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What is the difference between a child and a fetus?
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What is the difference between a child and a fetus?
After the 5th month about 8 inches or the length of the birth canal.
What many pro-lifers don't seem to understand is that pro-choice supporters are not gung-ho for abortion. They know it is a sad, devastating decision, and is not made easily. I'm uneasy about abortion myself, and wish some women would choose to put their child up for adoption. Of course, if her life were danger or rape happened, I won't hold back.
But in the past year, with all these radical pro-lifers arguing for laws that will allow legitimate miscarriages to be investigated, determining life begins before conception (An Arizona lawmaker actually said that), and this crazy crap from Congressional candidates Akin, Murdock and even Santorum, has made me side more with pro-choicers and more adamant to say, "it's a woman's right to choose - stay away!"
Being pro-choice is anti-extremist. It's like secularism -- by definition it cannot be extreme.
Abortion is a perfect example of most people being somewhere in the middle with extremists ON BOTH ENDS, making the most noise and often policy. Do you think most people who describe themselves as Pro-choice understand the extremism that goes on in the name of their cause?
A Democratic Party Platform that supports a woman's "right" to an abortion in virtually any case with no language excepting partial-birth abortions, other kinds of late-term abortions or abortion for sex-selection of the child. A platform calling for tax-funded abortion. A platform that even stripped out language that was included in the past that stated abortion should be "rare."
Do you think most Pro-choice people would argue and vote against a law that sought to protect "the right to life" of a baby accidentally delivered during an abortion as Barack Obama did as a state senator?
I choose 5 months because that is the point of likely fetal viability outside the womb. The point advances with every passing decade however.
Completed weeks of Gestation at birth-chance of survival
21 and less -- 0%
22 -- 0-10%
23 -- 10-35%
24 -- 40-70%
25 -- 50-80%
26 -- 80-90%
27 -->90%
30 -->95%
34 -->98%
Along with neonatal surgery, it's simply miraculous the advances we've made since Roe V Wade but according to our nuanced president any legal or bioethical revisiting of abortion laws written in the 70's is to “turn back the clock to policies more suited to the 1950's than the 21st Century."
The is no monopoly for "crazy crap" on this issue.
The U.S. economy added 165,000 jobs in April, according to an initial Bureau of Labor Statistics report, slightly above analyst expectations and suggesting the economic recovery, with the support of the Federal Reserve, is enduring despite the contractionary effects of sequestration and higher taxes that took effect at the beginning of the year.
But the biggest news from the Labor Department isn’t the topline payroll figure, or the unemployment rate, which dropped from 7.6 to 7.5 percent. It’s the revisions to reports from previous months, which are more certain statistically and indicate much stronger job growth this winter than initially believed.
Initial figures indicated March was a weak month for job growth, but un upward revision from 88,000 to 138,000 non-farm payrolls suggests the labor market was much healthier than originally estimated. The February payroll figure, which had already been revised up from 236,000 to 268,000, was revised again, up to 332,000 — the strongest showing for any month in years.
What emerges from the new numbers is a significant drop off from February to now, though it’s not clear what caused it or whether it will dissipate with future upward revisions to the April numbers. One disturbing possibility is that the drop off could be a reflection of the impact of austerity measures on the economy, which would suggest that absent GOP unwillingness to replace or rescind sequestration, the continuing recovery would be much more robust.
The internal figures in the April report are fairly impressive.
Retail employment, which had appeared to fall last month, is up 29,000 jobs in April, suggesting sales have endured despite an automatic two percent increase in the payroll tax at the beginning of the year. Health care continues to be a major growth industry, adding 19,000 jobs lat month.
But the public sector continues to be a drag on growth. The private sector actually added 176,000 jobs last month, according to the initial figures, reflecting the loss of 11,000 government jobs. Post office layoffs account for 3,500 of those. State and local for another 3,000. The rest were federal jobs, which along with a slight drop in average weekly hours worked, is the clearest symptom of sequestration in this otherwise fairly strong report.
Job Market Stronger Than Expected, According To Department Of Labor | TPMDC
If you know anyone graduating from college this month you know what a thriving job market Obama has produced.
This sputtering recovery is in spite of Obama, if the government just got out of the way...
If you know anyone graduating from college this month you know what a thriving job market Obama has produced.
Right Irvine, kids getting out of college would be so much better off we only borrowed and spent even more money adding to their debt burden.
41% of college grads overqualified for what they do
By Chris Isidore @CNNMoney May 1, 2013
A survey out Tuesday found that 41% of college graduates from the last two years are stuck in jobs that don't require a degree.
Consulting firm Accenture talked to 1,005 students who graduated from college in 2011 and 2012 and haven't returned to graduate school. In addition to those who are underemployed, 11% said they are unemployed, with 7% reporting they haven't had a job since graduating.
The lack of job options in their chosen fields are weighing grads down, as nearly half of the recent graduates believe they would fare better in the job market if they'd pursued a different major.
Government workers:
April 2012 - 3.7%
April 2013 - 3.3%
You realize that the unemployment rate for people with a BA is 3.7%.
I have two BS degrees (one in chemistry and the other one in chemical engineering) and one graduate degree (in medical technology). A few years ago, I was fired by an unfair, vicious micro-manager. To this day, I still can't find another job- despite sending over 200 applications, using LinkedIn, working with recruiters, and reconnecting with former co-workers.
But recently, one of my classmates in grad school (who just happens to be a cute, 23-year-old Polish girl) landed a permanent, full-time job as a blood banker at a clinical laboratory. This girl lacks quite a bit of experience to cross-match blood. But the laboratory consists of all woman, and they chose to hire her over me because she is "more likeable".
IDK, but hiring practices these days are just so fucked up.
Now if you really want to know who has the low unemployment rates:
Table A-14. Unemployed persons by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted
Beyond education, the nation has also been less aggressive than some others in using counseling and retraining to help the jobless find work. To take one small example, a recent study in France by the renowned M.I.T. economist Esther Duflo and four colleagues found that placement programs for unemployed workers helped not only the workers but the economy too. The counseled workers were more likely to find work, and they did not simply take jobs from other candidates. Overall employment rose more quickly in the regions with job counseling.