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CaliforniaPeggy
CaliforniaPeggy's Journal
CaliforniaPeggy's Journal
December 17, 2024
Here's my weekly installment of photos from Manhattan Beach's Farmer's Market! Enjoy, dear friends . . .
December 11, 2024
These might look familiar:
These might look familiar too:
Gorgeous oranges in the sun:
Part of our new venue:
Ah, the flowers!
Some kind of squash:
Lavender:
My weekly visit to Manhattan Beach's Farmer's Market!
Our old venue:These might look familiar:
These might look familiar too:
Gorgeous oranges in the sun:
Part of our new venue:
Ah, the flowers!
Some kind of squash:
Lavender:
December 5, 2024
This one is slightly different:
And this one is just for fun!
I simply HAD to photograph the moon (and Venus) tonight! Here are my results:
This one is slightly different:
And this one is just for fun!
December 4, 2024
By Erwin Chemerinsky & Miles Mogulescu
Before Democrats lose the White House and the Senate, they should push through legislation to repeal the Comstock Act, which could be used to prevent legal medically induced abortions everywhere in the United States. Given the success of ballot initiatives that protect the right to abortion in even conservative states in last week’s election, the politics could be right to repeal that 1873 law.
The Comstock Act was adopted to prohibit the interstate shipment of obscene materials. The law also outlawed the shipment of anything meant to prevent conception or end pregnancy.
The law, as it now stands, prohibits the shipment through the mail of “every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.” It also forbids any “express company or other common carrier” from providing for “carriage” of such items “in interstate or foreign commerce.” The act provides for a sentence of up to five years for the first offense and 10 years plus a fine for the second.
The rest at the link.
Today's LA Times: How to save medication abortions in this Congress
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-12-04/mifepristone-misoprostol-medication-abortion-comstock-actBy Erwin Chemerinsky & Miles Mogulescu
Before Democrats lose the White House and the Senate, they should push through legislation to repeal the Comstock Act, which could be used to prevent legal medically induced abortions everywhere in the United States. Given the success of ballot initiatives that protect the right to abortion in even conservative states in last week’s election, the politics could be right to repeal that 1873 law.
The Comstock Act was adopted to prohibit the interstate shipment of obscene materials. The law also outlawed the shipment of anything meant to prevent conception or end pregnancy.
The law, as it now stands, prohibits the shipment through the mail of “every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.” It also forbids any “express company or other common carrier” from providing for “carriage” of such items “in interstate or foreign commerce.” The act provides for a sentence of up to five years for the first offense and 10 years plus a fine for the second.
The rest at the link.
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Name: PeggyGender: Female
Hometown: Manhattan Beach, CA
Home country: USA
Current location: At home
Member since: Thu Feb 3, 2005, 01:41 PM
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