A Roman Catholic priest in Poland is taking practical steps in his "war against abortion" by helping out single mothers who are at a crossroads in their abortion decision by offering concrete help to the mother and baby AFTER the child is born. Abortion has been banned in Poland for nearly 30 years...but this does not stop women from seeking out the procedure, often b/c they are in desperate circumstances (economic, abusive relationship, etc.). The Polish government does nothing to assist them ...but this priest has stepped up to the challenge by offering a creative solution: "Little Feet", a shelter for pregnant single women and their babies offering them free food, shelter and support. Perhaps this can become a model for the US?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/world/europe/poland-abortion-ban-single-mothers.html
Unbeleivable, but true- news from Talibama:
(I am putting this in the Roe v Wade thread, bc there is a connection here, somewhere, about how the so-called pro-life people are pro-death, in so many ways, and how those attitudes are reflected in their treatment of womenfolk)
from The Guardian- Female journalist told skirt too short when reporting on Alabama execution
One journalist reporting on the lethal injection was told her skirt was too short and another said she had a full-body inspection
Last Thursday night, the state of Alabama took three hours to find a vein in Joe Nathan James Jr through which officials could pump lethal injection drugs and execute him, a process that the department of corrections insisted was “nothing out of the ordinary”.
Alabama appears to specialize in its extraordinary sense of the ordinary, particularly when it comes to the death penalty. It has now emerged that, during that execution, prison officials subjected female reporters who came as witnesses to the proceeding to a clothing inspection, attempting to bar one woman from the death chamber on grounds that her skirt was too short.
Ivana Hrynkiw, a journalist for Alabama’s pre-eminent news outlet AL.com, recounted how she was pulled aside by a prison official and told that her skirt was too diminutive to meet regulations. “I tried to pull my skirt to my hips to make the skirt longer, but was told it was still not appropriate,” she recounted on Twitter.
The paradox that the state went to such lengths to uphold what it regards as propriety in clothing even as it prepared to kill a man appears to have been lost on the department of corrections. Officials also subjected an Associated Press reporter, Kim Chandler, to a full-body inspection, making her stand to have the length of her clothing checked. Chandler said that such an indignity had never happened to her before in the many times she had covered executions since 2002.
^that story about the reporter who was told her dress was too short to witness an execution reminded me about something that happened to my sister. She was in high school in the late 60s, and one day the principal called her into his office. He pulled out a measuring tape and measured her miniskirt. He said it was too short, and she had to choose between being expelled, or taking a spanking. She told him "I have a big Chemistry exam in ten minutes, so we better go with the whipping." (She really thought he was bluffing.)
But he surprised her, and told her to bend over, as he pulled a leather strap out from his desk. And then she surprised him, by turning around and snatching the strap from his raised hand. She then proceeded to beat the pee out of the old perv. Then she walked down the hall to her Chemistry class and took her exam.
The principal never called the police (or an ambulance), probably bc it would have been too much for his fragile masculinity to bear. He also never bothered my sister again. She is a doctor now.
I am hopeful that this November, we will be delivering some beatdowns to those who want to take away our rights. Not literal beatings, of course, but some days i would feel ok about that, too, lol.
@mtgal99 my sister was 6 feet tall by the time she was in 5th grade, and she always had a reputation of being a bruiser- but she only beat up bullies. She also was the 1st female gas station attendant in our city (this was before self-serve gas pumps). She would be out there pumping gas in a bikini, with her 7 foot long Boa Constrictor snake in her hair. That snale went everywhere with her. The cars would line up around the block to get gas from her. She always made me so proud!
I have no words. That principle deserved that beating.
And the snake bikini gas pump thing...WOW!
May I ask what type of doctor she became?
What a presence!
Talibama, that is a perfect name.
What a disgraceful way to treat those female reporters. Disgusting and chilling.
@lovendures an Animal Doctor. If your snake gets the sniffles, go see my sis.
BREAKING:
Kansans resoundingly reject amendment aimed at restricting abortion rights
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — In a major victory for abortion rights, Kansas voters on Tuesday rejected an effort to strip away their state’s abortion protections, sending a decisive message about the issue’s popularity in the first political test since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
The overwhelming support for abortion rights in a traditionally conservative state bolsters Democrats’ hopes that the historic Supreme Court ruling will animate their voters in an otherwise difficult election year for their party. The Kansas vote signals that abortion is an energizing issue that could affect turnout in the November midterm elections.
With 86 percent of the vote counted, 62 percent of voters wanted to maintain those abortion protections compared with 37 percent who wanted to remove them from the state constitution. Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab predicted that turnout for Tuesday’s primary election would exceed other contests in recent years, and possibly match that of the 2008 presidential election, when around 50 percent of the eligible voters cast ballots.
Wake up RepubliTHUGS and CONservatives! If the fact that Kansas of all states rejected a measure to allow Republicans to take away a woman's constitutional right to control her body, what more do you need to know? Oh, and it was an overwhelming majority of voters who turned it down (unless you are a Trumper and believe all elections you lose is the result of cheating). And, as if that wasn't enough, this happened during the PRIMARY, where young and democratic voters are not supposed to be as active.
Republicans, we are coming. But we aren't aiming for your guns. We are after your political power. Thanks to the Supreme Court, you can't blame the big bad federal government anymore. You will now be held accountable for the pain you have inflicted on the one group you should not have targeted. Basically almost every person with ovaries, as well as a plurality of good men, is against you on this issue. Good luck and hope you can swim, Republicans. The blue wave is coming to wash you away.