The abortion law builds on legislation passed in 2010 that represented a major shift for a traditionally Catholic country, transforming Spain into one of the most progressive countries in Europe on reproductive rights. Spain's constitutional court last week rejected a challenge by the right-wing Popular Party against allowing abortions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
The debate will be heated in Spain, I imagine, as the conservative opposition pushes back. My daughter had horrible menstrual pain during her adolescence and young adulthood. I'm certain that she would have benefitted from that time.
I suggest that we hold off getting all thin in the nose over the irresponsibility of concealing a serious medical diagnosis until we have more information about what actually happened.
Fair enough and we shouldn't play armchair quarterback about what is now going on with a private citizen. I'm not "thin in the nose" (not sure I've heard that expression before) but open to the idea that he had the cancer while president, especially given the high scale of it.
Whether or not he or his doctors knew it or not is also an idea I'm open to. And if I never find out, I don't care either way.
At the end of the day, he's an elderly man with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Fair enough and we shouldn't play armchair quarterback about what is now going on with a private citizen. I'm not "thin in the nose" (not sure I've heard that expression before) but open to the idea that he had the cancer while president, especially given the high scale of it.
Whether or not he or his doctors knew it or not is also an idea I'm open to. And if I never find out, I don't care either way.
At the end of the day, he's an elderly man with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Still, this wouldn't be the first time a disease has been present and progressing for a long time, sometimes years, before becoming symptomatic enough to trigger a work-up. Pancreatic cancer, tuberculosis and HIV disease Spring immediately to mind.
I agree that he's an elderly man with a life-limiting disease. Unless we can offer meaningful comfort, gratitude and/or effective treatment I think we should keep his name out of our collective mouth and leave this private citizen alone. He has family and friends for support and Beau holding the gate for him. Let it be.
Lets see if the media will let it be. My guess is that team Trump doesn't really want to. They want to use it to forge the narrative that it's democrats who are/were hiding important health information about the POTUS.
Lets see if the media will let it be. My guess is that team Trump doesn't really want to. They want to use it to forge the narrative that it's democrats who are/were hiding important health information about the POTUS.
Would still love to see trump's head CT. Since trump's solution to negative heath trendsis to stop testing, I doubt he would even give consent.
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I see the media leaving this one alone and I will too. I'm sorry ai went down that rabbit hole.
It's totally OK to talk about Biden's cancer or to consider whether his administration was hiding critical information about his health. The media surely can cover it. I simply wonder why they don't also talk about Trump's health.
A former Fox News host who is a senior counselor to the assistant attorney general for civil rights suggested that former First Lady Jill Biden could face criminal charges....
.. Hours earlier, Leo Terrell of the Department of Justice went so far as to suggest that Jill Biden should – or at least could – be prosecuted. Reposting a tweet from a conservative internet personality, Terrell wrote, "Elder Abuse! Criminal Charges?”
It will be interesting to watch how the media participates in furthering this narrative as if a significant portion of the country doesn't recognize the gas lighting.
It will be interesting to watch how the media participates in furthering this narrative as if a significant portion of the country doesn't recognize the gas lighting.
Maybe someone should point out that everybody dies and there's a special place in hell for sadistic sycophants.
May trump and his merry band of psychopaths get back what they give out three times over.
I see the media leaving this one alone and I will too. I'm sorry ai went down that rabbit hole.
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Fair enough and we shouldn't play armchair quarterback about what is now going on with a private citizen. I'm not "thin in the nose" (not sure I've heard that expression before) but open to the idea that he had the cancer while president, especially given the high scale of it.
Whether or not he or his doctors knew it or not is also an idea I'm open to. And if I never find out, I don't care either way.
At the end of the day, he's an elderly man with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.