When I was a boy, my grandmother was into “Ancient Aliens”, talked about Edgar Cayce’s sleeping prophecies and the Akashic Records “spiritual library that contains a record of all events, thoughts, feelings, and actions that have ever happened.”, etc She didn’t “believe believe” but she was open minded. Got me into science fiction and spooky TV shows. One of my favorites was “In Search Of…” with Leonard Nimoy. Great show. Talked about the killer bees that would enter the USA by the early 2000s. And turns out I was runnning an animal removal service with my brother and around 2009 I went with him on a job for bees in Everglades City. [I rarely ever went with him on jobs as I’m owner so I don’t have to] They were so vicious they came right after us and we had to dive into the truck as they crashed into the truck like hail. Thousands and thousands of angry Killer bees swarming around. It took 15 minutes for them to give up, we got out and sprayed the hell out of the hives and ran back in the truck and left. Since then, as they travelled north, the killer bees mated with the local population and created “irritated local/killer hybrid bees” which is as close to neutralized as we’re gonna get . So Leonard Nimoy was right. But I doubt Edgar Cayce nor was erich von daniken, as fun as it was to read as a boy and see many years later in X-Files, etc.

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You’ve probably never heard of Clarinex, even though it existed for a time. I worked for Schering-Plough pharmaceuticals for a few years. They created Claritin, a very successful anti-histamine that was very very weak which made it low-allergy and widely prescribed. It had a 7 year patent which was running out when I was hired. So what the clever evil scientists did there was see if they would turn a “left-handed molecule” (spiral is left turning) into a “right-handed molecule” and if it would have the same effects. Sometimes right-handed molecules are not biologically compatible or have different effects. But in this case, it worked. Passed through theoretical, animal and human trials and it was approved to market. The reason they went through all those millions of $$ to make Clarinex to replace Claritin? Claritin was about to go off-patent and be made available for genetic use, which was a huge loss coming. So they tried to steer doctors to prescribe Clarinex as a replacement so they could get ANOTHER 7 years of patent protected formula, HOPING that the similarity to the CLARITIN molecule would make the FDA willing to hide the Claritin patent AS WELL, even though it was going to go off patent. Well, lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit for years, and in the end, Schering-Plough had to give up the formula and patent for Clartin and Clarinex. Their ploy failed. Now, I was working there from around 1999-2002 era. The lawsuits with Schering-Plough went on for several years by other companies suing, and they were suing the FDA – and everybody was suing everybody. In 2009, Schering-Plough merged with Merck and vanished as an entity, somehow resolving a lot of these issues in the process that they’d lost. I don’t know where Hunter Biden laptop story plays in for you here, but the world of patent litigation and FDA approval process is nasty nasty nasty business.

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I’ll start at the top: There’s shells within which we live: World, World Authority, State, State Authority. Age of Majority is when you are A PERSON. All the rights of a human being belong to you. Most States it’s 18, some it’s 20, some younger. 18+ = MAJOR But what are you when you are under 18? You are a MINOR. MINOR rights are different than MAJOR rights. The UN did the Declaration of the Rights of a Child, although that’s optional and carries no real weight, so the rights of minors differ depending what State (country/nation but I’m calling them all State) you’re in. Legally a minor is INFANT. We’re nice and grant extra rights here and there up to the age of MAJORITY, but ultimately, INFANT. INFANTICIDE is illegal in almost every State in the world, although some are lax about it but generally illegal and various forms of murder punishment often come in. So now we’re at BIRTH. It is only AFTER Birth that we have an INFANT, which is a Minor to the age of Majority. So what is it BEFORE birth? It’s not an Infant. It’s not a “Baby”. So what is it? Maybe we can start making up terms that sound good. Embryo, Fetus, human life, clump of cells, womb resident, burden, precious – whatever we WANT to call it. It has no international legal status and there’s a HUGE variety of ideas what to call it and how to treat it. So if the law isn’t doing in in a consistent way, we have, what? Morality? Religious and spiritual and ethical and philosophy and ‘court of public opinion’ and all kinds of unregulated chaos of possible ideas. So you want to use the phrase “human life”. But is it? It’s not an individual. It can’t be INDIVIDUATED without birth. “A life” is “an individual human or animal”. So under that definition of “a life”, no, it is not yet a human being until it is born. But there is another definition of life that I think you want to use instead.

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