Conservatism needs to be outlawed. It is a dangerous, deadly ideology that spreads like a disease. Racism, bigotry, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, antisemitism and other conservative traits are poisonous and should be regulated as such.
This is infuriating as fuck that Republicans are just allowed to abandon any presumption of governing and just subject citizens to these endless campaigns of outrage that always seem to end up putting some group of people in the crosshairs. I am really tired of politicians being allowed to waste tax dollars on this meaningless bullshit. You should not be allowed to go after any specific group of citizens for pursuing “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.
I want these cruel crooks to be punished for their constant culture war battles.
While a agree with the legal charges I still feel really bad for these two women. What made them so desperate that they chose these actions? Was this really a case of terrible decision making or even malicious intent? I don’t think we’ll ever really know and I hate that the pro-birthers use these sorts of cases as ammunition.
Authorities alleged Celeste Burgess had a medication abortion, and that it violated the state’s prohibition of abortion after 20 weeks. Celeste Burgess was around 28 weeks pregnant when her pregnancy ended, court documents allege.
Jessica Burgess, 42, was charged with the same offenses as her daughter, plus a felony count of performing an abortion beyond 20 weeks and a felony count of performing an abortion as someone other than a licensed physician.
You know that most western countries disallow abortion after 17 weeks (sans risk to the mother) right? The mother was also only given a felony for performing an abortion while not being a doctor, not for the abortion itself.
This also occurred two or three years ago, long before the states abortion laws were restricted
You know that all western countries aren’t the same right? Like how lots have universal healthcare, better social protections, GDPR, etc right?
I feel awful for anyone in this situation that feels they have no other choice.
I’m not a doctor, nor do I have any medical background, but sacrificing a healthy life for something that isn’t doesn’t make logical sense to me, but again I’m in the US, fighting in the US, and posting in the US NEWS. Not other western countries.
I also find it suspect you lump in all western countries as if that’s easily defined and the laws are easily molded together as if they’re all under 1 law structure. Even in the States alone that’s not feasible.
And did I say this was due to Roe overturned? If you don’t think we’ll see more more stories like this, then I wish I lived in your world.
Should be a cautionary tale to protect your data. Especially when it comes to your health information thrown over channels you think are “private”.
The FedNow Service went live on July 20, 2023. It is available to depository institutions in the United States and enables individuals and businesses to send instant payments through their depository institution accounts. The service is a flexible, neutral platform that supports a broad variety of instant payments. At the most fundamental level, the service provides interbank clearing and settlement that enables funds to be transferred from the account of a sender to the account of a receiver in near real-time and at any time, any day of the year. Depository institutions and their service providers can build on this fundamental capability to offer value-added services to their customers.
So it’s a system your bank uses to send your money to other people’s accounts at other banks. In my mind it’ll kinda be like bill pay, you’d go to your bank’s website to do it.
It’s more of a protocol/standard which can be used to build applications and interfaces. Bill pay will likely be an application and your bank’s website will likely have some interface that uses FedNow. But there will be many other applications and interfaces.
Financial institutions have been happy with the fees generated by not having this system in place. And the Fed is explicitly not allowed to compete with its member banks.
Isn’t ACH a service by the fed? If this is a service for financial institutions, I don’t expect them to make it free. I don’t see how this changes much except maybe making Zelle obsolete or at least changing the back end of it.
Not really. ACH is more of a protocol for non-realtime payments. This is for realtime. While there is a fed ACH the largest ACH provider in the US is The Clearing House LLC. Which, as the name suggests, is a private company.
Extremely important word in the lede: “eventually.” This won’t be something consumers can use for quite some time. Notable absences from participating banks include Bank of America.
Even taking into account that we’re talking about the rural South, a rightfully elected Black man being denied the ability to serve due to the color of his skin, in a town that is overwhelmingly Black (85%) is absolutely mind-boggling.
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