Ladies and Gentlemen,
I know that it is a long-held belief here at the Syndicate, that what people choose to do with their own bodies is completely up to them. Its just that kind of free-market belief that we apply to everything - commerce, political belief, and yes, your approach to everything from your own skin, in.
Now, that covers a wide variety of issues: You like purple hair, go for it; Don't feel complete until you get enough piercings to justify your own special body cavity search at the airport, so be it. Leaving aside the weightier issues of reproductive rights for another day, there is one other headline-grabber: Plastic Surgery.
Plastic surgery, in principle, is ok with me. I am not saying that we should keep Dr. Rey in business catering to legions of soccer-moms who are WELL past the age that they should be wearing midriff bearing shirts and miniskirts... but who am I to say what each person should look at in the mirror each day.
HOWEVER - We now have documented proof, that breast implants save lives. They're nice - there's no denying that - but now, we see, that they are also critical elements in our war against terror.
Read now, with me, from Breitbart.com's report on the recent "unrest" in the middle east:
Breast implants saves woman after Hezbollah attackAug 15 8:07 AM US/Eastern
One Israeli woman has received an unexpected boost from her breast implants during the Lebanon war -- the silicone embeds saved her life during a Hezbollah rocket attack, a doctor said.
"This is an extraordinary case, but it's a fact that the silicone implants prevented her from a more serious and deeper wound," Jacky Govrin, of the hospital in Nahariya that treated the woman, told army radio Tuesday.
"The young woman went through surgery two years ago to have a larger chest," he said. "During the war she was wounded in the chest by shrapnel" that got stuck in the implants instead of penetrating further.
The woman did not emerge from her ordeal completely unscathed, however.
"The shrapnel was removed but the implant had to be replaced," Govrin said.
