Yesterday I wrote about Tennessee and the attempt to use the corona virus crisis to shut down abortion services. Tennessee is not the only state determined to end abortion. Other states are using the ruse of declaring abortions “elective”, rather than medical, emergencies. Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Oklahoma, Alaska and Alabama have issued bans on abortion …
At around 12.30 p.m on Juneteenth, with the doors of the legislature locked to the public, Tennessee passed one of the country’s most restrictive abortion bans, one that would prohibit abortion before many patients even know they are pregnant. It includes medically unnecessary, anti-science restrictions, including some rooted in racism and misogyny. If Tennessee Governor …
In 2019, Samuel Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare in Nashville, was paid $26.8 million in compensation ( don’t you just love the word “ compensation”? ). Until the pandemic hit things looked even better. Then HCA promptly cut the salaries of 11,000 corporate staff, and even Hazen “sacrificed,” donating $237,000 of his salary — less …
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If ever we find a Covid-19 vaccine, it won’t just be the academics and pharmaceutical giants leading the search we have to thank. It will also be down to all the funding provided by governments and global charities. Public-private organisations such as Gavi (the global vaccine alliance, supported by the WHO and the Gates Foundation) …
Today we went on a one hour walk, with masks on. I counted those adults walking past us wearing masks and those not doing so, just to get a snapshot of the seriousness with which people were taking the virus. 19 passers-by wore masks 74 passers-by were not wearing masks No comment required from me.
