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The two swords of a peaceful and just society; Reps. Petterson and Luna embarrass women everywhere; Andrew Jackson, and more!
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The two swords of a peaceful and just society; Reps. Petterson and Luna embarrass women everywhere; Andrew Jackson, and more!

Phil and Leila have been talking to each other for almost 50 years and it's still piquant!

Show Notes:

“Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Brittany Pettersen (D-CO), both new mothers, spoke against a House rules package provision to block Rep. Luna's discharge petition to bring to the floor a bill she co-sponsored with Rep. Pettersen that would allow new parents in Congress to vote by proxy.”

For next week, you might want to read these long pieces in the New York Times about IVF (they are unlocked as of this posting):

This baby was carefully selected as an embryo

“Sex is for fun, and embryo screening is for babies,” she said in a video she shared on X.

“The testing was meant to look at intellectual disability, not intellectual ability,” Nathan Treff, Genomic Prediction’s chief scientific officer and one of its founders, told me, disputing the idea that parents were looking for supersmart embryos. Intellectual disability, he stressed, is “a medical condition,” and he did not rule out one day offering screening for it again.

— and This vial is made to hold human embryos

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