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Originally posted by Maslo
reply to post by Grimpachi
I do think contraceptives should be over the counter instead of requiring a prescription but right now it’s not.
As a medical student, I dont think that would be good. There is a reason why they are on prescription - contraceptives can be dangerous for people who have increased blood clotting. Your doctor should always check for blood clotting problems in your medical history before prescribing them.
Originally posted by Hope4peace
After reading your replies to your OP, you might want to consider finding an unclaimed island to go live on. Life isn't fair and our country is a mess...you are wasting time debating and whining.
Fast Facts
1.The US was the leading donor of official humanitarian aid in 2010
2.The US’s official development assistance (ODA) was equal to 0.2% of The US’s gross national income (GNI) in 2010
3.GNI rank in 2010: 1 of 215
4.91.5% of the US’s official humanitarian aid was spent in fragile states in 2010
5.47% of the US’s official humanitarian aid was spent in countries classified as long term recipients of humanitarian aid in 2010
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Food aid shipments eaten up by Afghanistan's black market / Warlords intercepting deliveries
Andrew Bushell, Chronicle Foreign Service
Published 4:00 a.m., Sunday, January 13, 2002
2002-01-13 04:00:00 PDT Jalalabad, Afghanistan -- While two machine-gun-toting guards fidget with their weapons outside a warehouse entrance, 50 barefoot laborers, their faces slick with sweat, unload trucks filled with stolen United Nations grain.
Inside the downtown building, other workers open the blue and white bags and then repackage them in plain burlap sacks for sale in city bazaars. Mohammed Yousaf, the warehouse owner and wheat dealer, directs the operation from a drafty second floor office.
"I can't make any money buying wheat . . . I have to pay the NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) to get it for me," he said.
Until now, some 1,750 metric tons of wheat had been hauled daily from Pakistan to Jalalabad, a way station for hundreds of trucks loaded with food destined for other hard hit regions of the country.
Fewer than half arrive at their final destination with more than 60 percent of their original cargo, according to interviews with dozens of drivers. At the same time, there is so much stolen wheat in the Jalalabad markets that prices have dropped by 40 percent.
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James Peron
The Sorry Record of Foreign Aid in Africa
African Governments Are Destroying Their Countries with Aid from the West
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In South Africa over $2 million donated by the European Union was used to stage an “AIDS awareness” play, Sarafina II. While the funds provided a luxury bus for cast and crew, they did little to educate the public about AIDS. AIDS experts condemned the play as a waste of money—it consumed 20 percent of South Africa’s entire AIDS budget—and said it contained inaccurate information as well. A heavily promoted showing of the play in Soweto was attended by fewer than 100 people. The play was pulled but the funds were never recouped. The EU insists that none of its funds were used on the project, but then-Minister of Health Nkosazama Zuma disputes that.6
Debacles such as these are almost benign. But foreign aid is also being used in patently destructive, and sometimes genocidal, ways. The Marxist dictatorship of Ethiopia’s Mengistu Haile Mariam was a major recipient of donor funds, a portion of which was used to forcibly resettle large segments of the population. One Ethiopian official said: “It is our duty to move the peasants if they are too stupid to move by themselves.”7 Donor funds, earmarked for famine relief, were instead used to buy trucks for the resettlement scheme. Relief aid was also intentionally kept away from some of the most severely affected areas because it suited Mengistu’s regime to starve its opponents. Relief ships were held for ransom and charged $50.50 per ton for permission to unload their aid, some of which was confiscated to feed the army. The New York Times reported that aid officials believed that Mengistu’s regime sold some of the food aid on the world market to finance the purchase of arms.8
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Congo rebels 'raped women and babies near UN base'
US aid worker and doctor say Rwandan and Congolese fighters attacked up to 200 people over four days
David Smith, Africa correspondent
The Guardian, Tuesday 24 August 2010 04.53 EDT
Nearly 200 women and four baby boys were gang-raped by Rwandan and Congolese rebels in a brazen attack near a UN peacekeepers' base, aid workers have reported.
Victims described four days of sexual violence that was unusually vicious even by the standards of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, notorious for the use of rape as a weapon of war.
The impunity of the assault is likely to refocus attention on the effectiveness of the world's biggest UN peacekeeping mission, which has been strongly criticised by human rights groups. Survivors said their attackers were Hutu insurgents of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which includes perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide who fled across the border to Congo in 1994. The Rwandans were apparently accompanied by local Mai-Mai militiamen.
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World Briefing | Africa
U.N. Cites Congo Officers in Rape Inquiry
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 22, 2011
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (AP) — The United Nations on Friday named two Congolese Army colonels who appear to be blocking an investigation of soldiers accused of raping at least 47 women in eastern Congo, and said that if the attackers were not identified, the officers themselves should stand trial for the crimes committed by the troopers under their command.
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U.N. Haiti peacekeepers face outcry over alleged rape
First Posted: 09/05/11 11:48 AM ET Updated: 11/05/11 06:12 AM ET
By Joseph Guyler Delva
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The U.N. mission in Haiti faced public anger on Monday over allegations that Uruguayan U.N. troops raped an 18-year-old local man, in the latest incident to threaten the reputation of U.N. peacekeepers in the poor Caribbean state.
Outrage in the earthquake-ravaged nation has been rising over a video shot by a cellphone camera and circulating on the Internet that shows laughing Uruguayan marines pinning the young Haitian face down on a mattress and apparently assaulting him sexually in a southern town.
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Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say
Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued.
The article, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, says newborn babies are not “actual persons” and do not have a “moral right to life”. The academics also argue that parents should be able to have their baby killed if it turns out to be disabled when it is born.
The journal’s editor, Prof Julian Savulescu, director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, said the article's authors had received death threats since publishing the article. He said those who made abusive and threatening posts about the study were “fanatics opposed to the very values of a liberal society”.
The article, entitled “After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?”, was written by two of Prof Savulescu’s former associates, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva.
They argued: “The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus in the sense that both lack those properties that justify the attribution of a right to life to an individual.”
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After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?
Alberto Giubilini1,2,
Francesca Minerva3
+ Author Affiliations
1Department of Philosophy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
2Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
3Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Correspondence to Dr Francesca Minerva, CAPPE, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; [email protected]
Contributors AG and FM contributed equally to the manuscript.
Received 25 November 2011
Revised 26 January 2012
Accepted 27 January 2012
Published Online First 23 February 2012
Abstract
Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus' health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.
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The journal’s editor, Prof Julian Savulescu, director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, said the article's authors had received death threats since publishing the article. He said those who made abusive and threatening posts about the study were “fanatics opposed to the very values of a liberal society”.
The article, entitled “After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?”, was written by two of Prof Savulescu’s former associates, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva.
They argued: “The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus in the sense that both lack those properties that justify the attribution of a right to life to an individual.”
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Originally posted by timmhaines
reply to post by ElectricUniverse
It should be available for those who can't afford it.Kinda like flu shots.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Most of you even want to claim that having the death penalty for MURDERERS is the same as having abortions of innocent human fetus/babies...
You all, or most of you seem to think that this...
Is the same as this...
For those of you who do not know, the above picture is of Ted Bundy, he was one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history...
That's how messed up most of you all are in the head...
edit on 3-11-2012 by ElectricUniverse because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by kaylaluv
I would have happily paid for Ted Bundy's mother to have gotten an abortion. Think of all the lives that would have been saved....
Originally posted by HandyDandy
Originally posted by timmhaines
reply to post by ElectricUniverse
It should be available for those who can't afford it.Kinda like flu shots.
I haven't read the entire thread.
But my 2 cents worth is this is appalling.
I am nearly deaf in one ear. I very much need a hearing aid. I can not afford one. Insurance doesn't pay for deaf people to have hearing aids. Yet I'm being made to pay for some whores extravaganza?