Polar opposites

Late Justice Ruth Badar Ginsburg has been a guiding light for her years on the Supreme Court. She never put off a decision asked of her of complex issues such as the global climate crisis.

The global climate crisis is not controversial. Coney-Barrett’s statement about the controversial climate crisis absolutely proves she is a political appointee. There is no doubt she is seeing the USA through a right wing political agenda. That answer told on her. She is unwilling or unable to remain objective in her decisions. That is what The Federalist Society is counting on for their flagship nation.

She cared and wanted to reassure the American people they always were important. From the testimony of Coney-Barrett it has never been more clear Justice Ginsburg was a paragon, perfect, dedicated and a rare find by Former President Clinton.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar has established Judge Coney-Barrett  courted Trump for a seat on the US Supreme Court through published material matching Trump’s public commentary. This is a strategy that works with Trump. A very similar track was employed by Bill Barr for his seat as AG. 

It is called corruption. I understand the much anticipated DOJ report leading to indictment of previous DOJ leaders has resolved and rejected the Trump/Barr ideology and their banana republic. I believe Trump and Barr have left the door wide open to be sued for defamation and abuse of power they found in their offices.

And this is nonsense.

A conservative watchdog group (click here) filed an FEC complaint on Tuesday asking for an investigation into Democratic candidate Cal Cunningham's March trip to California that used campaign funds after revelations of his extramarital affair.

The affair didn't begin until months later. This has no bearing on anything and just more desperate defamation of a really decent man who loves this country.

And, of course, the first media organization to carry this trash is FOX News.

Americans should be demanding legislation that requires all elected officials to submit ALL their phone logs to the public at least every six months. It is the right of the public to know how their elected officials are spending their time and their salary.

Cal Cunningham may want to offer to pay for his trip to California IF IT WAS NOT COMPLETELY FOR THE SAKE OF HIS ELECTION. It will remove all doubt to the voters that he is interested in THEIR COMFORT with their choice. 

Good luck.

There is something Americans have learned over the past four years....

 ...that they don't want tabloid politics to continue to allow the corrupt to indecently rob them of their rights and best interest.

No one knows how this election will turn out, but, Cal Cunningham is a hero. He put his life on the line for this country. He matters. It is unfortunate a woman from Califorinia estranged from her disabled husband has decided this was the time to have an affair with the once candidate North Carolina can hold up as a man who actually does care about them.

Corruption is no small matter and the Republicans seem to like to partake of it over and over while ignoring their real job in taking care of the American people and their country. I have to wonder what Tillis's phone calls look like over the past six years. I am fairly confident he spent his time making those calls to people with money and voting the promises he made for that money. 

The USA has had enough of tabloid politics because the alternative is really scandalous.

I wish Mr. and Mrs. Tillis success in their marriage. I hope everything works out for both parties involved in these circumstances. I think there is a woman and a disabled veteran that need to look to their future together and hopefully return to the love that first brought them together. 

October 13, 2020
By Tal Axelrod

Cal Cunningham has widened his lead (click here) over Sen. Thom Tillis (R) in North Carolina's marquee Senate race after revelations over an extramarital affair threatened to derail the Democrat's candidacy.

 

Cunningham led Tillis, who is running for a second term, by a 48 to 44 percent margin among registered voters in a new Monmouth University poll released Tuesday. The former state senator’s lead grows to 5 points among likely voters in a high-turnout scenario, 49 to 44 percent, while his lead shrinks to 1 point, 48 to 47 percent, in a low-turnout scenario.

Despite the news of Cunningham’s affair, the Democrat’s lead grew from the same poll from September, which was released before the scandal hit and showed Cunningham with a slimmer 1-point lead over Tillis among registered voters....

The standards for pregnant women MUST change.

The threat of poverty when "things go wrong" is all to real and it must stop! Now!

October 7, 2020
By Priscilla Blossom

...Early on I had two bouts of unexplained vaginal bleeding. Medically, these frightening episodes are referred to as “threatened abortions.” They both occurred while I was at work, and because I had to leave my post for the E.R., I was subsequently fired. Losing my job meant not only losing my income, but also my health insurance. At a time when I was already terrified of losing my baby, my now-former employer only made my fears worse.

Still, my boyfriend and I got married, then moved into a new apartment with room for a nursery, and assumed our happy little family might yet work out. Months later, though, I would go into preterm labor and give birth to my baby girl. Margaret Hope was only 22 weeks, tiny and fragile, and weighing just under a pound. Eight hours later, she was gone. I never even got to see her face while she was alive.

For months afterward I tried to make sense of the tragedy, and did everything I could to survive it....

Senator Gary Peters and his wife were in a difficult and danger place with that pregnancy.

From Harvard Business Review:

June 28, 2019
By Suzanne Delbanco, Maclainen Lehan, Thi Montalvo and Jeffrey Levin-Scherz

It’s remarkable (click here) to see the improvements in maternal health around the globe, which have produced a steady decline in the number of women dying from childbirth over the last 30 years. But in the United States, there is rain on the parade. Its maternal-mortality rate has been steadily rising — the only developed country whose is. Given that women with employer-sponsored health insurance account for over half of the annual pregnancies in the United States, employers are in a position to demand higher quality care. In this article, we recommend actions they can take by wielding their purchasing power.

The U.S. maternal mortality rate has more than doubled from 10.3 per 100,000 live births in 1991 to 23.8 in 2014. Over 700 women a year die of complications related to pregnancy each year in the United States, and two-thirds of those deaths are preventable. Fifty thousand women suffer from life-threatening complications of pregnancy. A report from the Commonwealth Fund released in December found American women have the greatest risk of dying from pregnancy complications among 11 high-income countries....

The Peters' fetus was going to be aborted eventually when the placenta's protective environment gave way. And after a couple of days, Ms. Peters was very susceptible to infection that would have killed both she and the fetus. Pregnancy is very vascular. The placenta is attached directly to the uterine wall. There is an exchange of fluids through the organ known as the placenta.

The placenta's rupture ended the idea that everything was going well. Mrs. Peters was definitely in danger from this pregnancy and if she became infected the real possibility of contracting a bacterial infection directly into her bloodstream through the placenta would have occurred. She would have been taken over by septic shock and that has a high percentage of death.

I think it was completely negligent of the hospital to enforce an antiquated prohibition of abortion. These are some of the problems with being a woman in the USA, mothers die from pregnancy when women don't have a medical society dedicated to a Mother's life.

The profession that helps bring Americans safely into the world worries about the cost of malpractice insurance. Well. I guess so.

It is time for the physicians and surgeons that practice in maternal/child health in the USA to overhaul their PRACTICE and establish new standards that their European peers see as necessary. There are places of practice that can improve and should be improved, but, the professionals have to address it. Legislators can help when necessary, but, the actual hands-on practice itself has to be reformed from within the specialty itself.

The real path to lower malpractice rates is to actually not need it because of better statistics and better practice with superior patient outcomes. It is time to get real about what is in the OB/GYN toolbox to protect every woman's life.

October 13, 2020

By Jaclyn Peiser

In the late 1980s, (click here) Sen. Gary Peters’s wife at the time, Heidi, was four months pregnant when her water broke, leaving the baby with no chance of survival. The hospital in Detroit wouldn’t allow Heidi’s doctor to perform an abortion, so the physician told them to go home and wait for a miscarriage.

“The mental anguish someone goes through is intense,” Peters, a Michigan Democrat, said in an interview with Elle magazine published on Monday, “trying to have a miscarriage for a child that was wanted.”

But the situation became more critical when Heidi’s health deteriorated, so the couple found a doctor at another hospital who agreed to do the procedure.

In the interview, Peters spoke publicly for the first time about the abortion and the troubling moments leading up to the event, which threatened the life of his ex-wife. Peters joins a small group of members of Congress who have spoken about their personal experiences with abortion....