Most Rapes Are Provoked by Women

 There are millions of people allover the world who has been victims of rape. Rape is so traumatic that all rape victims suffer some degree of posttraumatic stress disorder from the experience.

 It is easy to think that a man always subjects rape to a woman but this assumption is false. There are millions of men who have been raped by other men and by women. I happened to interview a patient recently who was rapped multiple times by multiple gangs of over 20 men each in jail in Texas.  Describing his story in this post might be traumatic to many in public but I can do so if I get more than 20 requests to give the rape story he gave on an interview.

 But those are extreme cases where the victim is helpless and in the mercy of the rape gangs that no man can fight. In a lot of cases, rapes are directed to women more than they are directed to men.

 What provokes a rape though is most of the time avoidable only if one knows that they are being targeted. While we cannot ignore rapes by sexual offenders, there are a lot of rapes out there that are women provoked.

 In an interview with a mentally sick patient related to rape posttraumatic disorder, the victim confessed how she went to a community swimming pool every evening in summer to cool down and have fun in long summer evenings. Everyone deserves freedom to do what he or she wants but the rapist who raped this victim was living in an apartment facing the swimming pool. He was watching this girl every day in the pool and basking alone almost naked in swimsuits.

 It is said that one of the main difference between human beings and animals is that human beings can control themselves and make decisions that are acceptable. We have free will and drive and we can control our actions, unlike animals that act on instincts rather than thoughts.

 Having said this, I think we should not be fooled by the freedom we have to do what we want. Women should realize that they attract men naturally and wearing extra sexy and provoking outfits could be provoking a life long trauma in their lives.

 In the USA constitution, women can wear what they want even in public so long as it is not exposing their private parts and breast nipples. But while the law can enforce serious repercussion to anyone harming a woman with an excuse of their outfit as the provoking factor, your cost of being rapped is not worth it.

 Even if the rapist will be shot dead, you will never forget an event of rape. I would suggest that you keep yourself safe all the time. If you must go swimming almost naked in a public swimming pool, take someone with you who could safe you from the rod of a rapist.

 Having said this, I think women can do a great job reducing the number of rapes that happen globally every year. While most of the rape victims are innocent and had not done anything provocative, while a human being should be accountable and should suffer the consequences of their actions, we should not ignore the provoked rapes that could have been otherwise prevented.

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Stem Cell Research Using Human Embryos is Acceptable

The undifferentiated cells of a human embryo often referred to as “stem cells” hold limitless promise for medical research. Theoretically, such cells could cure diseases like leukemia, treat diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, and repair the nerve systems of quadriplegics patients. While stem cell research is not equal to abortion, abortion opponents, however, are attempting to ban stem cell research on the grounds that it is unethical. Liberals like president Barack Obama believes that stem cell research should be perused to get remedies to diseases no one has ever been able to treat in the past. There is no reason to object to research conducted on a being that has no brain, consciousness, preferences of any kind, or capacity for suffering. 

When a human embryo consists of not more than 64 cells, its cells are, like a young dog, able to learn new tricks and can assume any body function they are taught to. If injected into a diseased kidney, they take on many of the properties of ordinary kidney cells, and may help the kidney to perform its normal function to patients who have been undergoing renal dialysis. This seems to hold for any organ, even any kind of cell. This is exciting medical researchers, because it means that, at least in theory, the cells from an early embryo could cure cancers like leukemia, enable people with diabetes to manufacture insulin, treat Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, and repair the neural diseases like LouGherig’s disease and repair nerves in quadriplegics. 

Opponents of stem sell research are often infertile and internalize the pain of wanting to have a baby but cant have one in to scientific breakthroughs. Other opponents have never had diseases that stem cell research could cure or have never lost a dear young mother to a disease like Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or a young son to Leukemia. 

But medical researchers aren’t the only ones excited by the prospects of using embryo stem cells. In the United States, 70 members of Congress have opposed a proposal from the National Institutes of Health, the major government funding body for medical research, to sponsor work using human stem cells. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops has been lobbying the Congress to prevent the use of federal money for the research, and when a coalition called Patients’ Cure began to campaign for embryo stem cell research, some sponsors of American Cancer Society threatened to withdraw their support. The American Cancer Society withdrew its support from Patients’ Cure to retain its sponsors. 

64 Cells Cannot Suffer 

Research on embryos should be prohibited if there is any possibility that the embryo is capable of suffering—but no one would argue that an embryo consisting of 64 cells could be capable of suffering. We are talking about a few dozen cells here, not any differentiated cells.  A developed brain and nervous system is a pre-requisite for a capacity to suffer. Apart from belief in immortal souls, it is sheer species-bias that makes scientific advancement that would benefit us all impossible. Give stem cell research a chance and change the way the world suffers today.

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Heroin Abuse and Addiction

Heroin Abuse and Addiction 

Heroin is a powerful narcotic drug commonly found on the streets that can be injected, smoked, or inhaled. Parents fear this drug is making a comeback among teens. We are going to look at how heroine affects the body and brain. This article is in reference to an article produced by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a federal government agency. 

Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug narcotic. It is both the most abused narcotic opiate and the most rapidly acting of all opiates. Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seedpod of certain varieties of poppy plants.

Heroin is typically sold as a white or brownish powder or as the black sticky substance known on the streets as “black tar heroin” Although more pure heroin is becoming more common on the streets, most street heroin is “cut” with other drugs or with substances such as sugar, starch, powdered milk, or quinine. Note that Quinine is another pharmaceutical drug used as anti-malarial. 

Street heroin can also be cut with strychnine or other poisons. Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at risk of overdose or/and eventual death. Heroin also poses special problems because of the transmission of HIV and other blood borne diseases that can occur from sharing needles or other injection equipment. 

Heroin routes of consumption are either through injection, sniffing or snoring. Due to it’s high addiction, most women have reported that they first started heroine when another person (usually a man) blew it through their mouth as a kiss. Typically, a heroin abuser may inject up to four times a day. Intravenous injection provides the greatest intensity and most rapid onset of euphoria (7 to 8 seconds), while intra-muscular injection produces a relatively slow onset of euphoria (5 to 8 minutes).  This is the case with all drugs that are injectable either in the veins or in the muscles. When heroin is sniffed or smoked, peak effects are usually felt within 10 to 15 minutes. Although smoking and sniffing heroin do not produce a “rush” as quickly or as intensely as intravenous injection, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) researchers have confirmed that all three forms of heroin administration are addictive. 

Since injections bypasses toxins filter (liver), the effect is quicker and more profound. Injection continues to be the predominant method of heroin use among addicted users seeking treatment; however, researchers have observed a shift in heroin use patterns, from injection to sniffing and smoking. In fact, sniffing/snorting heroin is now a widely reported means of taking heroin among users admitted for drug treatment in drug rehab centers all over America. 

With the shift in heroin abuse patterns comes an even more diverse group of dangerous users. The reason these abusers are dangerous is because they can influence teenagers almost 100% of the times. Older users (over 30) continue to be one of the largest user groups in most national data. However, several sources indicate an increase in new, young users across the country who are being lured by cheap, high-purity heroin that can be sniffed or smoked instead of injected. Heroin has also been appearing in more affluent communities across America.