- Making women carry still-born fetuses to full term because cows and pigs do.
- Consigning women to death to save a fetus.
- Criminalizing pregnancy and miscarriages and arresting, imprisoning and charging women who miscarry with murder…
- Forcing women to undergo involuntary vaginal penetration (otherwise called rape)
- Disabling women or sacrificing their lives by either withholding medical treatment or forcing women to undergo involuntary medical procedures.
- Giving zygotes “personhood” rights while systematically stripping women of their fundamental rights.
- Inhibiting, humiliating and punishing women for their choices to have an abortion for any reason
- Allowing employers to delve into women’s private lives and only pay for insurance when they agree, for religious reasons, with how she choses to use birth control.
- Sacrificing women’s overall health and the well-being of their families in order to stop them from exercising their fundamental human right to control their own bodies and reproduction.
- Depriving women of their ability to earn a living and support themselves and their families.
(via - Huffington Post - Soraya Chemaly)
Coca-Cola Co and PepsiCo Inc are making changes to the production of an ingredient in their namesake colas to avoid the need to label the packages with a cancer warning.
The changes will not alter the colas’ taste, color or formula, according to statements from both companies.
The change is meant to reduce the amount of a chemical called 4-methylimidazole, or 4-MI, which in January was added to the list of chemicals covered by California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, also known as Proposition 65.
High levels of that chemical have been linked to cancer in animals.
Earlier this week, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a U.S. watchdog group, said it found unsafe levels of the chemical in cans of Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc’s Dr Pepper and Whole Foods Markets Inc’s 365 Cola.
Germany: many seek to switch to public health insurance
Shocked by premium increases of as much as 50 percent, many Germans with private health insurance are seeking to switch to a national health plan, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported Sunday.
Many private health insurance plans pushed through hefty premium increases at the beginning of the year and that’s behind the move to switch, the magazine said.
“We’ve gotten increased telephone inquiries from those privately insured who want to come to the AOK,” Wilfried Jacobs, the head of the AOK in Rheinland/Hamburg, told the magazine. The AOK, with 15 regional branches and some 24 million members, is Germany’s largest public health insurance organisation. The magazine said other public health insurers have received similar inquiries.
But it’s not so easy to switch once you’ve opted for private insurance. German law only allows people to change from public to private in exceptional situations.
These include when someone has lost their job. You can also switch if you are an employee whose salary falls below the € 45,900 level. Workers who used to be self-employed but now have a full-time position with a similar salary may also change. (via The Local)
(via reuters)
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