Because they have decided not to continue the pregnancy. Period.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A state senator wants Missouri to collect information from [...]

It’s not like they’re real people or anything

In a disturbing report out of New Orleans, Color Lines writes about sex workers–particularly those who are women of color–being charged with felony “unnatural copulation” when they are arrested for prostitution. What’s unnatural?  Oral or anal sex, of course.  As a result, these women are serving longer sentences and being forced to register for [...]

A day in court

A couple of weeks ago I received a summons to appear in traffic court.  The woman who caused my car accident was fighting her ticket and all of us involved had to show up to testify.  So yesterday I trekked downtown to the courthouse to do my civic duty.
Step one was to get through security [...]

“Criminally insane killer escapes”

Spokane is in a panic today, with KXLY4-News flooding Twitter with updates and photos of a patient from Eastern State Hospital who walked away while on a supervised group field trip to the Spokane Interstate Fair. The coverage seems guaranteed to inflame our deepest fears of the mentally ill.
22 years ago Phillip Paul was [...]

Oops! My bad.

Violate a protection order and strangle a woman?
Claim it was an accident and that the goal was to knock her unconscious with a “sleeper hold.”
Sentence: 5 years.
Selling an ounce of marijuana will get you more time than that.
Ergo, it’s worse to get someone high than to kill a woman.
Times like this I’m ashamed to live [...]

The right to privacy while raping your property

This story just makes me sick. The District 4 Court of Appeals in Wisconsin has ruled unanimously that the police violated a man’s right to privacy when they installed hidden cameras in his wife’s nursing home room to prove that he raped her at least 3 times since she fell into a coma following [...]

It’s time for real parity

In 1996, Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici succeeded in getting the Mental Health Parity Act passed into law. The law did not require insurance companies to cover mental illnesses, but if they did, they could not set lower dollar limits on care than they did for other conditions. Insurance companies responded by removing [...]

Who is entitled to vote?

Who should be allowed to vote? That question has haunted the US from the inception of the Constitution. In 1787, only white males over the age of 21 had the right. The 15th Amendment, in 1870, added African-American men to the voting pool. In 1920 the 19th Amendment granted suffrage to [...]

Need to know only should apply

I remember when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) passed in 2003. My pharmacist gave me a written copy of the pharmacy’s privacy policy, and the store put a tape line 10 feet back from the cash register so that those behind me in the queue couldn’t listen in on my discussions [...]

Well duh

From the Seattle PI:
The House, on a 90-8 vote, passed a measure Tuesday banning text messaging while driving after signing off on Senate changes. The bill heads to Gov. Chris Gregoire, who is expected to sign it.
“This is absolutely dangerous behavior,” said the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Joyce McDonald, R-Puyallup.
The bill would make texting [...]

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