Friday News Bucket

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   CabinGirl on March 9, 2007 at 7:54 am

   absolutely disgusting: St Pete Times

   Health care professionals would be required to call police if they know or suspect a patient 15 or younger is pregnant, under a bill filed recently in the House and Senate.

   In addition, doctors who perform abortions on such girls would be required to collect a DNA sample from the fetus and send it to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement…

   …The report would trigger a criminal investigation examining whether the girl was a victim of a crime, such as statutory rape, which can include sex between two minors who are under 16.

   There’s so much wrong with that I hardly know where to begin.  

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     AndiF on March 9, 2007 at 8:36 am

     If their goal is to keep young women from seeking health care and counseling when pregnant, I’d say they’ve made an excellent start.

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       CabinGirl on March 9, 2007 at 8:41 am

       My thoughts exactly.  Just how many babies do they want to find in the dumpster?

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         michaelmt on March 9, 2007 at 8:49 am

         …they can reconstitute their lost majority by forcing young women to have children. Ugly, ugly…

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     Alice on March 9, 2007 at 11:14 am

     It’s Florida, Jake.

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   CabinGirl on March 9, 2007 at 7:58 am

   BushCo backs down: WashPo

   Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales agreed yesterday to change the way U.S. attorneys can be replaced, a reversal in administration policy that came after he was browbeaten by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee still angry over the controversial firings of eight federal prosecutors.

   Gonzales told Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and other senior members of the committee that the administration will no longer oppose legislation limiting the attorney general’s power to appoint interim prosecutors. Gonzales also agreed to allow the committee to interview five top-level Justice Department officials as part of an ongoing Democratic-led probe into the firings, senators said after a tense, hour-long meeting in Leahy’s office suite.

   Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said the administration will no longer oppose limiting the attorney general’s power to appoint interim prosecutors.

   The concessions represent a turnaround by the White House and the Justice Department, which have argued for three months that Gonzales must have unfettered power to appoint interim federal prosecutors and have resisted disclosing details about the firings.

   The article goes on to say that Arlen Specter (R-PA)doesn’t think Abu will last through 2008, and may be replaced “sooner rather than later”.

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   michaelmt on March 9, 2007 at 8:50 am

   This is the guy who said he never read the provision his aide “slipped into his bill.” He was a scum at the hearings. He’s still a scum.

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     CabinGirl on March 9, 2007 at 9:16 am

     He is scum…and unfortunately, he’s one of my senators.

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   dada on March 9, 2007 at 2:38 pm

   Al Gore will be appearing before Barbara Boxer’s Senate Environment and Public Works Comm. March 21.

   Thank Al Gore for his Leadership

   There may be no single person who has done more for our environment than Al Gore.  That’s why I’m so pleased that Vice President Gore has accepted my invitation to testify before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on March 21st! And I want you to help me give him the warmest welcome possible.

   Please sign my online thank you card to Al Gore now — so I can personally deliver it to him when he comes to testify later this month!

   Dear Vice President Gore,

   Thank you for your incredible leadership on the critically important issue of global warming.

   From your years of service in the Senate to your actions as Vice President to “An Inconvenient Truth,” you have been a steadfast, outspoken leader on environmental issues, and for that we thank you.

   Signed by:

   sign the note here

   march on the pentagon: 3.17.07