I spent the better part ofy career focusing on Health Policy issues that were important to women everything from abortions longterm care and everything in between really lived experience of your memoir really i validated to met least my work on policy and why so important to women for not only toomen but to families and it just really want to thank you for sharing your very difficult and intimate story. And while the story focuses on yo third pregnancy. Theres so much year and were never goingo find familiar about their lives n matter where they lived the circumstances of their lives to tell us a little bit about your book what motivated you to write it. To onto the book is called loved and wanted in the catalyst for the book was an unintended pregnancy that i had when i was 40 years old and living in the state of West Virginia and i grew up in upstate new york and i lived in new york city for middle hundred any years my adult life. Also in los angeles for my family had moved from los
Says the infection rate is too high to consider lifting the lockdown the restrictions will stay in place until january 10th and a dial warning for our planet. Is waging war on nature diseased suicidal nature always strikes. And hes already doing so we go in force and fury u. N. Chief un told you the terrorist urges World Leaders to make 2021 year they commit to fighting Climate Change. Im told me a lot of boy its good to have you with us the u. K. Has become the 1st country in the world to approve the covert 19 vaccine jointly produced by the German Company biotech and u. S. Drug maker fires a british Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hailed the authorization as fantastic news saying it will allow the british people to reclaim their lives the vaccine got the green light after just 10 months of Fast Track Research and development and is also awaiting approval in many other countries. But trial participant is given the bio on tech finds a coded 19 vaccine in the german city of minds hes j
You so much for having me cheers now ive mentioned some examples of what you call idea pathogens thoughts that seem to be well intentioned at least initially until you recognise that they pave the way to how what are some others so also modernism is probably the ground daddy of all idea just because it reports that there are no absolute truths we are completely shackled by subjectivity we are shackled by our personal biases and as you might imagine there is a kernel of truth to that idea but when taken to the extreme it becomes very antiscientific because scientists do wake up every day under the working presumption that there are truths to be discovered so was modernism would be one feminism would be another it starts off as a great idea equity feminism is a good idea men and women should be equal under the law. The more for sizes and so a dreadful idea when it becomes men and women are biologically. English well everything is of the social construction so you start with a noble idea
Spreading all this nonsense but i think its take the perfect cocktail of all of these ideas pathogens coming together and this is why in the 1st chapter of the book i talk about death of the west by a 1000 cuts right one idea pathogen may not bring down the edifice is a reason to may not but put 101215 of them together and you lose your sense of what constitutes up or down left or right and i get a lot of these emails on a daily basis from people who say i no longer know what to say because i they dont they all have confidence in their folk psychology and i allowed to say that only women menstruate or will i be considered transformed by well if in the 21st century this is something that causes you confusion were not doing a very good job would reason now the subtitle to your book is how infectious ideas like killing common sense and common sense that is also very culturally specific what is sensical to canadian may be a total be asked here. Russian and the vice versa i mean for people
A good idea men and women should be equal under the law but then it metamorphosis into a dreadful idea when it becomes men and women are biologically indistinguishable everything is a social construction so you start with a noble idea and that metamorphosis and so the history of american is much mutation here with the taking an idea out of proportion and i say lets mention the making absurd right nation to serve in the service of pursuing a originally noble goal. Now be here my mind has never been immunized against of d. D. T. I personally believe that long grass is prone to narcissism but is there something about these time in history that. Creates particular refer tell ground for this kind of process well i think so about 4050 years ago the idea of pathogens that i discussed in the book began to be spawn on University Campuses and as you so rightly mention in the introduction it truly takes intellectuals to come up with really dumb ideas especially here like i was quoting you by the