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​Blondie was formed in New York City in 1974. The group was co-founded by vocalist Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein, who were later joined by drummer Clem Burke, keyboardist Jimmy Destri, and bassist Gary Valentine. They initially gained recognition in the underground music scene, performing at iconic venues such as CBGB. ​ The band’s self-titled debut album, released in 1976, showcased their eclectic style but achieved modest commercial success. Their second album, “Plastic Letters” (1978), featured the single “Denis,” which reached number two on the UK Singles Chart, marking their first major breakthrough. However, it was their third album, “Parallel The post Complete List Of Blondie Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

The number of human beings living in freezers in the United States now outnumbers the population of Dallas, Texas. “Estimates place the number of frozen embryos at greater than 1.5 million,” reported the March 2022 edition of Fertility and Sterility, a journal published by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. According to the latest Census Bureau estimate, Dallas had a population of 1,302,868 in 2023. How did all these human beings—conceived in the United States of America—end up locked in freezers? The ASRM has published a booklet explaining in vitro fertilization and why it results in human beings being frozen. “IVF is a method of assisted reproduction in which a man’s sperm and a woman’s eggs are combined outside of the body in a laboratory dish,” says the ASRM booklet. “One or more fertilized eggs (embryos) may be transferred into the women’s uterus, where they may implant in the uterine lining and develop,” it says. “Excess embryos may be cryopreserved (frozen) for future use.” These embryos created outside the womb for implantation in a mother—or for freezing—can undergo genetic testing before their fate is determined. “Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a form of prenatal diagnosis that is performed on early embryos created by in vitro fertilization,” explains an article published in 2014 by the Journal of Clinical Medicine. This procedure can be used for eugenic purposes. “It is solely a diagnostic procedure that can identify whether a specific embryo carries a single gene disorder for which the couple is at-risk or a chromosome abnormality that could lead to either failed implantation, subsequent miscarriage, or the birth of a child with physical and/or developmental disability,” the journal article says. “This information is used by the couple and their physicians to make decisions on which embryo(s) should be transferred to the uterus and will with high likelihood result in a normal pregnancy,” it says. “The greater the number of embryos created, the greater the chance that genetically normal embryos can be identified,” says the journal article. “The level of selection is that of choosing which embryos can be transferred in a fresh IVF cycle or cryopreserved for future use, versus those predicted to be affected with an abnormality.” The procedure can also be used to select the sex of the human being who is allowed to move forward in life rather than move to a freezer. “PGD can be used to select the sex of an embryo, either to avoid a genetic disease in males caused by a mutation on the X chromosome (X-linked disease) or simply to satisfy the gender preference of the future parents,” explains the article in the Journal of Clinical Medicine. “When PGD for sex selection is done in the absence of medical indications, it is often referred to as ‘non-medical sex selection’ or ‘social sexing,’” says the journal. “According to the survey, 42% of IVF clinics have provided PGD for non-medical sex selection.” The Daily Mail reported in 2012 that in Great Britain, as of that year, “[m]ore than 1.7 million embryos prepared with the aim of helping women become pregnant have been thrown away since records began 21 years ago.” It is not science fiction to assume that medical science will someday—and, perhaps, in the not-too-distant future—develop the technology to not only conceive a child in a laboratory dish but then gestate those who are deemed genetically desirable all the way to viability in an artificial womb. In a nation that ignores the natural law, the procreation of children could be completely divorced from the traditional family. On Feb. 18, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to promote IVF. “[I]t is the policy of my Administration to ensure reliable access to IVF treatment, including by easing unnecessary statutory or regulatory burdens to make IVF treatment drastically more affordable,” he said in this order. “Within 90 days of the date of this order,” he said, “the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy shall submit to the President a list of policy recommendations on protecting IVF access and aggressively reducing out-of-pocket and health plan costs for IVF treatment.” This executive order said nothing about preventing IVF from being used for sex selection or eugenics. Nor did it say anything about preventing human embryos from being discarded or stored away in freezers. The Declaration of Independence said that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” IVF, which does not treat human lives equally and does not respect every human being’s right to life, violates this principle. Trump’s policy to promote IVF is wrong. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Humans Must Not Be Sex-Selected, Frozen, or Discarded appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Blind Leading the Blind: Sunday Reflection

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The first time the words “male” and “female” appear in scripture is on page one. God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth” (Genesis 1:26).God would make image-bearers, and they would exercise dominion over the creation he had made. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27).We are embodied creatures because bodies matter — and bodies matter because God made them.Then God blessed his image-bearers and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Genesis 1:28).God made Adam and Eve as embodied creatures (Genesis 2:7, 22-23), and their embodiment had a sexual design because they were capable of procreation. Their maleness and femaleness were not separate from biology but were clarified by it.Now, of course, in a Genesis 3 world, not every male will father a child, and not every female will deliver one. Reasons for this abound. Nevertheless, we must notice that in Genesis 1:26-28, maleness and femaleness involve sexual complementarity. Moreover, God had told the man, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him” (Genesis 2:18).God created male and female, and this design was good, complementary, and pre-fall. We know that God’s design is relevant post-fall as well. When Jesus taught about marriage and divorce, he said, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate” (Matthew 19:4-6).In Jesus’ words about marriage and divorce, we can discern the echoes of Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 2:24. One takeaway for post-Eden image-bearers is that God’s good design remains relevant and instructive for our good and for human flourishing.We can deduce from the embodiment of God’s image-bearers in Genesis 2 that their physical bodies were not dispensable — or extraneous — to their existence. In other words, Adam and Eve were not created as bodiless souls that were later given physical frames. They took the breath of life as embodied creatures, and their bodies were good. The man’s maleness was evident by his body, and the woman’s femaleness was evident by hers.We live in an era marked by tremendous and heartbreaking confusion about the biological and theological realities of maleness and femaleness. Biological facts are no longer pervasively considered to indicate whether you are a man or a woman. Rather than a person’s body being understood as an objective clarifier of one’s gender identity, the body is sometimes viewed as the problem for a person’s subjective perception of who they are.When natural and special revelation — in this case, biology and the Bible — are ignored in the understanding of human identity, the result is a pursuit against reality itself and a defiance against God himself. Such defiance will cause havoc, inhibit human flourishing, and calcify consciences. This will not end well.God created male and female, boys and girls, men and women. Our bodies are not opposed to our identities but rather, give objective and biological clarification to who we are. We are not bodiless image-bearers. We are embodied creatures because bodies matter. And bodies matter because God made them.This essay was originally published at Dr. Mitchell Chase's Substack, Biblical Theology.

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