“Cognitively she will probably be fine, but at the age of six she will have a hunchback”—I heard this crushing unforgettable phrase from the director of the Child Development Institute Sheba Medical Center in Israel. Shunamit was at the time two and a half years old, after hospitalization due to high fever and seizures, and with a referral for diagnosis and treatment at the Child Development Institute. The director of the institute sat on one side of the office desk, and I, with Shunamit on my lap, on the other side of the desk. And in between there were tests and more testing, and a growing gap between therapist and patient.
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Six Justices Threaten Women’s Life by Ayala Emmett and Peter Eisenstadt
In a blink of an eye, women in America lost their freedom. On Friday May 24, 2022 women woke up to the horrific news that they were robbed of owning their bodies. Six power-lusting Justices, with a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land, told women they are no longer equal citizens. They told women that a single-cell organism is worth more than any woman’s life. Disregarding the Constitution’s requirement of the separation of church and state, six Justices ruled that one set of religious beliefs is enough to push all girls and women into bondage of forced pregnancies. Unlike men, women no longer have control over their own bodies.