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The hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity, Lakshmi, has extra limbs. This makes sense to me since from time immemorial people have always needed extra hands and more hours in the day to help them with their agrarian efforts. So when this little girl was born with essentially a headless conjoined twin attached to her body this was seen by the local village as a sign that the goddess Lakshmi was favoring them.

Science however, knew that this birth was more than likely due to the runoff of toxic chemicals that exists throughout the Indian continent’s environment. There were tons of malformed kids born right after the U.S. invasion of Iraq because of all the phosphorus and depleted uranium that was deposited into the ground water system. Shit happens.

Fresh off pushing a man to kill off his family, including two sets of twins, our friends at Kaiser Permanente helped a mother of six deliver octuplets. She is single and unemployed and now has a litter of 14 children. Science gives and then it takes away, and then it gives so much that it hurts. From removing the burden of unmanageable extra limbs to adding the burden of unmanageable extra kids we manifest our God complex through reproductive science.