Another segment of "Women's Rights News of the Now." :D
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Raped Soldiers Don't Deserve Abortion Coverage, Says US Senate
The Senate of the United States has refused to vote a proposal that would have allowed military rape victims to have abortions covered by insurance.
Despite one-in-three women in the military saying they’ve been sexually assaulted while serving their country, the Senate decided to skip over voting for an amendment which would have allowed rape victims coverage for abortion. While civilians employed by the US government are given such protection, coverage is not granted in the US military. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) hoped to change that with an amendment tacked on to the National Defense Authorization Bill, but on Wednesday the Senate decided to move pass the legislation without bringing it up for vote. .... The DoD adds that while the number of reported rapes are substantial, close to 90 percent of rapes are unreported. Compared with civilian life, rape within the military is nearly double.
Forced Birthers Are Pissed That A Hospital Wants Their Nurses To Do Their Jobs GASP
In November, nurses at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) were allegedly threatened the loss of their jobs if they didn't comply with the outrageous notion that they signed up to be nurses so they should have to do all of their duties as a nurse, like, in this case, assisting with abortions.
Forced Birthers are, of course, acting like victims, and are claiming that the hospital is bullying the nurses (since, of course, asking people to do their jobs that they were trained to do is bullying now--be sure to inform your boss that you'll send him or her to court of he/she asks you to do your job).
UMDNJ abruptly changed its policy from allowing nurses to honor their consciences and NOT participate in abortions to threatening them with the loss of their job if they didn’t, a move the hospital has never explained. Assisted by the ADF, the nurses took the hospital to court where on November 3, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order stopping all training, procedures and performances related to abortions for the suing nurses.How about I go and choose to get a job at McDonalds and then say that my religion says I'm not supposed to sell hamburgers and then sue their pants off when they fire me? Not a bad idea, is it? Let's all do that.The hospital insists it never threatened to fire any of the nurses if they did not comply, which would be a violation of both state and federal law, and that it was demanding only that nurses “perform peripheral duties for abortion patients”—such as “logging information, drawing blood,” etc.
Better yet, I'll go to college to be a nurse and then refuse, on religious grounds, to perform medical procedures because I say so and I just gotta pull out my holy book and show them that my God says "performing religious procedures is a sin completely, but being a nurse and refusing to help people in need of your services and refusing to do your job at the expense of others is A-OK." No big deal, right?
New Study Regarding Abortion And Mental Health: Abortion Is Not The Problem
So it turns out that it's not abortion that causes mental health problems, according to a major study in the UK
Instead, the review found they already have a higher rate of mental problems by virtue of having an unwanted pregnancy. The outcome of the pregnancy did not affect their mental health. [Source]I'm sure you know what Forced Birthers think about this.
According to Republicant's: If You Have An Opinion, You Can't Be A Judge
Anti-women Republican'ts block Obama's Pro-woman nominee To DC Court of Appeals. Why? Because she's got a different opinion about gun rights and abortion rights than they do. No. Wait. Don't stop reading now. You haven't heard the best part!
“In Ms. Halligan’s view, the courts aren’t so much a forum for the even-handed application of the law as a place where a judge can work out his or her own idea of what society should look like,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R. –Ky.).According to that guy, if you have an opinion of any kind on controversial subjects, then you shouldn't be a judge. How about we apply that to congresspersons as well? I'm sure that would go so well, eh? I have nothing against them personally. I just don't think that people with opinions on anything that I don't like to be in power in any way shape or form.“As she once put it, the courts are a means to achieve social progress with judges presumably writing the script,” McConnell said.
“I have nothing against this nominee personally,” McConnell said. “We shouldn’t be putting activists on the bench.” [Source]
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