Archive for November 2024

Crisis pregnancy centers are faith-based nonprofit organizations that operate with the goal of persuading pregnant women to continue their pregnancies. They often open close to abortion clinics to intercept women who may be seeking to terminate pregnancies — whether by diverting patients through “sidewalk counseling” outside abortion clinics or positioning themselves close enough to clinics that would-be patients accidentally book appointments with them instead of their intended destinations.

As bill to allow terminally ill people in England and Wales to end their own lives enters parliament, supporters of the law change speak out. Above: Peter says his wife took her life while he was away to avoid implicating him in her death.

Against Child Abuse says social workers, medical staff and teachers among those that made about 180 hotline calls, up from 83 the year before

D, who specialises in mental health and addictions, takes regular doses of medical cannabis through a special vaporiser to cope with her post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) plus other medical conditions.

Redress payments to survivors of institutional child sexual abuse will not be considered an “asset” for the residential aged care subsidy. Above: Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth (l) and Aged Care Minister Anika Wells.

Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.

That Democrats are bleeding working-class voters from all demographics is indisputable, so a guilty party has to be found. Obviously the solution cannot be a sustained discussion of economic left populism, as this would challenge the class interests of donors and corporate consultants. So the only culprits that will be discussed in our discourse, again fueled by the very same people responsible for the historic collapse, will be ​“headwinds,” faceless cohorts of voters who we are told can’t have their minds changed, and vulnerable groups without the political or economic power to defend themselves.

American society rests on an assumption that families take care of their own. But 15 million Americans 50 and older didn’t have any close family — spouses, partners, or children — in 2015, the latest year for which reliable estimates are available. Most lived alone. By 2060, that number is expected to swell to 21 million. Beyond that, millions of seniors living on their own aren’t geographically close to adult children or other family members. Or they have difficult, strained relationships that keep them from asking for support.