You're making the mistaken assumption that Texas is a first world nation.
I only went there a couple of times, looked a lot nicer than most of South East Asia! - you might be on to something though.
Are you a practising physician? Do you have the faintest idea of how abortion clinics actually operate?
No, are you? and yes, yes I do. Nice try. Next.
The Bill suggests good standards be put in place, and that is quite a reasonable request.
If the gentleman felt so strongly about safety and standards though, perhaps he'd have been kind enough to also move that funding for family planning clinics be increased to a position of meeting such standards.
I agree that this Bill was actually an attempt to limit access, however not all of its contents are 'wrong'.
All in all this has been a good day, you had DOMA thrown out.
That was another good thing.
May the separation of Church and State continue.
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On the previous page, you failed to back up any claim you made.
Would you suggest that having your auto drivers licensing requirements include the tests for piloting an 18 wheeler?The Bill suggests good standards be put in place, and that is quite a reasonable request.
So the answer to the question of whether you are "a practising physician?" is that no you aren't, and that despite insisting that this was the measure of authority on the subject that you yourself don't actually meet that bar. Perhaps yuo would have the decency of honouring your own argument then?
The bill doesn't suggest good standards.
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There is a serious difference between a pharmacological abortion and a surgical abortion. Pharmacological means you apply a pill in the vagina and wait. Bleeding and stomach pain will ensue, but in most cases nothing serious on a healthy patient. This can be used for the early part of pregnancy, up to, I think, week 12 or 14. It is simple enough that a nurse can supervise it and have the waiting be done in a hotel room somewhere. If there are complications, there is plenty of time to get the patient to a hospital, or even hook up a bag of blood. Demanding that this is done to surgical standards is an obvious ploy to limit accessibility, gravely dishonest, evil and stupid. If you think differently, you are wrong.
Vive le Galt.
Vive le Galt, Comrade Shifty!
No Doctor here (except, of course, Of Love), but I don't think, theoretically speaking, that, in a society willing to invest tons of cash into a nationalized health service, they are terrible ideas. (Except for the 20 weeks thing--I'm not willing to compromise at 27 weeks.) It's just, this is the USA and that's not what it's about.
Here's a quite intriguing paragraph from the Huff Post article Comrade Meatrace posted above:
"Abortion doctors also would need to obtain admitting privileges within 30 miles of the clinic under the measure. The lone remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi is currently suing to block this law because no hospitals in the state will grant privileges to an abortion doctor for religious reasons or to avoid political repercussions."
Mississippi, the poorest state in the Union, serviced by only one clinic, which is looking at being shut down because no hospital w/in 30 miles will deal with them. That was the goal of the Texas bill.
Demanding that this is done to surgical standards is an obvious ploy to limit accessibility, gravely dishonest, evil and stupid. If you think differently, you are wrong.
This whole 'surgical standards' thing is also a bit of a beat up. I have had a good look at the laws in question:
Texas Health & Safety Code - Section 243.010. Minimum Standards
Texas Administrative Code: Ambulatory Surgical Centers
My feeling on these is that the bar is not set horribly high, and I find it odd that so few places would qualify - if indeed they were in the position of providing a surgical service. Clearly this is an item of public health that will needs far greater scrutiny going forward in an aid to ensuring the facilities can run to a higher level of care through better funding and a quality approach.
If the nice Republican man is as worried as he says he is about the safety of the facilities and the harm that could come to these women exercising their right to their bodies, then perhaps his name will feature prominently at the top of a petition to demand better funding for family planning clinics.
More publicly funded public health facilities for all!
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If the nice Republican man is as worried as he says he is about the safety of the facilities and the harm that could come to these women exercising their right to their bodies, then perhaps his name will feature prominently at the top of a petition to demand better funding for family planning clinics.
More publicly funded public health facilities for all!
You Australians are so cute, even if you don't like Woody Allen films.
I repeat, this is the USA. You might as well be calling for international proletarian socialist revolution.
Working Poor Losing Obamacare as States Resist Medicaid And, yes, Texas is in there.
Danny Brown Receives Oral Sex From Fan On Stage, Keeps Rapping
Oh-h-h-h-h yeah.
Goblins do it on stage!
Isn't that sort of thing supposed to happen back stage? I mean what's the guy got to look forward to if he's getting his hookers on stage?
Hookers? Thought it said fan.
And I imagine a well deserved nap.
Then again I have no idea who Danny Brown is, perhaps he's a big star? I'm not a follower of the rap music.
But you do now, and that's a sure sign it was a stunt.
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Stunt or no stunt, a blowjob's a blowjob.
Oh yeah, I forgot, I actually had something serious to say.
Back in the beginning of the much-missed Anita Sarkeesian thread (OHWFA!), Comrade Hawkshaw had linked a wiki page on Feminist Sex Wars where I was fascinated to learn about the Big Four: pornography, prostitution, pederasty and public sex.
The first three are pretty self-explanatory, but anyone (and here I'm particularly looking at you, Sister Margatroid) have any idea what the debate was about public sex?
'Coz, you know, Goblins do it in the street!
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No idea. I've honestly never heard of that term before.
Offhand, it could be:
- Increased sexualisation in the public arena (e.g., in media, advertisement)
- Increasing acceptance of PDA (e.g., doing it in the street!, or at least making out)
- Possibly making your sexual interests a more public and less private thing? Relating to sexuality, BDSM, and whatnot.
I dunno. I tend to avoid looking too deeply into the second-wave anti-sex arguments. Largely because a lot of it is incredibly offensive to a lot of gender/sexual minorities in particular... (Political lesbianism makes me cringe.)
Thank you for your prompt reply.
Oh, and, um, btw,
Apparenly Ohio just past legislation that would prevent abortion doctors from transfering patients to a public hospital, if the governor signs it. I found it onHuffington Post. Too lazy to look for more detail to see if it is an accurate summary.
Huh. So, apparently, not only was the on-stage fellatio not a stunt, it's like, 2 months old. Have no idea why it popped up when I was reading HuffPo articles on Texas.
Speaking of which, must have admitting privileges w/in 30 miles, can't transfer patients to public hospitals. Man, I wish the pro-life movement would make up its mind.
Actually, to be honest, I have other more pressing wishes for them.
Well, you got me there.
[Links Depeche Mode video for no apparent reason]
While I always love a bit of Depeche Mode, you did link the single happy song in their oeuvre.
Speak and Spell is the only one I really like.
Perfect, bouncy electropop that was totally gay.
And then Vince Clarke left and they went in a different direction.
And, personal judgement here but, after that they could craft a catchy tune ever now, but most of the time they weren't smart enough to carry off their pretensions.
Otoh, they made millions and millions of filthy lucre, so what do I know?
Have you listened to Violator? One of the most perfect albums ever crafted.
If I,want bouncy electropop thers always Pet Shop Boys :)
Huh. That's kind of funny.
And, personal judgement here but, after that they could craft a catchy tune ever now, but most of the time they weren't smart enough to carry off their pretensions.I don't know about their other stuff but Personal Jesus it one of my favorite songs from the 80s early 90s (I can't quite remember when it came out). I also liked John The Revelator.
Personal Jesus is from Violator.
I also liked John The Revelator.
Yeah, Blind Willie Johnson was also the shiznit.
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Nina Simone was always my favorite, mostly cause that's what played the most on the stereo when I was a kid. Though I can sit and listen to any acoustic delta blues player.
...And then there was the time when I bought a Nina Simone CD and played without telling any of my room-mates what it was; three times in a row, one of them wandered into the room and asked what I was listening to. When I told them, each one said, "Wait, that's a woman?"
Nina was quite the diva. I've read that at one point in her career, her rider included young black studs to service her.
I wonder where that falls into the whole "Objectification" spectrum...
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I don't know, but if she was singing Mississippi G!*&+#n at the time, there would have been so many layers to it that it's like the square root of a negative number. :P
I don't know, but if she was singing Mississippi G!*$$$n at the time, there would have been so many layers to it that it's like the square root of a negative number. :P
Picket lines/School boycotts/They try to say it's a communist plot
They say 'It's pinkos like you that freed the slaves'/And they're right
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Nina was quite the diva. I've read that at one point in her career, her rider included young black studs to service her.
I wonder where that falls into the whole "Objectification" spectrum...
OHFWA!