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A home birth is like riding your bike without a helmet, or riding in a car without a seabelt.  You may get away with it a 100 or a 1,000 times, but at some point disaster will strike.  Why take the chance with a human life?  It seems a selfish act, bordering on child abuse or child endangerment.

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the catcher in the rye and one flew over the cuckoo's nest are classics.

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Why are a few religious bigots allowed to dictate policy to a whole community?  It is time good people stood up to the evil of religious ignorance.  It is clear that a religious minority has bullied the school district.

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I wonder if abstinence only sex ed has anything to do w/ the rise in teen pregnancies.

What kind of sex ed, health and family, or parenting classes did these teens receive?

thank you

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anything about dogs would be great - breed bans (e.g. pit bulls) is always controversial. I would enjoy a show about the behavior and mental life of the family dog.

posted 4 years, 10 months ago
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