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A large group of medical

Peter — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:17:19 +0000

In reply to Trouble understanding what

A large group of medical professionals are asking this same question about why abortion services were isolated from hospitals and those involved in abortion rights in the '70s stated they assumed after the SCOTUS decision that hospitals would incorporate these services.

You may have noticed that many of the states are using this disconnect to shut down abortion services with laws requiring hospital backup, doctor/hospital certification and other requirements that wouldn't be a problem with an internal hospital program. The anti-abortion forces can't directly attack the right to abortions but they can and are successfully attacking the atomized system that provides these services.

The actual abortion services provided under the protective umbrella of hospitals probably wouldn't differ much from the present system and even could be operated by Planned Parenthood or other contractors. It would be better protected from bombers, shooters, demonstrators and political attacks by the power and security offered by these institutions.

Trouble understanding what

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:25:54 +0000

In reply to You have to wonder why, with

Trouble understanding what you're saying. States have been attacking abortion - put under state control clinics'd disappear in half the states. Mini-hyde amendments across the country. And they're not terribly profitable, so foregoing any Planned Parenthood support is hard going.

The most bizarre thing is that medical abortion is easy, effective, much less ugly than surgical abortion - but unlike Europe, it's also being suppressed. You'd think these fuckers actually cared about kids or women.

You have to wonder why, with

Peter — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:41:14 +0000

In reply to The vanishing abortion clinic

You have to wonder why, with all the Liberal and some conservative support in government for abortion rights, abortion and much of women's reproductive health services were privatized and separated from the protections they would have had if they had been incorporated into the state/county hospital system.

Was this just a stupid mistake or were there political reasons for keeping this right under attack for decades?

The vanishing abortion clinic

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:32:07 +0000

In reply to Sisterhood

The vanishing abortion clinic - Mississippi, Missouri, Wyoming and the Dakotas now have 1 clinic each.

73 abortion clinics shut down in 2014, and a net loss of 219 since 2013. 81% have closed since 1991, brags Operation Rescue.

Back on track, the "moderate"

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 05:24:23 +0000

In reply to Sisterhood

Back on track, the "moderate" Kashich defunds Planned Parenthood as part of the GOP war on abortion. *HALF* the abortion clinics closed under his watch. Yes, Sisters need to stick together, cause the Brotherhood's got it in for them.

Just months after becoming governor, Kasich signed a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless the fetus is nonviable. In 2013, Kasich signed a budget that stripped roughly $1.4 million in family planning funds from Planned Parenthood, required abortion providers to perform ultrasounds on patients seeking abortions and allowed rape crisis centers to be stripped of their public funds if they referred victims to abortion providers, among other measures. The budget also blocked public hospitals from entering into transfer agreements for medical emergencies with abortion clinics, threatening clinics with closure if they couldn't get a private hospital to enter into those agreements. Because private hospitals often have religious affiliations, this arrangement often wasn't possible.

In all, nearly half of Ohio’s abortion clinics have closed since Kasich took office.

Last year, Kasich also said that he supports a state bill that would ban abortions for Down syndrome. Critics argue that the bill violates the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling, which declared that women can choose to get an abortion at any point until the fetus is viable and that the choice to get an abortion should be a private matter between the patient and her doctor, not determined by the government.

So, you tricked me into

moat — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:09:50 +0000

In reply to I de-barb my lures so you

So, you tricked me into thinking you were saying something you weren't saying by saying it.

Time for the hammer:

I de-barb my lures so you

Peter — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 22:14:22 +0000

In reply to The only assumption I made

I de-barb my lures so you should be able to remove that hook from your lip without too much pain and shame.

The NYT has a good article

barefooted — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 22:06:56 +0000

In reply to Aaargh, just lost a long

The NYT has a good article today suggesting that Clinton "won" the Hispanic vote. The real bottom line, though, is that entrance/exit polls aren't worth much.

Well "pretty positive" is how

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:50:36 +0000

In reply to 'Pretty positive' is a pretty

Well "pretty positive" is how Hans van Spakovsky has made a career of legal-fucking minorities over supposed voting violations that never actually happen. Yes, intelligent grownups in this world make educated guesses and "assumptions" based on real world experience and measured data, unlike that asshole shill for right-wing gerrymandering and disenfranchisement.

Nevada's a fucking bilingual state, where a lot of Hispanics have marginal English abilities. This doesn't take a brainiac to know, and we didn't bring them here or let them in to be English teachers for the most part. Cleaning a bedpan, making a bed or operating a shake machine or digging a ditch seems to be the work half of them are expected to do, so providing semantic analysis of John Dos Passos' USA Trilogy is probably not part of their value to America. And the Republicans can suck my American ****.

'Pretty positive' is a pretty

Peter — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 20:42:33 +0000

In reply to I'm pretty positive not many

'Pretty positive' is a pretty weak statement but i don't make any assumptions or judgments about these reports either. No one has interrogated these people, in Spanish, to determine their status.

The statements by Democrats at the caucus about there being non English speakers present that needed translators seem to be a typically clueless/inclusive bit of rhetoric that may be used by the Republicans to support their claims of voter fraud and a return to the old days of Democrat ballot stuffing and voter rolls full of dead people.