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Jul 5, 2022Liked by Ben Tumin

Chessen was astute and more courageous than many people. It may take another epidemic like Zika to get these laws restored. I would hope not. But our public health infrastructures have been eviscerated. Those women who can will go underground, just like the respectable midwestern ladies of my mothers time, aided by their ministers and rabbis.

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Jul 1, 2022Liked by Ben Tumin

This seems a bit sanctimonious to me. Ablest language or not, about 50 percent of babies exposed to thalidomide during a critical period of gestation simply died of heart defects. Rubella caused heartbreaking neurological damage as well.

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Romans 7:6

But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

It's there throughout the new testament but

Like the disciples and the parables, when they received the holy spirit they they understood them.

Discuss with all nations

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