Link Mongering - The Rest of the World on Sept. 11

[akirlu]

I don't get over to Wampum as much as I probably should, and so I missed this post when it went by. If for some reason you didn't get the link from Julia at Sisyphus Shrugged (jmhm), go read it now. Because, as Dwight says, somebody should be paying attention when the penal system nearly kills a mentally ill man by leaving him without water for thirteen days, and you know, not many people are. I wonder if Dwight's maybe right, and there would have been a bigger scandal and investigation if it were an animal shelter treating dogs this way.

For that matter, if for some reason you don't already read Respectful of Otters, please check out this article if you ever believed that so-called "partial-birth abortion" was something you could agree with the anti-abortion crowd on.

Comments

[cluefairy-j.livejournal.com]

We had animal abuse laws before child abuse laws. Go figure.

And of course nobody is paying attention to these things, we've had a terrorist hurricane attack against us for the past week! Which raised our terrorist hurricane condition level in the country from 1 to a 4 or 5. :-)

Great article

[amy-thomson.livejournal.com]

Thanks for linking to the partial birth abortion article. When I was a freshman in college, I wound up driving a friend to the next town over for an abortion. She came out paper white and shaking. On the way home, she was curled up in the back seat sweating and moaning in pain. Turned out that the doctor had punctured her uterus, and she wound up in the hospital. My roommate went to a different doctor on the same day, had her abortion and went out partying the same night.

I visited the Women's Center at my college, and discovered that the doctor who punctured my friend's uterus was still in practice, but the doctor who'd safely performed the same procedure on my roommate was no longer performing abortions because the right-to-lifers had driven him out of business.

*sigh*