Does the potential father have a legal voice in the decision?

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The father is legally responsible for financial support if the child is born.

"to me it's more of a mental health story"

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Has she been diagnosed with anything?

When men start getting pregnant, then you'll have a talking point.

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In the totality of the texts, we find an Earth that has been destroyed and recreated several times, last time by water, next time, they say, by fire.

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The Matrix has you, Neo.

3 cheers for Obama! He stopped Hillary!

Somebody in IT is in trouble. Being in healthcare IT, just wait until all doctors are paperless with electronic medical records.

Hey DNC, if the guy who won the award himself doesn't think he deserves it, that should clue you in.

"the security that you won't have to live in fear of disease and violence without hope for the future"

I can't believe he seriously said that.

"...this prize reflects a kind of world that those men and women (previous Nobel winners) and all Americans want to build. A world that gives life to the promise of our founding documents"

That's interesting...

The circus continues...

I don't like carnies. Small hands. Smell like cabbage.

Basically, I don't deserve it but I'm accepting it anyway for the little guy.

I see the right wing is in panic mode to deligtimize this award. Rather than being proud for our nation, it's they go on the attack.

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When the award is given out in this manner, it's already becoming delegitimized.

By the way, this Italian scientist got the order wrong. The blood was on the original shroud first and the image second. The Italian scientist put the image first and the blood second.

*sigh*

They didn't know the Shroud had been "reworked" up until then.

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They being the scientists.

Radio carbon dating carried out in 1988 was performed on an area of the relic that was repaired in the 16th century, according to Ray Rogers, who helped lead the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STRP).

At the time he argued firmly that the shroud, which bears a Christlike image, was a clever forgery.

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"But now I am coming to the conclusion that it has a very good chance of being the piece of cloth that was used to bury the historic Jesus."

It was done and therefore the shroud now has the burden to prove it's authenticity. If the church is soooo open to it being tested then why won't they let scientist come in and test it?

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The majority of research on the shroud proves its authenticity. The only thing that doesn't is the carbon dating. The sample used was from a rewoven patch and is not representative of the rest of the shroud. Thus, the middle ages date is not accurate.

Further carbon dating might not be possible because of contamination and cleaning from a restoration of a shroud that has happened in the past few years.

To prove the shroud could have been produced using technology available at the time. It was successful.

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Not unless the reproduction has stood up to all the tests the original has. The same thing was said about the Shadow Shroud reproduction about 4 years ago.

Making one that "looks" like the original is just scratching the surface.

I'll assume the scientist knows this and that the writer was a little too enthused

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That's the problem with these "reproductions" and the reporting of them. They don't know much about the original.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 15 [2008] In his presentation today at The Ohio State University's Blackwell Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) chemist, Robert Villarreal, disclosed startling new findings proving that the sample of material used in 1988 to Carbon-14 (C-14) date the Shroud of Turin, which categorized the cloth as a medieval fake, could not have been from the original linen cloth because it was cotton.

Not to mention that the carbon dating can be thrown out the window now since the sample was from a reweave.

The Shroud has been "reproduced" many times (ie, Shadow Shroud around 2004 or 2005).

Has this shroud "reproduced" the same chemical attributes?

I wonder if the recent beating mob death of a 16 year old kid in Chicago had anything to do with it.

It's just one cause of conflict, to be sure. A fairly big one, though.

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Like that can be quantified?

public school classrooms shouldn't be used to sing the praises of any sitting (or recent) political figure, whether Bush or Obama or anyone else.