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People in Alabama who use abortion pills to end pregnancies can be prosecuted by the state, even if those pills were prescribed remotely from somewhere else in the country, said state Attorney General Steve Marshall.The statement comes shortly after the federal government made it easier to prescribe the pills mifepristone and misoprostol mdash; used for medical abortions mdash; amid a larger battle over abortion rights. Alabama is among 18 states that have issued new abortion restrictions since the Supreme Court s decision to r stanley cup everse Roe V. Wade.While the state s ban on abortion mdash; which targets providers mdash; says people who have an abortion cannot be held criminally liable, Marshall suggested the state could instead prosecute under a 2006 law. The Human Life Protection Act targets abortion providers, exempting women upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted to be performed from liability under the law, Marshall said in a statement to CBS News. It does not provide an across-the-board exemption from all criminal laws, including the chemical-endangerment law. The state schemical-endagerment law, criminalizes anyone who knowingly, recklessly or intentionally causes or permits a child to be exposed to, to ingest or inhale, or to have contact with a controlled substance stanley termoska , chemical substance, or drug paraphernalia. In 2013, the Alabama Su stanley italia preme Court has ruled that the law, which was first introduced to protect chi Jlth Surgeon general cites antibody treatment for Trump s delay in getting vaccine
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.While the world is agog over international transmission of the swine flu, let me take this teachable moment to remind people, animals bite back. Factory farming of pigs led to this latest swine flu epidemic, which is threatening to turn into a pandemic. No, people don t get swine flu from eating pork. But the disease is transmitted to humans, usually, via humans pig farmers who work with the animals:Scientists are still struggling to determine how the virus was first passed from pigs to people. Pigs have receptors in their respiratory tracts that make them susceptible to strains of bird and human flu, which can then mutate to create a new virus, as they apparently have in this case, said Joan E. Nichols, an infectious-disease exper stanley taza t and associate director of the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch. We consider them the mixing pot.... They re a great source to generate something new, she said. People who work with the pigs ca stanley borraccia n also catch it. People should not be eating animals, IMHO, and in the opinion of a growing number of Americans vegetarians and vegans. Every so often Mother Nature takes an opportunity to remind us tha stanley portugal t eating animals and/or factory farming eventually bite us back. --Check out our political cartoons.--Read more by Bonnie Erbe.--Read more from the Thomas Jefferson Street blog.--Read more about swine flu. By Bonnie E |
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