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https://www.dw.com/en/polands-top-court-rules-against-abortions-due-to-fetal-defects/a-55360700
Poland’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that a law allowing abortion due to fetal defects is unconstitutional. Chief justice Julia Przylebska said in the ruling that existing legislation allowing the abortion of malformed fetuses was “incompatible” with the constitution.
After the ruling goes into effect, abortion will only be permissible in the case of rape, incest or a threat to the mother’s health and life. Just two judges out of the 13-member court did not back the majority ruling.
Many Buddhist monks in Thailand are no longer vegetarian. And unlike before when they could not directly handle money, many now have ATM cards.
https://popularresistance.org/solidarity-across-species/
Vegetarians should not be too smug about what they eat, since those who harvest vegetables are also mistreated and underpaid. But meat-plant and slaughterhouse workers endure particularly horrific and dangerous working conditions. Meat factories are staffed largely by low-income immigrants and the majority have no health insurance or sick leave. Workers are quickly fired and replaced for being sick or injured. These facilities process thousands of animals a day with hundreds of employees standing shoulder to shoulder conducting grueling, repetitive, and hazardous work…
<p class=”p2″>…Some leftists maintain that sustainable animal farming practices can solve the meat crisis, but that is akin to the climate movement demanding reforms of the fossil fuel industry instead of its demise. There are compelling epidemiological, economic, and ecological reasons to abolish meat, but more fundamental ethical concerns merit reflection. Socialists quick to question private property rarely interrogate the ownership of animals. As leftists, we have a duty to ask what entitles human beings to treat our fellow creatures like mere things. What gives our species the right to commodify other sentient beings and relentlessly dispossess them?…</p>
…we need to broaden our political imaginations. Our conception of solidarity must cross the species barrier.The well-predicted trend that the accusation of anti-semitism would be extended to include any criticism of Israel continues
The Trump administration is considering declaring that several prominent international NGOs — including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam — are anti-Semitic and that governments should not support them
Dr Raghib Ali suggested it was time to stop using ethnicity when deciding who needed help. He said focusing on factors like jobs and housing would help more people.
More than 40 million Americans have already voted early, according to the independent US Elections Project
Pope Francis has said that he thinks same-sex couples should be allowed to have “civil unions”.
“Homosexual people have a right to be in a family,” he said in the film, which premiered on Wednesday. “They are children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or made miserable over it.
“What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered.”
Apologies BD for what may seem humour in bad taste.
But the real point was that you seemed to be doing what is being criticised – a league table of suffering and exploitation. No-body denies the misery of the mining industry but for many it was a good trade to follow in your father’s footsteps because there were worse alternatives, such as unemployment.
But again sorry if i gave any offence.
The left in California can still vote for the Peace and Freedom Party, i think
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
I notice the linked article’s author is a member and combatting lesser evil voting is one of its main focus, understandable since they are standing.
And there is now a new Peoples Party angling for support
A rare but good article critical of the lesser evil argument,
US Presidential Campaign Spectacle: Distracts from Essential Issues while Playing the Race Card
Who will pay the pandemic price?
the pensions triple lock to be scrapped, the aid budget to be cut and child benefit further limited , cut jobs in the public sector, sell council houses and replace with cheaper housing, as part of £30bn worth of spending cuts designed to spare the UK from post Covid-19 tax increases
Who is to pay? Us.
Schools which teach pupils that “white privilege” is an uncontested fact are breaking the law, the women and equalities minister has said…She added that schools have a statutory duty to remain politically impartial and should not openly support “the anti-capitalist Black Lives Matter group”.
Polling places where more than 90% of active registered voters were minorities, the average minimum waiting time was 51 minutes; in districts where more than 90% of registered voters were white, the average fell to six minutes.
Australia will take part in large-scale military exercises off the coast of India next month.
Mike Pompeo called on Asian allies to unite against China’s “exploitation, corruption and coercion” in the region.
