A Judge in the [Family] Court in Australia rules that the Court does not have the power to compel a woman to continue a pregnancy.
law & order
The law locks up the man who steals the goose from the common, but leaves the greater criminal loose who steals the common from the goose – Australian convict saying
Quicklinks: #socialmedia #erosion #storm #bust – oops here comes Jack Bauer
Seriously, I’ve been headdesking this one for a few hours now: the DHS monitors blogs, twitter and facebook for usage of the words “social media”?
Quicklink: “an abrogation of medical ethics, if not common decency”
Under the new legislation, women who want an abortion will be forcibly penetrated for no medical reason. Where’s the outrage?
Canadian same-sex marriages of foreign couples likely rendered invalid
Well, that was unexpected.
Quicklink: Court orders woman to pay alimony to convicted spousal rapist
Unfuckingbelievable.
Queen Victoria and now
Have social attitudes to female criminals changed since Queen Victoria’s time?
It’s time.
It’s Time: new ad from Get Up.
Rape Culture Datapoint
Joe Paterno knowingly looked the other way when he could have gone to the police to get justice for raped children. Thousands of people are defending him.
The expulsion of #occupywallstreet
…acting on Mayor Bloomberg’s instructions the NYPD waited until the city was asleep to expel the #occupy protestors from Zucotti Park.
Rarely used laws? Depends who you ask
“Rarely-used” is not synonymous with “rarely-used against me and people like me”.
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