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"A Federal Judge has rejected a request to rehang a controversial painting depicting police officers as animals that drew national headlines earlier this year after Republican lawmakers repeatedly removed it from a display inside the U.S. Capitol complex....It depicts police officers with the animalistic features of a pig or warthog along with symbolic elements of the 2014 shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., removed the painting on Jan. 6 and left it in Clay's office with a handwritten note complaining it did not comply with the competition's suitability guidelines."
"Head of police organization: Colin Kaepernick's socks 'disrespectful' and NFL at fault: The executive director of one of the largest police organizations in the country blasted Colin Kaepernick and the NFL on Thursday after learning that during training camp practices in August, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback wore socks that bear the image of cartoon pigs wearing police hats."
Florida Mayor refers to police officer as 'pig'
WPTV News | West Palm Beach Florida
Published on Jan 30, 2017
Stuart Mayor Eula Clarke asked for "more time" Monday after a growing controversy involving language she used around a city police officer.
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"A fetus is not an 'unborn child'!:
Washington Post Columnist Gene Weingarten 1/19/18:
I am an unreconstructed liberal ....I have written this in The Post before: I think the fundamental difference between pro-choice and anti-abortion people is not about a political disagreement or even an intellectual disagreement. I think it is entirely visceral, almost primitive. I believe that aborting a first trimester fetus is not "killing a baby." You, presumably, do. That's where this giant political issue incubates. I am not in favor of "killing babies." But If I genuinely think that a 12-week fetus is not a "baby," I am not pro-death, and I deeply
resent your labeling me as such.
Why I'm More Pro-Choice After Becoming A Mother
Pris Blossom Writer. Feminist Mom. Culture Junkie.
See, I’ve known people who had abortions at 14 weeks and to them it was not a baby, it was a fetus, a collection of cells.
Rosemary Mac Cabe - a blogger, journalist and TV panellist based in Dublin: Here’s why I’m pro-choice: a beginners’ guide
The 8th amendment doesn’t just hurt women seeking abortions
The 8th amendment to the Irish Constitution essentially places the life of the unborn – that is, the life of a fertilised embryo, from the moment it is confirmed as such – on a par with the life of the mother. So that, if you wish to terminate your pregnancy; if you wish to halt the growth of cells (that may or may not become a baby), you are denied the right to do so based on the fact that the Irish Government has decided that group of cells is as valuable as you are. Your worth is measured as being exactly equal to a fertilised embryo the size of a grape.
The Day I Learned Aborted Fetuses Aren’t People
Oct 19, 2015, 10:01am - Amy Littlefield
"For the vast majority of patients, who were in the first trimester of pregnancy, the answer was: tiny. More than 90 percent of abortions occur at or before 13 weeks of pregnancy, when the embryo or fetus ranges from little more than a bundle of cells to no more than a few inches long....
Yet even as I took part in hundreds of abortions as a counselor, I think on some level, I still wondered if seeing second-trimester fetal tissue could shake my pro-choice views. Then one day, I was offered the unusual opportunity to see the fetus of a patient who had been close to 22 weeks pregnant. With some trepidation, I accepted. I looked. And in that moment, my pro-choice position crystallized. While it was shaped like a baby, what I was looking at was not a person. It was a fetus. A fetus my patient had chosen not to make into a baby. I felt no attachment to it. Relieved, I stepped into the recovery room to check on my patient. Years later, looking back on this moment, it’s still the patient I think about, not the fetus"
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