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There’s been a lot of misinformation flying around about the coronavirus disease, or COVID-19. In an effort to help combat that, last week we surfaced some reliable sources (and mental health resources) over here in this post. This week we want to give you the opportunity to ask a doctor questions you need answered.

An Answer Time with Dr. Rita Issa

Dr. Rita Issa is a physician in London. She holds a diploma in tropical medicine, is a lecturer in public health, and has previously worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) and the World Health Organization.

Dr. Issa will answer questions on the COVID-19, as well as inform everyone on how we can become “super-preventers,” live Friday, March 20th, at 3 p.m. ET right here on @staff​.

If you want to submit your question for consideration, head on over to our ask box right now and ask away. The best way to keep yourself safe is by keeping yourself informed.

Once you’re done submitting your question, take a peek below at this video from Dr. Issa (with the help of VideoRev) describing five ways to disrupt the coronavirus:

See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon. 

Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy. 

To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died. 

And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.

Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.

If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other. 

When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.

When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.” 

Me: My pills make me not want to die tho

They: You shouldn’t want to die, that’s not normal

Waiting the chimes of New Year’s Eve…. Been listening to  AC⚡️DC lately. Fan art Happy 🎉🎉🎉 2020 🎉🎉🎉!! … .

The shroud of the dark side has fallen. Begun, the Clone War has.