{"id":21427,"date":"2011-07-04T05:30:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T11:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/04\/unblogged-bits-mon-4-jul-11-0530.html"},"modified":"2011-07-04T05:30:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T11:30:44","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-4-jul-11-0530","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/04\/unblogged-bits-mon-4-jul-11-0530.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon.  4-Jul-11 0530)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Mdu4tSps7oQ\/googles-transparency-tool-exposes-government-demands\">Google&#8217;s Transparency Tool Exposes Government Demands for Personal Information<\/a> &#8211; Democracy depends on transparency. An uninformed electorate cannot make their will known.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/CDNljmDKUgg\/court-finds-south-dakotas-extreme-abortion-law-degrades-and-humiliates\">Court Finds South Dakota&#8217;s Extreme Abortion Law Degrades and Humiliates Women<\/a> &#8211; I am willing to accept that some folks find abortion morally wrong. But the way to address that is through moral suasion, not through infantilizing women or putting so many hoops in front of them to jump through that abortion is impractical, rather than immoral.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/BoDKFCNRsGw\/burn-flag-or-burn-constitution\">Burn the Flag or Burn the Constitution?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. Google&#8217;s Transparency Tool Exposes Government Demands for Personal Information &#8211; Democracy depends on transparency. An uninformed electorate cannot make their will known. Court Finds South Dakota&#8217;s Extreme Abortion Law Degrades and Humiliates Women &#8211; I am willing to accept &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/04\/unblogged-bits-mon-4-jul-11-0530.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Mon.  4-Jul-11 0530)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130073,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/03\/women-justices-on-abortion-13.html","url_meta":{"origin":21427,"position":0},"title":"Women (Justices) on Abortion","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Mar-16 9:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ignoring some of the amusing snark about Kagan, Sotomayor, and Ginsburg (and, for that matter, Breyer) running amok over John Edwards' attempts to move things along quickly, the Justices' questions of the Texas Solicitor General over HB2 are remarkably telling as to what a goofy law it is, unless one\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51487,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/17\/abortion-is-down-but-not-because-of-anti-abortion-laws.html","url_meta":{"origin":21427,"position":1},"title":"Abortion is down, but not because of anti-abortion laws","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Jun-15 7:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"Instead, it seems largely because pregnancy rates are down -- and that's apparently due to increased use of birth control (esp. by teens and by women in areas with stricter abortion laws, facilitated by the contraceptive coverage in the ACA, and encouraged by the Great Recession). 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