Work Your Brain — 09/04/06
Women’s Rights
- Class warfare at Starbucks — lambert @ CorrenteWire writes about how class warfare starts over breast milk. Companies are far more likely to be accomodating to executive mothers who need breaks during the day to pump breast milk, but the women who work in the stores and “on the line” have to “barricade themselves in small restrooms intended for customers, counting the minutes left in their breaks.” There’s a lot of pressure to breast-feed in this day and age, but it’s easy to get discouraged and give up under less than ideal conditions.
- A Mystery From the Time When Abortion Was Illegal and Dangerous — olvlzl @ ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES remembers a horrible, deadly practice from the pre-Roe era — infanticide.
The woman who owned the trunk was in her 60s in 1983. The papers say she was called a “pillar of the community” when she lived in the area. People who remembered her said that at the time the babies had been killed she often appeared to be pregnant but she never had children. The authorities found her but she wouldn’t say anything about the trunk. I don’ t know of any legal pressure put on her to talk. The fact that there were five corpses of infants wrapped in newspapers from different years certainly suggests serial infanticide, not a misdemeanor in anyone’s book.
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O.K. I get that for security reasons the U.S. and the U.K. wants to ban liquids and gel-like substances on airplanes because the terrorst plot was to mix substances that could then become explosive. That makes sense though it doesn’t make me all too thrilled — as a slightish germaphobe, I like having my own little bottle of familiar diet soda in my backpack, which I’ve always happily put through the x-ray machine and I prefer to carry a small bottle of that hand gel stuff for germ killing and since my luggage is usually lost, I like bringing my toothpaste, but I’m really kind of o.k. with leaving that stuff at home for national security.
However, apparently, security in some locations has been having people not only throw away their liquid items but pour them out into trash cans… mixing the liquids with other liquids other people have already poured out.
