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https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157480905/spain-menstrual-leave-teen-abortion-trans-laws
QuoteThe 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.
Crusades said:I'm sorry Twwety. I do not see the same urgency from the democrats when in reference to the gun violence in inner cities that often includes young black men and children.
One might point out that school shootings seem to matter more than inner city gun violence then note the racial demographic of each.
You don't see lots of things. That's a choice that's likely assisted by your choices in media. You can't see the clear evidence of Trump's mental illness and cognitive decline. You can't see that the events of January 6th are directly connected to Trump's corrupt attempt to retain lost power. You can't see Trump's unprecedented rhetoric as violent, reckless and dangerous.
There you go, speculating about correlation and causation of an issue that you just aren't well informed about, but you have some feelings that are based in race.
Tweety said:I wouldn't expect you of all posters to pull a race card. But yeah, inner city violences happen to them and not us.
For a self-described person in the middle of issues, you sure don't like Democrats and their issues do you?
However, fair enough maybe not the same urgency as they take advantage of a mass shooting to spread their message.
I do believe Democrat mayors and the President are really struggling with gun violence in their cities and the country. Certainly the general public does seem more outraged when it's a mass shooting. I've said before how number we are. There are thousands of gun murders and some barely make a blip on the radar. I've talked about this before.
Certainly conservatives have made crime an issue and many times I see on Fox News about crime in "Dem Run Cities".
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/record-levels-of-gun-violence-and-the-democrats-dilemma
At the end of the day we both said what we wanted to say. Thanks for reading and offering up your thoughts.
Thank you for your thoughts as well. Although I didn't intend to play the race card I do not always come out clear and I'll try more to prevent that.
toomuchbaloney said:You don't see lots of things. That's a choice that's likely assisted by your choices in media. You can't see the clear evidence of Trump's mental illness and cognitive decline. You can't see that the events of January 6th are directly connected to Trump's corrupt attempt to retain lost power. You can't see Trump's unprecedented rhetoric as violent, reckless and dangerous.
There you go, speculating about correlation and causation of an issue that you just aren't well informed about, but you have some feelings that are based in race.
Yes. Trump believed the election was stolen and communicated this as a fact. This excited some of his base to riot.
He did not say that the people in congress were existential threat and needed to be eliminated. There were no assination attempt on Jan.6.
You can't see the left media rhetoric and and repetative extreem rhetoric by democrats even when there are bullets flying at someone's head. And two assination attempts.
Or you do but lack the integrity to hold your side to the same standards.
Crusades said:Yes. Trump believed the election was stolen and communicated this as a fact. This excited some of his base to riot.
He did not say that the people in congress were existential threat and needed to be eliminated. There were no assination attempt on Jan.6.
You can't see the left media rhetoric and and repetative extreem rhetoric by democrats even when there are bullets flying at someone's head. And two assination attempts.
Or you do but lack the integrity to hold your side to the same standards.
If Trump believed/believes that the 2020 election was stolen then he's in a delusion. Plain and simple.
Trump did, in fact, imply that maybe Pence should be hung.
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/28/mike-pence-trump-jan6-hearing
It's weird that you want to scold another member about integrity when you defend a man like Trump, who has zero integrity. Or to imply that others don't hold their candidates to "the same standards" when your guy is a fraud, felon and rapist. What standards do you hold Trump to?
Crusades said:And you can continue calling me stupid and all the other things you've said.
However what you cannot do is provide an example of any person who attempted to kill a former POTUS and/or presidential candidate two times in 9 weeks after 7 yrs of extreem hyperbolic rhetoric repeated in unison by Republicans and news media.
I said your question was stupid and you know it.
I don't need to provide some random example for you. You feel very strongly about the reality that two seperate people apparently wanted to kill Trump. I don't need to go along with that emotional response.
Yesterday's news.
Tweety said:When it involved children or large amounts of people it's headline news. Every day murders and shootings are so common place, it's barely a blip on the news or worthy of discussion unless it's person. One of our housekeepers was killed by gunfire by her boyfriend and it barely made the news here.
Anyway, it's not fair to categorize the concern only is for mass shootings. Democrat Mayors and the Biden administration are struggling to control the record levels of gun violence, gun trafficking and some are calling it a public health crisis, including the non-partisan AMA and Surgeon General.
Republicans seize on this violence as a campaign issue and failure of the Democrats. Even the Heritgage Foundation is calling it a Public Health Crisis.
And yet the Heritage Foundation or any other right leaning entity isn't interested in ANY gun control. You can't have it both ways.
toomuchbaloney said:I said your question was stupid and you know it.
I don't need to provide some random example for you. You feel very strongly about the reality that two seperate people apparently wanted to kill Trump. I don't need to go along with that emotional response.
Yesterday's news.
You can't provide any statement where Trump calls to eliminated someone and put them in a bullseye. Oh well yesterday news.
Crusades said:You can't provide any statement where Trump calls to eliminated someone and put them in a bullseye. Oh well yesterday news.
I'm not required to entertain your fixations about Trump. You seem to have trouble applying that reality to all of our interactions in these threads.
I'm heading to work but remember another bullseye remark from someone that upset Democrats. I think it involved Obama's picture in a bullseye.
Biden has since face criticism about his bullseye remark and has backed down from them saying they were a bad choice in words. Even though everyone is intelligent enough to understand what he really meant, I think Biden has to take this hit as a mistake in words.
Republicans are blaming Biden for the 2nd assassination attempt which is a bit of a stretch, but again they are feeding back what democrats have said about others and Trump himself "inciting violence" with his words.
It's a bit much to see Republicans that never hold Trump accountable for his insults, lies and stupidity get all high and might now especially given the chaos he's caused in Springfield. But two wrongs don't make a right and I deflect.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-johnson-defiant-after-stopgap-government-spending-bill-fails
Is Johnson trying to prove to Trump that Trump's stupid plan to shut down the government won't even pass much less be popular with the voters?
US health system ranks last compared with peer nations, report finds
QuoteThe United States health system ranked dead last in an international comparison of 10 peer nations, according to a new report by the Commonwealth Fund.
In spite of Americans paying nearly double that of other countries, the system performed poorly on health equity, access to care and outcomes.
I think we already knew that it was a failure. What we don't know is why Republicans and others are so committed to a failed idea.
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And you can continue calling me stupid and all the other things you've said.
However what you cannot do is provide an example of any person who attempted to kill a former POTUS and/or presidential candidate two times in 9 weeks after 7 yrs of extreem hyperbolic rhetoric repeated in unison by Republicans and news media.