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Louisiana indicts N.Y. doctor charged with prescribing abortion pills to Louisiana girl ; first criminal case of a doctor since Roe

Like the only hospital in a rural area of Nebraska, now closing due to cuts in Medicaid. Stuff like that. That one won't just impact people on Medicaid; it will affect everyone in that area needing medical care.

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There were no cuts to Medicaid.
Republicans in Congress pushed through the largest Medicaid cuts in history, a move advocates say will inevitably shrink services for people with disabilities across the nation.

The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly voted to approve almost $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid just before the Fourth of July holiday as part of a sweeping bill designed to make good on many of President Donald Trump’s domestic priorities. A similar scenario played out in the Senate just days prior.

No Democrats in either chamber voted for the measure, which President Donald Trump is expected to swiftly sign into law.


You think the hospital just closed for the fun of it, depriving the people of that county access to medical care? I don't think you're lying, but you need to pay attention to what the republican's own CBO is saying. Apparently, Trump's own advisors were telling him that Medicaid would not be cut, after which at least one republican congressman informed him that it was being cut. He's being isolated from the process now. They know he won't read it before signing it.
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Hot Button Issue: Can You Be Pro-Choice and Be a Christian?

You can trace the abortion rate from 1960 where it was around 0.01% and see it rise through the cultural revolutions. Interestingly the rate was 0.71% in 1969 and then jumped nearly 5% in 1970 around the time of the womens and sexual revolutions beginning in the 70;s after the civil rights movement.

In 71 the rate jumps to 12% and then jumps by a few % each year peaking at just over 30% by the end of the decade. It more or less stays that way through the 80s only dropping a couple of % by 1990. Then it slowly decreases to around 20% by 2013. It seems to have risen slightly since then to around 22%.

But still 20 or 22% compared to 0.01% in 1960. There will be some cavets as this would only be legal abortions. But still I think the social norm frowned upon abortion as taboo. Today its a right.

But its interesting that abortion tracks with social norms which is not necessarily about morality but civil rights.
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Darwinian evolution - still a theory in crisis.

Science is pragmatic.
Then treat it as such.
You were just complaining that it is pragmatic. Make up your mind.
Respect your calling, and treat it as a gift from God to be used for His glory.

Not against Him and His choices in creation. Biblical pilpul is not part of science.

Then it runs the risk of being wrong
If you were right, then the Sun would orbit the Earth, black people would have a genetic character making them fit to be the servants of white people, and lightning would be God tossing punishment at people he hates. All positions held by those who think the Bible contradicts science.

Much of science contradicts the YEC re-interpretations of the Bible.

No argument there, with the exception of your word "re-interpretations."
Show me where the Bible says black people are intellectually and spiritualy inferior to other people. That's the foundation of YEC. But that's not something God or science are responsible for.

It's just the racist blatherings of a founder of your new beliefs.
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Jesus claimed He came to fulfill the Law, Did He?

Agreed. . . but we're talking about the Decalogue
Yeah, The first commandment yes?
True - "abolish" does not mean "continue" and "pass away" does not mean "continues on".

Indeed - Jesus fulfilled the Law to "not take God's name in vain" Ex 20:7 perfectly.
He also fulfilled the Law to "Love your neighbor as yourself" Lev 19:8 fulfilled perfectly. Rom 13, Matt 22, ...
He also perfectly fulfilled (complied with) the Law to "honor your father and mother" Ex 20:12. Eph 6:1-3

Good thing "fulfill" does not mean "deleted"
And not deleted can mean finished...completed.
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Karoline Leavitt accuses CNN of 'encouraging violence' against agents for reports on new ICE tracking app

To entrap the people using the app. It’s seems the most likely reason why it’s suddenly being promoted on mainstream media as well as from the press secretary.
On now we have another victim. This is just going into which is the victim here.
All I know is no one around me is relying on CNN or any app they’re promoting for ICE alerts. It makes the whole thing very suspicious.
Plenty of suspicion on all sides.
Fortunately there’s enough resources out there that this one app isn’t necessary to avoid ICE raids or to alert others of them. Most groups have been doing fine without this app drawing attention to themselves.
Enough anti-law enforcement groups a plenty.
At this point it well be nothing more than repetition of both sides. So, I'm done.
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Louisiana indicts N.Y. doctor charged with prescribing abortion pills to Louisiana girl ; first criminal case of a doctor since Roe

Like the only hospital in a rural area of Nebraska, now closing due to cuts in Medicaid. Stuff like that. That one won't just impact people on Medicaid; it will affect everyone in that area needing medical care.

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There were no cuts to Medicaid. You are being lied to. And this clinic or whomever wrote this is lying too.
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Louisiana indicts N.Y. doctor charged with prescribing abortion pills to Louisiana girl ; first criminal case of a doctor since Roe

I don't think "they are all lying!" is going to be an adequate argument for you. That's what's in the bill that passed.


Not according to CBO...

Who would win and who would lose in Republicans' 'big, beautiful bill'

Businesses and higher-income households would be some of the biggest beneficiaries from tax cuts partly paid for with cuts to health insurance for lower-income households.

Trump now claims the (republican-supervised) Congressional Budget Office is lying.

"The Crooked Budget Office has a terrible record with its predictions and hasn’t earned the attention the media gives it."

C'mon.
Yes, many are lying because they are making false claims. The rich are NOT receiving the highest tax cuts. Those that claim they are, are lying flat out.

And there is absolutely NOTHING in the bill that says anything about tax cuts being paid for by cuts to health insurance. Thats another lie.

There are no cuts to Medicaid.
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Christian "Apostasy" =unpardonable sin doctrine supposed to learn at young age

Well, first of all Jesus isn't going to tell us we must have good fruit without giving us some idea of what that means-and Scripture does just that. Putting to the death the deeds of the flesh, washing one's robes, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, taking care of one's neighbor, obeying the commandments, healing the sick, being holy, forgiving each other, visiting those in prison, preaching and spreading the good news, loving God and neighbor, etc. will posit to you that most Christians will have good fruit simply because of the grace received.
We agree on most everything except the sticky points of faith alone vs faith plus works. The works that you cite here are great works, however, all of them lend themselves to boasting. The old “look what I can do” problem. You see it in your church and I see it in mine. God is the only one that can see into our hearts so we, as Christians, can‘t make the determination of who has good works and who doesn’t. This is why Paul tells us in Ephesians 2 (you knew this was coming):

“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭8‬-‭10‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

So then, If the works are from God and prepared before hand and is not in the salvation formula of verse 8, then this refer to the works we do post salvation. Do you disagree?
We have to participate in God's work of santfiiction. Love is the real product there; that's what true holiness is. And love, necessarily, is a choice, a choice to receive that gift, and act upon it. Likewise with the gifts of faith and hope. We have to participate from the beginning, in fact, even as grace necessarily precedes that participation as it first prompts and moves and draws us to respond. Again, God has never been looking to produce automatons. He could've just done that at the beginning. Christians, IOW, can fall away.
In light of your comment here that Christians can fall away, how would you interpret the following verses.

“Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me. But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep. My sheep listen to My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.””
‭‭John‬ ‭10‬:‭25‬-‭30‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬
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Darwinian evolution - still a theory in crisis.

I think we can have fairly high confidence in the human intellect even though it's development was driven by specifically evolutionary pressures focused on reproduction. Here is my reasoning: it seems eminently reasonable to assumed that mental machinery that is evolved to help us make enough sense of the world to survive and reproduce, also has broader application. Loosely stated, developing the capacity solve problems related to survival in mating may have secondary benefits for solving other categories of problems.
Problem solving alone isn't sufficient, the issue is whether or not selection pressures would lead to conforming to reality or lead to specialized distortions that increase breeding fitness. Reality-reflection and truth-finding don't necessarily improve fitness, in a number of different ways. So what we would actually expect is highly specialized reasoning abilities that serve a specific reproductive function, and not global truth-finding or reality-reflecting functions. And as I said, this isn't an entirely hypothetical issue as there have been simulations run that confirm the objection.
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