I’m late getting this up. Marley’s got details on the unanimous vote. See her post, IS THAT ALL THEIR IS? CALIFORNIA AB 372 PASSES OUT OF JUDICIARY CalOpen and Bastard Nation (along with a number of individuals) stood firm, and submitted testimony refusing to leave anyone behind, working against the disastrous bill. Here’s Marley’s rough […]
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This is the latest in a series of posts I have done criticizing Nebraska’s legalized child abandonment laws. You can find my earlier posts via my Nebraska tag. *** No blogger could begin to keep up with the mess Nebraska legislators have made. Instead, this post will focus on some of the raw sources dealing […]
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Special note to readers- I’ve done multiple posts within this 24 hour period so be sure to see the post beneath this one as well. *** This is my fourth post following the horrific events in Maryland this past week, the grizzly discovery of two of Renee Bowman’s adopted daughters kept in a freezer in […]
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Having not one, but (at least) two, this is their day. (It’s also just another Sunday.) But it’s more than that. I wrote yesterday about how today is all too often painful for many different kinds of Mothers for many different reasons. What I didn’t mention though, are a particular subset of (Original) Mothers, those […]
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