Ellis Bray

If you are thinking of starting a fiction publication, do everyone including yourself a favor and do at least the minimum due diligence of doing your best to avoid copyright infringement by making sure the writers have granted you unambiguous permission to publish their work.

Tag urself, I’m the (4,3) CuNT

Unsplash has open source stock photography.

FAFSA has an opinion on noses in higher education.

CVS, who treats their employees like shit, took the photo of their CEO down but it’s very googleable

I was so worried I’d miss out on the footnote battles of academia. I’m so glad medicine has them too. 3/3

The authors respond w pure southern salt. “Bless your heart, your algorithm sounds perfect. We can’t wait to see you put it into practice under ideal circumstances. What’s that? No such thing? I guess we’d better leave this kinda thinking to the experts then.” 2/
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For tonight’s autistic rabbit hole, I discovered a letter in a medical journal, responding cattily to an article on emergency management of cauda equina syndrome. He medicsplains the paper to its authors, complete with “helpful hints”. 1/

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Turns out medicine is just culturally sanctioned witchcraft

That sounds amazing tbh. I think I can make something work like that with procreate. Lemme futz around with it.

“Science no”

SCIENCE YES

My autistic self-soothing technique is reading about medical pathologies. Since I just had a pulmonary function test, I fell down the pulmonary rabbit hole tonight. Where I found THIS JEWEL

❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much.

I love the focus too! I want to do more with that!

This is what 30.5 hours of effort looks like 😅. “Tea for 3.” Procreate

“After several minutes, the ringing in your ears returns to its background status and your eyes no longer hurt, though you still catch flashes of afterimages burned in your retinas whenever your focus shifts too suddenly.”

You get exactly where I’m coming from

It’s not great

I got into this adulthood thing bc I was promised SEXY crushing. Instead all I got was DEBT crushing. I want to speak to my manager 😡

I applaud your dedication to the damnation.

He’s not the greatest professor ngl. But he’s the *only* professor for the whole program. It’s an adapt or die situation 😂🫠

They are literally the villain Ferngully warned us about

There is no fetal rights without mother's rights, just as there is no infinity without zero. It's an ouroboros that focuses too much on when there are 2 people in the equation, and not enough on the wellbeing of the 1 person who is in the equation the longest (the mother).
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With regard to parental vs fetal rights, it falls into the same philosophical black hole that the idea of "zero" did during the Renaissance: the concept of zero encapsulates the idea of infinity. The concept of the mother's rights is engulfed by the idea of the fetus' rights.
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The ethical dilemma here lies in the Christian idea of "merit": has this person "earned" parenthood? If they're on public welfare, if they’re a single mother, if they’ve ever committed a crime or were born epileptic or have failed reproductive organs, then they don't "deserve" parenthood.
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Some of the ethical issues listed are simpler: should a person be allowed to have children? Do they have the ability to consent to having children? Would the children be in danger from them if they were allowed to conceive? Would anyone be directly harmed by them having children?
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And that's where the issues begin: what rights does a fetus have, intrinsically? At what point do those rights begin? When do they supersede the mother's rights? 
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The biggest issue with ethics in this particular chapter is that it doesn't delineate between the patient and the fetus in a meaningful manner. So when it references the rights of the patient, it tries to include the rights of the fetus.
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How about Magnesium Sulfate and what it feels like to get a 3rd degree sunburn from the inside out w/ the added risk of shitting yourself? Love me some morning sickness chat, too. You want to talk PPD? I got you. Let’s fall down the “pregnancy-safe psychotropic med” rabbit hole together! (5/)

It honestly sounds like I’m mansplaining the birthing process in class at this point but I’m so fucking fed up. Let me tell you IN GREAT DETAIL about the pubis symphysis and how it splits open to allow the baby’s skull to pass through the vagina. Not your style?(4/)

I’m so fucking done with this shit. Tiptoeing around things that have deeply impacted my life because it’s going to upset someone. And it’s going to upset them because half the class doesn’t know I’m trans, including the right-leaning professor, so I look like a White Man Having Loud Opinions. (3/)