Other than the fact that the site apparently endorses sidewalk counselling, I was just clicking through and found a database they linked to where they show you abortion clinics that have or may have malpractice suits against them. This is the perfect example of why a lot of times the pro-life movement is really fucking gross, even when the people behind it might have good intentions. For example:
About this facility:
We are aware of nine lawsuits involving Women’s Health Center. The case numbers are MCTM C1CL 96 115 01, MCTM C1CL 96 115 02, MCTM C1CL 00 1165 001, MCTM C1CL 00 1172 001, MCTM C1CL 00 1173 001, MCTM C1CL 00 1174 001, MCTM C1CL 00 1175 001, MCTM C1CL 00 1176 001, and MCTM C5CL 09 4575 001. The relevant documents should be located at the courthouse on 700 South Franklin St., Fort Bragg, CA. Please contact us if you are able and willing to conduct a search for records there.
At this time we do not know which, if any, of the lawsuits are for abortion-related medical malpractice. We will update this entry when we obtain more information. Thank you for your patience.
Emphasis mine. What they are essentially doing is just telling you these places are maybe involved in malpractice but it might not even have anything to do with abortion even if it turns out to be true. So they’re just encouraging people to picket these places and grab women as they’re going in to tell them not to use the service because the doctors are ~terrible~ and blah blah blah.
I don’t doubt that there is probably a lot of medical malpractice when it comes to abortion, but I genuinely think that’s directly proportional to the lack of doctors willing or trained to carry out such procedures. If it wasn’t seen as a crime against humanity to do it, if doctors who wanted to be able to offer the procedure were able to without fear of being chased down by a lynch mob, maybe there would be less malpractice. Looking at what they list as malpractice, it seems like a lot of the cases involve doctors just being genuinely stupid or forgetful or awful which is a problem a lot of doctors have. My own GP is useless and I wouldn’t trust her to perform such a drastic procedure on me, but sadly in countries where abortion is still a sin and a valid reason to hurl abuse at doctors and patients in the street, you don’t really get to pick and choose who you go to.
Ugh. Just when I thought I’d found a pro-life site that was secular and might actually have some valid points, it turns out they’re just as disgusting as some of the church-based pro-life bodies.
# Atticus Ross
# claudia sarne
# leo ross
# leopold ross
# broken city
# music
# soundtrack
# link
The soundtrack, by Atticus Ross, Claudia Sarne and Leopold Ross, is for the upcoming Allen Hughes film Broken City.
1. I will stop using the plural pronouns their, them, and they to refer to a single subject without a defined gender.
I don’t even know you, but I know you are guilty of this (because I am):
When an employee gets a new computer, they have to set up their preferences.
I picked a name for the Secret Santa gift exchange, but I don’t know what to get them.
Grammatically, these sentences are awful, though they are not uncommon in today’s vernacular. Note how the verb in the second part of the first sentence also becomes plural even though it’s clearly a single person the sentence is referring to in the first part. *Shudder*
Traditionally, English uses the pronoun he to refer to any person whose gender is unknown. In the sentences above, an employee and a name both refer to a single person whose gender is not specified. However, our culture is changing, and we no longer accept he or other male-gendered pronouns and nouns to serve as defaults because we feel it’s sexist. Our culture has changed, but our language has not; there are no gender neutral singular pronouns with the exception of it¸ and we don’t use the word it in reference to people. It’s rude. Only animals and things can be its.
So what are we to do? The proper way to deal with this is to use his or her, him or her, he or she.
"All in favour of making ‘their, them and they’ grammatically canon, raise your hands!
*raises hands and shakes them furiously*
I might swing violently from one side of the gender spectrum to the other depending on how much it does or doesn’t offend me to be called ‘her’ on any given day, but I still feel like I’ll always be a proponent of ‘they’ as a gender-neutral pronoun. Yeah, it might not be grammatically correct, but language is a fickle beast… It’ll change eventually, right?
If not ‘they’, we have to resort to made-up or borrowed pronouns that are conspicuous in themselves—wouldn’t it be much easier and more pleasant to be able to refer to someone you may or may not know in such a way that doesn’t make assumptions about their gender (or doesn’t draw everyone else’s attention to their gender identity if you happen to be in the know about it)?
I’m a stickler when it comes to decent grammar nine times out of ten, but this is one occasion where I’m happy to be pretty darn ungrammatical.
Please note: I’m not calling the author out for being cissexist or anything like that, as I seriously doubt that was their intention. I just think it’d be nice to live in a world where the average person didn’t automatically think of ‘he’ or ‘she’ when it came to gender. It’d be nice, too, if electing to refer to yourself by something other than either of those two pronouns didn’t cause you to stick out like a sore thumb.
Rain drummed down on the plaza in a steady rush, turning the brilliant green paving stones a dull olive. It had been billed a night to remember: posters adorned the town for weeks on end, inviting one and all to the jazz and swing event of the year. The bands were gone now, the cafés and bistros surrounding the square all closed and shuttered up.
This makes me want to buy some batteries and dig out my one.
A dictionary Ancient Mesopotamian languages is finally completed after 90 years!
They’ve made it available to download for free. It’s huge, but I’m all over this.
9. We understand that you can’t spoil the game for us, but what sort of ending would you like to imagine Kaidan and Shepard have after the conclusion of Mass Effect 3?
I guess that they get to go on and continue to save the universe.
ALL OF MY GODDAMN CREYS
Ciara had spent the last half-hour scratching at the fake snow still caked on the inside of the window with the edge of her thumbnail. It was April now—Christmas had been and gone. She remembered some pact she and her flatmate had made to keep the snow there until they moved out that summer, which had mostly only resulted from laziness. It had become part of their home now, as much as the scuffed faux leather couch or the table with one leg a little shorter than the rest.
I wrote a new short story. It’s morose, as always.
I should probably try to write something happy soon.
This is a pretty good census to take part in—they’ve done a lot to cover their bases in terms of catering to as many identities as possible. I’m especially happy to see non-binary gender identities listed :’)