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blue said
Is this fucking satire?
Since everyone already knows women are punished, tortured and murdered on a regular basis by Sharia Law Enforcers there is no need to document each occurrence.
Way to murky up the waters of the war on women tho. Must be MRA's.
backtoiam » Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:49 am wrote:Lets face it, "white men" treat their "women" a hell of a lot better than this middle eastern culture does. Our females are allowed to wear bikinis and do as they will.
There are places in the Middle East where women can be seriously punished for not having that Burka on that head. If they get caught out on the street breaking Sharia Law the price can be damn heavy.
Its a real deal and that is why we have all these young angry horny middle eastern men causing havoc with young girls. These mid east guys, a lot of em, never saw a "candy store" before. They like it. I agree that we should be able to discuss that without being "bigots" because we are not bigots............
Wisconsin to Pay Abortion Providers $1.6 Million After GOP’s Failed Anti-Choice Measure
Sep 8, 2016, 6:44pm Michelle D. Anderson
The U.S. District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin ruled Thursday that the state must pay the money to Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Affiliated Medical Services, also known as Milwaukee Women’s Medical Services.
Teri Huyck, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, said in a statement Thursday that Scott Walker’s anti-choice efforts have proven to be an expensive bill for Wisconsin taxpayers.
The Wisconsin Office of the Attorney General has agreed to pay the state’s abortion providers a $1.6 million lawsuit settlement to cover legal fees they amassed while fighting an unconstitutional 2013 admitting privileges law passed by the state’s GOP-held legislature.
The U.S. District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin ruled Thursday that the state must pay the money to Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Affiliated Medical Services, also known as Milwaukee Women’s Medical Services.
Judge William M. Conley declared as part of Thursday’s judgment that the admitting privileges law was unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. The Republican-backed law had required doctors to have hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles of the location where an abortion was to be performed. Anti-choice legislators push admitting privileges laws as a safety precaution even though abortion care has proven time and again to be exceedingly safe.
The state attorney general had twice appealed to the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which affirmed a previous lower court’s decision to block the law in both instances. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take the case in June, just a day after overturning a similar Texas provision in the landmark Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt case.
Wendie Ashlock, clinic director for Affiliated Medical Services in Milwaukee, welcomed the news, telling Rewire that dealing with the anti-choice measure and filing the lawsuit was a “daunting” process.
“We had to pull records. We had to deal with trying to get admitting privileges and not getting a response from hospitals,” said Ashlock, a 23-year veteran at the clinic. “It was a very frustrating process to go through …. It’s nice to know that we’re going to be able to recoup some of the costs.”
Conley said the defendants, which include Wisconsin Attorney General Brad D. Schimel and members of the state medical examining board, were prohibited from enforcing the anti-choice law. He had blocked the law’s enforcement soon after Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed it into law in 2013.
The judgment came a week after state officials filed a second request to amend the case’s briefing schedule because the two parties had reached a settlement.
The parties had not reduced the agreement to writing, but had planned to file a stipulation formalizing the settlement, according to court documents.
The court judgment on Thursday said the stipulation and agreement would not prevent the providers “from seeking attorneys’ fees and costs in the event of future litigation” to enforce the district court’s judgment “for work related to such enforcement.”
The abortion providers had requested the funds in July, noting that they were entitled to reimbursement of the legal fees under the Civil Rights Attorneys’ Fee Awards Act of 1976. The providers asked for $1.7 million in attorneys’ fees, $44,253 in billable costs, and $22,545 in out-of-pocket expenses, as Rewire reported.
Teri Huyck, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, said in a statement Thursday that Walker’s anti-choice efforts have proven to be an expensive bill for Wisconsin taxpayers.
That money, she said, could better be spent on helping people gain access to basic birth control and preventive health care.
Planned Parenthood operates 21 health-care centers in Wisconsin, two of which provide abortion care. The affiliate recently closed a clinic that offered abortion care in Appleton.
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OP ED » Sun Sep 11, 2016 6:53 pm wrote:You have no idea how overjoyed my wife was when I told her we'd decided not to behead her but instead to let her wear a bikini and work and vote and stuff.
justdrew » Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:01 pm wrote:up next, the republicans plan on holding up re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act
POLITICS
Oregon Politician Said Educated Women Aren’t ‘Susceptible’ To Abuse
It was moments after the governor said she was a domestic violence survivor herself.
10/01/2016 04:53 pm ET
Hilary Hanson
Viral News Editor, The Huffington Post
Republican candidate for Oregon governor Bud Pierce has apologized for stating that educated women with good jobs are not “susceptible” to abuse.
“A woman that has great education and training and a great job is not susceptible to this kind of abuse by men, women or anyone,” Pierce said at a Friday debate with Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) in Portland.
The comment was particularly clueless, considering that it came just moments after Brown noted that she was a domestic violence survivor, KGW reports. (Her campaign later clarified that her husband, Dan Little, was not involved.)
An audience member had asked the two of them about a recent report finding that more than half of the state’s female population has experienced sexual or domestic violence.
As the crowd booed, Pierce attempted to clarify his comments.
“OK, so, powerful women have access to lawyers and courts and go at it. But the women who are most vulnerable are poor women who don’t have a place to turn, because they don’t have shelter, they don’t have family around them,” he said. “So I would argue that in addition to strong laws and going after every sexual predator and every abuser, that the way we can make women have a better existence and be less susceptible to being harmed is to make them powerful in terms of their job and their opportunity.”
Brown appeared taken aback. “I’m honestly not sure where to start,” she said. “I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school. I know what it feels like to be paid less — substantially less — than the male lawyer in the office next to me. This is not just about power; it’s about making sure that people are not discriminated against because of their gender, because of their race and because of their sexual orientation.”
Pierce released an apology later Friday, acknowledging that “any women, regardless of economic status, can be subject to domestic violence and sexual abuse.”
Poverty and lack of resources can, of course, make it more difficult to seek help in an abusive situation, and a 2013 Department of Justice report found that women in “economically disadvantaged neighborhoods” were more likely to experience intimate partner violence.
But the premise that people with good jobs or high levels of education aren’t susceptible to abuse is — as Brown demonstrates — just flat-out wrong.
And the stereotype that domestic violence only happens to poor or uneducated women could prevent people from seeking help.
“Because, as an educated or professional person, the victim will say, ‘These things shouldn’t be happening to me,” Nanci Kreidman, CEO of the Domestic Violence Action Center, told Hawaii Business in 2012. “And so they have a greater interest in protecting the secret because they’re embarrassed. There’s less sympathy from others and more judgment involved.”
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