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Many hospitals, in fact, neglect their responsibility to offer the morning-after pill to sexual assault survivors as an option for reducing the risk of pregnancy. This is particularly shocking to see in predominantly liberal, democratic states. In a survey conducted two years ago by the Mass. NARAL Foundation indicates that over 50 percent of Massachusetts’s hospitals and community health centers fail to provide this emergency contraceptive consistently to women who request it. Of those, only a quarter provide accurate referrals to another accessible health care provider...
...believe that we can wait for all the scientific data needed to answer these questions conclusively. We must recognize immediately what it means to be citizens of this planet. It means accepting our obligation to be stewards of the earth's life-giving capacities. As homeowners, we wouldn't neglect or damage our houses until they weren't fit to live in. Why would we do that with our planet...
...forced to move her family in with her mother. "If it weren't for her, I would have been homeless," Brewster recalls. "I couldn't find a decent place. The only apartment I could find was in a slum area" suffering from "drug issues, gang issues and neglect." Brewster finally found a place close to her old neighborhood, but she had to empty her savings and borrow to scrape together the $800 a month and $1,500 security deposit...
...Governor had promised four years ago to fix the state's child-welfare mess. But even though Bush oversaw a 27% increase in child-protection funding, 60 children who had previous contact with the state's child-welfare system died of abuse or neglect in 1999 and 2000, and as many as 1,000 were unaccounted for. Bush's Democratic challenger, former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, who is lagging in the polls, was quick to use the tragedy against Bush. The murder, she says, "certainly indicates that Rilya Wilson's case was not an isolated incident. There is simply...
...children emigrated to England or Australia. Those that stayed discovered that after shutting out the cruelties of the world, they'd cut themselves off from its riches too. The place had no industry and was simply too small and isolated to sustain itself. Mold ate at the bungalows and neglect swallowed the tennis courts and swimming pools. The dream of an Anglo-Indian Eden soured like milky tea in the afternoon...