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Up until now, the federal government followed the definition of pregnancy accepted by the American Medical Association and our nation's pregnancy experts, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which is: pregnancy begins at implantation. With this proposal, however, HHS is dismissing medical experts and opting instead to accept a definition of pregnancy based on polling data. It now claims that pregnancy begins at some biologically unknowable moment (there's no test to determine if a woman's egg has been fertilized). Under these new standards there would be no way for a woman to prove she's not pregnant. Thus, any woman could be denied contraception under HHS' new science.

Yup. Let's rebrand contraception as MOIDER.

I've already stated - at length - just why I have the stance on the whole 'partial-birth abortion' issue I do (it's a scam...it's as bad as you think, as bad as ANYONE would think, and nobody used it outside a courtroom dossier, gimme a break here) - but this is just pure spite, poured on 'we're stupid and we're proud of it.'

Nothing more.

It's a definition - and tied to getting help from the government (which is US, after all, you me and the guy across the room). Really not the place for it. An abortion is a very invasive, no-doubt-about-it medical procedure with very directed results towards a verfied, really really, no doubt about it, pregnancy.

That's the only defintion I will ever accept. The rest is blowing smoke, and Johnny tattling on Bobby who doesn't close his eyes during prayer...and what were YOU doing Johnny, during prayer that you noticed this? I dunno?!

What a waste.

You find the darndest stuff on korean adoptee blogs, I tell ya.

( Ready for this one? They now have 'adoptee disruption ranches.' )

Some of the stuff just makes your blood boil.

The oldest of four, Sasha and his siblings were first adopted by a
Colorado family, an arrangement that quickly unraveled. Sasha moved
on to a second household, also in Colorado, while his two sisters and
a brother were split up and placed in several other states.

Soon after, Sasha tried to poison his new mother—slipping crushed
pills into her sandwich. Charged with felony assault, he was sent to
juvenile detention.

“My new mother told me that I should forget them [his siblings], but
I couldn’t,” the 23-year-old said recently, sitting in the ranch’s
cozy kitchen. “I went nuts.”

UHHHHH. I'd go nuts, too. Can you imagine? Never - not ever - in any of the training we've gotten, have we been advised to separate a child from any kind of family they had prior to coming to us. Foster, infant adoption - whatever. You never cut a kid off from any kind of attachment or bond they ever had in their lives.

And I totally agree. Who'd do such a thing. That's rhetorical.

When all efforts have failed, Sterkel starts a new placement process
with a call to A Child’s Waiting in Akron, Ohio—one of the few
adoption agencies that works with youths they did not originally
place.

Children are listed as green, yellow and red, based on the difficulty
of finding replacement families for each.

Their numbers have risen so dramatically that A Child’s Waiting plans
to build transitional housing specifically to accommodate that group,
said Crissy Kolarik, co-director. “The red kids have the most
significant issues, such as sexual predators,” she said.

How dare you. Like this is some kind of Lego system where you can 'replace' pieces that don't work anymore.

*fumes* Kid, I promise you right now. I'm going to do my level best not to be stupid when it comes to you - and that includes your birth family and anyone who cared for you before I showed up. Surely not to be as meanly stupid as this stuff is.

http://kadnexus.wordpress.com/ is a real keeper - go take a look.

You find the darndest stuff on korean adoptee blogs, I tell ya.

( Ready for this one? They now have 'adoptee disruption ranches.' )

Some of the stuff just makes your blood boil.

The oldest of four, Sasha and his siblings were first adopted by a
Colorado family, an arrangement that quickly unraveled. Sasha moved
on to a second household, also in Colorado, while his two sisters and
a brother were split up and placed in several other states.

Soon after, Sasha tried to poison his new mother—slipping crushed
pills into her sandwich. Charged with felony assault, he was sent to
juvenile detention.

“My new mother told me that I should forget them [his siblings], but
I couldn’t,” the 23-year-old said recently, sitting in the ranch’s
cozy kitchen. “I went nuts.”

UHHHHH. I'd go nuts, too. Can you imagine? Never - not ever - in any of the training we've gotten, have we been advised to separate a child from any kind of family they had prior to coming to us. Foster, infant adoption - whatever. You never cut a kid off from any kind of attachment or bond they ever had in their lives.

And I totally agree. Who'd do such a thing. That's rhetorical.

When all efforts have failed, Sterkel starts a new placement process
with a call to A Child’s Waiting in Akron, Ohio—one of the few
adoption agencies that works with youths they did not originally
place.

Children are listed as green, yellow and red, based on the difficulty
of finding replacement families for each.

Their numbers have risen so dramatically that A Child’s Waiting plans
to build transitional housing specifically to accommodate that group,
said Crissy Kolarik, co-director. “The red kids have the most
significant issues, such as sexual predators,” she said.

How dare you. Like this is some kind of Lego system where you can 'replace' pieces that don't work anymore.

*fumes* Kid, I promise you right now. I'm going to do my level best not to be stupid when it comes to you - and that includes your birth family and anyone who cared for you before I showed up. Surely not to be as meanly stupid as this stuff is.

http://kadnexus.wordpress.com/ is a real keeper - go take a look.

Banas said based on additional interviews, the fake MySpace page was not created by the mother of one of Megan's friends. He said the page was created by the 18-year-old employee, though the mother and her 13-year-old daughter knew about the page. He said he was unable to speak directly with the 18-year-old, whom he said has been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment.

Emphasis mine.

Guys, no justice. No real change. No probation. No parenting classes. No nothing.

Just vigilantism as a last resort - and more stupidity heading for a legislature near you.

It's hard to put words to, but the ones that float to the surface first only say that it is DAMN easy for one person to take one action to make a whole LOT of people miserable.

Always do your best.
Clean up your own messes.
And be aware of your influence on others. (Applying the Golden Rule after this is easy. It just makes perfect sense, once you realize you're not the only oyster in the stew, neh?)

In the end, it was her life to manage...keep or discard, as she saw fit.

But also - anyone who wishes to take their own life is probably not dealing with what is. Just a terrible version of it.