Court Temporarily Blocks Michigan’s 1931 Abortion Ban

The Michigan Court of Claims on Tuesday granted a temporary injunction blocking enforcement of a 1931 law that would ban nearly all abortions in the state. 


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Reflects what’s happening.

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Condoms didn’t become popular forms of birth control again until the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. Yet networks continued to ban condom advertising, even though U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said that condom ads should be shown on TV (a few PSAs were shown in 1986). Networks feared alienating conservative consumers, many of whom were opposed to birth control. As an ABC executive told the House subcommittee, condom ads violated “standards of good taste and community acceptability.”

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Cyndi Lauper and Laura Dern:

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But banana ads are fine.

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Ask religious nut Ray Comfort about bananas!

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Oh, no problem - just send it to the US SCOTUS - they’ll figure out some way to throw out the 10th amendment on this one.

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The 'tard doesn’t know, or ignores the fact, that bananas have been selectively bred for decades and don’t look anything like the original plantains.

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Not exactly…

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That brings a smile to my face. Thanks.

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Female Governor, Lt. Governor, and Judge. More of this please, everywhere!

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he earliest domestication of bananas ( Musa spp.) were initially from naturally occurring parthenocarpic (seedless) individuals of Musa banksii in New Guinea. These were cultivated by Papuans before the arrival of Austronesian-speakers. Numerous phytoliths of bananas have been recovered from the Kuk Swamp archaeological site and dated to around 10,000 to 6,500 BP.[50][51][52] Foraging humans in this area began domestication in the late Pleistocene using transplantation and early cultivation methods.[53][54] Various investigations[54][53] – including Denham et al. , 2003 – determine that by the early to middle of the Holocene the process was complete.

Wikipedia.

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Gov. Whitmer, Attorney General Nessel, and Judge Gleicher are all women. The Lt. Gov. of Michigan, Garlin Gilchrist II, is not. LG Gilchrist is a Black man with considerable talent as a politician and community-based activist, and he contributes mightily to the success of this Democratic executive team (besides him, Whitmer, Nessel, and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson) running for re-election in November.

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Tree ripened bananas are so much sweeter than what we get at the grocery store. Same for pineapple. Same for every fresh fruit or vegetable we buy. Early harvests ruin the tastes of what we eat.

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The right wing and their victim mentality may skip the kidnapping plot over this ruling and move on to something more radical.

In normal times, that would be my sense of sarcasm…

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In King Tut’s tomb Howard Carter found sheepskin condoms. That means the idea has been around at least 3500 years.

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That’s neat, but I try to address what you posted, not what you think you posted.

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They will now proceed to reproduce.

That’s right…I have no intention of letting you sleep well.

Did I mention…

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O/T
NYT Dept of justice has asked Jan 6 committee for transcripts
Justice Dept. Requests Transcripts From Jan. 6 Committee - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

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But those ancient Egyptians were heathens, don’t ya know.

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