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britt_is_questioning t1_jdmyggo wrote

Nothing! For 6 mos. I thought Chifa meant Chinese food. Then a owner told us the story and history. I was amazed, I honestly couldn't tell the difference. Maybe nowadays they can get a larger amount of ingredients. Maybe if we had eaten Chifa 100 years ago we could notice.

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somdude04 t1_jdmx187 wrote

Much cooler. The heat of vaporization of water is 5.4x the calories to take the water from 0 C to 100 C. It's even a good multiple of the enthalpy of fusion. Most of the water would freeze if it stays in one place. I think it'd be roughly -50 C, based on some videos I looked up about vacuum chambers.

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Sam-Gunn t1_jdmwt3p wrote

>You cant "abort" something that doesnt even have a chance to start.

Tell that to the legislators in certain states. They are uninformed about things like this and often do not distinguish between valid pregnancies and ones that are life threatening to the mother and would never result in a valid pregnancy. Or things like empty sac which often used medicine to expel it (which uses the combination of medications that are being challenged legally, including one case in Texas that is attempting to remove the FDA's ruling on one of them).

For instance:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/29/ohio-extreme-abortion-bill-reimplant-ectopic-pregnancy

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ThaLegendaryCat t1_jdmwf9d wrote

probably one of the most evolutionarily sucessful organisms on the planet. Or atleast high on the list considering that its practically universal in large parts of the tree of life .

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mittenknittin t1_jdmveh2 wrote

To the extent that it grows from resources provided by the mother’s body, sure. But the coded instructions, so to speak, for growing the placenta, come from the fetus.

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j0rmungund t1_jdmv06o wrote

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JohnWickThickStick t1_jdmuft8 wrote

Its not an abortion to get rid of ectopic (completely not viable in any way) pregnancies. Mayo clinic and the vast majority of doctors agree. Thankfully only 1-2% of pregnancies end up that way; in an ideal world it obviously wouldnt.

You cant "abort" something that doesnt even have a chance to start. I have gone through two different ectopic pregnancies with my SO.

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