Gov’t Inspection of Texas Abortion Giant Finds Rusty Tools, Rat Holes, Broken Beds

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The Texas abortion chain that the Supreme Court ruled in 2016 didn’t need to be held to basic safety standards has dozens of health and sanitary violations in its centers, new government reports reveal.

The Texas Department of State Health Services reports were released by the pro-life group And Then There Were None (ATTWN), which helps abortion workers leave the abortion industry. ATTWN is led by Planned Parenthood clinic director turned pro-life activist Abby Johnson.

The reports show that from 2011 to 2017, the Whole Woman’s Health abortion conglomerate has violated health codes by using rusty equipment, examining aborted babies in the same room where contaminated instruments were being washed, and failing to properly disinfect and sterilize instruments used from woman to woman.

One facility had a hole in cabinet flooring that had “the likelihood to allow rodents to enter the facility.”

“The reports we obtained show a blatant disregard for women’s health and safety, as well as the safety of the abortion workers themselves, on the part of Whole Woman’s Health,” said Johnson. “Women deserve this information.” (Read more from “Gov’t Inspection of Texas Abortion Giant Finds Rusty Tools, Rat Holes, Broken Beds” HERE)

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Weinstein Tells Pals Scandal Happened So He Could ‘Change the World’

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By Ian Mohr. Disgraced Harvey Weinstein’s been telling what friends he has left that there’s a bigger reason he’s embroiled in his ever-widening sexual-harassment scandal: to “change the world,” sources tell Page Six.

“Harvey believes he is a savior,” a Hollywood insider says.

The source adds that the pervy former Weinstein Co. and Miramax macher has been telling confidantes “that he was born to take the fall for his behavior in order to ‘change the world.’ He is resigned to his punishment — as a martyr for social change” . . .

More than 80 women have so far accused Weinstein of sexual harassment, assault and rape — and the list kept growing this week. (Read more from “Weinstein Tells Pals Scandal Happened So He Could ‘Change the World'” HERE)

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New Accusers Expand Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault Claims Back to ’70s

By The New York Times. Hope Exiner d’Amore said Harvey Weinstein raped her in a hotel room in the 1970s, when he was a young concert promoter in Buffalo. Cynthia Burr said that during this time, he assaulted her in an encounter that began in an elevator and ended with forced oral sex in a hallway. Ashley Matthau, a dancer with a bit part in one of his movies, said that in 2004, he pushed her down on a bed and masturbated while straddling her. Days later, she said, he paid her to remain silent.

Three weeks after complaints of sexual harassment and misconduct by Mr. Weinstein were first reported in The New York Times, women from different continents, fields and generations have come forward with allegations of rape, sexual assault and groping. New accounts include one previously undisclosed settlement with Mr. Weinstein and expand the time frame of alleged wrongdoing to the 1970s.

Together, the accounts provide a widening tally of alleged abuses, and illustrate the toll on women who say they felt ashamed and isolated as they watched the Hollywood producer walk red carpets, pile up Oscars and showcase his ties to prominent figures. (Read more from “New Accusers Expand Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault Claims Back to ’70s” HERE)

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She Suspected an Affair, Then She Found a Camera

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A daughter discovered hidden cameras in her bedroom and bathroom after finding videos of herself undressing and nude on a family computer, police said.

Matthew Bordeaux, 48, used the cameras that were concealed inside an electrical wall socket in her bedroom and an AC adapter in the bathroom they shared to take nude pictures, according to court records. The documents did not indicate the nature of their relationship but says Bordeaux, a woman and her daughter lived together for the last seven years “as a family.”

The victim, whose identity was not disclosed by Sunrise police, found the camera in her bedroom and bathroom after finding pictures of herself on a household computer that the family used, records show.

The daughter searched the computer because she thought Bordeaux was having an affair. She found the pictures inside a computer folder in his “profile” that, at the time, was not password protected. (Read more from “She Suspected an Affair, Then She Found a Camera” HERE)

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U.S. Flags Turned Into KKK Hoods, Professor Calls It Art

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A professor has shaped three American flags into KKK hoods in what she’s proudly calling her latest work of art.

Billie Grace Lynn, an associate professor of sculpture at the University of Miami, has dubbed it “American Mask.”

“American Mask is a work suggesting that bigotry and racism are hiding behind our American flag,” Lynn writes on her personal website. “By using the shape of KKK hoods made from the American flags I point to our sad history of intolerance and violence and hope that the work acts to awaken citizens to the danger of confusing bigotry with patriotism.” . . .

“Almost as soon as American Mask was placed in the window, arguments began. Miami New Times is located in the same building as the gallery, and an employee posted a picture on Facebook. Dozens of commenters called it everything from ‘disgusting’ to ‘patriotic,’” the Miami New Times reports. (Read more from “U.S. Flags Turned Into KKK Hoods, Professor Calls It Art” HERE)

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Now It’s ‘Pregnant People,’ Not ‘Pregnant Women’

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In a move that has created head-shaking across the United Kingdom, the government has insisted that the United Nations replace the term “pregnant women” in an official document with “pregnant people” to avoid offense.

The dispute arose because the nation’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office wanted to avoid excluding “transgender people who have given birth,” meaning women who “identify” as men.

The U.K. policy office was reviewing the U.N.’s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which was signed by the U.K. in 1976, some 10 years after it was created.

One line in that document states the death penalty “shall not be carried out on pregnant women.” (Read more from “Now It’s ‘Pregnant People,’ Not ‘Pregnant Women'” HERE)

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Surrogate Mom Gives Birth to Own Biological Son

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A woman who gave birth to her own child at the same time as she delivered a surrogate baby has been reunited with her son after a long legal battle.

“I was heartbroken knowing I carried a baby I didn’t know was mine and that he was taken from me without my knowledge and was in the arms of other people where he did not belong,” Jessica Allen told The Independent.

The 31-year-old had decided to undergo a commercial surrogacy so that she could put the money towards a deposit on a home with her partner Wardell Jasper, 34.

The practice is legal in California where they live and Ms Allen, who already had two children of her own, agreed a fee of $35,000 (£26,600) to give birth to another woman’s child.

But after undergoing in vitro fertilisation (IVF), doctors told Ms Allen she was carrying two baby boys. (Read more from “Surrogate Mom Gives Birth to Own Biological Son” HERE)

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Lesbian Privilege: Ellen Shares Tweet Only She Can Get Away With in Wake of Weinstein Scandal

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In the wake of the monstrous Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal blowing up Hollywood, happy-go-lucky daytime host Ellen DeGeneres tweeted an image and a caption only she could get away with.

“Happy birthday, @KatyPerry,” Ellen wished to pop singer and fellow Trump-hater Katy Perry. “It’s time to bring out the big balloons!” she added, clearly referring to Perry’s breasts.

The photo accompanying the caption is one of Ellen staring straight at Ms. Perry’s rack:

The loud feminists eager to blast straight men for their apparent innate toxicity were oddly silent. The #MeToo brigade willing to even blast 90-year-old ex-presidents? Silencio.

This is what you might call “lesbian privilege.” (Read more from “Lesbian Privilege: Ellen Shares Tweet Only She Can Get Away With in Wake of Weinstein Scandal” HERE)

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New Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault Accusations Emerge

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By Fox News. New allegations from at least two actresses came out Friday alleging sexual assault by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

In a story by the New Yorker, actress Annabella Sciorra claims that Weinstein “violently raped” her, and actress Daryl Hannah says her career suffered after encounters with Weinstein . . .

Hannah said that when she first met Weinstein, she didn’t know about his reputation. So when he asked her hotel room number to schedule a meeting, she didn’t think much of it.

Later she heard “incessant” knocking on her hotel room door. She said she got so scared she eventually snuck out the back . . .

Several years later, Hannah allegedly encountered Weinstein again when he somehow got a key to her hotel room and let himself in. (Read more from “New Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault Accusations Emerge” HERE)

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Actress Annabella Sciorra Says Harvey Weinstein Raped Her in Her Apartment in the ’90s

By Ginger Adam Otis. For more than 20 years, actress Annabella Sciorra says she has kept a horrific secret: Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein raped her in the 1990s, and sexually harassed her for years later . . .

“It wasn’t that late … like it wasn’t the middle of the night, so I opened the door a crack to see who it was. And he pushed the door open,” she told The New Yorker.

Weinstein “walked in like it was his apartment, like he owned the place, and started unbuttoning his shirt. So it was very clear where he thought this was going to go. And I was in a nightgown. I didn’t have much on,” the actress said.

“He shoved me onto the bed, and he got on top of me. I kicked and I yelled,” she said in the interview.

But Weinstein, now 65, held her down, with her hands over her head, she told The New Yorker. She fought him – wearing a white cotton nightgown that was a family heirloom from Italy. (Read more from “Actress Annabella Sciorra Says Harvey Weinstein Raped Her in Her Apartment in the ’90s” HERE)

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Mom Who Beat Daughter for Not Knowing Bible Verse Sentenced

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A Middletown mother will spend 21/2 to 5 years in state prison for assaulting her daughter because the teen didn’t recite Bible verses correctly.

Rhonda Shoffner, 41, was sentenced by Dauphin County Judge John F. Cherry after she pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault, strangulation, child endangerment and making terroristic threats . . .

Police said Shoffner attacked the 13-year-old in March. She bit the girl and slammed the teen’s head into a bathroom wall, they said. Investigators said Shoffner told the girl, “I’m going to kill you.” (Read more from “Mom Who Beat Daughter for Not Knowing Bible Verse Sentenced” HERE)

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Disney Approves First Story Line for ‘Coming-Out’ of Character

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Executives at Disney Channel — and pro-gay groups — have given their stamp of approval for a coming-out tale for tweens on “Andi Mack.”

The second season of Disney’s coming-of-age show will feature a creative milestone that was pre-screened by such groups as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and PFLAG.

The series, which stars Peyton Elizabeth Lee, follows her character’s “uncharted course of self-discovery.”

“Everyone involved in the show takes great care in ensuring that it’s appropriate for all audiences and sends a powerful message about inclusion and respect for humanity,” the company said in a statement on Thursday via its ABC News subsidiary. (Read more from “Disney Approves First Story Line for ‘Coming-Out’ of Character” HERE)

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