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In England, we could get clotted cream, oh my god - no food has ever tasted this good, and it is raw. And you can buy it anywhere, but off the farm hours old is the best.
If Europe can manage to provide safe raw dairy products to its large populations, and large cities, what does it say about America's food production abilities, that we can't?
For every nasty, weird thing in the Koran, it is in the bible as well .... In the beginning of this century American women would have been just as bad off, see the civil war widows, and the fall out - women had few options.
The bible hasn't changed, we have. Many Muslims are still living in a previous age.
Men have authority over women, for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient … and those you fear may be rebellious, admonish them to their couches, and beat them". (Quran, Women, verse 38)
And this means the same thing
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:21-31
1 - None of the drugs you will be injected with, are FDA approved for the purpose of making a woman super ovulate.
2 - This is an unregulated industry, and as such doesn't report side affects/or deaths caused by this procedure, i.e. your death certificate will not list hormone injects as the cause, but vaginal bleeding or some other mundane thing.
Stats are not kept on side effects, no matter what the clinics tell you, they don't know the percentage of women who have adverse reactions, neither does the federal government; they don't track unregulated industries - with large lobbies.
Personal antidote, a woman at my work was going through this, for herself (IVF) not to donate - her reaction at age 36 was to go from a normal person to a person with arthritis so bad, she will never straighten out her fingers again, or have a pain free day for the rest of her life, she is now on permanent disability.
If you are not doing for yourself why would you do this? The medical bills that result later in your life, when you have fertility or problems with your periods years from now will come out of your own pocket, and be more than the money you will make. Cancers that women get tend to be impacted by hormone levels in the body, and you mega dose on these for a month? And you don't think it is going to cause permanently change in your body?
This procedure should only be for women, who are doing this for their own infertility treatment. And willing to take any risk.
Personally, I wish the feds would step in since this is an off label use of restricted drugs (which is not really legal) the industry must stop super ovation, and go back to harvesting one egg per month - and stop this practice all together - but they are afraid of the out cry of well off 40 something, voting Americans who would be outraged. But the fact is this industry makes so much money, it could have paid for the studies for the use of these drugs in this fashion 15-20 years ago when they started using it, and it would be above board now, but of course then we would all know the real risk rates of the treatment - and hey, it might not get legalized.... hey maybe that’s why they never did it in the first place.
I'd love shirts to be sized by bra size,
if the shirt buttons over my bust, the sleeves are down to my finger tips, and the waist bellows out like a sail.
I'd love button shirts that fit!!! Oh, and after having kids, its only gotten worse. I end up buying highend t-shirts with silk blend, that are exceptable for work, since button shirts are right out.