Australia supports Catholic hospitals with public funds while they turn away women who need abortions.

One way to finesse this problem would be to set up an organizationally separate facility for abortions, physically next to the religious hospital but not under church funding or control.

Is painting slogans on a wall, that are meant to criticize China's repression, "art"?

Is painting the regime's own statement, aiming for people to recognize their ironic contradiction with its actions, an effective mode of criticism?

In my view, the answers are "no" and "it's chancy".

I am all for condemning China's repressive dictatorship, as a political act; but in order to qualify as art it needs to present its meaning in a subtle, unobvious way. That's the part that could be art. However, merely intending a text as irony fails to do that. It doesn't present the meaning in a subtle way, because the subtlety is not in the work itself; rather, the artist hopes that it will come up in the viewer's minds only.

As for the effectiveness, it seems that many of the public did not notice the irony and mistook the quotation from the regime for support — and they responded by painting over it with non-ironic condemnation of the regime, thinking that the artist disagreed with them.

You could say that the condemnation manifested itself by ricochet. Maybe that is a kind of success. Maybe.

It seems to me that this art student's heart was in the right place politically, but his artwork calls for an F as art.

(satire) *Rudy Giuliani Puts Himself Up For Adoption* to a rich family that could pay his legal fees.

Calling for taking control away from "social media" sites over what will be recommended to users. Users should be able to choose the recommendation engines they use, and not just among a limited list. They should be free develop new recommendation engines.

This does not necessary mean people, once they know about more options, will choose wisely. The author says she saw an iMonster, and instead of feeling revulsed, she concluded she wanted one!

In January 2020, Wuhan doctors knew that a new disease was spreading fast. China ordered them to conceal this bad news.

In my view, whether this outburst was due to a lab leak or to contact with wild animals was a secondary detail, since neither one would have been culpable. The secrecy about facts was culpable.