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American law now allows any health-care professional or any instution associated with health care, including *insurance companies*, to refuse to provide abortions, pay for them, or make abortion-related referrals, even in cases of rape or medical emergency.

The bill's text and some comments here.

Yes, that's right. Ectopic pregnancy? You're going to die? Tough. Got a prescription for birth control? Your pharmacist doesn't have to fill it. Got a medically required operation and a prescription for it and all that? Your insurance company doesn't have to pay for it, even if your policy says you're covered.

A friend of a friend was asked (just last night) why most med students get their first internal gynecological examination on a patient who is in the hospital for something completely unrelated and *drugged into unconsciousness*, and hence incapable of objecting: Her answer was "Because women's lives don't matter."

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Anger Management Counsellor with a history of violent crime releases pit bulls to attack people hiding from Hurricane Frances in his office building.

US Army set to deploy microwave weaponry to Iraq.

"In another development, the [Microwave weapon vehicles] will be fitted with Gunslinger, a rapid-fire gun currently under development that will detect enemy snipers and automatically fire back at them."
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No, that couldn't POSSIBLY go wrong, not at all.
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Televangelist sues former employee to keep homosexual affair a secret.