misc news
Sat Jul 11 00:53:36 EDT 2015
tags: news, politics, abortion
Police officers are ordinary people. And some ordinary people can be unexpectedly kind and generous:Kansas Officer Buys Children's Items for Shoplifting Mom
Friday, Jul 10, 2015
Sarah Robinson was caught shoplifting but never went to jail. That's because the officer called to the scene of the crime couldn't bring himself to arrest her and instead picked up her tab.
Robinson had attempted to steal $300 worth of merchandise, including diapers, children's shoes and baby wipes at a Wal-Mart in Roeland Park, Kansas, NBC affiliate KSHB reported. She explained to Officer Mark Engravalle that she was homeless and living out of her car with her six children after her husband died in an accidental drowning four years ago.
"What she did was wrong, but I think her heart was in the right place with wanting to take care of her children," said Engravalle, a father of two himself.
He noticed that three of her children were barefoot and had dirty feet, so he bought diapers and wipes from the store and sent Robinson's 16-year-old daughter to pick out shoes for her sisters.
The officer paid for it all himself.
Engravalle did write Robinson a ticket, but the mother is grateful that she wasn't arrested and that her children weren't taken away. Her case is pending in the Roeland Park Municipal Court.
And back to politics....GOP Candidates Blast Supreme Court at Anti-Abortion Event
Jul 10 2015, 2:44 pm ET
Republican presidential candidates aggressively courted anti-abortion activists on Friday, with some linking the Supreme Court's 1973 decision to legalize abortion with last month's ruling that cleared the way for same-sex marriage nationwide.
GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry told the crowd, "If I'm the president of the United States and I have the opportunity to put individuals on the United States Supreme Court, they will not be squishy."
That's why we all have to vote. Appointees to the Court can be there a very long time.
[Ben] Carson, Perry and [Marco] Rubio each called the ultrasound the best argument for the anti-abortion movement.
"Every single person alive today was once that grainy ultrasound picture," Rubio said. "And it is deeply disturbing for us to think of anyone - whether a parent, or a politician, or a Supreme Court justice - having a debate about our own viability as a person, at that stage or any stage."
Many people alive today were born before there were ultrasound exams, so we were not "that grainy ultrasound picture". I wish politicians would just stop saying things that are not true, and not even possible. And there are still many who don't have access to pre-natal care, so they are not that grainy picture either. (Even some in the U.S., thanks to our health-care inequities (and stigmas about teen pregnancies).)
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tags: news, politics, abortion
Police officers are ordinary people. And some ordinary people can be unexpectedly kind and generous:Kansas Officer Buys Children's Items for Shoplifting Mom
Friday, Jul 10, 2015
Sarah Robinson was caught shoplifting but never went to jail. That's because the officer called to the scene of the crime couldn't bring himself to arrest her and instead picked up her tab.
Robinson had attempted to steal $300 worth of merchandise, including diapers, children's shoes and baby wipes at a Wal-Mart in Roeland Park, Kansas, NBC affiliate KSHB reported. She explained to Officer Mark Engravalle that she was homeless and living out of her car with her six children after her husband died in an accidental drowning four years ago.
"What she did was wrong, but I think her heart was in the right place with wanting to take care of her children," said Engravalle, a father of two himself.
He noticed that three of her children were barefoot and had dirty feet, so he bought diapers and wipes from the store and sent Robinson's 16-year-old daughter to pick out shoes for her sisters.
The officer paid for it all himself.
Engravalle did write Robinson a ticket, but the mother is grateful that she wasn't arrested and that her children weren't taken away. Her case is pending in the Roeland Park Municipal Court.
And back to politics....GOP Candidates Blast Supreme Court at Anti-Abortion Event
Jul 10 2015, 2:44 pm ET
Republican presidential candidates aggressively courted anti-abortion activists on Friday, with some linking the Supreme Court's 1973 decision to legalize abortion with last month's ruling that cleared the way for same-sex marriage nationwide.
GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry told the crowd, "If I'm the president of the United States and I have the opportunity to put individuals on the United States Supreme Court, they will not be squishy."
That's why we all have to vote. Appointees to the Court can be there a very long time.
[Ben] Carson, Perry and [Marco] Rubio each called the ultrasound the best argument for the anti-abortion movement.
"Every single person alive today was once that grainy ultrasound picture," Rubio said. "And it is deeply disturbing for us to think of anyone - whether a parent, or a politician, or a Supreme Court justice - having a debate about our own viability as a person, at that stage or any stage."
Many people alive today were born before there were ultrasound exams, so we were not "that grainy ultrasound picture". I wish politicians would just stop saying things that are not true, and not even possible. And there are still many who don't have access to pre-natal care, so they are not that grainy picture either. (Even some in the U.S., thanks to our health-care inequities (and stigmas about teen pregnancies).)
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/752732.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]