I got this today from Planned Parenthood, take care there are fake clinics out there.
An Indiana mother recently accompanied her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend to one of Indiana's Planned Parenthood clinics, but they unwittingly walked into a so-called "crisis pregnancy center" run by an anti-abortion group, one that shared a parking lot with the real Planned Parenthood clinic and was designed expressly to lure Planned Parenthood patients and deceive them.
The group took down the girl's confidential personal information and told her to come back for her appointment, which they said would be in their "other office" (the real Planned Parenthood office nearby). When she arrived for her appointment, not only did the Planned Parenthood staff have no record of her, but the police were there. The "crisis pregnancy center" had called them, claiming that a minor was being forced to have an abortion against her will.
The "crisis pregnancy center" staff then proceeded to wage a campaign of intimidation and harassment over the following days, showing up at the girl's home and calling her father's workplace. Planned Parenthood's clinic director reports that the girl was "scared to death to leave her house." They even went to her school and urged classmates to pressure her not to have an abortion.
The anti-choice movement is setting up these "crisis pregnancy centers" across the country. Some of them have neutral-sounding names and run ads that falsely promise the full range of reproductive health services, but they dispense anti-choice propaganda and intimidation instead. And according to a recent article in The New York Times, there are currently more of these centers in the U.S. than there are actual abortion providers. What's more, these centers have received $60 million in government grants. They're being funded by our tax dollars.
A bill has just been introduced in Congress to stop the fraudulent practices of fake clinics, but it desperately needs more support. Tell your representative to take a stand: anti-choice extremists must not get away with this any longer!
Go to: http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/fake
Since when is there a sign on my patrol vehicle that says 'Juvenile Delinquent babysitting'?
I didn't see a sign that says that?
Wanna know why there's no sign that says 'Juvenile Delinquent babysitting?
CAUSE IT'S NOT MY JOB TO BABYSIT YOUR JUVENILE DELINQUENT!!!
We got a call last night, from the dad of one of our problem kids. He was calling us to say that he called JCCPD because one of his son's friends had come in the house and drank a couple of his beers. He then had the nerve to blow a gasket with security staing that we should know who's supposed to be at his home and who his son hangs out with.
First up, I don't work in a gated community. The roads are all VDOT roads, taxpayer funded. We cannot stop anyone from comming in or leaving.
Second, It's our job to know who your son is hanging out with? No, that's your job because YOU ARE THE PARENT! Be a parent dammit! Do you expect me to park outside your home and babysit your son because you NEGLECT to hire a babysitter?
NOT MY FUCKING JOB!
Hope the cops called him on his shit and notified CPS.
I should, But I have 2 other blogs to keep up with.
It seems that the interview I did back in November with Ville Valo is going to be online soon at Brillianthighlights.com. So It will be at least out there, if not in print. It's not what I had planned, but ok.
I'm not on the rave near as much due to the fact that I'm currently doing some online research on a few subjects. I'm fighting with my employer's insurance company because they don't want to cover contraception (birth control pills). The EEOC (Equal Employment Oppertunity Commission) states that if your company has 150+ employees, and the insurance covers other kinds of preventitive care, then they must also cover BC. Failure to do so is considered gender discrimination under Title VIII of the Civil Rights act of 1964, namely the pregnancy discrmination amendment of 1978.
There have been 2 court cases upholding this issue, both in federal courts.
Still I don't know if that fact will be enough to get them to change their policy.
Their excuse will be "we want to keep costs down". That was shot down by the courts in 2 other cases, namely because there was no cost defense written into the law, according to the judges in the other cases.
To me this sounds like an easy situation. I sent a letter today to the people in charge of Human Resources, certified mail with return recipt ect.
I would like to work the situation out through the company, instead of going through the courts and taking years......
I'll cross that bridge if and when I come to it.
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