Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
[In Australia,] State's upper house drags feet in passing law legalising abortion despite an overwhelming 75-percent support by voters.
The Reproductive Health Care Act 2019, which seeks to bring the state in line with the rest of Australia, would allow abortion up to 22 weeks. It was passed by the state lower house in August, with 59 votes in favour and 31 against. The bill's backers say the change will protect women and reduce some of the stigma associated with the procedure, but the legislation has attracted intense debate and national attention.
Barnaby Joyce, a former deputy prime minister, claimed the bill ignored the rights of unborn children and, at an anti-abortion rights rally over the weekend, former prime minister Tony Abbott alleged the move to decriminalise would enable "infanticide on demand".
Terminations have existed in a legal grey area - allowed for health or economic reasons, but still carrying a risk of prosecution. "We need to take abortion out of the Crimes Act and give women autonomy over their decisions," Family Planning NSW Medical Director Dr Deborah Bateson told Al Jazeera.
A survey released this month by Pro-Choice NSW showed that more than 77 percent of the state's residents support decriminalisation.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday September 20 2019, @06:04PM (5 children)
Free vasectomies, free treatment for prostate diseases, free treatments for erectile dysfunction - much of the world consider this to be a basic right for men.
Or you can continue to vote for money for obsolete F35 jets that can't take out a drone costing 1/1000 the price. Ask Saudi Arabia how naked they feel with all that latest tech. As always, you keep spending money to fight the previous war, even as the nature of warfare changes every generation.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 21 2019, @02:07PM (4 children)
Uhhhhhmmmmmmm - waitaminnit. I should petition my representatives to cut my nuts, and to do it for free? You can be whatever, Barbie, but fuck if I'm going to ask my government to cut on men's manhood.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday September 27 2019, @04:47PM (3 children)
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 27 2019, @11:21PM (2 children)
Nice change of subject. A vasectomy has almost zero relationship to repairing combat damage. Or, non-combat damage for that matter.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday September 28 2019, @12:28AM (1 child)
It's also one way to help deaf with the climate crisis and too many people competing for ever fewer resources such as clean air and water.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 28 2019, @03:20PM
You're being - what? Intentionally obtuse? Whether it's a snip-snip-snip, or a knife stroke, or whatever, a vasectomy involves a "cut".
If it's done with a meat cleaver, or an IUD, or a poleaxe, there's a "cut".
So, even your "no cut" vasectomy involves a cut.