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The events at Agincourt are comprehensible only if we consider how outnumbered the English forces were and how great their fear must have been. The tension which was felt in the English camp is palpable in the complaint attributed by Shakespeare to Warwick (in the Oxford edition by Wells and Taylor which I am using), or to Westmoreland (in other editions; Westmoreland was not on the Agincourt campaign at all), and in Henry's heroic reply:
[ WARWICK] O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work today.
KING What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Warwick? No, my fair cousin.
If we are marked to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will, I pray thee wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It ernes me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God's peace, I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O do not wish one more.
Rather proclaim it presently through my host
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart.
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The "boobies" bit was funny for about 10-15 seconds, but then that should have been it. Instead, we get the whole teeth grinding number.
I think that long bit would have worked better if we had live "real" reactions from each of the most/all of the actresses mentioned, although I know that would have been challenging to pull off live given the pace of the song. They did show a couple of actresses pretending to be shocked or appalled by the song (presumably pre-taped or rehearsed), but that wasn't funny. Seeing their REAL reaction -- and of more of the actresses -- would have been interesting if not funny.
On a side note...I can't believe I'm analyzing a skit about "boobies."
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Alan, if you go back into my archives and read a bit more from my poeivrus posts, you will see that I rarely wear a helmet for regular urban riding (though I always do when racing, training fast, mtb riding or riding in the exurbs). I have been researching bicycle safety for more than 11 years and I have come to the conclusion that riding a bicycle in an urban environment is safer than driving a car if you follow the rules of the road and learn a few basic conflict areas in which to be careful. You will also see that I typically ride in vintage clothing, including suits and ties or normal casual wear. My blog has also dealt with the statistics of helmet use. I am not anti-helmet, but I agree that pushing helmets, hi-vis yellow, and lycra severely limits the appeal of riding a bicycle for most people. If people think they have to put on special socks to bike to the custard stand, they will drive. I think that philosophy is already prevalent in the majority of the current Bike Fed staff. I am big into cyclechic movement. I have many friends in Copenhagen and view their philosophies as the best strategy to get more people riding. This blog will continue to reflect those beliefs. I hope you keep reading and perhaps share some things I write that you like on your blog roll.Cheers
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87374692015-11-20T12:09:52.620-08:00JivinJehoshaphatJivin Jhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-9240538345114634272015-10-22T07:18:00.000-07:002015-10-22T07:18:37.870-07:00Short segment of conversation with Planned Parenthood exec at NAF conference released
GotNews.com has posted a short segment of a conversation between undercover reporters of the Center for Medical Progress and Deb VanderHei at the National Abortion Federation Conference on April 21, 2015. GotNews claims it was released to them by source on Capitol Hill and more segment will be released.

During the conversation, VanderHei mentions that some affiliates may want to increase revenue by selling the body parts of aborted children and that Planned Parenthood national offices could nothing about it if they did.

Jivin Jhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-25090521786666275372015-10-22T07:11:00.000-07:002015-10-22T07:11:19.015-07:00Life Links 10/22/15
Nightline has a segment on the #ShoutYourAbortion hashtag. It's a complete puff piece which calls 200K tweets an "internet sensation."

The city of Portland has agreed to pay the legal fees of abortion protesters in buffer zone lawsuit.

The city will pay each of the plaintiffs nominal damages of $1, and a total of $56,500 in legal fees, according to a consent judgment approved Oct. 8 by Judge Nancy Torresen in U.S. District Court in Portland.

Planned Parenthood has plans to build a $5 million clinic in Spokane, Washington.  The clinic it is replacing does abortions.

The nonprofit has started a $2 million capital campaign and already has raised $1.2 million toward the project, Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Tiffany Harms said. The facility will replace its existing health center, 123 E. Indiana Ave., and is slated to open in winter 2017, according to the release. It will be built just east of the current health center, which will be torn down once the new one is open.

Jivin Jhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-59034897076991701782015-08-19T11:21:00.000-07:002015-08-19T11:21:07.042-07:00The LA Times' Michael Hiltzik is a lying clown with no integrity
In a recent column for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Hiltzik writes about StemExpress, a company which buys fetal parts from Planned Parenthood affiliates in California. Hiltzik bemoans that StemExpress has been "terrorized" and "harassed" into ending their business relationship with Planned Parenthood. StemExpress executives were allegedly caught on undercover video discussing their acquisition of intact aborted children. They've sued the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) to prevent the release of the video and been asked by Congress to provide information on their relationship with Planned Parenthood.

Hiltzik's column is so filled with misinformation and broad assertions about the videos, it made me wonder if he's even seen the videos he's discussing. They seem like talking points which come directly from Planned Parenthood and StemExpress. He doesn't even mention that a former StemExpress employee is featured in 3 of the 7 videos which means he hasn't seen those videos or he prefers to not let his readers know that. Writing a column about videos he hasn't even watched, didn't seem that out of the blue for a guy caught sock-puppeting.

So I bet $10 that he hadn't seen the videos on twitter. He retweeted me and said he'd seen all the footage and read all the transcripts and asked if I had.

That led me to a couple of questions. First, if Hiltzik watched the full footage of the videos then why does he claim in his column that "Because the released videos have been heavily edited, CMP's assertions that the officials are acting illegally must be treated with great doubt."

If he's seen the full videos and CMP's assertions are clearly false then why couldn't he devote a paragraph or two in his long column to demonstrating why they are false?

He could show that Mary Gatter wasn't really haggling over the price of specimens or that Deborah Nucatola wasn't really talking about how she changes her technique to get more intact organs, right?

Why would he instead use the "but they're heavily edited" excuse? Either because he hasn't watched the videos or he's intentionally misleading his readers.

I then asked him what event led Nucatola to become an abortionist. If he watched the full footage of all the videos (heck, if he just watched the full footage of the first one) he would easily be able to answer this question. Instead, he blocked me.

Jivin Jhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-54685688140997673322015-07-17T08:47:00.002-07:002015-07-17T09:20:20.993-07:00Planned Parenthood's brand takes a hit
Planned Parenthood has be wounded and Cecile Richards knows it. For years, undercover actors have tormented their organization and led Planned Parenthood to institute various trainings to prevent their affiliates and abortionists from being caught on camera saying or doing something which could hurt their brand.

And now one (possibly more depending on future videos) of her leading executives (senior medical director Deborah Nucatola) got caught doing just that.

Unless David Daleiden and Center for Medical Progress' future videos have more than this, I don't see anyone at Planned Parenthood being prosecuted for selling unborn body parts or performing partial-birth abortions (especially since Nucatola discusses using digoxin, which kills the child, prior to doing late-term abortions).

However, this video (and more soon to follow) strike a blow at Planned Parenthood and increase the stigma of abortion just as Planned Parenthood's PR team has been working to reduce the stigma attached to abortion. It's much harder to reduce abortion stigma when your senior medical director is nonchalantly talking about preserving hearts, liver, lungs, and lower extremities of unborn children by crushing above and below the child's torso. If only Nucatola had said "gentle squeeze above" and "gently squeeze below."

While Planned Parenthood tries to downplay the short video because it was edited, the full video is a treasure trove of information for prolifers as abortionists and abortion advocates are rarely this honest about what they do. Nucatola reveals the following:

Abortionists on the west coast use digoxin to kill the child during late-term abortions while abortionists on the east coast do not. She describes this as a culture war and discusses how she couldn't get feuding sides to agree on a study to see which method was safer.

Planned Parenthood has a lowly view of many independent abortion providers

Planned Parenthood has 40% of the abortion market share, knows this and is proud of it

Nucatola sought out advice on how to "frame" the use of fetal organs for research and Planned Parenthood struggles with how to discuss the issue

Planned Parenthood is scared to bring any abortion case before the Supreme Court with its current composition and knew they were going to lose Hobby Lobby and the free speech buffer-zone law case

 Nucatola was very open with trying to help the actors get in contact with a number of other abortionists and abortion clinic and even suggested they do a workshop at an abortion conference

Nucatola became an abortionist because during her residency because she treated a woman who died from complications from a legal abortion (this is not something Planned Parenthood would ever want to share publicly)

Supposedly Nucatola has been "reprimanded."

Cecile Richards couldn't defend Nucatola being open about what abortion does, so she released a video defending Planned Parenthood while apologizing for Nucatola's "tone and statements" without ever clarifying which statements were unacceptable and why they were unacceptable. She basically apologizes for Nucatola being honest about what abortion does while eating lunch. That this honesty (all that baby organ and crushing talk) was recorded and seen by millions is what is unacceptable to Richards. Who knows if Nucatola will be demoted or fired. Planned Parenthood probably feels that can't publicly fire her now as that would admit some great wrongdoing by Nucatola and lead to another day of news stories.

The brand is damaged and I hope future videos will damage it more. Planned Parenthood put themselves in this position by intentionally becoming the giant in the abortion industry. When you're the leader in the industry you have to defend your product. Planned Parenthood would rather sell their product behind closed doors than defend it out in the open. We can't let them do that. Jivin Jhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-61696732689990475072015-07-09T07:56:00.001-07:002015-07-09T07:57:42.337-07:00Life Links 7/9/15
A Florida woman who shot herself in the stomach, killing her unborn child at 36 weeks, is claiming she didn't think the gun was loaded. I'm interested to see how abortion advocates will react. It's her body, her choice, right?

Ruiz's husband walked into the bedroom on Interchange Drive and saw her pointing the gun at her abdomen, police said.

He tried to wrestle the gun out of her hands, but it went off, piercing his hand, her torso, and the stomach of the unborn child, police said.

Ruiz was rushed to Holmes Regional Medical Center, where doctors performed an emergency Caesarean section. But the baby did not survive.

The Brevard County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide by a gunshot wound.

In medical examiner's records, he listed as Baby Boy Ruiz, age 0.

Two Canadian hospitals performed abortions on a girl before she turned 13 and never reported sexual abuse. The girl was repeatedly victimized by her stepfather and he was only caught when arrested assaulting other victims.

At the time, her stepfather had sole custody of her and repeatedly sexually assaulted her.

Each time she got pregnant, she had an abortion; once at a Winnipeg hospital and once at a hospital out of province.

Court documents show the girl was instructed to tell medical staff her boyfriend was the father.

Some abortion advocates are really excited about a bill that won't even get a committee hearing.

I love this passage from Planned Parenthood employee Huffington Post reporter Laura Bassett considering her previous writings on abortion coverage in Obamacare.

But the passage of Obamacare seemed to alert Republican lawmakers to the fact that abortion was being covered in insurance plans, and more than 20 GOP-led state legislatures have since passed laws banning private insurance companies from covering abortion.

Yes, they just realized that private insurance companies coverage abortion and never knew that beforehand. It had nothing to do with the fact that Obamacare subsidized (with taxpayer money) insurance plans that cover abortion unless states prevented that. Jivin Jhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-7118360166074942752015-06-17T08:37:00.000-07:002015-06-17T08:37:00.400-07:00Activists aren't pushing the "good abortion" stories says abortion activist who talks about "good abortions" a few days later.
This is too much. On June 12th, the Washington Post published a self-defeating piece by Jill Filipovic which used the examples of a politician who lost by 26%, a movie that flopped despite inordinate pro-abortion support and another politician who was lost and was almost universally ridiculed for making abortion the center point of his campaign to argue how the new abortion advocates will end the stigma on abortion by being more forthright when talking about abortion.

In her piece, Filipovic also mentioned how the new generation of abortion advocates aren't going to focus solely on "good abortions" anymore (my emphasis).

While advocacy organizations have long used the horrors of dangerous pre-Roe abortions and particularly tragic stories of rape or severe fetal abnormalities to illustrate the need for abortion rights, younger women are pushing back on what they call the narrative of "the good abortion." Instead, they're talking about the whole range of their experiences, including the nearly 90 percent of elective abortions that occur during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Most women who terminate pregnancies aren't facing life-threatening tragedies but rather more mundane ones: The most common reasons women give include not being financially ready, poor timing for a baby, issues with a partner and the need to care for the children they already have. Activists say playing down that reality — and the importance of abortion services for all women — contributes to the stigma that keeps abortion shameful and politically contentious.

Today (June 17th) that same abortion advocates writes in Cosmopolitan about abortion funds and uses a "good abortion" story to support how claim for how important they are.

Last month, Alicia*, a 23-year-old who recently moved to Idaho, found out she was pregnant. The guy she was dating lived in another state, and at first she didn't tell him. Then when he came to visit to her, he got so drunk and violent the secret came out when she was pleading with him not to hit her. He accused her of lying, called her a series of derisive names, told her he didn't care what she did, and drove off. They haven't spoken since.

Notice the focus on the dire details in the woman's life. She recently moved to Idaho. The father of the child is supposedly a violent drunk who called her names. This is a "good abortion" designed to make you feel sorry for the woman.

She then uses another one:

"I had a call from a gal in Boise, Idaho, probably five years ago," said Pencke, who lives in Seattle. "She was living in a one-room apartment with her 18-month-old son. I could hardly get her to talk at first. She just answered monosyllabically. She was pregnant? Yes. She wanted to be? No. She was married? Yes."

The woman's husband had more or less abandoned her, taking a job as a long-haul trucker in Alaska, and periodically sending small amounts of money; he had gotten her pregnant when he came home for a weekend. She only had a little bit of food in her home. She was afraid to tell her husband she was pregnant because he might get upset and hit her.
Surprise, surprise. The abortion advocate who bragged about the supposed pushing back against the "good abortion" narrative is pushing another "good abortion" narrative where the woman has been abandoned by her supposedly violent husband in a one-room apartment with little food.

The underlying message is that "she obviously needs an abortion" as oppose to the supposed new message about "the importance of abortion services for all women."

Then there is this story which basically only a sociopath would use as an example of the great work of abortion funds.

"We had a 16-year-old undocumented young woman and her father contact us," Atwater said. "He is a single father, also undocumented, and living in Idaho. The daughter had just found out she was pregnant, and based on an estimate of her very irregular period, she thought she was 18 weeks. She scheduled an appointment with the closest provider who offered 18-week procedures, which was in Portland, so they packed up their stuff, got in the car, drove to five hours or so to Portland for the procedure, and got there and found out she was actually 25 weeks and not 18 weeks. So they had to drive to Seattle for an appointment the next day [to the only clinic in the area that would perform a procedure after 24.5 weeks] and they planned to sleep in their car. The ultimate price was $4,500."

CAIR, along with the National Abortion Federation and an Oregon-based abortion fund, were able to help them cover the cost.

Bragging about helping a girl electively abort a viable child. That is seriously deranged.

Also, does anyone else wonder about the possibilities of this girl being the victim of incest? Father involved in contacting the funds, young (who knows if she was actually 16 since she was undocumented), very far along in her pregnancy. That possibility probably never crossed the mind of the abortion funds which doled out the money.Jivin Jhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-73035427054933488932015-06-03T08:04:00.001-07:002015-06-03T08:09:32.469-07:00Life Links 6/3/15

Via Dallas Morning News

In Dallas, four family members have been arrested for a horrific crime. They allegedly beat a 14-year-old girl who has 8-months pregnant for 6 hours to cause the death of her unborn child who was conceived after the girl was raped by a family member. When the child was delivered stillborn, they tried to dispose of the baby by burning the child on a charcoal grill.

The hours-long attack allegedly occurred in 2013, but the girl stayed quiet until another woman, who said she witnessed part of the assault, took her to a police station May 22.

The girl said she became pregnant after she was sexually assaulted by a family member in August 2012 in the 1200 block of North Masters Drive, near Lake June Road, according to an affidavit.

She told police she was a virgin before she was raped and "did not tell anyone about the sexual assault because … she was embarrassed."

Police said the girl's relatives found out between January and March 2013 that she was pregnant and "became very nervous and were concerned about … [Child Protective Services] removing children from the residence," the affidavit says.

Canadian abortionist Wee Lim Sim has agreed to stop practicing after his "cluttered and unhygienic" endangered patients.

He agreed to resign from the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons, and never re-apply, after admitting to professional misconduct. The committee went on to "roundly condemn" his ineffective infection control, improper delegation to his staff, poor record keeping, and rude, aggressive style of communication. Sim's only response to the reprimand was "Thank you sir." Outside the hearing room, however, he was flippant and dismissive of the misconduct to which he had just admitted.

Here's more background and a picture of Sim in his obviously cluttered clinic.

Via Wayne Cuddington/Ottawa Citizen

An abortion clinic in Australia is trying to prevent prolife protesters from protesting.

The clinic, the court heard, wanted the council to use its power to demand names and addresses from protesters and to issue them with prohibition notices, or to consider imposing exclusion zones similar to those outside abortion clinics in parts of the US and Canada.

Jivin Jhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-34320506092896342322015-05-27T12:51:00.000-07:002015-05-27T12:51:27.382-07:00Tiny arms and legs won't change this one's mind
Writing at Salon, freelance writer Amy Beeman describes her past job working at an abortion clinic and the first woman she saw have an abortion (my emphasis).

I followed my trainer to the lab where products of conception (P.O.C.) were inspected to make sure the doctor removed all the bits that, if left behind, could cause an infection. My trainer made a point to show me the tiny arms and legs floating in the glass baking pan. At 10 weeks and beyond, those appendages are formed and clearly recognizable.

It was all so heavy. The loneliness of those little arms and legs. That girl, so clearly suffering during the procedure. Before my job at the clinic, my stance on abortion had been so black and white. I had been firmly pro-choice for as long as I could remember. Was it possible that working here could change my mind?
Of course not. This piece is in Salon (my emphasis).

Abortion is fraught with so much negative sentiment, and in a sense, abortion is plucking a life from existence that has yet to have the opportunity to thrive. No one is claiming it's pleasant. There is nothing black and white about abortion. It's every shade of gray. But for us pro-choicers, the woman's life trumps the embryo or fetus. That's the bottom line. We place value on a woman's ability to know what is best for her. It simply needs to be a safe and legal option.

 In a sense? No. In reality.

What I noticed is how Beeman admitted earlier that the unborn have tiny arms and legs, yet goes on to use the intentionally dehumanizing term "unwanted growth" to describe them as if the human individual these arms and legs were torn from was like a wart on a foot.

Seeing every side, the whole complicated and profound process, I came out more pro-choice than ever. I started to see it from a purely biological standpoint. We were removing an unwanted growth to preserve the woman's chosen course.
This seems to be a somewhat common phenomenon with pro-choicers who recognize the humanity of the unborn. On one hand, they'll admit the unborn are living human beings (or something similar) and then go on to argue in favor of abortion from a bodily autonomy viewpoint. However, they later use terms which intentionally dehumanize the unborn. Beeman even laughably claims this is a "purely biological standpoint" as if her rhetoric had anything to do with biology.

I always wonder why. If the bottom line is that a woman's life (well, not really her life but how she wants to live her life) trumps the life of the unborn then why the need to intentionally dehumanize the unborn?

My thought is that the idea that a woman should be able to kill the helpless human being living inside for whatever reason she wants is not a position most people are comfortable defending even if that's the actual reason they favor legal abortion. It's much easier to push those tiny arms and legs aside and imagine the unborn as a bunion or a pimple because making the bodily autonomy argument is much easier if another human being isn't being torn apart. Jivin Jhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-37213421013964489412015-05-08T07:16:00.001-07:002015-05-08T07:16:24.430-07:00Con artist tricked Arizona into paying for her late term abortion, child born alive
It seems that doctors and government don't often do a very good job of checking up on things.

A convicted con artist duped the state into paying for her late-term abortion, a procedure which otherwise would not have been funded with public money, according to court records.

Chalice Renee Zeitner made up a story about having cancer in order to qualify for an abortion while on Arizona's Medicaid insurance, and forged a doctor's note to support her claim, according to charging documents.

A doctor performed the abortion when Zeitner was 22-weeks pregnant......

They realized they got conned when she went to the same doctor to deliver a child a year later and the doctor noticed she didn't have cancer. Why it took 3-4 years from that point to issue charges isn't explained.

Here's the saddest part.

Zeitner's aborted child was born alive, weighing just more than one pound, documents state.

"The baby lived for approximately 20 minutes and received no life-saving measure by hospital staff," according to documents.
Jivin Jhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-54507548438055701892015-05-07T08:26:00.000-07:002015-05-07T08:26:03.935-07:00Life Links 5/7/15
Jonathan Tobin writes about how abortion advocates are often anti-science when it comes to late-term abortions in light of the recent New England Journal of Medicine study on the viability of premature children born at 22 weeks.

But for much of our political establishment, inconvenient facts such as those put forward by the New England Journal must be disregarded. Instead of coming to grips with the fact that allowing the practice of late term abortion is enabling the slaughter of many babies that could live, they remain in denial. Instead they make national heroines of politicians like Wendy Davis who filibustered a late term abortion bill that would protect the lives of infants that we know might be able to live apart from their mother if given sufficient medical care.

Auditors have revealed that South Carolina's Department of Health and Environmental Control hasn't done the best job inspecting abortion clinics or punishing them for repeated problems.

The Legislative Audit Council said in a report that DHEC provided auditors with records for only 33 of the 42 inspections that should have been conducted from 2001 to 2014 at the three clinics in Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville.

The council also found that, with the exception of an expired license, DHEC imposed no penalties for violations, including for repeat violations such as expired medications and failure to properly dispose of medications, which could have brought fines of up to $1,000 on a second offense. Auditors suggested DHEC enforce a system of graduated penalties if repeat violations are found.

In Texas, abortion providers will have to go through human trafficking training.

Some pro-abort men/wannabe models in New York City are raising funds to create a calendar of themselves where a portion of the proceeds will go to a pro-abortion group.

Jivin Jhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-66971747552032142802015-04-28T12:11:00.001-07:002015-04-28T12:11:23.191-07:00Life Links 4/28/15
A student at Harvard shares her abortion experience in the Harvard Crimson.

I headed to the clinic a week later with just a book, a water bottle, my Harvard ID, and a locket containing a picture of my ex-boyfriend and me. The procedure didn't take long. It wasn't even that physically painful. But when it was over, I screamed. I couldn't stop screaming. As I write these words, it has been over a month since the abortion—and on the inside that screaming hasn't stopped.

The next time someone claims that "no one is pro-abortion" you can feel free to share this article with them.

Recently, the Daily Kos published an article titled I Am Pro-Choice, Not Pro-Abortion. "Has anyone ever truly been pro-abortion?" one commenter asked.

Uh. Yes. Me. That would be me.

I am pro-abortion like I'm pro-knee-replacement and pro-chemotherapy and pro-cataract surgery. As the last protection against ill-conceived childbearing when all else fails, abortion is part of a set of tools that help women and men to form the families of their choosing. I believe that abortion care is a positive social good. I suspect that a lot of other people secretly believe the same thing. And I think it's time we said so.

Time has a piece entitled, "Two Things You Don't Know About Roe v. Wade That Will Surprise You" which describes how Blackmun's original opinion in Roe was apparently changed at the suggestion from Justice Powell and one of his clerks.

As the second oral argument drew near in October 1972, Hammond wrote a game-changing bench memo to Powell, pointing out a recent federal court case out of a lower court in Connecticut that had address that state's abortion statute. In what lawyer's call dicta (meaning not critical to the opinion), the Connecticut judges argued that the critical line in any pregnancy was "viability," that is, when the fetus could live outside the womb—roughly the end of the sixth month.

No one argued "viability" in the briefs or in oral argument. Yet it was Powell who gently suggested to Blackmun that the Court consider and accept "viability" as its important dividing line. The Court adopted a three-part test, according to the trimesters of a nine-month pregnancy, but decided that the rights of a fetus were not to be considered until viability. While the other parts of Roe have dissolved, "viability" remains the law today.

Jivin Jhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-61646333201076350112015-04-21T12:58:00.000-07:002015-04-21T12:58:23.933-07:00Senate reaches agreement on trafficking legislation, abortions won't be funded, Planned Parenthood spins itself into a tizzy
So the month long game of chicken on human trafficking legislation has ended and it looks like the GOP and prolife groups won.

According to Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, the money has been split so that restrictions on abortion do not apply to fees collected for the victims, which Democrats said constituted an expansion of abortion limitations. The segregated fund would pay for law enforcement services and shelters, not medical services.

Money for medical services for the victims would be fenced off in a fund furnished by taxpayer money. Federal restrictions on abortion funding would apply to that fund.

So no federal funding for abortion, right? Pro-choice groups must be disappointed, right?

Well, not Planned Parenthood who went into spin mode after the deal became public.

Here's their first tweet which declared:

BREAKING: The Senate has reached an agreement on #JVTA that provides survivors with needed svcs & does not expand #Hyde. #WomenOverPolitics
Now if I was a pro-choicer I would read "needed svcs" as abortion since for the whole month Planned Parenthood has been saying abortion needs to be funded for victims of trafficking.

Their next tweet declares that various politicians held the line and preventing Hyde from being extended and the only bad news is that is the legislation was delayed a month.

That's a hilarious claim of winning after less than a week ago, Planned Parenthood and NARAL co-issued a press release which urged the Senate to pass a "clean bill" and "reject any attempt to deny survivors of human trafficking access to the full range of reproductive health care, including safe and legal abortion."

While Planned Parenthood was busy lying through their teeth and acting like the legislation meets their goals, NARAL was being more genuine and admitting that federal funds aren't going to be used to pay for abortions.

NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue made this statement in response to the announced compromise over the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act:

"This bill, and the deal reached, are a perfect example of why the so-called Hyde amendment is bad policy and harmful to women. Because of the Hyde amendment, this bill still denies the most vulnerable women necessary access to vital health services.

When we are talking about a community in which up to eighty percent of victims end up pregnant, often multiple times, it is unconscionable that Republicans are willing to cast aside the rights and freedoms of women and families, particularly the survivors of human and sex trafficking, by denying them the full range of health care they deserve.

So while Planned Parenthood was telling its members and the media that the bill "provides survivors of human trafficking with immediate access to needed health care services," NARAL was saying the exact opposite.

Jivin Jhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-27139594407095320442015-04-20T12:55:00.000-07:002015-04-20T13:27:45.010-07:00NARAL Colorado has bad tweet of the day but for different reasons than you think
(Updated: The Crimes Against Pregnant Women is a bill that already passed)

Below is a tweet from NARAL Colorado

To your average prolife observer (including myself) this tweet from a NARAL affiliate comes off as being opposed to the "Crimes Against Pregnant Women" legislation. The first thing that comes into a prolifer's head is "What? Those crazy pro-aborts are now opposed to harsh penalties for people who attack pregnant women and kill their unborn children."

Except it's not. After the horrific attack on Michelle Wilkins and the tragic death of her child and the lack of homicide charges for that death, Colorado legislators have introduced legislation to criminalize actions which result in the death of an unborn child.

Prolife legislators have introduced the Offenses Against Unborn Children legislation which includes the unborn as persons for homicide and assault charges and makes exemptions for abortion and actions the mother takes against herself.

Pro-choice legislators already passed the Crimes Against Pregnant Women legislation which made various crimes against pregnant women that result in the death of her child to be felonies of differing classes. For example, the unlawful termination of pregnancy in the first degree is a class 3 felony. It's a class 2 felony if the mother dies.

For pro-choice groups, the unborn child can never be the victim. For them, if a woman is attacked and her unborn child dies, there is no homicide. There is just an attack on the mother.

So NARAL Colorado's tweet is attempting to say that Colorado shouldn't pass the Offenses Against Unborn Children legislation because the Crimes Against Pregnant Women is already on the books but does so in such a muddled way that it leaves readers with the impression NARAL Colorado opposes harsh penalties for ending pregnancy against a mother's wishes when they don't.

NARAL Colorado also didn't respond to any of the numerous tweets asking about their tweet/position. If you don't clarify quickly, your lack of response seems like an indication you believe what people think you believe. That's social media 101. Jivin Jhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-31644913638848403092015-04-15T10:35:00.000-07:002015-04-15T10:35:28.448-07:00Life Links 4/15/15
NARAL will be hosting an event where comedians make fun of crisis pregnancy centers.

There's no shortage of these laughably absurd anecdotes, and NARAL is now hoping to shed light on the manipulative tactics and misinformation of crisis pregnancy centers through an unconventional advocacy event this week in Oakland: a comedy show.....

On April 16 at the New Parkway (474 24th St., Oakland), four comedians will speak out about crisis pregnancy centers as part of a comedy event NARAL is organizing called Stand Up for Choice. The show will feature Kurt Braunohler, a Los Angeles-based comedian and the event's headliner; Nato Green, a San Francisco-based comic and San Francisco Examiner columnist; Aparna Nancherla, a New York-based comic and former writer for W. Kamau Bell's show Totally Biased; and Eliza Skinner, an LA-based comic and Funny or Die writer. Their stand-up routines will touch on CPCs and other topics.....

A majority of the centers — some licensed as community clinics by the state, others unlicensed — referred to fetuses as "babies" and told the women they were "already a mother," NARAL reported.
NARAL's next move will apparently be to make fun of baby showers and anyone who uses the term baby bump.

Bloomberg has an article where Congresswoman Renee Elmers signals she is in favor of a revised version of the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

Ellmers said the new version, as shown to her, would no longer require victims of rape to report the crime to law enforcement if they wish to have a late-term abortion under the law. She said the physician would have to know this was a pregnancy as a result of a rape.

A new study in Health Economics finds that making emergency contraception available over the counter hasn't had the best results.

Utilizing state-level variation in access to EBC, we find that providing individuals with over-the-counter access to EBC leads to increase STD rates and has no effect on abortion rates. Moreover, individual-level analysis using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicates that risky sexual behavior such as engaging in unprotected sex and number of sexual encounters increases as a result of over-the-counter access to EBC, which is consistent with the state-level STD findings.
Jivin Jhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-2433709564940561552015-04-13T11:13:00.003-07:002015-04-13T11:13:53.170-07:00Life Links 4/13/15
The opening of a Planned Parenthood in El Centro, California has been delayed in opening because they didn't pass the fire inspection.

At the clinic's final inspection, the city's fire chief said the building had been incorrectly classified. The new classification requires the clinic to add a fire-suppression system and other expensive improvements.

Planned Parenthood officials said the city is responding to pressure from people who don't want the clinic to open.

El Centro Fire Chief Kenneth Herbert said that had nothing to do with his decision.

"I've got a job to do and it's about protecting life, enforcing life safety code and such, and I've never been one to bow to pressure," Herbert said.

The editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle is upset prolifers have used environmental law to prevent Planned Parenthood from converting a building into an abortion clinic.

In the lawsuit, Respect Life South San Francisco alleged that the city should have conducted an environmental review before approving the renewal of a vacant downtown building into a health clinic. The lawsuit has held up the conversion for 18 months and counting.....

We can now add women's health services to the toll of public goods that have been stymied by the California Legislature's refusal to stand up to the interest groups who seem to think CEQA should remain carved in stone. It needs reform so that it no longer provides a free pass into court for people whose real agendas have nothing to do with the environment.

Here's some dreadful advice from Dear Abby to a teen girl worried her father will forced her into an abortion: Go to Planned Parenthood.

You must also be sure to have the best prenatal care possible, so your child will be born healthy. Planned Parenthood has clinics where this care is offered, and you should contact it as soon as possible. If you check its website, www.plannedparenthood.org, you also will find information about adoption.

Senate Democrats are still opposing human trafficking legislation unless it include abortion funding.

Jivin Jhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-42719996303124009792015-04-06T07:59:00.003-07:002015-04-06T07:59:58.335-07:00Abortionist says abortion is good because children who aren't aborted fare worse than peers
Longitme abortionist David Grimes writes in The Huffington Post and tries to justify his years of killing unborn human beings by looking at research (some from more than 50 years ago) which follows women who were denied abortions.

These unwanted children fare less well in life than their peers. Their social handicaps persist at least into adulthood. Under-employment, poverty, and dependency on social services are other consequences of denied abortions.

You know who fares far less than their peers? Children who are aborted.

Jivin Jhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-20079090974268503372015-03-24T07:04:00.002-07:002015-03-24T07:04:23.796-07:00Life Links 3/24/15
A member of 40 Days for Life was praying outside a Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas when someone in a car threw a flaming object at her.

Police arrested a driver Monday night who they say threw a flaming object from a car near the Planned Parenthood clinic on East Ben White Boulevard near South Congress. Austin police received the call shortly after 6 p.m., and members of the bomb squad responded. No one was injured and nothing was damaged, police said.

A man in Pennsylvania was arrested for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl after he tried to get an abortion for her.

Shenandoah police say a social worker from Massachusetts reported a man using the name "Carlos" from Shenandoah was looking to get an abortion for his 12-year-old girlfriend.

The New Hampshire Union Leader rips into Senator Jeanne Shaheen for her opposition to the Justice for Victims of Sex Trafficking Act.

Sex trafficking is a crime that almost exclusively victimizes women and girls. According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, 90 percent of sex trafficking victims in the United States last year were female. Shaheen is refusing to help these abuse victims until Republicans agree to make taxpayers finance abortions. What a loathsome, cowardly, cynical thing to do.

A teenager charged with killing her mother in Bali is claiming her mother forced her to have two abortions and was attempting to force her to have a third.

He said von Wiese-Mack had "forced" her daughter, Heather Mack, to have two earlier abortions and was seeking legal control so that she could compel a third procedure to terminate the teen's latest pregnancy.

Mack, 19, gave birth this week to a girl in an Indonesian hospital. She and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 21, of Oak Park, are charged with murder in her mother's August death. They could face a firing squad if convicted.
Jivin Jhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-15343080176508211472015-03-18T07:23:00.000-07:002015-03-24T07:04:42.717-07:00Life Links 3/18/15
Is a California Planned Parenthood employee shipping pounds of pot? That what it sounds like to me.

This week a Planned Parenthood in California received a package with their address as the return address after the postal service was unable to deliver the package to an address in Georgia. Some employees were suspicious of the package so they called in the bomb squad which found:

Inside the package was about four pounds of marijuana, baby diapers and a thank you card, Swithenbank said.

The card wasn't written on in the inside, but was left blank with a generic greeting, he said.

Mollie Hemingway writes on how Planned Parenthood and NARAL got the Senate Democrats to vote against the human trafficking legislation they all favored just weeks ago.

Prior to March 10, no Democrats opposed the bill and Planned Parenthood and NARAL didn't issue a peep about it. Since the afternoon of March 10, when Barbara Boxer dropped her support and Planned Parenthood decided to launch its public relations campaign against the bill, Planned Parenthood has tweeted some 60 times trying to gin up opposition — more than 60 percent of its tweets during that time. Cecile Richards, the head of Planned Parenthood, tweeted a couple dozen times, also beginning on March 10. And NARAL tweeted against the bill nearly 47 times, again beginning on March 10. Heck, almost like it was all coordinated.

It's certainly not a surprise that the Democratic Party is so controlled by Planned Parenthood, but it was still remarkable to watch the whole thing transpire in real time.

Kay Hymowitz discusses the class gap in unplanned babies.

One way of examining the question of whether hardship is at the root of the unplanned-baby gap is to ask whether locales with more publicly funded family-planning clinics have less unplanned pregnancy. Guttmacher estimates the percentage of the need for publicly funded services that is met in each state and the number of women per 1,000 who have unplanned pregnancies. But as the scatterplot below shows, there is no solid relationship between the two. Alaska and California outperform other states in terms of servicing needy women: About 60 percent of the need for publicly funded care is met. The states' unintended-pregnancy rates, though not the highest in the nation, are still impressive: 50 out of every 1,000 women. That's about the same as a number of states, including Arizona, Ohio, and Illinois, that are only helping about 20 percent of the women who need it. That sure makes it look like money and access by themselves cannot explain the unplanned-pregnancy gap
Jivin Jhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-42242434807848162322015-03-04T08:23:00.001-08:002015-03-04T08:23:30.074-08:00Life Links 3/4/15
A Pennsylvania man named John Frazier has been arrested after he allegedly offered a baby sitter $100 to attack his ex-girlfriend and make her miscarry their child after she wouldn't have an abortion.

Police say Frazier asked his baby sitter neighbor for help after his ex-girlfriend refused to have an abortion or give the child up for adoption.

They say the baby sitter was shocked and immediately refused.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has publicly endorsed legislation to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

"As the Wisconsin legislature moves forward in the coming session, further protections for mother and child are likely to come to my desk in the form of a bill to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks," his letter said. "I will sign that bill when it gets to my desk and support similar legislation on the federal level."

The ACLU is going after a hospital in Washington because it doesn't provide abortions.

Jefferson Healthcare officials are in the process of responding to an ACLU letter dated Feb. 18 that challenges the local public health care system's failure to offer abortions. In that letter, ACLU policy council official Leah Rutman asks Jefferson Healthcare to "change its policies and practices to fulfill its obligations" with the 1991 Reproductive Privacy Act (RPA).

"We believe that Jefferson Healthcare's failure to provide abortion services violates state law," Rutman wrote. "Our goal is to ensure that women seeking reproductive health care services at Jefferson Healthcare have access to the full range of services as required by law."

Jivin Jhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-51998216593036951572015-02-27T11:44:00.000-08:002015-02-27T11:44:09.974-08:00Planned Parenthood and Cecile Richards come full circle on OTC birth control
During the last election, Planned Parenthood and a number of their favored candidates attempted to scare voters by acting like certain prolife candidates were opposed to birth control. Some of those prolife candidates (most notably current U.S. Senators Cory Gardner and Thom Tillis) responded to these claims by announcing that they were in favor of birth control pills being available over-the-counter (OTC). It's tough to claim someone wants to ban birth control when they want to allow it to be should sold OTC.

In an attempt to not get outflanked, Planned Parenthood re-attacked these candidates by claiming making birth controls pills available OTC was designed to raise the price of the pills now that Obamacare required employers to fund contraceptive coverage. According to Politico, they spent $500,000 in North Carolina and $400,000 in Colorado on television ads. They also spent money on radio ads as well.

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards also penned an editorial claiming the Republican candidates' plan of making birth controls available OTC would "push women back to the 1950s."

Richards made this absurd claim after previously claiming the FDA ruling which made emergency contraception (EC) available OTC was "wonderful news" since "women all over the country will soon be able to walk into a pharmacy and pick up emergency contraception off the shelves, as soon as they need it -- no barriers, no shame."

Be sure to note the complete lack of need that EC be paid for by insurance back in the dark ages of 2013.

Both the Planned Parenthood ads and the Richards' piece seem to assume a number of factors:

1.) that birth control pills couldn't be available both OTC and by prescription

2.) that women would be apparently unable to choose for themselves between whether they want to pay for birth control OTC if it wasn't covered vs. having to go to annual appointment and get a prescription

3.) that the required inclusion of birth control coverage doesn't raise the price of insurance plans

4.) that all the Republicans they attacked were opposed to insurance reimbursing women for birth control if it was purchased OTC.

Now Planned Parenthood has come full circle according to this article in the Huffington Post. They now are completely in favor of making birth control available OTC as long as it is covered by insurance (even though Richards doesn't even mention that in her statement).

The idea of making birth control available over the counter has been around for a long time and is supported by reproductive health organizations like Planned Parenthood......

Planned Parenthood Action Fund president Cecile Richards said she would applaud making the pill available over the counter.

"We strongly support making birth control available over the counter, as part of our nearly 100-year history of expanding access to birth control," Richards said. "Every woman in America should have access to the birth control method that's best for her, without barriers based on cost, availability, stigma, or any other hurdle."

It's clear that the hundreds of thousands of dollars Planned Parenthood spent attacking prolife candidates over their position in favor of making birth control available OTC was a cynical ploy done solely to help elect pro-choice politicians. Jivin Jhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-47020815177834004382015-02-24T08:06:00.001-08:002015-02-24T08:06:22.684-08:00New York Times article on John Willke's death intentionally misleads readers
The New York Times article by Kenneth Rose on the death of John Willke, one of the founders of the prolife movement in America, beings with this paragraph:

Dr. John C. Willke, an obstetrician who helped establish the modern anti-abortion movement — and whose idea that rape victims could resist conception was widely challenged — died on Friday at his home in Cincinnati. He was 89.

The claim that Willke believed "rape victims could resist conception" is a focal point of the article. Later Rosen writes:

In 1971, the couple wrote "Handbook on Abortion," which sold an estimated 1.5 million copies and became a touchstone for the anti-abortion movement. The book asserted that pregnancies from rape could be avoided "for all practical purposes." They later expanded on that notion after a report in The New England Journal of Medicine suggested that rape victims typically experience a level of shock that prevents their bodies from functioning normally.

Your average reader would seemingly come away from that paragraph believing John Willke believed that the bodies of women could "for all practical purposes" prevent pregnancy after rape because of shock. But what's the context of the "for all practical purposes" remark?

Rosen appears to have gotten that information (also note the repeated use of the term "touchstone") from an AP article from 2012. That article notes:

The book became an instant touchstone for the anti-abortion movement, selling 1.5 million copies at the height of the sexual revolution.

The authors asserted that a douche, vaginal scraping and medications administered quickly after a rape "invariably" prevents pregnancy. "If the rape victim would report her assault properly, there would be, for all practical purposes, no pregnancies from rape," the couple wrote.

It's clear that the "for all practical purposes" remark has absolutely nothing to do with the woman's body preventing pregnancy because of shock but rather methods taken by physicians or the woman to prevent fertilization.

Rosen knows this yet intentionally leads readers to believe otherwise. When I tweeted to him asking why there is no context to these remarks, I did not receive a reply.

While the New York Times may not agree with Dr. Willke's work in the prolife movement, they should have the decency to not intentionally misrepresent him in an article about his life and death. Jivin Jhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-22674090094713245402015-01-29T11:49:00.000-08:002015-01-29T11:49:49.611-08:00After 5 years of voting pro-choice 100%, Congressman Tim Ryan finally admits he's pro-choice
Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan recently wrote an editorial for the Akron Beacon-Journal entitled, "Why I changed my thinking on abortion" in which he describes why he is no longer prolife. It's an editorial he should have written 5 years ago.

Congressman Ryan has been a persona non grata to the prolife movement for more than 5 years. He got kicked off the board of Democrats for Life in 2009. He lied and falsely claimed his removal was because Democrats for Life opposed contraception when they don't. He also pulled an Obama and said the question of when life begins was "above (his) pay grade." After that, he tried to claim he was still prolife after voting in favor of letting Washington, D.C. spend tax dollars on abortion.

The last time he voted in favor of prolife legislation was in 2009, when he cast a yes vote for the Stupak Amendment to Obamacare. That was his only prolife vote in the term. He hasn't voted prolife since. And it's not like he was a solid prolife vote before that. National Right to Life gave him a 0% voting record in the 2007-2008 term, 80% in 2005-2006 term and 72% in the 2003-2004 term.

What's interesting is the publicity this editorial has received.

 The Hill, Time, USA Today, all have articles on the editorial along with numerous Ohio papers and local papers outside of Ohio. The articles often fail to quote prolifers who recognized Ryan abandoned the prolife movement long ago. Or mention that Ryan is likely running for the U.S. Senate in 2016.

In hilarious fashion, Patricia Miller describes Ryan as "one of the most principled and prominent pro-life Democrats" in an article for Religion Dispatches.

In one particularly creepy quote, Ryan discusses how the recent birth of his son moved him to be pro-choice.

Ryan also has an 8-month-old son, his first child. He told The Associated Press in an interview that it was not coincidence that the declaration followed his experience realizing the battery of tests, check-ups and health decisions involved even in a healthy pregnancy.

 "That's, to me, when it really hit me," Ryan said. "Like, there's no room for Uncle Sam in this examination room as we're getting test results back, regardless of how they come out."
It really hit you that it should be legal to kill unborn children while your wife is pregnant with your unborn child? I feel bad for your son when he grows up and reads that.

The pro-choice movement and Planned Parenthood can have Congressman Tim Ryan. The prolife movement doesn't have room for lying, opportunistic politicians who are thinking about abortion while their child is in the womb. Jivin Jhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-53378289086409457012015-01-09T11:16:00.002-08:002015-01-09T11:16:30.203-08:00Washington Post gives space to abortionist on probation for substance abuse
The Washington Post has an article by Lydia DePillis which allows Arizona abortionist Gabrielle Goodrick to whine about how hard it is to be an abortionist in Arizona after the state legislature passed some prolife laws.

Likely unbeknownst to De Pillis is that Goodrick is currently on probation for substance abuse issues (she took Fentanyl at her office in 2010) and her clinic was the subject of one of LiveAction's undercover stings regarding sex-selection abortion. A staffer in video coaches the actor not to admit her desire to have an abortion because the child is the wrong sex. Performing a sex-selection abortion is illegal in Arizona.

In the Post piece, Goodrich reveals a number of things and her practice.

She describes how abortion took over her practice.

Gradually, it just kind of took over my practice. Not only because of patient need, but because of the amount of effort — it just takes over. I have to have RNs now, and monitoring. There's so much involved in it, so I wouldn't do that for a few procedures a week. To do more than 5 abortions a month, you have to be a licensed abortion clinic. So now probably 5 percent of my practice is general practice.

She thinks her practice was given "a pass" the first year state inspectors came by.

I don't have an administrator. I'm just a doctor in a solo practice. So for me to make that change was pretty traumatic, when the state comes through [to inspect]. The first time, in 2011, we had coffee in the break room, she looked over my policies, everything was perfect, and that was that. I think they just gave everyone a pass the first year, because they didn't know what they were doing. And then the next year, they came through, and it was like the Gestapo. I didn't have a policy for this or that. It was very nasty.

Arizona's 24 hour waiting period is bad for patients but really bad for her

The waiting period was probably the worst for patients. You have to do the meeting first, it has to be with a physician, you can't have a nurse do it. That has been an incredible burden on women, and on us. I have to meet with every single patient. The law says we can't charge for that visit.
Jivin Jhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-38088683710367315322014-10-16T10:41:00.003-07:002014-10-16T10:41:53.077-07:00Life Links 10/16/14
The New York Times covers Planned Parenthood's continuing attempts to corner the market on abortion. They're building a $9 million facility in Queens.

While there are other women's health centers in Queens that offer abortions, the absence of a Planned Parenthood was "something that had to be corrected," Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, Democrat of Queens, said.

Alabama Women's Center for Reproductive Alternatives abortion clinic is re-opening at a new location after the old clinic couldn't meet standards set forth in Alabama's Women's Health and Safety Act of 2013. If you watch the video of the newscast you can see a sign on a door which reads, "NO CHILDREN ALLOWED IN THE BUILDING!!!"

Katha Pollitt is out and about promoting her new book on abortion. The latest is this Huffington Post column excerpted from her book where she claims, "We need to see abortion as an urgent practical decision that is just as moral as the decision to have a child -- indeed, sometimes more moral" and "Actually, abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children...."

Jivin Jhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737469.post-54891238111411034362014-10-08T10:35:00.000-07:002014-10-08T10:35:12.914-07:00Life Links 10/8/14
The Abortion Gang has a guest post by Canadian Mel Waters in which she describes her experience in Colorado for an elective abortion after 24 weeks at Warren Hern's clinic. The story is sad on many levels.

It was a long physical recovery; the mental scars have been a longer journey, and after 4 years I am still working through it. I can't close my eyes at night without reliving the whole thing again, I still have nightmares!

Cosmopolitian magazine has endorsed....drumroll.....Wendy Davis (I know big surprise right?) The start of the story mentions the pink shoes as if that's a reason to vote for her.

An 11-hour filibuster. A bold stand for women in a red state. Those pink tennis shoes.
They'd probably call other media outlets sexist for mentioning the shoes.

The end of this sentence caught my eye.

A Davis governorship would represent all Texans, including those who are traditionally underserved by Austin, setting the state on the road to restoring basic women's health care and ensuring that the children women do choose to have are cared for.

Why the need to mention "the children women do choose to have"? Why not just say "ensuring that children are cared for"? Cosmo concedes the reality that women are aborting "children" they don't want.

An abortion clinic in El Paso is shut down again after being open for part of the day on Saturday after they received an exemption that was meant for another clinic in El Paso. In another example of how abortion is a business, the clinic isn't referring women to the abortion clinic in El Paso but instead to one of their affiliated clinics in New Mexico.

They are not completely closed, though. They still take walk-ins and phone calls and instruct women requiring an abortion to go to their clinic in New Mexico.
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Rory Markham fined $1,000 for being 6 lbs over weight
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3/27/10 2:57 PM by JustPeed
What did Anthony Johnson get fined when he came in ridiculously over a couple months back on the Machida/Shogun card, actually I think he came in at 177 too, right?
3/27/10 2:57 PM by JustPeed
Here's Militech's excuse..http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2010/3/27/1393085/pat-miletich-rory-markhams-trainer
3/27/10 1:59 PM by BruceLeeMMAfighting
You can basically use that excuse for anything since it's unverifiable.What we do know is that Nate is at a severe disadvantage strength/power wise and it also may give Markham an ability to power out of some of Nate's subs.Not to mention a loss on Nate's record is never good.I've always liked Markham but this was very unprofessional of him. Miletich guys are usually very good about making weight and being professional about it.
3/27/10 1:52 PM by bruddahoodaman
i hate nate diaz's attitude, but i give him props for taking the fight anyway.
3/27/10 1:47 PM by Clichy
I am sure Dana sweetened the pot with a locker room bonus.
3/27/10 1:42 PM by JiuJitsuLifeMH
1,000 dollars for missing 7 lbs? Shit, to have that much of an advantage its more than worth 1k.Respect to Nate for still taking the fight, I've never questioned his toughness.
3/27/10 1:36 PM by grenade
1,000 dollars.that's a slap on the wrist. 7 pounds over weight is ridiculous, and he should be fined atleast 50%
3/27/10 1:32 PM by BruceLeeMMAfighting
No.He is still better off if he wins (with 12.5 penalty) then if he lost (without penalty). Basically there is an incentive to get this advantage/cheat.If you look at the McDonald fight. Wilson Gouveia came in 4 lbs overweight after coming down from 205 for this fight. In other words he was a huge 185er. I believe this was the headliner of the UFN IIRC.Jason McDonald like a trooper took the fight then got beatdown by the 205 power punches of Gouveia. So McDonald even with Gouveia's penalty made less money losing than if he would have won. And Gouveia made more money than if he had lost.Not only that but that gave MacDonald a loss, which was followed up by a TKO elbow cut loss (from a preexisiting cut) to Nate Quarry (which was another fight McDonald stepped up and took like a trooper instead of pulling out with injury) and 2 straight losses and he was out of the UFC.Basically stepping up to fight at such a disadvantage for the team did McDonald zero good and was beneficial to Wilson Gouveia at the time.
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SkillsScoresAndPerks Skill Scores and Perks YKTTW Discussion
|Skill Scores and Perks
How RPG characters' skills work.Needs Examples
In Real Life, human brain acquires new knowledge and puts it to use via a spectacular cascade of electrochemical reactions taking place across a heavily networked biological cell grid. Learning and improving one's skills is a continuous, life-long process, while expertise in one field often proves unexpectedly useful in others, seemingly unrelated domains. But complex neuroscience has no place in video games, because a) it violates the Rule of Fun, and b) it runs a high risk of spawning a murderous AI on your computer. Instead, tabletop and video games--particularly Role Playing Games and games with RPG Elements--narrow down the areas of human knowledge to a handful of quantifiable "skills" that are relevant to the plot and whose advancement and effects can be defined in terms of gameplay mechanics. At the start of the game, the players are handed a list of these skills and a few "skill points" to assign to their characters, with more skills rewarded later on for completing the game's objectives. There are two common ways to define character skills in the Game System terms: skill scores (a.k.a. "skill levels") and perks (a.k.a. "feats" and "traits"). Following table outlines their main differences:
Skill scores and perks often coexist side-by-side, mixed-and-matched in a myriad of ways, and many games (especially contemporary RPGs) even blur the line between the two.
See also The Six Stats, Skill Point Reset.
Will go under Older Than the NES, Role-Playing Game. Also gonna create redirects from Skill Score, Perk, and Skill Tree.
|Skill Scores
|Improve basic in-game actions
|Unlock new moves and unique bonuses
|Can be leveled up multiple times (between 3 and 100)
|Usually cannot be leveled up, although other perks may confer bonuses
|Skill levels have index numbers or generic labels (novice, trained, master)
|Each perk or upgrade has a unique identifying name
|No skill levels are technically needed to use basic actions
|Active perks must be learned before using them
|Follow a linear improvement progression
|Often form branching "skill trees"
|Higher skill levels may cost more than the lower ones
|More advanced perks may cost more than the basic ones
|Unlocked level-by-level; may be capped by a character stat
|May have prerequisite perks, character levels, skill and stat scores
Tabletop game examples:
- Dungeons & Dragons is likely the Trope Codifier, if not the outright Trope Maker. The specifics vary a little by edition, but D&D uses both skill scores, purchased points that act as a modifier on skill rolls, and "feats," purchased perks that may do everything from modifying rolls further to allowing the character to perform special actions or be immune to certain things (and that's just the tip of the iceberg, especially with the vast expanses of 3.X Edition). D&D-based video games usually use some or all of these mechanics.
- Both the Storyteller and the Storytelling System are based around "traits", which are basically a hybrid mash-up of stats ("attributes"), skill scores ("abilities" in oWoD, "skills" in nWoD), and upgradable perks ("advantages"). The latter include both storyline perks (like background) and active abilities (like the vampiric Disciplines). Attribute scores range from 1 to 5, abilities/skills and advantages from 0 to 5. Occasionally, levels up to 10 may be allowed. Trait levels are acquired by spending character points.
Video game examples:RPG -- Action
- Diablo II featured a hybrid skill score/perk system, wherein each class had three unique skill trees consisting of several tiers of perks. Individual tiers were unlocked one by one at certain character levels, after which any number of skill points (gained at each level and from some quests) could be invested into any unlocked perk, increasing its efficiency and often giving bonuses to more advanced perks derived from it. On a side note, Diablo II had one of the first popular implementations of the aura-type perks (with its Paladin class).
- Mass Effect 1 had a hybrid skill score/perk system wherein "talents" encompassed both passive (armor, weapon) and active (biotic attacks) skills. Talents could be leveled up multiple times, increasing their efficiency and unlocking additional perks and even further upgradeable talents at certain levels (forming an implicit skill tree). Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 replaced them with "powers"--active combat skills, which were essentially perks with up to five (mutually exclusive at level 4+) upgrade perks available for each of them. Which talents and powers were available depended on the character's class and although most were so from the start, some were only unlocked after certain story events.
- The original Deus Ex featured both skill scores and perks (dubbed "augmentations"). Skill scores were upgraded using skill points acquired by completing missions, had four levels (Untrained, Trained, Advanced, Master), and improved your performance with different types of weapons, or non-combat actions (lock-picking, electronics, medicine, etc.). Augmentations were picked up as items on missions and implanted into Denton's body slots, giving him new abilities. They also could be upgraded. Deus Ex: Human Revolution did away with skill scores and instead translates experience points into Praxis Points, which in turn can be invested into any augmentation unlocked in the perk tree (justified by that all augs are already built into Jensen and only need to be activated).
- Path of Exile has an enormous perk tree consisting of 1300 nodes available to each class, although all nodes are passive bonuses (active skills are instead imbued into items). Furthermore, a majority of nodes are unspectacular permanent bonuses to one of the character attributes (strength, dexterity, intelligence), but buying them is required to get to the juicy, named perks that provide significant combat advantages.
- Uncharted Waters: New Horizons features a combination of seven skill scores (ranging from Leadership, through Knowledge, to Swordsmanship) which increase your performance as a fleet captain, and five perks: Celestial Navigation lets you auto-sail to any known port, Cartography allows you to sell maps, Gunnery drastically improves combat performance, Accounting tells you best places to sell your goods, and Negotiation lets you haggle for better prices.
- The Crystarium system Final Fantasy XIII consisted of class-and-character-specific (mostly linear with minor sideways branching) perk trees, whose nodes had increasing "crystogen point" costs. Most nodes provided bonuses to either Strength, Magic, or Health, but some unlocked class/role-specific moves. In Final Fantasy XIII-2, each character has only one linear "perk tree", but its nodes are technically empty slots where the player can place perks (bonuses or abilities) of any of the six available classes (up to 99 per class) by investing crystogen points.
- The underlying game system of The Elder Scrolls series is based mainly around skill scores, which are increased by using them (which also indirectly increases their governing character stats), but Oblivion added a number perks, which were unlocked by reaching certain levels in skills: e.g. a Power Attack at Blade 25, no shield wear-out at Shield 50, jumping off water surface at Acrobatics 100, etc. Skyrim expanded the available perks to an entire tree (one per skill score); perks now have prerequisite perks and corresponding skill score levels and can be bought and upgraded with perk points (gained with every level up) once unlocked.
- In Dragon Age: Origins skill scores ("skills") and perks ("talents" and spells) existed in parallel, although the latter were much more prevalent. Eight (11 in Awakening) skills could be leveled up four times, providing passive bonuses to anything from persuasiveness, through pickpocketing, to combat efficiency. Talents, meanwhile, were distinct moves, auras, passives, and upgrades grouped into "trees" of three (four in Awakening) linear four item-long branches (mages got spells instead of talents but they worked the same way). There were also class- and specialization-specific perk trees. In addition to being part of a skill tree, new perks had stat and (in case of weapon talents) skill level requirements. Talent points were gained at every level, and skill points, every three (two for rogues) levels. Dragon Age II did away with the skills but expanded the talent trees to branch out more.
- Alpha Protocol uses a system similar to Mass Effect 1 in that your skill points both improve your proficiency directly and, at predefined points along the tree, grant access to special actions such as Bullet Time or HUD indicators as to enemies' location, disposition, and facing.
- No One Lives Forever 2 included a skill score system that represented various aspects of being a super-spy (stealth, marksmanship, gadgets, etc.). Each skill score could be upgraded four times, giving various passive bonuses to the respective basic action (hiding, shooting, breaking codes, etc.). Each level cost progressively more skill points, which were obtained from completing missions and finding manuals scattered throughout the game.
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1. Re: User Creating Mode settingsBrad McGarr Jul 16, 2013 1:48 PM (in response to lewispaskin)
Hi lewispaskin,
What you're experiencing is normal behavior. SMTP Discovery is a function that only allows for the system to try all emails to your server. In order to block invalid recipients, you will have to use Explicit mode. There is no option to do both SMTP Discovery and block invalid recipients, as SMTP Discovery requires the ability to receive mail for recipients not listed in the control console to attempt them to your server.
2. Re: User Creating Mode settingslewispaskin Jul 16, 2013 3:08 PM (in response to Brad McGarr)
Hi Brad,
Thanks for the answer. I'm still confused though. If our exchange server is sending a message back saying that its an invalid user, why isn't that message in turn sent back to the sender? That is how we are used to it with Postini and find it to be very important to get that message back as a lot of people misspell names, etc...
Explicit mode doesn't work for us since we are not doing any AD or directory synchronization or uploading a user list. I played around with explicit mode and its an option that simply won't work for us.
3. Re: User Creating Mode settingsBrad McGarr Jul 16, 2013 3:40 PM (in response to lewispaskin)
The SaaS Service will relay back the error we received when attempting to deliver the message, so an NDR should be issued. If it is not, I recommend contacting the support team that works with your account to determine if it is a sending server issue, or another problem.
I'm curious as to what challenges you experienced with Explicit mode? Many issues can be resolved by ensuring the user is created by one method or another (Directory Integration, Bulk Creation, or, Individual Creation). We actually recommend creating your users through any method, and then setting the system to Explicit to avoid invalid email delivery.
4. Re: User Creating Mode settingslewispaskin Jul 16, 2013 3:53 PM (in response to Brad McGarr)
Hi Brad,
I will contact them about not receiving the NDR.
As far as the challenges, we don't want every user setup. If we setup every user, the price would get too high very quickly. We only had 40 or so users with Postini. The people not setup would get some spam and viruses would get stopped, but they didn't have a lot of email back and forth to the extent we needed them setup. If we setup explicit mode, email will get rejected for anyone we don't have setup and that isn't a good solution. We aren't going to do any directory integration. We will just have the mailboxes setup upon discovery. Does that answer your question?
5. Re: User Creating Mode settingsBrad McGarr Jul 16, 2013 5:09 PM (in response to lewispaskin)
It certainly does. The McAfee service is not designed to have "some filtered, some not filtered" to achieve price controls. All email passing through is essentially using the service and is being filtered by the default policy. Each person receiving email on the domain should be covered under a license in order to affectively use the product. Otherwise, the users will get the same level of filtering without being licensed.
6. Re: User Creating Mode settingslewispaskin Jul 19, 2013 6:56 PM (in response to Brad McGarr)
Hi Brad,
We are now in the process of letting the SMTP discovery setup all of our users. Thanks for the information on that.
Its getting more interesting though. Any email sent from a @gmail.com address to an invalid user never receives an NDR. I see:
Recipient Disposition: [250 Bounce (550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable); Mode: normal; Queued: no; Frontend TLS: yes; SPF: n/a]
in the message audit but it never makes it back to the sender mailbox. By invalid I mean that the user does not exist on our exchange server. Any ideas why it never makes it back to the gmail sender?
Next I sent a test from @yahoo.com to the same recipient as above. I received an NDR back to my @yahoo.ccom address but I do NOT see it in the message audit. Any ideas on this one as well?
Lastly, regarding the same user - I am seeing messages in quarantine for that same user as well. How can that be? Shouldn't an NDR have been sent back to the sender? It was spam so I'm happy it got caught, but how did it get past the error of the user not even existing? Is the system going to try to send the user a quarantine summary since spam was caught in quarantine?
Any help/information on this would be greatly appreciated. We just cutover 10 domains from Postini so all of this is happening suddenly and I don't have any answers on this behavior.
Message was edited by: lewispaskin on 7/19/13 6:54:23 PM CDT
7. Re: User Creating Mode settingsBrad McGarr Jul 23, 2013 3:45 PM (in response to lewispaskin)
I'll answer your questions in the order they appeared:
- McAfee's servers return an error code, however it is the responsibility of the sending server to issue the NDR. Some servers are not configured to issue an NDR when an error code is encountered.
- You should see the messages from the yahoo.com address in message audit, but it will depend on what error is being returned. I would recommend contacting the support team or partner that supports your account for further research.
- With SMTP Discovery, McAfee tries all messages that pass through the filter to your server and only then are they denied as an invalid user (based off the response from your server). If a message is quarantined, it is not attempted against your server and does not have the opportunity to error out until released. A Spam Report will not be generated because the user does not exist.
8. Re: User Creating Mode settingslewispaskin Jul 23, 2013 4:21 PM (in response to Brad McGarr)
Our server does issue an NDR. I get one when sending from a yahoo address but not from a gmail address. I called into Mcafee and spoke with somone in Denver. He tried a test from his gmail account and never received a bounce message but did see the NDR message in the log. We did the same from a yahoo address and did receive a bounce. When we had postini, we would always receive a bounce message regardless of where it came from (yahoo, gmail, etc...). From there he wasn't able to explain why this was happening with gmail. Not sure where to go from here. Its not the end of the world but it certainly doesn't make any sense. I don't specifically know of anyone else using this service but I'd be curious if anyone reading this could send an email to yyyzzz@<yourdomain.com> from a gmail account and see if anything happens.
I understand # 3 now, thanks.
9. Re: User Creating Mode settingsBrad McGarr Jul 23, 2013 5:01 PM (in response to lewispaskin)
I'll explain the point about NDRs a bit better. When an NDR is generated, it is not a message sent from the recipient server. It is a reply returned to the sending server, which must then send a NDR to the sender.
For example:
gmail.com connects to mxlogic.net to deliver a message, we simultaneously connect to your server.
gmail.com begins sending data to mxlogic.net, which is captured, filtered, and if clean, forwarded to your server.
At the rcpt to: command, your server returns an error stating no such user/invalid user/ etc.
That error message is relayed back to gmail.com during the transaction.
Gmai.com's servers should then turn around and email the sender with a NDR to alert them of the failure.
Which is why an NDR, Non-Delivery Report, is named as such, not a Non-Reciept Report. The NDR is the sending server alerting the sender that it could not successfully deliver the message for whatever reason. If the sending server is misconfigured or is purposefully not sending NDRs, this is the decision of the administrator of the sending server. All any recipient server can do is issue the error.


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