Bill restricting late-term abortions fails to pass SA lower house

South Australia's lower house has voted against a bill to restrict access to abortions past 25 weeks. The legislation was defeated 36 votes to 9. 

Sunday Sessions are starting! Great for people looking for a community outside of religious spaces. The topic this month is on reciprocity:
#secularhumanism #community #reciprocity

https://www.youtube.com/live/gkgbfIR5CRc

Life Is Not a Vending Machine // Reciprocity

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We often care about the suffering of one person over thousands. This has real effect in charities and policy making.
Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cn1ychwkrU
#auspol #fusionparty #FutureFocused #EthicalGovernance #FairSociety #SecularHumanism #AusProgressives #EffectiveAltruism
Why More Suffering Makes You Care Less

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today is the last day to buy tickets for the Peretz Centre's 80th anniversary gala next weekend, which I've been working hard for the last month arranging and rehearsing music for it with our community klezmer group 😁support our youth education initatives!
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/peretzs-80th-anniversary-a-wedding-between-peretz-and-the-past-present-and-future

#klezmer #JewishMusic #SecularHumanism #Vancouver #Yiddish

Peretz’s 80th Anniversary: A Wedding Between Peretz and the Past, Present, and Future | Peretz Centre

Mark 80 years of the Peretz Centre's illustrious history, support our youth programs, and experience an artsy and camp interpretation of shtetl wedding rituals, featuring live music from KlezWest's KlezJam, the Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir, and much more

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Leaving religion is easy. Leaving behind the questions religion was answering — that's the harder work. Order, purpose, narrative: secular frameworks keep bumping into the same wall. https://onlys.ky/why-is-rejecting-religion-so-hard/ #SecularHumanism #Philosophy #MeaningMaking #Religion
Why is rejecting religion so hard?

Secular thinkers should be open to all varieties of human experience.

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Most secular reading lists are just 'have you tried Hitchens?' This one actually expands the frame — 10 books that survived the DNF pile.

https://onlys.ky/10-eye-opening-secular-books-for-a-new-perspective/

#SecularHumanism #Books #Freethought #ReadingList #Atheism

10 eye-opening secular books for a new perspective

10 must-read secular books from the Big Bang to Christian Nationalism and from the Bible to intersectional feminism.

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Cryonics, mind uploads, immortal jellyfish — the secular immortality menu is long on ambition, short on evidence. We've rebranded eschatology, not escaped it.

https://onlys.ky/are-we-ready-to-live-forever/

#Transhumanism #Longevity #Futurism #Bioethics #SecularHumanism

Are we ready to live forever?

Immortality would create whole new problems that we're ill-equipped to deal with.

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The secular Serenity Prayer

I grant myself the serenity

The secular Serenity Prayer

I grant myself the serenity

@tomcapuder Secular Humanism for the win.

#SecularHumanism