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June Time! (Newsletter)
Topic Started: Sunday Jun 5 2016, 11:24 PM (596 Views)
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It's June Newsletter time. Everyone get happy! Put on a face like :D or :sun: as you write your articles.

Ideas:
June Senate Election Results (by CoL WRITTEN))
Senate Expands to five members (by Ovybia WRITTEN)
Growth of PLI (by UM WRITTEN)
GOAL opens (by Ovybia WRITTEN)
June Economic Report (by Aawia WRITTEN)

Post your article ideas below.
Edited by Ovybia, Monday Jun 27 2016, 07:39 PM.
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Monday Jun 27 2016, 07:58 PM
Sure, go ahead.
Here's my last-minute article. We should try to get this newsletter published today.



SCOTUS Hands Down Pro-Abortion Decision (By Culture of Life)

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The U.S. Supreme Court, on June 27, delivered a 5-3 opinion in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, striking down a Texas law designed to put an end to unsafe abortions. Members of Right to Life immediately voiced their strong disapproval. "Well just another reason to get a conservative president, to appoint conservative justices," said the RCS, Right to Life's president. "So sad," another citizen commented on the regional message board. "We need a pro-lifer (preferably a pro-life liberal) on the Supreme Court." This week's decision in favor of the abortion industry and its lobbyists is the end of a three-year legal battle to improve women's health and cultivate respect for unborn life in the State of Texas.

Texas' law required abortion clinics to follow the same health and safety standards as other outpatient surgical centers, and it mandated that abortionists maintain admitting privileges at nearby hospitals to which they could send mothers or their children in cases of botched procedures. In enacting its law, Texas relied on the longstanding presupposition that the Supreme Court tolerates such reasonable regulations. After all, in Roe v. Wade (1973) (which invented the so-called "right to abortion" in the United States), the majority of justices said, "Examples of permissible state regulation in this area are requirements as to the qualifications of the person who is to perform the abortion; as to the licensure of that person; as to the facility in which the procedure is to be performed, that is, whether it must be a hospital or may be a clinic or some other place of less-than-hospital status; as to the licensing of the facility; and the like."

The present-day Supreme Court, however, is taking its abortion jurisprudence in a more extreme direction. In the recent decision, Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the majority, opined that Texas' law imposed an "undue burden" on women of reproductive age by holding abortion providers to requirements that were "not necessary." Too many abortion clinics in Texas have been closing their doors, the Court held, because of supposedly obstructive regulations, such as basic sanitary procedures. Justice Breyer, for instance, ruled that it violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause for state legislatures to require abortion clinics, like other medical clinics, to have "scrub facilities" and "soiled utility and sterilization rooms" because the "natural opening" of a woman "is itself not sterile."

Justice Samuel Alito authored the main dissent. He called the majority opinion "indefensible" and predicted that it ultimately "will undermine public confidence in the Court as a fair and neutral arbiter." Justice Alito asserted that Texas, in the aftermath of the 2013 trial and conviction of abortionist Kermit Gosnell for three murders and one manslaughter, had more than enough reason to enact new laws cracking down on the poorly regulated abortion industry. Recent closures of Texas abortion clinics, he observed, had less to do with the challenged Texas law and more to do with more rigorous protocol for administering abortifacients, withdrawal of taxpayer funds from abortion providers, declining national demand for abortions, and physician retirement. Justice Alito also said that the evidence showed that no more than 5.1% of women in Texas, an acceptable number, would be seriously inconvenienced in procuring abortions as a result of the state's health and safety regulations.

A separate, more strongly worded dissenting opinion was written by Justice Clarence Thomas, who accused the Supreme Court of threatening "the promise of a judiciary bound by the rule of law" and of "radically" rewriting its own abortion precedents to fit the justices' personal views. Recognizing that deference is ordinarily given to the states in regulation of the medical profession, Justice Thomas harshly criticized the majority for usurping democratic legislative authority by appointing itself "'the country's ex officio medical board.'" The Court has reached a point, he argued, where "nothing but empty words separates our constitutional decisions from judicial fiat." Based on their own partisan biases, the justices, he said, arbitrarily give "preferential treatment" and "special protection" to rights of their own creation, such as abortion and same-sex marriage, "while disfavoring many of the rights actually enumerated in the Constitution," including free speech and racial neutrality. (In specific, he repeated his criticism of a recent decision that allows public universities to use racial and ethnic preferences in admissions.) In the penultimate section of his dissent, Justice Thomas suggested, "The Court should abandon the pretense that anything other than policy preferences underlies its balancing of constitutional rights and interests in any given case."

Now that a majority of the Supreme Court has chosen to start uprooting all abortion laws that are "not necessary," even if they are reasonable, it is not clear how state governments that are committed to upholding human dignity will proceed. "This is a very bad blow to my home state," one Right to Life citizen lamented. "Texas has been fighting this one for so long." "Children are a gift from God!" exclaimed another resident of the region. "I'm not just pro-life because of the Bible; [abortion is] also just morally wrong." Following the U.S. presidential election in November, Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, in all likelihood, will make an appointment to the Supreme Court to fill the seat vacated by pro-life Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away in February. Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump, in the past, have both expressed support for legalized abortion; however, Mr. Trump says that he has changed his stance on the propriety of the procedure and now identifies as mostly pro-life. In the United States alone, 1.06 million children are aborted every year (Guttmacher Institute 2016).
Edited by Culture of Life, Wednesday Jun 29 2016, 04:03 PM.
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Okay, here's the code for the June newsletter.

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Ambassadors, please post it to your regions' offsite embassies. If the offsite forums are inactive, then share a link to our in-game newsletter dispatch on that region's message board.



The Allied States ................................... vacant
Catholic ............................................ Culture of Life
Coalition of Catholic States ........................ Ovybia
The East Pacific .................................... New Missouri
The Great Conservative Alliance ..................... The RCS
Lazarus ............................................. United Massachusetts
League of Christian Nations ......................... Aawia
The Rejected Realms ................................. Culture of Life
United Kingdom ...................................... Stellonia
The Universal Allegiance ............................ Aawia
NationStates Forum Embassy .......................... Culture of Life




Stellonia, since you're new to this job, I'm pointing out that your assignment is here:

http://w11.zetaboards.com/NSUK/forum/4229903/

If you wish, you may open a separate topic in the embassy introducing yourself and communicating to the people of the United Kingdom that we're glad to have exchanged embassies with them.

United Massachusetts, I see that you plan to make Texasa our ambassador to TAS. In the meantime, will you please post this month's newsletter there? (I know that you already have forum membership.) I want you to head over there anyway because we need to communicate with the Allied States' government to schedule a state visit for a signing ceremony for the treaty that our regions recently ratified.

The RCS, will you please take care of making posts on the message boards of our high-priority, non-embassied allies? Give them a link to the newsletter dispatch, and see how things are going in those regions. I'm mainly concerned with the 16 regions currently at the top of our in-game embassy list.

EDIT: Everybody, please make a post here when you've completed your assignments.
Edited by Culture of Life, Friday Jul 1 2016, 03:57 AM.
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I'm done with my embassies.
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Ok I think I got all of the first 16 embassies with no ambassadors assigned, except for Westaphilia (no foreign RMB posting)
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Trump For President! Vote Pro-Life!

I'll do the allied states.
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Trump For President! Vote Pro-Life!

Done.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
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Done.

I will be resigning my ambassador position also following my important announcement this month.
Edited by Ovybia, Monday Jul 4 2016, 04:27 PM.
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Sorry for being late I delivered it!
I apologize for my lack of punctuation and poor spelling/writing in general it's bad, I'll get there someday :P

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