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Because You Can Make Friends With Salad

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harmreduction: How The Zero Weeks Of Paid Maternity Leave In The U.S. Compare Globally American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer. And for first-time mothers, only about half can take paid leave when they give birth. This is shameful - and Interesting given the amount of talk we hear about “family values.”

harmreduction:

How The Zero Weeks Of Paid Maternity Leave In The U.S. Compare Globally

American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer. And for first-time mothers, only about half can take paid leave when they give birth.

This is shameful - and Interesting given the amount of talk we hear about “family values.”

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Court of Appeals rules that it's totally cool for Crisis Pregnancy Centers to lie to your face, because Freedom!

stfuconservatives:

Crisis Pregnancy Centers are privately-run facilities that masquerade as places where you can get support for pregnancy, adoption, and abortions. In reality, they’re evil, evil places where the staff scares young women* into believing that abortions will kill them and that they’ll commit suicide if they abort and they should really hand their baby over to a nice, Christian family. A Congressional investigation found that an overwhelming majority of Crisis Pregnancy Centers, or CPCs, intentionally misled and misinformed their clients. (In one charming story, they told a Jewish woman that she had to convert to Christianity or she would go to hell. Just what a frightened pregnant woman wants to hear!)

Many CPCs have signs outside that say “Free Family Planning” or “Free Pregnancy Tests” to lure young pregnant women in. Their materials say they offer abortions and contraceptives, when in reality, they are Christian adoption mills. And the best part? Under George W. Bush, they received more than $30 million taxpayer dollars in federal funding.

Baltimore passed a law in 2009 that would force CPCs to post public disclosures of their position on abortion and contraception. This past week, the court of appeals ruled that it violated their Freedom of Speech. Yes, that’s right: they are legally allowed to lie to you.

(Source: stfuconservatives)

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Raw jam made with two cups of peaches, two-third cup vegan sugar, one Tbsp lemon juice, two Tbsp pectin. (Taken with Instagram)

Raw jam made with two cups of peaches, two-third cup vegan sugar, one Tbsp lemon juice, two Tbsp pectin. (Taken with Instagram)

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Smart Girl

elle-vi:

All these vegans walking on egg shells trying not to upset omni’s, pretending like we’re all diplomatic and don’t really believe we’re better than them.

Yes I do. You support torture and murder, I do not.

Of course I fucking well believe I’m better than you! 

And, you can eat my shit if you have a problem with that.

Respectfully,

Upyours.

(Source: elle-vi, via elle-vi-deactivated20120811)