Doctors say only five percent of her intestines had been left inside her when she arrived at the medial facility on Sunday.
Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
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Three more anti-polio campaigners shot dead in Pakistan
Women health workers held protests in Karachi and Islamabad. “We go out and risk our lives to save other people’s children from being permanently handicapped, for what?”
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Cristina Odone worries about Ireland’s changed abortion law
Because when in doubt, let the woman die.
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Ireland to legalize abortion when mother’s life is at risk
Up until now the government has not enacted legislation to give certainty to doctors as to when terminations can be carried out and under what circumstances.
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Pakistan: gunmen shoot five anti-polio workers
Four women killed, one man injured for helping the “infidel” campaign against polio. At least 35 children in Pakistan have been infected this year.
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Mali: Islamists’ attacks on people grow more brutal
A woman is sentenced to 100 lashes with an electrical cord for giving water to a male visitor.
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Delhi: woman gang-raped on private bus
The woman was travelling with a male friend on Sunday night when they were attacked. They were brutally beaten, stripped and thrown out of the vehicle.
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The pope has a fancy new hat
It’s got pictures of people on it. Carmen Miranda would be jealous. Oh and btw same sex marriage threat to peace blah.
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Kuwait introduces death penalty for ‘cursing God and prophets’
Kuwaiti MPs approved a death penalty for Muslims who curse God, the Koran, all prophets and Mo’s wives. Non-Muslims get a minimum of 10 years.
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A scientific pioneer and a reluctant role model
“I have not set myself up to be a role model for women, but it does seem to be more of an issue than it used to be,” cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Brenda Milner explains.
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The Freedom of Thought 2012 report
Waleed Alhusseini spent ten months in a Palestinian jail for having kept an atheist blog.
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Debate on Islam and evolution meets opposition
“We eventually had to give up of getting any support from student societies because it was seen as simply too controversial.”
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Huckabee explains school shooting
“We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?”
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Nurse found guilty of manslaughter in circumcision case
Four-week-old Goodluck Caubergs bled to death.
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Judge believes female body magically blocks rape
A judge is being publicly admonished for saying a rape victim “didn’t put up a fight” and that if someone doesn’t want to be raped, the body “will not permit that to happen.”
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UK: government will make same-sex marriage illegal in CofE
The Church of England and Church in Wales will be banned in law from offering same-sex marriages, the government has announced.
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Nepal: girl, 16, set on fire for refusing marriage demand
Enragd by her rejection of his repeated proposal to elope with him for marriage, Babu Khan, 23, set Shiwa Hasmi on fire while she was asleep in her house. She died.
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Grand Rabbi Teitelbaum blames the victim
“A Jewish daughter has descended so low,” he said. “There hasn’t been such a disgusting saga in (the history of religious) Jewry.”
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Silencing women’s rights activists in Turkey
Leading Turkish women’s rights activist and lawyer Canan Arin was unlawfully detained on 23 June 2012 for speaking out against child marriages.
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Katha Pollitt on Ross Douthat
According to UNICEF, in France the child poverty rate is 8.8 percent; in Sweden it’s 7.3 percent. In the United States, by contrast, it’s a staggering 23.1 percent.
