Tag: pregnancy termination

• The Bicameral Mind

  Time to unwrap the Jeremiad again, I’m afraid; I’m getting tired of this. Really tired. I know it’s an American thing, but stop it will you? Or can you? Every time there’s a bicameral shift it tears the fabric a little more and unravels what I want to believe about your country. Yes, I’m Canadian […]

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  January 25, 2017

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  Aesop’s Fables, bicameral system of government, Canada, family planning, federal defunding, gynaecological convention, Heaven, Hell, Jeremiad, mailboxes, opinions, pregnancy termination, USA, women’s rights

• Medicine and Ideology

  Some things are more definitive than others –less ambiguous, more predictable. Reliable, in other words. They lend themselves to yes-no answers, right-wrong judgements, good-bad characteristics. And some people prefer to see the world in black and white like this. Uncertainty is uncomfortable for them; they crave cognitive closure in the opinion of Arie Kruglanski, a […]

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  October 15, 2014

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  abortion, Arie Kruglanski, Canadian Medical Association Journal, cognitive closure, dogma, Ideology, medicine, politics, pregnancy termination, Relational autonomy, State laws, transition, ultrasound