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A parent recklessly endangering an infant by leaving him unattended, this time in the bath? Tragically typical. But wait, she was playing Facebook games. This, folks, is a crime of our times. More »
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A South Carolina mom has been arrested for suffocating her two children and then pretending they drowned — all apparently a reaction to her own mom's nagging. More »
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• Chelsea Clinton's wedding is the single most important thing to happen to Rhinebeck since Henry Hudson sailed up river. But who is coming to the party? The Daily Beast has the answers:

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A woman described as a 22-year-old "unmarried medical student" (other reports say 25) returning home to India after studying abroad, apparently gave birth mid-flight, then attempted to flush the baby down the toilet of the Amritsar-bound Turkmenistan Airlines plane. More »
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The trial of a French woman who killed two of their babies and froze them has captured the imagination of the French public. Weirder still? Prosecutors have ruled that she did it all without her husband's knowledge. More »
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Several readers wrote in to tip us to a fascinating article in today's Toronto Star, which explores the grim realities behind the dwindling populations of women of all ages in several countries across the globe. More »
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Belkis Gonzalez has been charged with practicing medicine without a license and evidence tampering in the case of Sycloria Williams, whose abortion turned into a birth turned into an infanticide. [CNN] More »
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Sampat Pal Devi, a mother of five in Banda, one of India's poorest areas, says "nobody comes to our help in these parts. The officials and the police are corrupt and anti-poor. So sometimes we have to take the law in our hands." To do this, she started the "gulabi gang," or pink gang, two years ago. The gang members wear pink and use beatings and humiliation to combat domestic abuse and corruption. More »
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With last weeks' attack-tics leaving the Straight Talk Express wheezing in the electoral slow lane as voters abandon them for a candidate that is actually talking about issues like the festering wound that is our economy, McCain-Palin are trying to jump start their campaign with some reliably Republican fuel: abortion. Did you know Obama is for it? Gosh, it's almost like they're trying to hold voters hostage to a party with just one issue. But apparently, if you can't win on the war, the economy, health care, foreign policy, taxes, colloquialisms or winks, you can certainly remind voters that a vote for a guy they agree with on every other issue means they're going to hell. But can it work? More »
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For some people, there is a fundamental truth of abortion, and those people fall into two camps. Either an egg is ensouled at conception and thus abortion is the taking of a life, or it is absolutely not. For most of the rest of the country (and the world), abortion is a much murkier proposition, and their feelings about are often filled with exceptions: except in the case of rape, or incest; except for the health of the mother; except when it could survive outside the womb; except when it has a brain or a heart beat; except when the child won't live much past birth. For many people, the truth is murky and the right thing for government to do is more so. And so most advertisements about abortion are trying to convince those people — and they do with a nod in the direction of the truth, if not a full embrace of it. More »
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Earlier, we parsed the spurious infanticide charges leveled at Barack Obama by, among others, this woman — Jill Stanek. Jill's a big anti-abortion, anti-birth-control, pro-"purity" and anti-reality activist who got the infanticide ball rolling with the help of some people in the media that take her somewhat seriously despite her use of the word "baby-killer" to describe pro-choice lawmakers. Media Matters, however, points out that Stancek also promotes domestic violence as an acceptable reaction to a partner's abortion; accuses the Chinese of eating aborted fetuses as a delicacy; and accuses former first lady Barbara Bush of supporting abortion as a cure for illiteracy. How do people like this get taken seriously? [Media Matters] More »
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During the primary season, Barack Obama took a lot of heat from feminists like NOW and Hillary Clinton for his "present" votes in the Illinois Senate, despite the fact that they were part of a pro-choice strategy coordinated by the Illinois Planned Parenthood Federation. These days, the right is gearing up attacks on Obama for his record of supporting abortion rights too much in the same legislative body. Only they're not going to attack him on some namby-pamby procedural thing — they're calling him a baby-killer. More »
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We've long suspected this: Old, fat and/or Catholic women have the hardest time getting dates. [NY Times] More »
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