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I have one, and carry it with me to appointments for the office staff to photocopy -- they're usually amazed and very grateful, as most patients don't do this.
My only advice to add to the above is get an attorney to draw it all up, maybe wrapped in with a session to make a regular will. Online and freebie forms abound, but only a local attorney will know the ins and outs for your state, especially in light of recent HIPAA changes. Yes, it may cost you a couple hundred bucks, but compared to what it's in preparation for -- potentially 6-7-figure medical care-- it's a teeny sum.
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It's ok. Former prosecutors tend not to rise to national office - ask Rudy. A few more staffers will fall on their swords, Christie will run in '16, lose, and get a gig on Fox.
Political theatre raised to the level of pro wrestling, and just as many people buy it.
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As for the idea that unsafe abortions are either a myth or in the past, the news isn't good. Worldwide the number of unsafe abortion procedures has not dropped.
Drat, Stoner! You beat me to the stats this time, so I'll just have to piggy back this NY Times quote:
Many restrictive abortion laws in Africa date back to colonial codes, and the bigotry of the law has trickled through society. Mali's law is based on the Napoleonic Code from 1810, which forbade abortion. Nigeria's, one of the world's most restrictive, dates back to a British provision from 1861.
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How is this even remotely related to the OP?
What's more, the OP, while noting her pro-life stance, also thought something is wrong when PP has to deploy stringent security measures. All in all, it was an even-handed open to the thread.
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Holy cow. Corporate conspiracy?
I was tempted to think so, but the legal risks to the giant insurance company just don't seem worth it given the policy size. And of course, you can't sue the federal government for lost mail...I checked. I also checked with my state government and there is indeed a bill that would prevent this exact scenario, but the bill has been waiting for a floor vote since June. Poetic.
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After my husband's first day of law school, he came home and told me about the lecture one professor gave on the nature of legal terminology and legal definitions. The gist was to research and know legal definitions, because they are not neccesarily either logical or the same as regular English usage definitions. The example used was a case where a restaurant could legally advertise "fresh vegetables" because they offered frozen french fries, which met the legal definition.
Must be why English is a popular pre-law undergrad track.
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Yup, my last quarterly life insurance bill. Then the late notice was returned to sender, even though we've lived at the same address since '96. I got the cancellation notice though, no problem. I can re-up though, same policy, same price, just like nothing happened. I just have to include a medical form that will reveal that I now have terminal cancer. I'm sure there will be no problem at all. :banghead:
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Tom's definition was not the one I was using:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infanticide
Again, I apologize if you perceived that I was being uncivil. I have no desire to change the law, nor to judge.
Click on"infant"in that webster citing, and you get the definition "a child in the very first stage of life." Slippery slope, that one, as it shoots straight back to the argument of when life begins. That's why I chose a legal dictionary, as "infanticide" is a legal term IF it is to be used in discussion about legal services provided by PP.
Law..................Emotion
Pick one.
We usually don't, which is the beauty and terror of the democratic system.
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So I just looked up my local PP's website, and found I was wholly ignorant of the breadth of their services:
Abortion Services, Birth Control, General Health Care, HIV Testing, LGBT Services, Men's Health Care, Morning-After Pill, Pregnancy Testing & Services, STD Testing,Treatment & Vaccines, Women's Health Care.
So yeah, a lot to click on, but hey, did you know I could get testicular and prostate cancer screening there? Neither did I! Women's Health Care has an even bigger list - HRT, UTI's, it goes on and on for many sub-menus.
Maybe I should stage a counter-protest, seeing as how PP provides men's care too, but I am not the demographic affected if this center were to shut down. I am a college educated middle aged white guy with excellent health insurance, just like most elected officials.
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To my knowledge, I'm the only person who has actually worked at PP on this thread, and I specifically said that "abortion is infanticide."
Except that it's not defined as infanticide by law, because infanticide can only be committed on a "wholly born" child.
From the Free Legal Dictionary:
NFANTICIDE, med. juris. The murder of a new born infant, Dalloz, Dict. Homicide, Sec. 4; Code Penal, 300. There is a difference between this offence and those known by the name of prolicide, (q.v.) and foeticide. (q.v.)
2. To commit infanticide the child must be wholly born; it is not. Sufficient that it was born so far as the head and breathed, if it died before it was wholly born. 5 Carr. & Payn. 329; 24 Eng. C. L. Rep. 344; S. C. 6 Carr: & Payn. 349; S. C. 25 Eng. C. L. Rep. 433.
3. When this crime is to be proved from circumstances, it is proper to consider whether the child had attained that size and maturity by which it would have been enabled to maintain an independent existence; whether it was born alive; and, if born alive, by what means it came to its death. 1 Beck's Med. Jur. 331 to 428, where these several questions are learnedly considered. See also 1 Briand, Med Leg. prem. part. c. 8 Cooper's Med. Jur. h.t. Vide Ryan's Med. Jur. 137; Med. Jur. 145, 194; Dr. Cummin's Proof of Infanticide considered Lecieux, Considerations Medico-legales sur l'Infanticide; Duvergie, Medicine Legale, art. Infanticide.
Now, this is not to say that every voter has the right to organize, to petition, to lobby to change the law on the state or federal level. If that happens, then you can rightfully change the definition.
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I went into a planned parenthood this week to take a client to get birth control. This particular one is located in a very affluent neighborhood. The building had numerous cameras all around the outside. We were allowed into the locked entry way one at a time, where we were wanded (metal detector), ids taken, and we weren't allowed to have cell phones. Inside the office, more security cams and a large glass window separated us from the office workers. It was bizarre and unexpected.
Is this common?
I'm very much against abortion...extremely so. But if this is what PP has to do just to allow its patients to feel safe...well we have a problem in this country.
Our local PP regularly has demonstrators with signs standing around in front of the building. I haven't seen PP's security measures from the outside, but I hope they have them. I never know whether to honk in disgust as I drive by because honking could be misinterpreted as 'Yea!". Cars really need two horns -- one that's cheery and another that's sort of a raspberry.
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No one has mentioned school taxes as a hidden cost, which you pay regardless of using the schools or not. Here that's about 6 grand a kid, and can go to triple that in some towns (but NJ is stupid about school taxes). HSing costs go on top of what you already pay to live where you do, so HSing will always be more expensive that way.
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I put leeks in what's otherwise a mostly non-green root veg stew, and I can't say it radically changes the taste. Besides, depending on how much leek leaks in, you might just use the white part!
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"What if you die?!" (Because apparently being both mother and teacher would be too much for a child to lose?)
Ooooo! I haven't heard this one, but what an absolute nugget! My reply:
"Funny you should mention that, since I actually do have terminal cancer." And just leave it at that to let the other person twist in the wind. I'm not above using my disease as a weapon if the target is utter stupidity.
Next one, which I detest:
"But what about sports?"
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If an SAT student lives farther away than I care to drive, I'll see him/her at our large county library only because it has glassed-in study rooms. I've only had to work in open library areas maybe twice, and I hate it. I'm not teaching this stuff at a whisper. I see an occasional academic tutor now and then, but around here, parents either pay to have you come to the house, or flush their money down the giant, sucking holes like Huntington.
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The SAT considers none to only be singular,all day, every day, and twice on Sundays. However, the SAT does a lot of weird things.
From the Oxford English Dictionary:
It is sometimes held that none can only take a singular verb, never a plural verb: none of them is coming tonightrather than none of them are coming tonight. There is little justification, historical or grammatical, for this view.None is descended from Old English nÄn meaning ‘not one’ and has been used for around a thousand years with both a singular and a plural verb, depending on the context and the emphasis needed.
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Very MANLY skewers, then, for REALLY BIG CHUNKS OF MEAT. Grrrr.
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Meh. Every place has its thing. Broiling heat, regular quakes, tornadoes, etc...
I think the thing to do is be mobile and drive to wherever the weather is best. Isn't there a whole subculture of road schoolers tooling about in RVs?
Personally, I'd go for something like this family had with kids' rooms.
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I'm also guessing that the balls at the ends did not turn when new, but have loosened quite a bit over time. If they turned, flipping a skewer while grilling would be difficult.
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OK, I'm going with skewers based on this pic of Coleman brand skewers with the indentations to keep food from sliding:
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The fact that they have depressions is interesting. Are the depressions the right size to accommodate another skewer, like if you had them at right angles you cold make a grid to support something?
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Alomst all TJ's sauces are excellent - the only one we didn't like was the puttanesca. I only wish TJ would get Muir Glen fire roasted diced tomatoes as a house brand, since I use those in lasagna along with the sauce.
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DD came out with dramatis personae talking to some other adults, but was kind enough to explain what it is. :laugh:
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Several years ago, DD started in a Brownie Troop one town over, because our town troop was like "homeschool? uhhhhh....we'll call you back."
She stayed with that troop part way through Juniors and then bailed, because the pace was way too slow. She's been an Independent (formerly called a "Juliette") ever since and it's the best thing. As a 7th grade Cadette, she's getting into more leadership training, and is part of a group fundraising for a Pax n Paris trip next year.
What's nice is that, even as an independent, as DD grows, she's seeing many of the same girls in the more advanced classes and council-level groups, and the council-level leaders all know who she is.
So yeah, you can do Girl Scouts with the same wide variation and freedom with which you HS.
What's the balance between 1st amend. and protecting a business from libel?
in The Chat Board
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Seems like A.) it could be a libel issue, which is a genuine concern, especially with the ease of anonymous online postings that could damage a business, and B.) a very business-friendly ruling which, depending on your level of governmental distrust, continues the pattern of pro-business law (because corporations are people, my friend!).
I'm inclined to think it's a bit of both.