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« Reply #43215 on: March 24, 2023, 05:04:49 pm »
The drugs are being produced overseas to save money, bring a less expensive product to market, save the consumer money. But what really happens, the top executives of the pharmaceutical company's have been pocketing huge salaries instead of passing the savings down. When I mentioned this the other day, I said a "concerted effort". You know, people working together.. For the common good of the country.. Yep, so passe...

If I thought we could trust the government to do a good efficient job, no pork, no partisan overreach. Won't happen.. Take a look at the national debt, it's exploding. We need a common sense approach, I sure as h3ll don't see that happening. I have said for some time now, the Chinese are not our friends. No way in h3ll should we depend on them to make our medicines..

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« Reply #43216 on: March 24, 2023, 08:25:42 pm »
Pure myth that our national debt has exploded under President Biden.

However, it did explode under the previous one.



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« Reply #43217 on: March 24, 2023, 09:18:54 pm »
More from the dark ages ghouls...


Idaho Republicans want to keep doctors from treating ectopic pregnancies


Story by Lindsay Beyerstein, The Editorial Board • 9h ago


“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” exclaims a disgruntled philosopher in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

The philosophers had banded together to protest the advancement of computer science, which they believed was imposing entirely too much clarity on the existential mysteries that gave them job security.

The Idaho GOP and a coalition of antichoice groups in the state are taking a similar tack regarding the state’s murky and punitive abortion law.

This session, two Republican state legislators introduced a bill that would clarify key concepts in the state’s felony abortion ban. These include defining when an abortion is necessary to save the life of the pregnant person, and confirming once and for all that it’s not a felony to treat ectopic and nonviable pregnancies and to remove fetuses that have died.

It would also stop doctors who perform life-saving abortions from automatically being dragged before a judge to plead medical necessity as an affirmative defense.

Whatever happens with the felony abortion ban, Idaho doctors risk devastating lawsuits for treating one of the most common and dangerous gynecological emergencies: ectopic pregnancy.

Ectopic pregnancies are fertilized eggs that implant outside the uterus. These rogue ova will never become babies and they can kill the patient if they’re allowed to swell like a tumor on a speedrun.

It’s all about the uncertainty. A doctor doesn’t know if she’s going to get sued by a vengeful ex for treating an ectopic pregnancy, but it could happen. Uncertainty can be even more paralyzing than a clear-cut but draconian rule.

Rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty can paralyze doctors while letting legislators off the hook for self-evidently stupid and unpopular policies, like forcing patients to wait in agonizing pain until their fallopian tubes rupture and their abdomens fill with blood. Or for letting bacteria rot their uteruses, and surge through their bodies, because their doomed fetus still has a heartbeat.

The Idaho Republican Party sent out an email Tuesday night claiming that the proposed changes were a ruse by doctors to “have more leeway to perform abortions in Idaho.” The head of the far-right Idaho Family Policy Center fretted in an email to supporters that a “special interest group” had drafted some of the language.

That group is the Idaho Medical Association, an utterly mainstream group that has been promoting medical excellence in the state since 1893. A hearing on the bill has been postponed amid the antichoice outcry.

The chilling effects of Idaho’s abortion laws are already being felt.

The only hospital serving a town of 9,000 people recently announced that it would no longer deliver babies in part because of the abortion ban. Families will soon have to drive 45 miles to deliver their babies. It was always a challenge to attract qualified doctors to small rural towns, but Idaho’s abortion politics are accelerating the brain drain. Doctors are fleeing the state because they don’t want to live in legal limbo. They don’t want to have to choose between satisfying their professional ethics and obeying the law. The law is so vague that it chills doctors who don’t even do abortions.

We’ve seen in state after state that exceptions to save the life of the pregnant person offer little practical protection. When a doctor might face a lengthy prison term, he or she will probably find an excuse to delay care, even when it endangers the life of a patient.

Even the antichoice movement is tiring of the charade. Instead of grappling with the ethical implications of denying life-saving care, national antichoice groups have started promulgating the absurd lie that abortion is never medically necessary.

In 2022, the Idaho Republicans voted nearly four to one to amend their party platform to criminalize all abortions, including lifesaving terminations. An exception for ectopic pregnancies was proposed and rejected.

When the goal is cruelty, uncertainty is a valuable commodity, and Idaho antichoicers have rallied to defend it.
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« Reply #43218 on: March 25, 2023, 12:25:04 am »
It is real simple to bring them back.  Just follow President Trumps policies.

Stop over regulating and lower taxes for companies manufacturing in the US.  If they still won't come back, then the taxes stay at the higher Democrat rate.

Not all but most will bring manufacturing back to the US.  The economy will boom and the US Government will actually bring in more tax money then in the anemic economy with high tax rates.
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« Reply #43219 on: March 25, 2023, 07:18:23 am »
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/08/us-baby-formula-shortage-one-year-later

Still baby formula shortage? WTF?

Think about where things were in 2019, and where things are now.. What a travesty...
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« Reply #43221 on: March 25, 2023, 02:38:29 pm »
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« Reply #43222 on: March 25, 2023, 03:29:59 pm »
Ye olde WistfulSharpie



The former 1-term fukkup is the reason for any prosecution.


Stop posting past your born on date.
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« Reply #43224 on: March 25, 2023, 05:07:56 pm »
Ye olde WistfulSharpie


What did the poll show?


That meatball ron is losing support from maga fukkups? That’s proof of what?


That you post past your born on date.
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« Reply #43225 on: March 25, 2023, 09:11:06 pm »
No one can unseat President Trump other than Desantis.  He is the only guy who had a shot.

When RINO politicians and MSM got behind Desantis his numbers fell.

Republican voters are way smarter than Democrat voters.  They don't just vote for who the TV tells them to.

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« Reply #43226 on: March 25, 2023, 09:47:07 pm »
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« Reply #43229 on: March 26, 2023, 01:14:58 pm »
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True dat. Its so funny, but so, so true. And its coming out where Biden got money and its now public info. Thats not sitting well with American voters