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Post by bjd on Sept 4, 2021 6:00:53 GMT
Of course, Kimby, you are right about the terminology. Nobody chooses to have an abortion for the pleasure of it or as birth control. Like so much else, the public "debate" has been taken over by the loudest and most radical.
I was thinking that a good alternative for the men signing and supporting these laws would be forced castration. And I have a really hard time understanding all those women sitting beside Abbot (Texas governor) and applauding as he signed this into law. Note that most people in the room were men.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 4, 2021 13:19:29 GMT
Misogynist women definitely exist, as do racist people of colour. So does hateful religion, even among followers of creeds that are supposedly based on love of all creatures. A love of power, or something else?
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 4, 2021 15:05:49 GMT
The problem is not the fact that these categories exist but whether the Biden admininstration has any viable plans to combat them. All I can think of is increasing the size of the Supreme Court and/or limiting the length of the terms of the justices, but even I know that there is no way to imagine this until after the midterm elections.
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Post by bjd on Sept 4, 2021 16:48:44 GMT
The professor whose interview I mentioned in post 217 also said that the only thing Biden can do is increase the size of the Supreme Court.
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Post by questa on Sept 6, 2021 6:48:17 GMT
I feel sorry for the brave doctors who risked their careers doing safe operations in clean surgeries. Patients were given counselling and started on contraception. There will be "back-room" practitioners of varying skills and a lot of very unhappy people. My only wish is that every person who voted this law in ,or supported it publicly or has someone in their family who needs the service and gets caught breaking the law.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 6, 2021 8:38:43 GMT
I have witnessed a flatmate go through an abortion in our apartment. I saw the teeny little foetus drop into the toilet and told her not to look. Backstreet of course and she went on to have several more abortions when she moved to Australia. Apart from that traumatic experience for me, we never hear or see or know anyone having an abortion. It just seems something you don't need to do when you have family members who are going to be stuck with bringing up your unwanted child. The fathers are definitely not around and the young child mothers can't or won't submit to motherhood. We have millions of "spare" children born every day.
Some Facts about pregnancies during Covid-19 2020-2021.
Pretoria, South Africa, 24 August 2021: The number of children born to teen mothers in South Africa’s most populous province, Gauteng, has jumped 60% since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with Save the Children concerned for the well-being of both mothers and babies.
New figures from the Gauteng Department of Health show that more than 23,000 girls aged under 18 gave birth between April 2020 and March 2021 – of which 934 were aged under 14 - compared to 14,577 girls aged 19 and under having babies in the same period a year earlier.
Gauteng is home to more than 15 million people, a quarter of South Africa’s population, and includes the country's largest city, Johannesburg, and its administrative capital, Pretoria.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 6, 2021 22:50:00 GMT
Reading through the comments here about the grotesque law passed in Texas, I think the same thing I think when reading news articles and editorials elsewhere. That is, the clever thing the bastards in Texas did was to make it look as though this is about abortion, which neatly diverts attention back to the endless pro-choice/anti-abortion debate. The distraction takes attention from the part of the law highlighted by Bjd back in reply #213, as well as the dark ages element of "putting women in their place".
These creeps continuously instill the fear of "socialism" in their mouth-breathing constituents. This makes it all the easier to demonize and defund family planning clinics, which of course they always refer to as "abortion clinics". The smug shits don't care that family planning clinics are a major force against unwanted pregnancies to begin with. But of course we wouldn't want our virginal young women exposed to nasty talk about contraception, would we?
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 7, 2021 12:24:45 GMT
a left wing blonde...
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Post by casimira on Sept 7, 2021 14:23:43 GMT
Well stated Bixa.
I have a vague memory of my mother being supportive of Planned Parenthood. As she was a very devout Roman Catholic, there is no possible way she would support an organization that promoted abortion.
(the organization originated in NY @ 1920 with the primary goal of educating young women about birth control.)
I don't know when they became identified as abortion clinics.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 7, 2021 23:47:49 GMT
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Post by questa on Sept 10, 2021 7:14:46 GMT
From memory, and I have no stats to back it up, there were brave gynae doctors to whom other doctors could refer patients in the mid 60s. The specialist would get a referral stating the woman was bleeding moderately when she arrived at the surgery, and she/he had the referral to back them up. The diagnosis was spontaneous miscarriage, and the D and C was "to remove products of conception". The Public Health did not pay for the operation but if something went wrong the further expenses were covered. This was in the early days of the Pill and a lot of promotion, plus the changing lifestyle of young women reduced the numbers gradually. In spite of all this, Australia-wide there were 69,000 babies put up for adoption annually about this time.
Wait until figures like these penetrate the thick skulls of the lawmakers.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 10, 2021 10:11:33 GMT
So it took Biden seven months to finally talk to Chinese President Xi Jinping on the telephone. I find that a bit odd when one country considers itself to be #1 in the world and the other one is its top competitor in both commerce and influence around the world. I am not impressed.
On the other hand, it looks like Biden almost grew a pair of balls with his latest vaccination speech, assuming he can actually get it implemented. I see that the opposition is calling him a dictator, just like was done with Macron. No big deal.
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Post by fumobici on Sept 10, 2021 18:01:26 GMT
So it took Biden seven months to finally talk to Chinese President Xi Jinping on the telephone. I find that a bit odd when one country considers itself to be #1 in the world and the other one is its top competitor in both commerce and influence around the world. I am not impressed. On the other hand, it looks like Biden almost grew a pair of balls with his latest vaccination speech, assuming he can actually get it implemented. I see that the opposition is calling him a dictator, just like was done with Macron. No big deal. Public phone calls between heads of state are ceremonial in nature and when the relationship is complicated must involve a lot of involved preparatory negotiations. Back channels are far more important than the public displays. The people complaining about making vaccination proof or recent test results mandatory for inherently high risk activities with crowds or people eating or drinking sans mask or as a condition of employment at the employer's discretion (which is established canon law in the US) is that being free to not take the vaccine is not the freedom from that decision having any personal consequences driven by public health realities.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 17, 2021 20:24:47 GMT
The recent treachery perpetrated by the United States to cancel the French submarine deal with Australia has confirmed to the EU that the Biden administration is absolutely the same as Trump.
The American obsession with the growing infuence of China is wrecking American influence around the world since it completely destroys the trust that many countries had of the integrity of the United States.
Unless the United States begins injecting as much aid in African and Pacific nations as China is doing, it can give up all hope of remaining a superpower. Luckily, China does not seem to be interested in Latin America at the moment, so that allows a final chance to the U.S.
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Post by questa on Sept 17, 2021 20:46:25 GMT
Maybe the US could build some sort of sea-wall around the various island nations that are sinking into the oceans. They could...whoops... sorry... I forgot there are not enough voters in the Pacific to make it worthwhile.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 17, 2021 20:54:41 GMT
The Pacific confetti is of no interest to the United States except as naval bases until they are submerged. Australia can still be exploited as long as it does not pay attention to more sensible New Zealand.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 23, 2021 15:44:09 GMT
I have certainly not been impressed by the Biden administration in recent days. Still floundering in the covid mess, incredibly cruel treatment of Haitian refugees and of course the continuation of Trump inspired international politics. Perhaps somebody can explain?
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Post by lagatta on Sept 24, 2021 0:33:34 GMT
The guys on horseback using horses reins like whips on Haitian men, some of them barefoot - carrying groceries - is a far from benevolent image...
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Post by bjd on Sept 24, 2021 7:01:01 GMT
I do wonder how news is transmitted among the various migrants. On the news here, some of the interviewed or featured Haitian migrants have been living in Chile or other countries in South America for years and had settled there after the 2010 earthquake. What makes them suddenly sell everything and undertake this huge trek to the US border?
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 24, 2021 7:13:19 GMT
Fake news is so easy to create. All it takes is for a half dozen people to say "the U.S. is letting in victims of the recent earthquake" for everybody to come running even if they have been wandering around Latin America for 10 years.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 11, 2021 15:38:14 GMT
From The Hill: The Biden-Harris train wreckBattleground state polling reflects how poor Biden’s performance has been. Here are his approval-disapproval rankings in the 10 states that decide elections, per Civiqs polling: Arizona, 42-52; Florida, 40-54; Georgia, 39-53; Iowa, 35-59; Michigan, 42-54; Nevada, 43-49; North Carolina, 41-52; Ohio, 37-56; Pennsylvania, 42-51; Virginia, 42-51.
It's difficult to see how Biden turns those numbers upside down if he is the nominee. And if plan B (meaning Harris) is activated instead, the numbers likely would look worse, considering that she's polling lower than Biden in almost every sampling. Throw in her awful 2020 campaign for the party nomination, which ended in 2019 before one vote was cast, and it's looking gloomy for the Blue Team in 2024.
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Post by bjd on Oct 11, 2021 18:05:01 GMT
We're still in 2020. Maybe things will improve.
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Post by casimira on Oct 11, 2021 18:25:20 GMT
VP Harris has made a major mess of her "role" both with her handling of the border crisis, and to top it off she met with a group of preschoolers in New Jersey vs. an appearance at the border. WTF? Granted, she is no foreign diplomat but, this is glaringly negligent on her part, since she took it on as her "mission" to address.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 13, 2021 16:01:56 GMT
Am I the only person who has thought from the beginning that this is all caused by the electronic equipment of the United States itself? That is the only explanation for it happening in so many countries, several of which are of little international importance. Havana syndrome reported at US embassy in Colombia
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Post by bjd on Oct 13, 2021 18:00:42 GMT
No, you aren't the only one. I wondered about that too, given that it's only Americans in their embassies who seem to be concerned. Ask the NSA what they are doing!
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Post by questa on Oct 13, 2021 23:07:33 GMT
Hell's Bells!! I read the whole story...it has been in use since the '60s and NOW the facts, theories and figures are coming out. Verrry interesting, as they used to say.
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Post by fumobici on Oct 14, 2021 1:21:47 GMT
Am I the only person who has thought from the beginning that this is all caused by the electronic equipment of the United States itself? That is the only explanation for it happening in so many countries, several of which are of little international importance. Havana syndrome reported at US embassy in ColombiaSounds as or probably more plausible than any other theory I've heard.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 14, 2021 22:02:29 GMT
Is it my imagination or is Biden really up shit creek at the moment? On top of that, he said he would serve only one term, but Harris seems to be up shit creek as well. Will Donald be back to save America?
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Post by bjd on Nov 15, 2021 9:01:49 GMT
I don't know how much these difficulties are all the fault of Biden and his administration, but I read yesterday that over 70% of diplomatic posts are still not filled because they require Senate confirmation and Ted Cruz and another Republican (Hawley?) are tying their confirmation votes to something they want on the domestic agenda. The only ambassadors who have been named so far have been through a voice vote.
The article compared this with the two previous administrations and by this time after the election, 77% of Obama's and 70% of Trump's nominations had been confirmed.
The consequences of this are a lack of US influence and communication. During the recent Aus/Uk/US submarine kerfuffle, there was no US ambassador in France and for protocol reasons, Macron didn't speak to the US chargé d'affaires.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 15, 2021 17:09:22 GMT
I almost never look at the Fox News site, but I made the mistake of doing so today, and found this headline: Walgreens in Dem-dominated city shuts over severe infestationWhen you click on the link, this is what you actually get: San Francisco Walgreens shuts over 'severe rat infestation'Those damned Democrats are clearly destroying America!
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