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Why It Is Difficult to Talk About Ethics of the Body

January 14th, 2026 | 18 min read

By Haley Baumeister

"When I came in and sat down and looked around, I realized it was a Roman Church full of plaster statues and bad art, realistic art. I hated the statues; all the emphasis on the human body. I was trying to escape from the human body and all it needed... I saw the bodies standing around me on all the altars... and I remembered that they believed in the resurrection of the body, the body that I wanted destroyed forever.

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Haley Baumeister

Haley Baumeister lives with her husband and four young children in Wisconsin. She enjoys putting the writing of others into conversation with each other—and adding commentary along the way—through her Substack newsletter, Life Considered.