http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-a-grimes/united-nations-committee-affirms-abortion-as-a-human-right_b_9020806.html
I can hear the religious right howling: proof the UN is taking control of our country...
The good news here tends to get overshadowed by the fact that women still have to engage in legal battles of this nature to begin with. I'm happy that such a route, as tedious and controversial as it is, does exist, but I wish women weren't forced to endure it.
Good. Two major cases on abortion are coming up this year for SCOTUS and one on birth control. Somebody needs to convince Scalia and Thomas to resign.
Good.
How is the last picture in the States?
We have 10 weeks limit without spouse consent, but there have been complaints and cases that some state hospitals refused patients by claiming its ban -it has never been banned- or asking spouse consent.
one of my older nitwits "friends" posted on FB that PP was harvesting the brains of fetuses..... with a picture of a 3 inch long fetus. So I posted, "harvesting brains? Really? To what, replace the brains of republicans? ....seriously people you can't "harvest" brains unless it's for pate'.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on February 01, 2016, 10:51:15 AM
Good.
How is the last picture in the States?
We have 10 weeks limit without spouse consent, but there have been complaints and cases that some state hospitals refused patients by claiming its ban -it has never been banned- or asking spouse consent.
Right now we have religion owned hospitals refusing to do tubal ligation and otherwise formally routine procedures. When any organization by claims of religious freedom puts itself above the well being of people, something is seriously wrong.
Quote....seriously people you can't "harvest" brains unless it's for pate'.
I think I have a recipe for that....
Quote from: stromboli on February 01, 2016, 11:24:47 AM
Right now we have religion owned hospitals refusing to do tubal ligation and otherwise formally routine procedures. When any organization by claims of religious freedom puts itself above the well being of people, something is seriously wrong.
It's very wrong. What is so successful is that the created perception here.
This mistrust of science and scientific organizations, including modern medicine, really took off with the "Teach the controversy" crap from the ID group. Of course it has been around longer than that and there are plenty of other causes behind mistrust of medicine, such as anti-vaccers and the whole "holistic medicine" snake oil, but ID really fueled a mistrust of science in general. In fact, there are far, far more people who doubt evolution than there are whose religious beliefs are not compatible with evolution. I've heard Catholics protest big bang theory even though the official position of the church is that all science is relevant so long as it doesn't relate to birth control, at which point Catholic wishful thinking about the ineffectiveness of condoms to prevent the spread of disease takes precedence. They failed in their ultimate goal, but they did succeed in making a large portion of the population considerably dumber, less informed and more ill-informed, just like like Faux News.