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"Brain-dead gestators are feminist, actually" The flip side of claiming only our minds make us human Mary Harrington Why shouldn’t we gestate human babies in the bodies of brain-dead women? Bioethicist Anna Smajdor poses this question in a  paper  published last November in the journal  Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.  Smajdor suggests that provided - she is keen to emphasise - the brain-dead individual previously granted consent, their bodies should be available for “gestational donation”. Furthermore, procuring a baby in this way “should be an option for anyone who wishes to avoid the risks and burdens of gestating a foetus in their own body”. And, she suggests, the bodies of men might theoretically also be induced to gestate. This, we are to be reassured, would resolve feminist objections to a scenario that might otherwise be strongly redolent of every feminist worst nightmare: reducing women, quite literally, to our function as ‘gestators’. Smajdor is right to suggest

"Detection of Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Human Breast Milk" Old 'Misinformation' is Cutting-Edge News And Deemed Acceptable When Properly Doctored Dr. Byram W. Bridle (Note: this article should be read with an understanding that I have injected a healthy dose of sarcasm.) A New Study Results of a small research study were published yesterday in the very high-impact medical journal called  JAMA Pediatrics  (JAMA stands for ‘ Journal of the American Medical Association ’). Unfortunately, the paper was not published as an ‘open access’ article, which means that most members of the public will not be able to easily obtain a copy of it. However, if you have a friend in academia, they might be able to get you a copy from this  link . Here is the full citation:  Detection of Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Human Breast Milk. Hanna N, et al. JAMA Pediatr. 2022. PMID: 36156636 COVID Chronicles is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my wo