The Tories are pushing laws to set up an exaggerated version of "broken windows policing." When the US tried that, it did no significant good but lots of harm. Sad to say, the US has not entirely dropped that approach; thugs love it, since it gives them an opportunity to go to town on rather helpless "criminals."

The Tory version will be exaggerated to penalize minor nuisances.

The planned Idaho law prohibiting helping a minor travel to get an abortion is designed cunningly to interfere with the activities of people outside Idaho.

In addition, it is designed to harass people even for activities which it says are still lawful.

Renowned Russian writer Mikhail Shishkin condemns Putin for staining the Russian language with the blood of Ukrainians.

Shishkin talks about the situation of Russia.

Italy's right-wing government is attacking same-sex couples by persecuting their children — refusing to register them as citizens. That is likely to cause them many problems throughout their lives.

IVF should not be allowed for anyone. There is nothing immoral about it, but we still need to curb the human population. If you want to raise a child but cannot biologically make one, what you should do, to help civilization survive, is to adopt an already-living child — not arrange for an additional child to be born for you.

That may change some day. If we get down to only one billion human beings, and there is no danger of further global heating, perhaps then we should encourage people to have somewhat more children so as to stabilize the population.

US citizens: call on Congress to legalize using US foreign aid funds for abortions": pass the Abortion is Healthcare Everywhere Act.

I object to using the marketing term "health care" to refer to medical treatment, but that's a secondary issue, but not important enough to outweigh my support for this.

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