From the article: “Dana Weinstein’s fetus could have died after birth or been very severely disabled. Yet the GOP still wants to force women like her to carry to term.”
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“Other types of rapes that would no longer be covered by the exemption include rapes in which the woman was drugged or given excessive amounts of alcohol, rapes of women with limited mental capacity, and many date rapes.”
Source Mother Jones
“The Scariest Unemployment Graph I’ve Seen Yet” from The Atlantic: “The median duration of unemployment is higher today than any time in the last 50 years. That’s an understatement. It is more than twice as high today than any time in the last 50 years.”
Tim Wise on racism in America. A stunning read. (via Two Friars and a Fool)
Source redroom.com
My dad writes: “For fundamentalists who worry about secularization: hardly worth your time or energy. For you secularists, boy, are you in a minority!” From Barbara King’s Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion:
- 90% of American adults believe in God
- 84% believe in the survival of the soul after death
- 84% believe in miracles
- 82% believe in heaven
- 69% believe in hell
- 68% believe in the devil
Source: Harris Poll, 2002
I was surprised that the USPS has withstood this inevitability for as long as it has: “A pillar of U.S. communities since the nation’s founding, the post office is facing the prospect of closings or consolidation of services at hundreds of locations amid a sharp decline in business due to e-mail.”
Source google.com
