perspectives. The road to ruin is looking down ones nose at opposite perspectives. If we want to dissent from accepted narratives, it behooves us to respect those who dissent from our narratives.
Wonderful collection!
During my 23 years of academic teaching, I was probably the only professor, who welcomed "controversial topics." Abortion was one of them. I emphasized that evaluation of a student's performance was based on the applicability of his/her argument. I never presented my opinion, so even at the end of the semester, a student or two usually asked me what I though. In response, I said, "It doesn't matter what I think, what matters in your life is what you think."
When practicing one-sided arguments (or call them rhetorical speeches), I also instructed my students that the most convincing form of an argument convinces the other party that accepting my point of view if the best for THEM! That is exactly where the article excels the most: making an attempt to prevent all the damages caused by abortion to the mother. After all, most people don't care for what I say, but they care for what's best for them...
A thoughtful and complex exploration in these times when everything is shunted into an oversimplified inflammatory binary. I'd love to hear more about shared death experiences. I just recently read After by Bruce Greyson on his 50 years of study of NDE's, and I've read a little of the alternate theories and rebuttals, all of which seem like Kuhnian desperation rather than strong arguments.
There's a Japanese ceremony for children lost to abortion or miscarriage https://www.lionsroar.com/for-the-children-weve-lost/. We are going to need something like this here since some parents are so lobotomized by the sophisticated propaganda that there will be many child deaths. I think your experience of and knowledge about SDE's would be helpful in this regard as it is almost impossible to take in that this is happening. It is comforting to read such an in depth almost rabbinical analysis when we are barraged with incendiary enraging soundbytes masquerading as news every second.
I feel really hesitant to claim any type of expertise on the subject of share death experiences. I have had two times I have experienced one, and more importantly, I found out that they have been documented within the academic literature. There are certain times where the boundaries of one's individual consciousness start to become more ephemeral, and my own belief is that these experiences hint at the existence of a soul. The problem is that there is a major resistance within conventional science towards studying the subject because of the implications of the topic.
I personally feel one of the greatest innovations of modern medicine is the cardiac resuscitation protocol, not because it saves lives (most attempts to revive someone who has had cardiac arrest fail) but rather because of the fact that many individuals who are resuscitated were still consciously aware while they were "dead," although their awareness and conception of the world was different (i.e.. They were outside of their bodies). The same effect is sometimes observed when individuals go under anesthesia (every now and then there's someone who observes their surgery happening even though they are completely sedated), although to my knowledge I have never heard of a shared anesthesia experience occurring.
I was cheered by your pointer to the shared experience in response to an earlier comment. While the concept of a soul can be useful it touches areas that make some uncomfortable because it implies greater forces at work that we cannot grapple. That somehow a collection cells brings forth a life force is beyond our knowledge.
And it is in direct opposition to the church of scientism and the church of scientism.
Have you ever looked into Ian Stevenson’s work?
https://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Cases-Suggestive-Reincarnation-Enlarged/dp/0813908728/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2E50ERO0XUVKK&keywords=ian+stevenson+20+cases&qid=1656716549&sprefix=ian+stevenson+20+cases%2Caps%2C70&sr=8-1
Intriguing stuff. My studies imagine such things are possible.
I´ve been missing Your articles! I almost started worrying ;-)
It´s so inspiring to read them! Thanks from across the pond!
I have a lot of things I have to deal with in life and work and I don't like to right quick articles I throw together (I don't feel it's respectful of my readers time to throw things I didn't put thought into at them so I have a daily article), but I have been trying to get a few out each week.
You are more productive than I might expect, particularly given the insights you bring. There is a bit of wander in your writing that reflects how many facets you address. Each facet, subtopic, might even engender more detail. But given the limitations of time that effort is asking a lot.
I have to make a good balance between having a critical information present and not having to watch the people don't read. For this reason I try to touch on a lot of subjects and hit the essence of him that is relevant and then once that's done and move onto something else. I do however leave links in when it is something I suspect a few people would want to read and learn more about.
It's really a great body of work, and I'm always interested in the topics you choose, because I know I'm going to learn something new. I'm one of the Forgotten ones, and I am well represented by your writing. (and - despite your 2 full time jobs, you still write faster than I can read!)
I would love to say I had high moral and spiritual principles at age 20 when I did NOT have an abortion amid great pressure to do so........ I did not have an abortion because I was deathly afraid of doctors and the medical system. Thank God! (And my first son is awesome.)
I avoid doctors 95% of the time and I'm a doctor so I can empathize...
I also tried to educate my yoga students (and clients) on the many side effects and dangers of statin drugs! I’m still reading your article, but felt compelled to comment before finishing it :)
It is ironic that at a time when DEI is shoved down the throats from corporate America & her government that there is a refusal to see diversity in populations when it comes to the vaccination protocols and in medicine in general.
I have a theory that some of this is related to medicine's relationship with insurance. I have worked in life sales for much of my career and as a result I am comfortable with the topic of risk management and I have read more than my share of APS records. As guidelines are released to the field, the goal is to field underwrite as much as possible to determine a possible price, because frankly, you don't want to waste everyone's time. Underwriting is an art and it takes time to learn to do it well and like many industries, the lack of training is now seen as an expensive nuisance. As automation came in, I found myself having to constantly go back and argue with 'the machine ' that was penalizing the customer for the minutiae where an experienced human underwriter would take the 40,000 foot view and the back and forth wouldn't be necessary. For example, a total cholesterol number might be high at 230, but the ratio low at 3.5, with great BP and family history. It has improved, but more than once I had to explain 'insurance medicine' (populations) vs individual when a client complained that his/her doctor said there was nothing to worry about. There may be some truth to how insurance is influencing medicine, but maybe not quite in the way people think. It sounds more like they have migrated to a risk management platform more than anything.
I am speaking from a life perspective, but the idea is attributable to other lines as well. One teacher of mine drew a picture for me one day of 100 dots and proceeded to draw little x's through them saying the actuaries know that this many dots will die from a heart attack, this many in a car accident, etc. They just don't know who, so the best guess is to look for those people that have a likelihood that will increase the chances.
Oh that is a good point, health insurance companies do this too. I need to add that in somewhere somewhere
Fantastic article. Thank you so much!
Obama once said the sad thing about abortions is a society that pushes young women to do such things. Whist I agree, it is a naïve view of the inherent risk/reward model that is offered to many sexually active women. Access to abortion gives women a unique tool that drastically decreases the risk and alters the balance of the decision.
You let slip that you only count abortion as murder if you consider a soul present.
Personally I believe the unique, self replicating DNA to be the touchstone that dictates all abortion is murder. The unique DNA in a mothers womb is not a virus and will never grow be a tree or a dog. Since a human womb is an organ for generating human babies, the DNA that is nurtured in that womb is therefore at all times a human and all humans are persons (unless you're in Canada!). The argument about viability is a distraction: An infant will die if it is not cared for. It is inconsequential as to the number of parties that *could* care for an infant, it will die without help.
I believe the Catholic viewpoint to be logically consistent with a scientific/quantitative worldview in this case. The moment of conception creates new human life.
Thank you for your kind words.
Exactly how you define life gets very tricky because I feel almost everything around us is alive and has a consciousness (hence why I won't eat meat and I try to minimize killing pests), and having spent a lot of time with animals I sincerely believe they hold a real degree of consciouness that goes beyond instinct or emotion (animals also feel) so functionally no matter how you try you can't live a life that completely avoids harming life. The buddhists address this problem by 100% pro-life in every area, whereas I try to differentiate between sentient beings and non-sentient beings.
My best guess from having looked at this for a long time is that sentience emerges in babies between 4-7 months, and setting 4 months as a cut off (I forgot to mention this but I have met people who can remember when they were in the womb and many more under hypnosis) makes the whole topic go from an abstract concept that can be put out of sight out of mind to something manageable they can't run away from.
On the DNA subject, there are a lot of real amazing and exotic properties to DNA that have been kept out of conventional science (but have been scientificially proven) and one of the things I've concluded over the years from understanding all the things that begin to go wrong once you use GMO tech is that one thing god was very clear humans were not supposed to was mess with the genome...or put differently genetic engineering is the equivialnt of opening pandoras box and is a sin with profound consequences that will appear over the years.
Doctor, regarding pandora's box, this is a new statue at the UN HQ titled The Guardian Of International Peace:
http://tritorch.com/degradation/TheGuardianOfInternationalPeaceUNStatue.jpg
http://tritorch.com/degradation/TheGuardianOfInternationalPeaceUNStatue2.jpg
In biblical terms that would be an abomination, and also resembles something... It seems they're using the Book of Revelations as an instruction manual.
I've seen this abomination before, but it hurt to see it again.
How can the perpetrators get away with all this after all the WEF, Club of Rome, Bilderberg etc. "conferences" that only confirmed the objectives on the Georgia Guidestones and, for that matter, in The Book of Elders, too (although I do believe that "Jews," "Zionists," along with low-ranking Freemasons et al. have been and are being used as either red herrings or useful idiots).
It's like the monkey-doo moronic are being constantly taunted:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-law-of-the-land
How ironic that statue is.
I remember when I was in my mother's womb. I specifically remember seeing the living room of my mother's new house, it had metal blinds and a braided rug rolled up against the wall (my parents were moving in at that time). Everything I saw had a red tinge to it. Decades later I asked my mother about it and she said, yes, everything I saw was correct. How did I know? Another womb/soul story. I am a twin and my mother had us in the 60's when there was no sonograms or pictures of the babies, so she thought she was only having one child, because only one heartbeat was heard right up to birth. Lo and behold, here comes two! I once asked God why I was born a twin, and he said "so you won't be alone." He was right and good. My twin and I can rely on each other totally, even as other relationships come and go. God literally sent me a soul mate.
I really appreciate you sharing this, that was also very helpful for me to learn.
Consciousness is a red herring in my opinion. I am of the same mind regarding pests, but disagree on eating meat. A physicist convinced me that the purpose of all life is to reduce entropy and flows from the "laws" of the universe. Killing a pest is a waste of entropy reduction if that pest does not threaten higher level life. However, if we do not eat other animals, the entropy reduction is wasted when they die. The reason we don't eat people is our entropy reduction takes the form of glorifying the God of Life (e.g. creation and order outside of randomness), which no other animal can do, hence our special place.
Plus it is part of the food chain. Every living organism is a part of the food chain, with the exception of humans (hopefully). I eat meat although I am a staunch animal lover/protector. Plants are also among the living even though they supposedly don't have a consciousness. It's ok to eat them? I too do not kill pests unless it's a kill or be killed situation, which it never has been for me
Plants "scream" when you kill them. Something I remind my vegan friends.
It's about the honouring of life. Thank you for the energy you give to sustain me. May your tribe be blessed. (at least that's a shamanic sort of perspective, but could translate into many faiths)
Time for girls to realize that they are not in a movie, where everybody goes to bed with everyone else.
Making love must be preceded with love that both parties embrace, willing to take responsibility for themselves, each other, and accept the potential of new life springing from the relationship.
Life is not a game.
Doctor, you churn these out so fast. Do you ever sleep? Thanks for your work.
I started working on these once the draft report was leaked and I wanted to try and get them out once the ruling was released since I feel morality in medicine is an important topic and this was probably the best way to look at it.
That said I will take a bit of a pause now.
Oh my Lord you write long posts. You are testing my mental acuity. 😏
Let me begin by saying that you are an uncommonly kind person.
Watching world events unfold on our nightly TV news programs can lead us to believe that "our culture has a concerning deficiency in ethics and morality." However, I don't agree. I believe that these impressions are all manufactured by those in control of the media. Turn the TV off and look around you. People are ethical and moral. What you see in the media is mostly lies. Actors paid to riot, paid to protest, paid to hold up signs saying stupid things like, "I will aid and abet abortion" and others equally idiotic. Noone, in reality, thinks like that. They are lying to you. Some young women might get caught up in the furor but the rogue ones are paid.
I believe we are born knowing right from wrong and if we are fortunate, we have parents that instill these morals further in us but even if we don't, our intelligence requires us to be moral. Being moral and ethical is the biggest part of being human. It's as simple as that.
I agree with your assessment of sensitivity and specificity with regard to prescribing medication and medical procedures as being skewed toward favouring the highest profit margin of all players involved. Unfortunately that sounds all too common, repeated in industries across the globe ad infinitum.
As I have suggested before, with regard to the Roe v. Wade case, I would argue that it may have been a diversionary tactic by those in control to get attention off the vaccine injuries and other government bungling. They massage and control the masses through the intelligence agencies, military, government and media. 'All the world is a stage' is true.
In reality, I don't think any woman wants to have an abortion but bad choices sometimes makes it necessary. The woman then has to live with that choice for the rest of her life and despite what the media puts out there, noone takes that lightly.
As far as covid and lockdowns go, I must diverge from your theory again. I believe it happened in lockstep around the world for a reason. A small minority of those in control wanted it that way. It was choreographed and coordinated across the globe. Evil people decided the parameters and I would argue that questions of sensitivity and specificity were not even considered. ☹️ If they had been, we would be in a much better place now.
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/who-was-responsible-for-the-botched
Good article.
Profound and very sensitively handled. Running out of new superlatives here, AMWD. Bless you, times a million :D
Thank you!