Poland has told clinics to register which women are pregnant, in a Central database. Women expect that this will be used for repression, and I expect that too,

If you want to have a baby, that doesn't make you safe from this. If something goes wrong with the pregnancy, you may need an abortion to protect you from injury or death. Even if the law permits an abortion in _all_ of those cases, it is unsafe to be in a place which restricts abortion until your pregnancy is over.

British Muslims bullied a cinema chain into cancelling all showings of a film that they claim is "blasphemous." They accuse the film of violating Islamic prohibitions, as interpreted by them.

If you choose to be Muslim, and decide to refrain from violating Islamic prohibitions, that's up to you. But you have no right to force them on everyone else.

One of the rights of any human being is the right to practice per own religion; but that religion, whichever one it is, is not entitled to any particular respect from the rest of us.

(satire) * Teen Spelling Bee Champion Commits To Spell For UCLA.*

Marie Rose Ayala left a gun where her two-year-old child could get it, and he shot his father, who died. Now she is charged with the crime of killing him.

I think that is wrong; she has suffered enough. It is proper to prosecute her for the crime of leaving a gun easily accessible, since she did that, but not for the killing, which she did not do.

The Putin forces captured some Ukrainian soldiers of British origin, and have accused them of terrorism, apparently arbitrarily.

It is standard practice for Putin to "convict" his political opponents of trumped-up crimes. He did the same thing to Alexei Navalny, for instance.