Thanks to Shirtoid.com
With all the warm weather and Valentine’s Day right around the corner, everyone is fixated on the birds, bees, and the birth control. Here’s a few stories of interest:
The Pill or Health Care?
According to the Archdiocese for Baltimore, the requirement that the church provide birth control to it’s employees is a deplorable first amendment violation. In his statement Cardinal O’Brien told his fellow congregants:
We cannot – we will not- comply with this unjust law. People of faith can not be made second class citizens.”
Failure to follow the law will result in the loss of health care coverage for 3,500 local employees.
Cardinal O’Brien isn’t the only religious leader that is finding qualms with the requirement.
White House officials have met with women’s groups and religious leaders to try to find a solution that will be acceptable to everyone. Press Secretary Jay Carney said:
There are ways to, I think, help resolve this issue that ensures that we provide that important preventative service, that health care coverage to all women… in a way that also tries to allay some of these concerns.”
The two groups hope to find an effective compromise in a timely fashion. Good luck with that.
Plan-B and a Coke, please.
Shippensburg University installs a new kind of vending machine. Thanks to Associated Press!
Shippensburg University revolutionized the way that college students could get Plan-B by allowing it’s students to purchase the pill for $25 out of a vending machine. All of the university’s students are over 17 and can legally go to the vending machine in a secluded area of the university health center without needing to go into the small town.
There has been quite a bit of ruckus over the accessibility of what is already a controversial medication. But there has been little noise over the accessibility of Coca-Cola products, which studies have shown can be an effective spermicide.
So if Plan-A and Plan-B are out of stock, stick with Plan-Coca-Cola.
Got No Plan?
Meet Chun Chun- China's biggest baby! Thanks to HollywoodLife.com!
Well, that stinks. You could have your very own Chun Chun! His mother called him the “dragon baby” but in reality he’s 15.5 pound son of Wang Yujuan and Han Jingang. He currently holds the record for the largest newborn in China by half a pound. His parents are thrilled.
Thanks to MSNBC!
If you have the need or luck to produce multitudes of children, you may be susceptible to blackmail. As if the diapers wouldn’t be bad enough.
According to the Associated Press, photographer Teresa Hunt threatened to reveal intimate pictures of a cast member from the TLC hit reality show 19 Kids and Counting featuring Jim Bob Duggar and fam if the show was not cancelled or she did not receive $10,000 dollars.
Amy Duggar, the cousin supposedly featured in the photos, has called Hunt’s allegations “totally untrue”.
