Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Dementia, Alzheimer’s, memory loss, confusion, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) — whatever it is, I hate it.
I hate what it does to anyone, be it someone I know and love or be it a total stranger (whom I should also love).
Some days I even pray against it in a specific person or two. Read it all
Well, Congress, anyway. 🙄
Still, this is pretty funny.
And telling.
Of how the language continues to suffer twisting.
And of how words yield so easily to…ah…something.
Like vegetables. Read it all
Amid the negativity all around us, some rays of cheer and good news…
Erika Jenkins was riding her bike home when she noticed an elderly woman walking alone, eastbound on Main Street, carrying a framed picture. Her own ears were freezing, but Jenkins noticed the woman wore only sweatpants, shoes and a long-sleeved shirt, with no jacket to shield her from the cold. Read it all
Up the road a few miles from us, the Canby School Board must vote on a student proposal.
(My question is, “Why?” But that’s not the point here.)
One of the seniors behind this said the proposal met with community resistance, “Just because mum is the word when it comes to sex.” Read it all
I hope that banana I just ate does me some good.
Dear (desperate?) Mother-in-Waiting,
Please. Don’t do this to yourself:
Study finds abortion raises risk of mental health problems by 81%
Researchers behind a new study on abortion have discovered that women who have abortions experience an astonishing 81% increase in the risk of mental health problems.
Published in the prestigious British Journal of Psychiatry, the ground breaking paper also found that almost 10% of all mental health problems are shown to be directly linked to abortion.
The analysis, conducted by Priscilla K. Coleman from Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA, is the largest study of its kind and is based on 22 published studies, with a combined number of participants totalling over 850,000.
The results also revealed that the increased risk for anxiety disorders was 34%; for depression it was 37%; for alcohol abuse it was 110%, for marijuana use it was 220%, and for suicide behaviours it was 155%.
The fetus within you is different than an organ or a mere growth. (Removing the cyst on my jaw wouldn’t have such mental health risks associated with it.)
I know. I can talk. I’m a man. And if I were a woman, I’m not in your shoes.
But right is right, not because of who we are, but because God is.
May you know Him near.
Sincerely,
Mark
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