This blog post is all about abortions. You may find this offensive and are allowed to skip this whole part. I remember when I was in the Office Assistant program at MacEwan, and in the Business Communications class, we had to do a presentation.
The teacher Matthew kept saying: "You can create a presentation about anything that you want except anything controversial like abortions."
Last week I wrote that I wasn't going to be posting anything negative, but I will post this because it is an important and timely topic.
Dec. 20, 2016 Lena Dunham on abortions:
The teacher Matthew kept saying: "You can create a presentation about anything that you want except anything controversial like abortions."
Last week I wrote that I wasn't going to be posting anything negative, but I will post this because it is an important and timely topic.
Dec. 20, 2016 Lena Dunham on abortions:
Anytime Lena Dunham is trending online these days, it’s typically for some headline-making political comment. However, the Girls creator seems to have taken it too far for some people this time around.
On her podcast, Women of the Hour, the 30-year-old actress tackled the topic of abortion, saying that although she hasn’t had one, she wished she had. Dunham began by talking about how she was raised by her mother to be pro-choice.
“From an early age, she taught my younger sibling and me to say ‘anti-choice’ instead of ‘pro-life’ because she wanted to make sure that we knew that everyone is pro-life,” Dunham said. “Some people are anti-choice.”
Despite her pro-choice view, Dunham realized that even she unknowingly carried with her a stigma around the topic.
“One day, when I was visiting a Planned Parenthood in Texas a few years ago, a young girl walked up to me and asked me if I’d like to be a part of her project in which women share their stories of abortions,” she recalled. “I sort of jumped.
‘I haven’t had an abortion,’ I told her. I wanted to make it really clear to her that as much as I was going out and fighting for other women’s options, I myself had never had an abortion. And I realized then that even I was carrying within myself stigma around this issue.
Even I, the woman who cares as much as anybody about a woman’s right to choose, felt it was important that people know I was unblemished in this department.”
‘I haven’t had an abortion,’ I told her. I wanted to make it really clear to her that as much as I was going out and fighting for other women’s options, I myself had never had an abortion. And I realized then that even I was carrying within myself stigma around this issue.
Even I, the woman who cares as much as anybody about a woman’s right to choose, felt it was important that people know I was unblemished in this department.”
She added, “Now I can say that I still haven’t had an abortion, but I wish I had.”
That remark did not sit well with many listeners.
Tammy
6 hours ago
She was probably only saying that so she could know the feeling of what those who chose abortion feel. My goodness someone always putting someone else down. Toooo much drama driven people in the world today.
slippery Al
5 hours ago
Is she Micheal Moore's daughter?
My opinion: I like slippery Al's comment. It was kind of funny.
Dec. 22, 2016: Here's her apology:
In a lengthy Instagram post, Dunham apologized. “I truly hope a distasteful joke on my part won’t diminish the amazing work of all the women who participated,” she said.
More curiously, however, she blamed the statement on a persona she adopts. “My words were spoken from a sort of ‘delusional girl’ persona I often inhabit, a girl who careens between wisdom and ignorance (that’s what my TV show is too) and it didn’t translate,” she explained.
“That’s my fault. I would never, ever intentionally trivialize the emotional and physical challenges of terminating a pregnancy. My only goal is to increase awareness and decrease stigma.”
So essentially she’s arguing that it wasn’t Lena Dunham saying those words but Lena Dunham as Girls’ frequently clueless and inappropriate Hannah. Still, it didn’t play. For what it’s worth, Dunham also noted in her apology that she made a “sizable” donation to The National Network Of Abortion Funds.
More curiously, however, she blamed the statement on a persona she adopts. “My words were spoken from a sort of ‘delusional girl’ persona I often inhabit, a girl who careens between wisdom and ignorance (that’s what my TV show is too) and it didn’t translate,” she explained.
“That’s my fault. I would never, ever intentionally trivialize the emotional and physical challenges of terminating a pregnancy. My only goal is to increase awareness and decrease stigma.”
So essentially she’s arguing that it wasn’t Lena Dunham saying those words but Lena Dunham as Girls’ frequently clueless and inappropriate Hannah. Still, it didn’t play. For what it’s worth, Dunham also noted in her apology that she made a “sizable” donation to The National Network Of Abortion Funds.
My opinion: I get what Dunham is saying in the first post and the last post. I accept her apology and it seems sincere. I wasn't offended.
"Abortion at 35 weeks was not done for 'silly reasons': Montreal woman: Today I found this article by Charlie Fidelman and Sharon Kirkey in the National Post in the Edmonton Journal:
The Montreal woman who had an abortion at 35 weeks pleaded with people not to judge her, saying the fetus was abnormally small and malformed.
The woman, who asked that her name not be used, said reaction to news reports Wednesday of her late-term abortion provoked dozens of comments on social media, with some calling her a baby killer.
She dismissed suggestions she should have given the child up for adoption rather than abort. “Those people missed the point: I don’t want my baby to suffer,” she said. “No one was living what we were living and they can’t judge us.”
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“It didn’t happen just like that, for silly reasons,” she said. “We want everyone to know the baby was having serious problems and it got worse right up to the termination.”
In late April, the woman and her husband learned they were expecting their first child. At 20 weeks an ultrasound test showed no abnormalities. “Everything was fine,” she said. They were having a boy. The couple bought clothing and ordered a baby crib.
But then at seven months, another ultrasound showed the fetus was abnormally small and had skeletal malformations, likely caused by a genetic mutation. Her doctors at McGill University Health Centre “couldn’t tell us what the baby had, they were guessing,” she said.
The couple sought a second opinion at another hospital and were told the baby might never walk, she said. “It was really a shock to us. They said it’s a rare disease and that he may need operations of the spine, medical interventions, operations… but they couldn’t say which operations,” she said. “We researched and watched videos of other cases, and there aren’t many.
“We couldn’t stand it that our baby would suffer like these babies,” she said. “Our termination choice was serious.”
But when the couple sought at 30 weeks to end the pregnancy, the MUHC refused after consulting a committee of physicians, who based their opinion, in part, on the Quebec College of Physicians guidelines. The 2002 guidelines stipulate that late abortions, after 23 weeks, are reserved for “serious congenital anomalies” or “exceptional clinical situations.” A full-term pregnancy is 40 weeks.
The college now says it is updating its guidelines so that women can have access to abortion without problem.
The woman followed the advice of her lawyer and sought an abortion elsewhere. Faced with the prospect of an ethics committee at Ste-Justine Hospital deciding on her request, she ultimately got the abortion at an unidentified Montreal hospital.
Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette called the MUHC refusal “legally unacceptable” but morally understandable.
“Legally, every woman — and it’s a Supreme Court decision — has a right to an abortion at anytime before she gives birth,” Barrette said. “On the other hand, we cannot force a doctor to proceed with late abortions.”
An estimated 17 to 42 Quebec women go to the United States every year to terminate a third trimester pregnancy.
While Canadian law is silent on abortion since the Supreme Court struck down the law in 1988, leaders of the nation’s pregnancy specialists says no doctor is under any obligation to perform an abortion and that abortions late in pregnancy can be particularly ethically and morally challenging.
“People do have their right to practise within their own conscience and to make referrals to someone else if their patient is requesting something they can’t accommodate,” said Dr. Jennifer Blake, chief executive officer of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
“We don’t know what the anomaly (in the Quebec case) is. You can image that at 35 weeks, whether or not it’s legal, as a profession we have to behave in a way that is moral and responsible,” Blake said. “And, at 35 weeks, a baby is capable of survival. We’re not talking an abortion of a fetus that has no ability to live outside its mother’s body.
“We struggle with these issues,” she added. “And these aren’t the cases where you want someone standing up and saying ‘it’s my right.’
“This is where you want everyone stepping back and saying, let’s really understand what’s going on here. Let’s do the right thing.”
In Canada, 2.4 per cent of abortions reported by hospitals (outside Quebec) in 2014 were performed after 21 weeks gestation, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
Dr. Wendy Norman, a leading researcher in women’s reproductive health at the University of British Columbia, said abortions after 24 weeks gestation are rare and would almost always involve extraordinary circumstances — lethal genetic or hereditary anomalies, for example, or birth defects that would mean a lifetime of medical problems.
“The range is almost infinite as to the kinds of things that can go wrong,” she said.
Doctors say that most second, and almost all third trimester abortions involve what is known as “medication-induced fetal demise.” A drug — typically potassium chloride or digoxin — is injected into the fetal heart before labour is induced. Death is immediate. The woman is then given drugs to make her uterus contract, and expel the pregnancy. She will experience labour, the same way she would if she were delivering a live baby, or stillborn.
My opinion: Well her baby had birth defects and she (and the father) didn't want the baby to suffer, so I feel sorry for them. They need to get counseling.
May 20, 2019 "I’m From Alabama And Gave Birth To My Rapist’s Child Because I Couldn’t Get An Abortion": My friend Sherry emailed me this because of last week's email. This is a very well-written life essay. It may be offensive for some of you to read:
This is how we treat the women where I live ― here in Alabama where men who have never once been inside of my body, never once been forced to endure my circumstances and never once felt the residue of my violation eating away from within still feel divinely compelled to appropriate my autonomy. I feel such anger and sadness at their limitedness, their inability to perceive reality, and their willingness to leverage our lives and well-being in exchange for a “red meat” vote.
The new Alabama abortion ban has nothing to do with mercy or the preservation and sanctity of life. The politicians in this state who voted for this law do not care about children once they have been expelled from our wombs. They do not care whether a child is wanted, fed, loved and provided for. They do not care about the things they thrust on the shoulders of women and children, and whether or not they are left destitute in the fallout.
Jenny Jones: I wrote about this before in 2012. It was about those out-of-control teen girls who wear tight and revealing clothes and say: "When I grow up, I want to be a stripper." I saw this in like 1999.
Jones interviews at 13 yr old girl with blonde hair.
Jones: You got pregnant when you were 13?
Girl: Yeah.
Jones: And you got an abortion?
Girl: Yeah.
Is there anyone here who thinks she should have had the kid? As in give birth to the kid?
My week:
May 19, 2019 "'Jeopardy!' champ James Holzhauer has won $1.69 million—and he's already giving some of it away":
"Jeopardy!" champ James Holzhauer has won close to $1.7 million so far during his history-making run on the popular game show. And though his time in the spotlight isn't over yet — he will return May 20, after the show's teacher tournament — he's already given some of his winnings back to the community in Las Vegas, his hometown.
The Las Vegas-Clark County Library, the Las Vegas Natural History Museum and the Ronald McDonald House in Las Vegas told CNBC Make It that Holzhauer and his wife have donated significant funds to each institution.
"I am happy to confirm that James and Melissa Holzhauer made a $10,000 check to the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District Foundation on April 11 to support early learning and homework help services at the Library District," said Danielle Milam, development and planning director at the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District and Foundation
https://ca.yahoo.com/finance/news/apos-jeopardy-apos-champ-james-150028150.html
May 20, 2019 "US billionaire pays off entire $40m student debt of 2019 graduating class at historic black college":
A billionaire technology investor stunned the entire graduating class at Morehouse College when he announced at their commencement Sunday that he would pay off their student loans, estimated at up to $40 million (£31m).
Robert F. Smith, this year's commencement speaker, made the announcement while addressing nearly 400 graduating seniors of the all-male historically black college in Atlanta. Mr Smith, who is black, is the Founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm that invests in software, data, and technology-driven companies.
“On behalf of the eight generations of my family that have been in this country, we're gonna put a little fuel in your bus,” the investor and philanthropist told graduates in his morning address. “This is my class, 2019. And my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans.”
The announcement immediately drew stunned looks from faculty and students alike. Then the graduates broke into the biggest cheers of the morning. Morehouse said it is the single largest gift to the college.
Though college officials could not provide an estimate of the exact amount owed by the current graduating class, students graduate with an average debt of $30,000 to $40,000, said Terrance L. Dixon, vice president of enrollment management.
Mr Smith, who received an honorary doctorate from Morehouse during the ceremony, had already announced a $1.5 million gift to the school.
Smith said he expected the recipients to “pay it forward” and said he hoped that “every class has the same opportunity going forward.”
"She called 911. Then she was killed. Now a jury has awarded $1 million to her family":
JACKSON, Miss. - A Hinds County Circuit Court jury has awarded $1 million to the family of a 67-year-old Jackson woman killed in 2014 after family members and others say Jackson police bungled the woman's 911 call about a prowler.
"If they would have followed policy and procedures, more likely than not, it would have saved her life," said attorney Dennis Sweet III, who represented Ruth Helen Harrion's family members.
Harrion had called Jackson dispatchers at 2:23 a.m on July 15, 2014, to report a prowler, according to a 911 tape obtained by the Clarion Ledger. When the officers arrived 8 minutes later, nobody answered the door, and they left.
"They should have made contact with the complainant," Horton said in 2014. "They should have made contact with her to make sure of her of her w"We have a practice and policy in place," he said, "and in this occasion I think they did not follow that."elfare. But they did not do that."
My opinion: The police should ask their captain if they can go into the house to make sure the people in there are okay. They may have to break a window to get in, and have to pay for it.
May 22, 2019 Arthur's gay marriage ep: Today I found this article by Marisa Lati in the Star Metro. It's about Arthur's teacher Mr. Ratburn getting married to a man.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/alabama-public-television-refuses-to-air-two-gay-cartoon-animals-getting-married-2019-05-21
"New Sesame Street muppet is a foster kid": Today I found this article by Gina Salamone in the Star Metro:
May 22, 2019 Arthur's gay marriage ep: Today I found this article by Marisa Lati in the Star Metro. It's about Arthur's teacher Mr. Ratburn getting married to a man.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/alabama-public-television-refuses-to-air-two-gay-cartoon-animals-getting-married-2019-05-21
"New Sesame Street muppet is a foster kid": Today I found this article by Gina Salamone in the Star Metro:
The latest Muppet in the “Sesame Street” family is a foster kid called Karli with “for-now” parents.
While Karli won’t be seen on the popular kids show, she’ll appear in video, digital and print materials as part of the “Sesame Street in Communities” foster care initiative alongside her foster parents Dalia and Clem.
“Children in foster care often experience many transitions — from their separation from birth parents, to their placement in foster care, to many moves — and the new resources are designed to help children in crisis cope along the way," Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization behind the show, said in a statement.
https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/ny-new-sesame-street-puppet-foster-kid-for-now-parents-20190520-cjkarl2nhnfstidtg5ddxhdisi-story.html
The Inbetween: This show is coming on May 29, 2019:
A woman who assists the dead with their unresolved problems helps detectives solve murder cases.
The Inbetween: This show is coming on May 29, 2019:
A woman who assists the dead with their unresolved problems helps detectives solve murder cases.
Time after Time: I'm going to write about this so I can deal with it and move on. This show came out in spring 2017 and then it got cancelled after 5 episodes. I hoped they would air the remaining episodes during the summer time. Yesterday I was looking for the show on imdb.com, and it turns out they did air in the summer time and I missed it.
It was probably because my Telus was reset. I didn't read my TV listings on CTV or ABC if they were airing it during the summer. It's on CW seed and I can't access it.
It's not on Netflix though you can sign a petition for it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5031234/?ref_=rvi_tt
Job interviews: Today there was a phone job interview in the morning. It was for a cleaner position. In the afternoon I attended an interview for a restaurant.
Cleaner job search: I got some call backs from them. I applied to hotels, residential, business, etc. It seems like I have hit a limit.
Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigations: I was going through my scrap paper and I found this. I then remembered my co-worker Mi told me this because she watches Bones.
Sakurako Kujō is a genius beauty in her mid-twenties whose life is centered around one thing and one thing only: bones. With little tolerance for others, she would be completely isolated in her study full of skeletons if it weren’t for high school boy Shotaro—her new assistant and constant companion. Why exactly she has taken a shine to him remains a mystery, but one thing is clear: Whenever the two go out together, the chances are high that they will come across a human corpse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Bones:_Sakurako%27s_Investigation
Rileys: This is a printing company that I also wrote down:
http://rileys.com/
May 23, 2019 Social event: I signed up for it today. Then they emailed to cancel. I'm an introvert, and I didn't want to go out. However, I do need to get out of my comfort zone from time to time.
May 24, 2019 13 yr old trades his X-box for a car for his single mom:
As KOLO reports, William Preston’s family was going through a rough patch in life. His mother was trying to provide for her three kids and three dogs, making ends meet all without a vehicle.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5121519/teen-trades-xbox-yard-work-buy-car-single-mother/?utm_source=GlobalEdmonton&utm_medium=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2LmPbW31Pz-c3vSKts4pQ-I8mn0d_us2PY-dRa7c74QksWD1n0lc-EpCU
My opinion: That's so nice. However, they should only have 1 dog instead of 3 because they are struggling financially. Also the car benefits the whole family.
Morning: I walked a block over to pick up a Metro and the newspaper box was empty. I walked a block over and the 2 boxes were empty. I took a 2 min bus ride to go to Subway to redeem my coupon for a free coffee. I checked 2 other boxes and the restaurant and there's no Metro.
I went to this nearby medical clinic, and it closed down.
Job research:
I'm posting these links to show you that I'm researching.
http://badcb.blogspot.com/2019/05/job-search-websites.html
http://badcb.blogspot.com/2019/05/business-link-alberta.html
May 25, 2019 The highlight of my week:
The Fix: I saw the season 1 finale/ series finale. It was a good mystery.
Whiskey Cavelier: I watched the season 1 finale/ series finale. I watched the most of the episodes this week. It was a fun show.
The weather: I sat outside in my lawn chair and read the Globe and Mail Sat. news for a few hours.
Job interviews: Today there was a phone job interview in the morning. It was for a cleaner position. In the afternoon I attended an interview for a restaurant.
Cleaner job search: I got some call backs from them. I applied to hotels, residential, business, etc. It seems like I have hit a limit.
Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigations: I was going through my scrap paper and I found this. I then remembered my co-worker Mi told me this because she watches Bones.
Sakurako Kujō is a genius beauty in her mid-twenties whose life is centered around one thing and one thing only: bones. With little tolerance for others, she would be completely isolated in her study full of skeletons if it weren’t for high school boy Shotaro—her new assistant and constant companion. Why exactly she has taken a shine to him remains a mystery, but one thing is clear: Whenever the two go out together, the chances are high that they will come across a human corpse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Bones:_Sakurako%27s_Investigation
Rileys: This is a printing company that I also wrote down:
http://rileys.com/
May 23, 2019 Social event: I signed up for it today. Then they emailed to cancel. I'm an introvert, and I didn't want to go out. However, I do need to get out of my comfort zone from time to time.
May 24, 2019 13 yr old trades his X-box for a car for his single mom:
As KOLO reports, William Preston’s family was going through a rough patch in life. His mother was trying to provide for her three kids and three dogs, making ends meet all without a vehicle.
The teen was already making a little bit of extra cash by doing yard and housework for neighbours in his community, but he explained to KOLO that he was surfing through Facebook one day and noticed a woman was selling a 1999 Chevrolet Metro.
“It was really cheap so I asked her if I could trade it for my Xbox or earn it,” Preston said. “At first she said no and after she thought about it, then she said yes.”
With a deal in place, Preston broke the news to his mother.
“[I said] ‘Mom, I got you a car,’ and she didn’t believe me,” the teen told the news station.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5121519/teen-trades-xbox-yard-work-buy-car-single-mother/?utm_source=GlobalEdmonton&utm_medium=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2LmPbW31Pz-c3vSKts4pQ-I8mn0d_us2PY-dRa7c74QksWD1n0lc-EpCU
My opinion: That's so nice. However, they should only have 1 dog instead of 3 because they are struggling financially. Also the car benefits the whole family.
Morning: I walked a block over to pick up a Metro and the newspaper box was empty. I walked a block over and the 2 boxes were empty. I took a 2 min bus ride to go to Subway to redeem my coupon for a free coffee. I checked 2 other boxes and the restaurant and there's no Metro.
I went to this nearby medical clinic, and it closed down.
Job research:
I'm posting these links to show you that I'm researching.
http://badcb.blogspot.com/2019/05/job-search-websites.html
http://badcb.blogspot.com/2019/05/business-link-alberta.html
May 25, 2019 The highlight of my week:
The Fix: I saw the season 1 finale/ series finale. It was a good mystery.
Whiskey Cavelier: I watched the season 1 finale/ series finale. I watched the most of the episodes this week. It was a fun show.
The weather: I sat outside in my lawn chair and read the Globe and Mail Sat. news for a few hours.
