Lady Mizra

afamilyofgalaxies:

I couldn’t agree more!!

getbentcomic:

Probably one of the best Get Bent strips that ran. 

ariadnespants:

Elrond is way too into swords.

feminishblog:

fuckyeahwomenprotesting2:

righttochoose:

girlswithvoices:

provoice:

the-ick-vault:

I don’t understand - help me.

When did abortion become something to be proud of, to celebrate, and to venerate with symbolism?

It’s not about pride - it’s about erasing the negative stigma around having an abortion. 1 in 3 women* will have an abortion - it’s okay to speak up about it!

^^ Yes. There’s nothing wrong with being proud about your abortion. Whether you shout it from the roof tops are never tell anyone it’s your story, you shouldn’t feel shamed by stigma.

^^^ yes! It is not ABOUT pride, it is about telling the world there is nothing to be ashamed of. It is telling the world you can feel however you damn well please! 1 in 3 women. Yet how many do you know who are public about it? Women are afraid to speak, and that needs to change.

Honestly I think these women should be proud. They made a difficult choice and are standing beside it and they more then deserve to feel proud of it. Speaking out about having abortion is hard and in some cases dangerous and can cost you a lot. 

Might I also add that “coming out” like this is brave as fuck.

why shouldn’t you be proud of making the right desicion for YOU.  These women should be proud, not only for making a desicion about their health, family, and welfare, they didn;t let society shame them into a corner.  Getting an abortion should be no more shameful than  getting a tooth pulled.

death-by-lulz:

hyperbolic-time-chamber:

There’s a lot to discuss here

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scinerds:

Scientists Report First Success in Cloning Human Stem Cells

It’s been 17 years since Dolly the sheep was cloned from a mammary cell. And now scientists applied the same technique to make the first embryonic stem cell lines from human skin cells.

Ever since Ian Wilmut, an unassuming embryologist working at the Roslin Institute just outside of Edinburgh stunned the world by cloning the first mammal, Dolly, scientists have been asking – could humans be cloned in the same way? Putting aside the ethical challenges the question raised, the query turned out to involve more wishful thinking than scientific success. Despite the fact that dozens of other species have been cloned using the technique, called nuclear transfer, human cells have remained stubbornly resistant to the process.

Until now. Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a professor at Oregon Health & Science University and his colleagues report in the journal Cell that they have successfully reprogrammed human skin cells back to their embryonic state. The purpose of the study, however, was not to generate human clones but to produce lines of embryonic stem cells. These can develop into muscle, nerve, or other cells that make up the body’s tissues. The process, he says, took only a few months, a surprisingly short period to reach such an important milestone.

Nuclear transfer involves inserting a fully developed cell – in Mitalipov’s study, the cells came from the skin of fetuses – into the nucleus of an egg, and then manipulating the egg to start dividing, a process that normally only occurs after it has been fertilized by a sperm. After several days, the ball of cells that results contains a blanket of embryonic stem cells endowed with the genetic material of the donor skin cell, which have the ability to generate every cell type from that donor. In Dolly’s case, those cells were allowed to continue developing into an embryo that was then transferred to a ewe to produce a cloned sheep. But Mitalipov says his process with the human cells isn’t designed to generate a human clone, but rather just to create the embryonic stem cells. These could then be manipulated to create heart, nerve or other cells that can repair or treat disease.

“I think this is a really important advance,” says Dieter Egli, an investigator at the New York Stem Cell Foundation. “I have a very high confidence that versions of this technique will work very well; it’s something that the field has been waiting for.” Egli is among the handful of scientists who have been working to perfect the technique with human cells and in 2011, succeeded in producing human stem cells, but with double the number of chromosomes. In 2004, Woo Suk Hwang, a veterinary scientist at Seoul National University, claimed to have succeeded in achieving the feat, but later admitted to faking the data. Instead of generating embryonic stem cell lines via nuclear transfer, Hwang’s group produced the stem cells from days-old embryos, a technique that had already been established by James Thomson at University of Wisconsin in 1998.

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cantevenhandlethefeels:

Oh sweet lord… XD

omg so unexpected so funny

wtf with the sexy pose people?

new-ways-to-complain:

conservativegirlonpolitics:

That was the most informative thing I have ever been told by a duck

And I have been told a lot of things by ducks.

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