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August 26, 2024 By Chris Powell A federal judge has ruled in favor of
several crisis pregnancy centers, allowing them to continue promoting an
abortion pill reversal protocol. The decision is a victory for pro-life
advocates in the ongoing battle over reproductive rights in the state.
U.S. District Judge John Sinatra issued a preliminary injunction last
week, effectively blocking New York Attorney General Letitia James’
efforts to silence pro-life organizations that provide information about
the abortion pill reversal process. The ruling came after James initiated
lawsuits against 11 pregnancy centers across New York, accusing them of
false advertising and endangering women’s health by promoting the reversal
protocol. The abortion pill reversal process, which is backed by several
pro-life organizations, involves administering bioidentical progesterone
to counteract the effects of mifepristone, a synthetic steroid commonly
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wish to continue their pregnancies. The concept of “abortion pill
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the effects and continue their pregnancies. In his decision, Judge Sinatra
wrote , “The First Amendment protects Plaintiffs’ right to speak freely
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with her doctor. Indeed, the ‘very purpose of the First Amendment is to
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(NIFLA), Gianna’s House, and the Options Care Center. Represented by the
conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), these
organizations argued that James’ actions infringed upon their
constitutional rights. ADF attorney Caleb Dalton praised the court’s
decision, stating, “Women in New York have literally saved their babies
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information through their local pregnancy centers about using safe and
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pregnancy centers were part of an effort by her office to crack down on
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abortion pill reversal protocol lacks sufficient scientific backing and
could expose women to unnecessary risks. However, Judge Sinatra’s ruling
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TaiwanIsNotChina Jan. 8 06:33 am JST I would hope European countries
would have the institutions to tell Elmo where he can shove his money.
-3 ( +3 / -6 ) GBR48 Jan. 8 07:38 am JST Anyone funding extremism can be
classed as a terrorist and blocked from entry. Appeasing Trump will work
as well as appeasing Hitler did. European security services need to
realise that the main threat they now face in internal and right wing,
supported by Musk's money, not China, Russia, Jihadists or
environmentalists. And this threat is existential. Musk has enough cash
to buy power in most countries. So use the political tools at your
disposal to prevent this. The legal ones and the covert ones. And get up
to speed really quickly, because Musk is enjoying this and won't stop.
Washington is no longer an ally of Western democracies, but their most
dangerous enemy. -1 ( +5 / -6 ) Geeter Mckluskie Jan. 8 09:21 am JST
Europeans will make their own decisions about their political fate. If
they are influenced by Musk, then so be it. That's their prerogative.
Musk is using X “a bit like an old-style newspaper mogul,” to promulgate
his political views. Yes, just as the likes of the BBC use their
platform to promulgate left-wing views. Ultimately, the people will
decide which of these opposing views is in line with their political
preference. -1 ( +6 / -7 ) itsonlyrocknroll Jan. 8 02:15 pm JST How much
influence does Elon Musk wield over President elect Donald Trump? This
question is causing political nerves to become increasingly frayed
across Europe. Musk constant verbal assaults on Keir Starmer, UK elected
Prime Minister, his blatant meddling in the up and coming German
elections is unacceptable. To endorse a candidate, then on his own
social media platform X livestream an interview Thursday with the AfD's
Weidel, is outrageous interference. What is also disturbing is Europe's
leaders appeasing Elon Musk, when they should be beating a path to the
oval office demand Elon Musk cease and desist. -6 ( +0 / -6 )
itsonlyrocknroll Jan. 8 02:37 pm JST The main stream press media liberal
elite totally foolishly under-estimated Donald Trump. Trump is using
Elon Musk like a political blunt instrument, "coshing" Europe's
leadership with impunity. Heavens sake wake up. -4 ( +1 / -5 ) wallace
Jan. 8 02:42 pm JST Musk is using his power, money, and X platform to
influence elections and countries and now being an appointed member of
the Trump cabinet should not be doing that and harming relationships
with allies of the US. His actions are highly disturbing. -2 ( +3 / -5 )
Harry_Gatto Jan. 8 03:10 pm JST Two spoiled rich kids who have never
experienced anyone saying NO to them. How the American public could be
so easily taken in by a loud-mouthed oik like Trump is beyond my ken and
as for the unelected Musk he should be banned from entering any country
where he tries to interfere with its government. Hit him where it hurts,
ban his products like X and Tesla too. -1 ( +3 / -4 ) wallace Jan. 8
03:54 pm JST Musk is a megalomaniac. The Trump-Musk bromance won't last
the course. 0 ( +5 / -5 ) Roger Gusain Jan. 8 06:21 pm JST Elon is
shining light into dark corners. God bless him. -6 ( +3 / -9 ) Roger
Gusain Jan. 8 06:39 pm JST Starmer has managed to unite the country --
everyone hates him. What is he hiding? I am not sure I want to find out.
-5 ( +3 / -8 ) Zaphod Jan. 8 06:54 pm JST Roger Gusain Starmer has
managed to unite the country Unite?? In what universe? -4 ( +3 / -7 )
Great Bird Jan. 8 07:15 pm JST Unite?? In what universe? Magaverse 0 (
+2 / -2 ) R B Quinn Jan. 8 08:42 pm JST Musk has become the second most
dangerous embarrassment in the United States of America after the former
Insurrectionist-in-Chief. 1 ( +3 / -2 ) ClippetyClop Jan. 8 09:04 pm JST
'Tariffs' should become Europe's favourite word too. On Musk's dull
cars. See how gobby he is when it affects his salary. 2 ( +3 / -1 )
itsonlyrocknroll Jan. 8 09:52 pm JST It would be helpful to listen to
AfD Candidate Alice Weidel state in her own words AfD manifesto. Germany
Election: AfD Candidate Alice Weidel on Election, EU, Trump, Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeYB_Hmsu84 0 ( +2 / -2 ) Zaphod Jan. 8
11:29 pm JST R B Quinn Musk has become the second most dangerous
embarrassment in the United States of America after the former
Insurrectionist-in-Chief. Musk turned Twitter from an elitist propaganda
machine back into free speech platform. For that alone, you might be a
tad grateful. -1 ( +2 / -3 ) wallace Jan. 8 11:48 pm JST The father of
Musk made a public statement Musk wants to buy Liverpool FC because his
grandmother was born there and still has relatives in the city. Though
he has never visited the city of his relatives. Today, the current
owners issued a statement stating the club is not for sale. The fans too
issued a strongly worded statement telling him where to put his offer. 1
( +2 / -1 ) TaiwanIsNotChina Jan. 9 02:40 am JST ZaphodJan. 8 11:34 pm
JST TaiwanIsNotChina I would hope European countries would have the
institutions to tell Elmo where he can shove his money. Funny thing, I
do not remember any of the people who are now demonizing Musk saying
anything about the big money behind the elitist political machine.
George Soros and his "open society foundation" with its tentacles
everywhere? Facebook and Google, who might have been able to swing the
US election, had Musk not been there as a counterbalace? Crickets....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC Party line decision
and argued against by the Obama administration. QED 0 ( +0 / -0 ) Peter
Neil Jan. 9 03:47 am JST “Look at what happened in the U.S. His bet on
Trump worked. He is playing the same game in Europe.” getting elected is
not governing. any fool can get elected. look at houses of parliament
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disregard for the health and human rights of women by Sharon Bessell April
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usually a cause for celebration; a moment of wonder, as a new tiny life
enters the world. This celebration plays out across the world every day
when a wanted child is born to a woman who is supported on the journey to
motherhood. But in some parts of the world, in some situations, the birth
of a child is a devastating event. Every day, children are born to women
and girls who did not choose to become pregnant. Rather than a moment of
celebration, the birth of a child in these circumstances is the
manifestation of a woman’s – or girl’s – complete lack of control over her
body and life. Daily, children are born with no trained birth attendants
present, to women – and girls – who labor without intervention when it is
desperately needed. Daily 830 women die in childbirth; the vast majority
in developing countries. Let’s just repeat that figure: every day 830
women and girls die in childbirth. The politics of sexual and reproductive
health and rights are deeply worrying – and here we see regress rather
than progress with the US government’s most recent position They die from
bleeding, infection, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, and complications during
delivery. Most causes of maternal death are preventable or treatable .
When governments step back from supporting safe and accessible sexual and
reproductive healthcare – as the USA did in withdrawing funding from the
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) last week – more women will die.
That is the reality. Global progress and the role of UNFPA Between 1990
and 2015, considerable progress was made, with maternal mortality
declining by about 44%. From 2000, improvements accelerated in the wake of
the adoption of Millennium Development Goal 5 on improving maternal
health. This is the good news, but the situation remains dire for many
women and girls, and continued progress remains fragile. Podcast:
Babatunde Osotimehin on why sexual and reproductive health are a
foundation for development The UNFPA has been at the forefront of global
efforts to make childbirth safe for both women and their babies, and to
ensure that women and girls have access to reproductive health care and
safe, reliable forms of contraception. The goal of UNFPA is to deliver a
world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every
young person’s potential is fulfilled. This is an aim that should not be
subject to debate. Who could possibly argue that women and girls should be
forced into pregnancy against their will, that childbirth should not be
safe, that the potential of young people should not be fulfilled? And yet,
the work of UNFPA and other organizations that aim to provide women and
girls with choice over their lives and – when they choose to become
mothers – to provide safe and supported pregnancies and childbirth,
continues to come under attack. Latest stories Opposition builds to
Germany’s trillion-dollar debt plan N Korea’s nuclear sub engulfed in a
sea of doubt Faction led by North’s old pal rises in major South Korean
party The US withdrawal of funding Last week, the Trump administration
announced that it will end funding to UNFPA – it gave the organization
US$75 million in 2015. Announcing the withdrawal, the US State Department
claimed that in partnering with the Chinese government, the UNFPA is
implicated in the coercive practices used in China to curb population
growth . This issue is a complex one. No doubt, often brutal coercion has
underpinned the approach of the Chinese government in the past, and a
woman’s right to make decisions about the number of children they have
continues to be regulated. China’s approach to family planning is
controversial. Photo: AFP/Nicolas Asfouri China’s one-child policy ,
introduced in 1979, has been the subject of criticism both within and
outside China. The policy was loosened in 2013, and ended in 2015; from
the beginning of 2016, a two-child policy was introduced. While China’s
approach to family planning is rightly controversial, there is no evidence
to suggest that the UNFPA has ever been involved in or supported coercive
practices. There is, though, overwhelming evidence that the UNFPA works
tirelessly, in China and elsewhere, to prevent women and girls being
subjected to coercive sexual activity and to unwanted pregnancy. At a
recent talk at Crawford School of Public Policy, executive director of the
UNFPA, Dr Babatunde Osotimehin spoke powerfully of the importance of women
and girls being empowered to take control their sexual and reproductive
health and to exercise their rights as human beings. In an accompanying
interview, I was involved in for the Policy Forum, Dr Osotimehin explained
the role of the UNFPA in providing support, services and education in
countries, and particularly in the context of humanitarian and natural
disasters where women and girls are especially vulnerable. Withdrawing
funding from the UNFPA is a direct assault on the services that are vital
to securing women’s and girls’ well-being and human rights. The
complexities of abortion Central to the US decision to withdraw funding to
the UNFPA is the allegation that the agency has supported forced abortions
in China. The UNFPA does not promote abortion as a method of family
planning, nor does it engage in debates about the legal status of
abortion. The agency does advocate for , and support post-abortion care
and argues that health systems must deal with complications that result
from unsafe abortions and are often life-threatening. In the US, the
politics of abortion are deeply divisive domestically and have shaped
policies toward international development assistance for decades. The
Kemp-Kasten amendment to the appropriations bill was adopted in 1985,
prohibiting the provision of US aid to any organization determined by the
US Administration as supporting coercive abortion or forced sterilization.
The prohibition of such violations of women’s rights is on the face of it
welcome, yet the Kemp-Kasten amendment has been used in highly political
ways that have little to do with supporting the rights of women. The
amendment was used by the Bush administration in 2002 to withdraw funding
from the UNFPA, a decision that was later reversed by the Obama
administration. The most recent enactment of the Kemp-Kasten amendment
reflects the continuing division between Republicans and Democrats on
foreign aid and engagement with global development priorities. It also
highlights the extent to which those debates play out through control over
women’s bodies. Indian woman is denied abortion at 26 weeks. Photo:
Wikimedia Commons The politics of women’s bodies The politics of sexual
and reproductive health and rights are deeply worrying – and here we see
regress rather than progress with the US government’s most recent
position. The withdrawal of US funding to UNFPA follows the Presidential
Memorandum Regarding the Mexico City Policy, issued by Trump on the first
full day of his presidency. That order went further than previous
Republican administrations in the restrictions it placed on organizations
providing a range of health services in developing countries. Withdrawing
funding from the UNFPA is a direct assault on the services that are vital
to securing women’s and girls’ well-being and human rights. Photo:
Reuters/Kham The order – commonly known as the “global gag rule” –
requires organizations to certify that they will not use either US funds
or non-US funds to provide abortion services, to counsel patients about
the option of abortion or to advocate for the liberalization of abortion
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services, as well as those dealing with the realities and complexities of
women’s lives and the difficult decisions women must make in situations of
unwanted or forced pregnancy. That many women have no choice but to seek
abortion when contraception is unavailable or unreliable, and when they
have no control over the bodies, appears lost on Trump and the cartel of
suited, middle-aged men who surrounded him as he signed the executive
order in January. The use of women’s bodies to advance particular
ideological and political agendas is not new. Nowhere is this more
apparent than in global debates about women’s and girls’ right to access
reproductive and sexual health services, including safe and reliable
contraception and safe abortion. Abortion is often used by
ultra-conservative groups as the justification for denying women a range
of sexual and reproductive health services. That very few women use
abortion as contraception; that women and girls who face the awful dilemma
of dealing with an unplanned, unwanted and perhaps life-threatening
pregnancy will seek abortion whether it is safe and legal or not; that an
estimated 47,000 women and girls die every year from unsafe abortions is
peripheral to the politics of control that prevent women and girls making
decisions about their bodies. The withdrawal by the Trump Administration
of funding to the UNFPA signals a disturbing disregard for the health and
human rights of women. It is counter to global discourse that promotes the
empowerment of women and the right to access health care. It is a decision
that disregards evidence and reason. It is a decision that will undermine
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government spending bill on Wednesday well before Trump weighed in
against the legislation. Zac Anderson Josh Meyer USA TODAY Hours before
Donald Trump blew up a bipartisan stopgap funding deal, putting the
federal government in danger of a Christmas holiday shutdown , an
influential member of his inner circle already was working hard to sink
the bill. Elon Musk took to X – a social media platform he owns – to
slam the spending measure, repeatedly writing that lawmakers should
“kill the bill” in a tsunami of more than 100 posts on Wednesday that
swamped the carefully negotiated funding measure. More: Government
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When Trump finally weighed in , 14 hours after Musk first attacked the
bill, it looked like he was following the tech impresario's lead .
Political observers took notice, questioning who was setting the
Republican agenda, Trump or Musk? “President-elect Musk is really
setting down the marker of how he wants to run his administration. VP
Trump better pay attention,” former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger taunted
Trump on X. More: When would a government shutdown occur? Here's what to
know as deadline looms The government moved closer to a possible
shutdown Friday after the House voted to reject a new spending bill
pushed by Trump. Thirty-eight Republicans joined 197 Democrats in
opposing the bill on Thursday night. The relationship between Trump and
Musk − the world’s richest man − and how it will impact the next
administration has been the subject of much speculation, and is coming
into clearer focus with Musk’s high-profile opposition to the government
funding bill. Musk endorsed Trump, campaigned with him and spent huge
sums helping his campaign. Since the election, he has been a frequent
visitor to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Palm Beach estate, as he advises on the
transition. More: Elon Musk contributed more than $250 million to 2024
campaign groups backing Donald Trump Trump tapped Musk and businessman
Vivek Ramaswamy to lead his new Department of Government Efficiency , an
advisory commission aimed at slashing government regulation and
spending. Musk’s advocacy against the spending bill this week could be a
sign he is interpreting that authority broadly and aggressively. If
Congress can’t reach a short-term funding deal on Friday, it could
result in a government shutdown over the holidays, impacting an array of
federal services and employees. But Musk is focused on spending
concerns. More: How Elon Musk essentially killed congressional bill
preventing government shutdown House Republicans on Thursday shuffled in
and out of Speaker Mike Johnson's office as the clock ticked toward the
shutdown deadline. But the new spending measure they negotiated was
voted down. “Either there is massive change or America goes bankrupt,
therefore there must be massive change!” Musk posted on X Wednesday amid
the fight over the spending legislation. More: Elon Musk and SpaceX face
federal reviews over security, NYT reports Musk’s influence is
frustrating for some lawmakers, but others are glad to see him weighing
in. Democrats and Trump critics decried Musk’s successful effort to
derail the spending bill, with some pointing to his wealth to argue he
is out of touch. “The richest man in the world says he wants to shut
down the government, forcing millions of American workers − including
our troops − to go without pay through the holidays,” Rep. Don Beyer,
D-Va., whose district has many federal workers and includes the
Pentagon, posted on X. “Republicans are following his orders. This is
insane.” More: How Elon Musk cut costs at SpaceX, Tesla, X and what it
means for DOGE A firestorm of tweets − and warnings Musk started his
social media barrage at 4:17 a.m. Wednesday, with a photo of the massive
budget document. “Ever seen a bigger piece of pork?” That post got 38.6
million views thanks to X algorithms that make sure everyone on the
platform sees what Musk is posting. "I talked to Elon about this last
night," Johnson told Fox News on Wednesday morning. "Elon, Vivek and I
are on a text chain together." By noon, many GOP lawmakers and social
media influencers were scrambling to fall in line. At 12:59, Musk
posted: “Make sure your elected representatives know how you feel about
this gigantic spending bill.” Musk’s posts and warnings were now coming
minutes, or even seconds, apart. At 1:17 p.m., in a post that garnered
34.4 million views, he warned that, “Any member of the House or Senate
who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in
two years!” “No bills should be passed Congress until January, 20, when
@RealDonaldTrump takes office. None. Zero,” Musk said in a 2:13 p.m.
post viewed by 42.6 million. More: Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy want
Congress to reject deal that would prevent government shutdown At 3:58
p.m., after a torrent of other lawmakers pledged to support Musk’s
demands, he posted, "Your elected representatives have heard you, and
now the terrible bill is dead. The voice of the people has triumphed!"
Trump publcly joined the bandwagon that evening, calling the bipartisan
spending bill negotiated by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and
Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries "a nasty TRAP set in place by
the Radical Left Democrats!" Michael Steele, a former chairman of the
Republican National Committee, jabbed at Trump over Musk's role in
killing the spending bill. More: Trump calls for eliminating debt
ceiling amid chaos before potential government shutdown "President-elect
@elonmusk feeling real good about killing the bipartisan funding bill to
keep the Federal government from shutting down," Steele wrote on X,
adding that Trump and Johnson must be "happy for his success. Such a
strong beginning for the incoming Musk administration." But Trump
transiton spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Republicans followed only
one chief. "As soon as President Trump released his official stance on
the CR, Republicans on Capitol Hill echoed his point of view," Leavitt
said, using shorthand for the House's torpedoed continuing resolution.
"President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. Full stop."
House Republicans fall into line The founder of Tesla, Space X and other
businesses, Musk’s vast financial dealings have raised questions about
conflicts of interest as he seeks to overhaul the federal government.
Trump and others in his proposed Cabinet and broader circle of advisers
have faced the same questions. Many Republicans see Musk as a powerful
ally. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wi., was glad to see Musk get involved in the
budget fight, saying it’s good to “have somebody in the media that can
promote conservative and fiscal responsibility.” Some Republicans
slammed Johnson for his approach to the funding bill and questioned
whether he should remain speaker when Trump takes office. Sen. Rand
Paul, R-Ky., even floated Musk as speaker. More: Sen. Rand Paul calls
for Musk to replace Speaker Johnson amidst debt ceiling debate “The
Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress…,” Paul posted on
X. “Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk.”
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Kentucky about whether Musk is playing too much of a role in the budget
talks. "A lot of people in Congress were looking at Musk's tweets. You
were sitting there, on your phone and there were the tweets coming in.
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states are proposing bills targeting LGBTQ rights. ‘It’s only getting
worse,’ advocate says By Nicole Chavez and Jalen Brown , CNN 6 minute
read Updated 7:39 AM EST, Thu March 9, 2023 Link Copied! Heather Thomas
and her son, Ellis. courtesy Heather Thomas CNN — Heather Thomas spent
months pleading with Tennessee legislators to vote against a ban on
gender-affirming health care for minors, which she says saved the life of
her transgender son. “It’s just so important. I mean, it saved his
life. Why would I not share that to try to help others not have to go
through what we went through?” Thomas told CNN. Even when many parents
in Tennessee became afraid they would become targets of the bill, Thomas
continued speaking out. But despite her efforts, including testifying
before the state Senate, last week Tennessee became the latest state to
ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth and the first state this
year to restrict public drag show performances . Thomas, as well as
transgender people and advocates in multiple states, told CNN they are
increasingly alarmed about the unprecedented number of measures introduced
in state legislatures this year that are seeking to restrict LGBTQ rights
and queer life . People gather in support of transgender youth during a
rally at the Utah State Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Salt Lake City.
Utah lawmakers on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, gave final approval for a measure
that would ban most transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming
health care like surgery or puberty blockers. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Rick
Bowmer/AP/FILE Related article GOP lawmakers escalate fight against
gender-affirming care with bills seeking to expand the scope of bans “My
child doesn’t want to be transgender; he is transgender and has been
his whole life. So just because he transitioned doesn’t mean he wasn’t
trans before. He always has been,” said Thomas, adding that her
23-year-old son Ellis lived with severe depression before starting
testosterone treatments as a teenager. At least 385 bills targeting LGBTQ
rights and queer life have been introduced around the country through
March 7, according to data compiled by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The number of bills has already surpassed last year’s total of 306,
according to ACLU data shared with CNN. The proposed bills cover a wide
range of policies, including some that seek to restrict transgender people
from competing on sports teams or using bathrooms that align with their
gender identity, but it appears youth and medical care is a growing
legislative focus. Youth who identify as transgender make up a tiny
fraction of kids in the United States – the US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention estimated in a 2019 study that less than 2% of high
school students identify as transgender. Health care professionals have
said the types of bills being pushed in this Republican-led effort are
likely to further ostracize transgender kids, a group who already struggle
with higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicide . closeup of a
transgender pride flag waving on the blue sky, moved by the wind, with the
sun in the background Shutterstock Related article Gender-affirming care,
a 'crucial' process for thousands of young people in America Emerson J.
Sykes, an attorney for the ACLU, said each of the issues potentially
impacted by the bills are distinct, but are creating a “dramatic
chilling effect” even if they don’t become laws. “The message is
loud and clear: LGBTQ people – trans people in particular – are under
a microscope and anybody who supports or uplifts or features transgender
people or voices of any kind, whether that’s in schools, in libraries,
on stages or even just existing in the world, and getting access to health
care and recreation and all of those basic things,” Sykes said. “We
are definitely in protection mode and trying to figure out what we could
do to protect our neighbors and their rights,” he added. In Oklahoma,
one of the states with the most proposed bills targeting health care for
LGBTQ people (15 so far, according to the ACLU), Juno Stump said she is
worried about her future as a transgender woman. Last week, House Bill
2177 advanced to the state Senate after the House passed it 80-18. The
measure would ban certain gender-affirming care like puberty blockers,
hormones and surgeries for people under 18 years and blocks insurance from
covering gender-affirming care for anyone, regardless of age. Oklahoma
Rep. Kevin West, the bill’s sponsor, has said legislation restricting
gender-affirming care is about protecting children and “putting a
safeguard in place” for them. “This legislation is about protecting
our children from those who would seek to profit from their gender
confusion,” West said in a statement following the House vote. “As a
state, we must not be partner to irreversible health practices that
permanently change the bodies of our children before they are of an age
where they can fully understand the consequences of their decisions.”
Juno Stump told CNN she is worried about her future as a transgender
woman. courtesy Juno Stump Under HB 2177, Stump, a 31-year-old freelance
writer, says she would no longer be able to use her health insurance to
pay for her gender-affirming care. She told CNN it would cost
“thousands” to travel to another state and buy her medication without
insurance. When Stump first heard that HB 2177 had advanced to the Senate,
she was devastated. “I broke and fell apart into pieces in my friend’s
arms in the middle of the day, and then in my wife’s arms … because it
just felt so hopeless,” Stump said. “Because anything I can think of
that makes me feel better, is temporary, because it’s like, well, when
does this stop? When does this end?” Stump said she suffered from
depression and harmed herself for several years before she started
receiving gender-affirming care in 2021. Receiving hormones changed her
life, Stump said, because it freed her from having to “mask” by
presenting herself as a cis-gendered, heterosexual man. “Every single
time I took a step, every single time I took a breath, every single time I
said anything, I had to have this quick little conversation inside my own
head … and that conversation was, ‘Is this coming across in a way that
is masculine and going to help me pass as a boy?’ Because that’s what
I’m being forced to do,” Stump said. New York Attorney General Letitia
James is leading a coalition of 16 Democratic attorneys general urging
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to rescind his administration's request to
colleges in the state for information about students receiving
gender-affirming care. Getty Images Related article Democratic AGs condemn
DeSantis administration for asking Florida colleges for information on
students receiving gender-affirming care Nicole McAfee, the executive
director of LGBTQ advocacy group Freedom Oklahoma, said young LGBTQ people
in the state were already feeling the harm and burden of policies
targeting them and now, “it’s only getting worse.” The recent push
to restrict gender-affirming care in Oklahoma began last year when
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a law that blocks funding to the
University Hospitals Authority if its facilities provide gender-affirming
care. At the time, the governor also called on state lawmakers to ban
gender-affirming care for minors across the state during the 2023
legislative session. Last year, Stitt signed laws that require students at
public schools to use restrooms and locker rooms that match the sex listed
on their birth certificates , banned transgender women and girls from
competing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity and banned
nonbinary gender markers on birth certificates. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt
signs a bill on March 30, 2022, that prevents transgender girls and women
from competing on female sports teams. Sean Murphy/AP/FILE Stitt has
argued these laws are for the benefit of children, calling out
gender-affirming health care in his 2023 state of the state address: “We
must protect our most vulnerable - our children.” In banning funding for
such health care for minors at the Oklahoma Children’s Hospital, the
governor said it was “wildly inappropriate for taxpayer dollars to be
used” for these procedures. McAfee says the chilling effect of bills
like HB 2177 would impact more than just transgender people. Some
providers would be worried about being criminalized or being impacted by
civil liability for providing care, they said. “That means we’re going
to lose doctors, we’re going to lose pediatricians, all who treat all
children, not just children who are transgender. And in a state like
Oklahoma, where we already have a really fractured health care system,
adults and kids of all genders are going to suffer because of this
legislation,” McAfee said. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey delivers her State
of the State Address at the State Capitol Building in Montgomery, Ala., on
Tuesday evening January 11, 2022. Mickey Welsh/Advertiser/USA Today
Network/Reuters Related article Lawsuit filed against Alabama over law
that makes it a felony to administer gender-affirming health care to
minors Stump, Thomas and other advocates told CNN they were astonished and
disappointed that more people outside the LGTBQ community are not alarmed
by what lawmakers are doing or encouraged to act against the growing wave
of bills against them. “I really wish that more people cared … at
least for self-preservation,” Stump said, “Because right now I’m on
the chopping block, but, people in power aren’t gonna get rid of me and
then all of a sudden start trying to fix roads and fix health care and,
you know, fix the cost of food – they’re just gonna look for the next
person,” Stump said. CNN’s Lucy Kafanov contributed to this report. Ad
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pro-life march and Asia’s dark history of eugenics Abortions were once
common in Japan, many aimed at cutting down the number of mixed race
children, but things have changed by Jason Morgan July 26, 2018 February
18, 2020 Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on
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Tokyo braved heat and indifference. Photo: Neil Day It was a small
rally, but a determined one. Amid the blistering July afternoon
sunshine, in the face of puzzled onlookers, approximately 250 people
braved Tokyo’s heat to march from Tsukiji to Hibiya Park. Carrying
banners, signs and fans, the sweat-soaked marchers wound their way past
high-rises and the old wooden shops of Chūō Ward, flanked by a handful
of policemen in starched blue uniforms directing traffic with tasseled
white batons. There was a matsuri , or festival, atmosphere. Some
marchers held aloft a festooned statue of the Virgin Mary, while singing
in Portuguese and Japanese. The “March for Life” though, now in its
fifth consecutive year, remains an oddity in Japan. Begun in 2014 by
Japanese Catholic activist Masaaki Ikeda after attending the March for
Life in Washington, the Tokyo event, though small in numbers, stands out
for its cosmopolitan character. At an informal rally outside the Tsukiji
Catholic Church before setting off, Ikeda asked where marchers were
from. Ireland, Taiwan, India, Argentina, the Philippines, Peru, American
Samoa, the United States, Colombia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Costa Rica,
France and Brazil were just some of the replies. Masaaki Ikeda, the
organizer of the Tokyo March for Life, addresses marchers at the Tsukiji
Catholic Church. Photo: Neil Day Pastor Kenzō Tsujioka, who was
instrumental in publicizing and organizing the march during the earliest
days when only a couple of dozen people took part, encourages marchers
to smile and avoid confrontations. Dr Ligaya Acosta, the regional
director for Asia and Oceania at pro-life powerhouse Human Life
International, attended the Tokyo march for the first time this year.
According to her, it is an opportunity to unite across national borders
in defense of the natural dignity of humans. Joe Woodard, a pro-life
leader based in Hong Kong, agrees that the march is emerging as a key
human rights event for Asia. Friendly smiles, dark history The friendly
demeanor of Japan’s pro-life movement contrasts with Asia’s dark history
of eugenics – policies designed to improve the genetic quality of the
population – sterilization, racial politics and widespread governmental
population control. Latest stories Europe-NATO scramble for a ‘coalition
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insurgency card Ukraine mineral deal is no US security guarantee During
the 1930s and early 1940s, Tokyo needed as many people as possible to
colonize Taiwan, the Korean peninsula and Manchuria, work in the
factories and at home and man the army as the government enacted
expansive and aggressive policies. At a time when the infant mortality
rate was high, multiple births were encouraged. But with Japan’s 1945
defeat, and the subsequent loss of her overseas empire, Tokyo shifted
from inflationary biopolitics to biopolitical austerity. Hundreds of
thousands of women began streaming back to the home islands – many of
whom had been raped by Soviet or Chinese soldiers, or by Korean men.
Abortions would become the order of the day. This hidden history is only
now coming to light. In a new book on an evacuee repatriation center in
Hakata, author Masaharu Shimokawa mines contemporary diaries and records
to show how Sei’ichi Izumi– the archaeologist who would later become
famous for his discoveries of Incan religious sites in the Andes –
personally arranged for doctors and nurses to assemble in Fukuoka and
perform hundreds of abortions on rape victims. There is even evidence
that Prince Takamatsu approved these emergency measures. The
biopolitical history of occupation But the threat to Japan’s “racial
purity” was becoming permanent at home. Rapes were a never-ending source
of tension between US occupation forces and Japanese authorities. The
Japanese government, at the request of the Americans, opened special
“Recreation and Amusement Authority” (RAA) centers – essentially,
licensed brothels like the now-infamous “comfort stations” provided for
Japanese forces during the war. Yet mixed-race children continued to
appear, both from rape and from fraternization. The occupation press
code prohibited Japanese media from reporting on crimes committed by the
US military, but American brass were plagued by how to cover up evidence
of rape. A solution was hit upon: the infamous 1948 Eugenics Protection
Law. This law was the first to recognize the legal right to abortion,
although only in “exceptional cases” – a clause which could be taken to
mean abortion on demand, without restriction. The Japanese government
got to keep their population racially pure; the American government got
to minimize the negative publicity of thousands of mixed-race babies.
The Eugenics Protection Law was, in effect, a complement to the laws and
rules already in place prohibiting American servicemen from marrying
Japanese women and bringing them back to the United States. Japan:
Abortion capital of the world Subsequently, women from across the globe
flocked to Japan for abortions. In 1954, for example, the abortion rate
in Japan for women of all nationalities was an astounding 64.6%; the
abortion rate for Japanese women for 1955 was a very high 40.3%. It
remained at that level or higher throughout the rest of the 1950s. The
eugenics mentality remained strong in Japan for decades. Government
guidelines in 1960 advocated teaching “national eugenics” at high
schools. Guidelines for 1970 still contained recommendations for
“marriage eugenics.” A law allowing forced sterilizations for mentally
handicapped women was not revised until 1996 , and cases from the age of
eugenics continue to work through the court system in Japan today .
Population control: ‘One child’ China Japan’s attitudes toward abortion
changed slowly in the 1960s and ’70s, due largely to the efforts of Dr
Noboru Kikuta (1926-1991). Kikuta had been a prolific abortionist before
undergoing a religious conversion at the hands of March for Life’s
Tsujioka. After Kikuta stopped performing abortions, he started helping
place orphaned children into adoptive homes by forging household
registry paperwork. He eventually took his fight public, helping to
change public opinion about adoption while highlighting its high rate.
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marchers reveals that many countries in the region and beyond have their
own histories of biopolitics and population control – histories
entangled with American biopolitics. For example, the 1974 Kissinger
Report , formulated by the CIA and other American government agencies,
called for population control, including abortion and sterilization, in
India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and a
half-dozen other countries outside of Asia. There is a grassroots effort
in the Philippines today to overturn the policies and laws implemented
with money and influence from the US government operating under the
Kissinger Report. Yet even this was dwarfed in scale by what may be the
biggest population-control experiment in world history: China’s “one
child” policy, which is estimated to have resulted in some 336 million
abortions. Pro-life marchers in Tokyo were small in number, but
cosmopolitan in makeup. Photo: Neil Day Given the long history of
foreign interference in Asian biopolitics, it is significant that
countries throughout Asia are reforming their approaches to abortion.
From the Philippines to South Korea and beyond, a new democratic
movement is challenging the status quo and speaking up in favor of
national sovereignty. Birth rates throughout the industrialized world
continue to plummet, but if Tokyo’s March for Life is any indication,
there is a response brewing outside the halls of government that may end
up overturning nearly a century of American-led biopolitical
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(Opens in new window) Tagged: Abortion , China , Economy , Japan , One
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pro-life march and Asia’s dark history of eugenics” Vic Mason says: July
27, 2018 at 7:21 PM A book by a survivor of what transpired once Japan
surrendered:
https://www.amazon.com/Bamboo-Grove-Yoko-Kawashima-Watkins/dp/0688131158
Akira Yasui says: July 27, 2018 at 1:11 AM After the end of WW2,Russia
started invading the Kuril Islands in Japan and they raped many Japanese
women there. And quite a large number of Japanese women living in Korea
were raped by Korean men after the war. Kenji Kuwata says: July 26, 2018
at 3:16 PM
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Epoch Times, Presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump
would, if elected, veto a national abortion ban, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio)
said on Aug. 25. “If you’re not supporting it as the president of the
United States, you fundamentally have to veto it,” Vance, Trump’s
running mate, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The president can sign or
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The Republican vice presidential nominee said a Trump–Vance
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absolutely commit that, ” he said. “Donald Trump I think has staked his
position and made it very explicit,” Vance added later. “He wants this
to be a state decision, states are going to make this determination
themselves.” Trump has not said explicitly that he would veto abortion
ban legislation, but he has said that abortion restrictions should be
left up to states. “Many people have asked me what my position is on
abortion and abortion rights,” the former president said in a video on
social media earlier this year. “My view is now that we have abortion
where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will
determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both.” Trump supported the
U.S. Supreme Court in overturning its own precedent established in Roe
v. Wade, which concluded that access to abortion was a constitutional
right. The justices, including three appointed by Trump, ruled in 2022
that this conclusion was erroneous. The ruling also reversed a 1992
Supreme Court decision that had prevented states from imposing
significant restrictions on abortion before a fetus could survive
outside the womb. The ruling was “only made possible because I delivered
everything as promised, including nominating and getting three highly
respected and strong Constitutionalists confirmed to the United States
Supreme Court,” Trump wrote on his platform, Truth Social, at the time.
“It was my great honor to do so!” Vance said on NBC that Trump “wants to
end this culture war over this particular topic” and that “Trump’s view
is that we want the individual states, and their individual cultures,
and their unique political sensibilities to make these decisions because
we don’t want to have a nonstop federal conflict over this issue.”
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Donald Trump gave a special shoutout during his victory speech this week
to the billionaire who has companies that make electric cars and shoot for
the stars, Elon Musk. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) DONALD TRUMP: Do
we have a new star? A star is born - Elon. SIMON: Of course, Elon Musk is
the richest man in the world. He owns several companies that could benefit
from Trump's presidency. NPR's tech reporter Dara Kerr joins us. Dara,
thanks for being with us. DARA KERR, BYLINE: Of course. Nice to be here.
SIMON: We've seen this relationship grow right in front of our eyes. How
did it get started? KERR: Elon Musk has been a supporter of Trump for a
while. But it was really in July when things got revved up, right after
that first assassination attempt on Trump. Almost immediately, Musk posted
on his social media platform, X, I fully endorse President Trump and hope
for his rapid recovery. And that's when the bromance between the two of
them really took off. Musk started deeply fundraising for Trump and
posting more and more pro-Trump content on X. At the same time, he was
criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris. And in the last few weeks, Musk
hit the campaign trail, speaking at Trump's rallies. In all, Musk has
donated more than $100 million of his personal money to the campaign. And
this has really earned him what seems to be a very close relationship with
the president-elect. SIMON: And, in addition to the benefits of
friendship, what else could flow from this relationship? KERR: It really
boils down to all of the companies that Musk owns. Besides X, he has Tesla
and SpaceX, the rocket company. He has Starlink, which is a satellite
internet company, and even more. And many of these companies rely on
government grants and subsidies. Tesla, for example, has gotten millions
in government funding to install EV charging stations, and SpaceX has been
awarded billion-dollar contracts from NASA for missions to the moon. And
so now there's some fears that he can get more contracts or that he may
face less government scrutiny. I spoke to Gita Johar. She's a professor at
the Columbia Business School. GITA JOHAR: I think the government contracts
could be given without much oversight to Musk, whether it's for SpaceX or
whether it is for his satellite links, and that's lack of regulation, lack
of oversight, all of which will serve to benefit Musk. KERR: I should say
the Trump campaign, representatives from SpaceX and X and Musk himself did
not respond to our request for comment. Just yesterday, Trump had a call
with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and several major news
outlets have reported that Musk was also on the call, though NPR has not
independently confirmed those reports. Musk's satellite company, Starlink,
has played a big role in providing internet access to Ukraine during the
war. SIMON: And, of course, didn't Donald Trump mention that he might put
Elon Musk on some government commission? KERR: Yes. Yes, he did. This
first came up in August when Musk interviewed Trump during a livestream
conversation on X. Musk told Trump that he should create a, quote,
"government efficiency commission." Shortly after that, Trump announced
that he would create the commission and put Musk in charge, which is
something that experts are saying could create a conflict of interest
because Musk could have some sort of influence over the agencies that are
tasked with policing his companies. And a lot of Musk's companies are
under some of federal investigation. We're talking inquiries by the
Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the
Environmental Protection Agency and so on. And with this, quote-unquote,
"efficiency commission," both Musk and Trump have said they want to slash
federal budgets. At rallies, Trump has hailed Musk as the, quote,
"secretary of cost cutting," and Musk has said he wants to cut $2 trillion
from the federal budget. That's nearly a third of the budget. SIMON:
Something that has puzzled me, because of course, Elon Musk has a huge
investment in electric vehicles... KERR: Right. SIMON: ...Donald Trump
used to hate EVs, didn't he? KERR: Yes, yes. But now he really seems to be
on board with them. And Trump has been giving Tesla real shoutouts in his
rallies. In August, Trump said that he was all in for electric cars. And
then he said, quote, "I have to be, you know, because Elon endorsed me
very strongly." So, Scott, it's really hard to tell what's going to happen
come January. But there's no doubt that we are going to keep hearing about
this very public relationship between the president of the United States
and the world's richest man. SIMON: NPR's Dara Kerr, thanks so much. KERR:
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stayed the trial and gave him until Oct. 28 to close the deal,
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just as the West controversy emerged. Twitter locked the rapper’s
account for a violation of the social media platform’s policies after he
tweeted Saturday that he was going “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.” “I’m
a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH
PEOPLE,” said West, also known as Ye. “The funny thing is I actually
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guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes
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show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten
or influence me.” West, who hadn’t used Twitter for years, turned to the
platform to complain. Musk responded, tweeting, “Welcome back to
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government wants to play god. It wants the power to decide who lives or
dies and whose rights are worthy of protection. Abortion may still be
front and center in the power struggle between the Left and the Right
over who has the right to decide—the government or the individual—when
it comes to bodily autonomy, the right to privacy, sexual freedom, the
rights of the unborn, and property interests in one’s body, but there’s
so much more at play. In the 50-plus years since the U.S. Supreme Court
issued its landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade , the government has come to
believe that it not only has the power to determine who is deserving of
constitutional rights in the eyes of the law but it also has the
authority to deny those rights to an American citizen. This is how the
abortion debate has played into the police state’s hands: by laying the
groundwork for discussions about who else may or may not be deserving of
rights. Despite the Supreme Court having overturned its earlier rulings
recognizing abortion as a constitutional right under the Fourteenth
Amendment, the government continues to play fast and loose with the
lives of the citizenry all along the spectrum of life. Take a good, hard
look at the many ways in which Americans are being denied their rights
under the Constitution. American families who have their dogs shot,
their homes trashed and their children terrorized or, worse, killed by
errant SWAT team raids in the middle of the night are being denied their
rights under the Constitution. Disabled individuals who are being strip
searched, handcuffed, arrested and “diagnosed” by police as dangerous or
mentally unstable merely because they stutter and walk unevenly are
being denied their rights under the Constitution. School-aged children
as young as 4-years-old who are leg shackled, handcuffed and strip
searched for violating school zero tolerance policies by chewing a Pop
Tart into the shape of a gun and playing an imaginary game of cops and
robbers, or engaging in childish behavior such as crying or jumping are
being denied their rights under the Constitution. Unarmed citizens who
are tasered or shot by police for daring to hesitate, stutter, move a
muscle, flee or disagree in any way with a police order are being denied
their rights under the Constitution. Likewise, Americans—young and old
alike—who are shot by police because they pointed a garden hose at a
police officer, reached for their registration in their glove box,
relied upon a cane to steady themselves, or were seen playing with air
rifles or BB guns are being denied their rights under the Constitution.
Female motorists who are unlucky enough to be pulled over for a
questionable traffic infraction only to be subjected by police to cavity
searches by the side of the road are being denied their rights under the
Constitution. Male pedestrians and motorists alike who are being
subjected to roadside strip searches and rectal probes by police based
largely on the color of their skin are being denied their rights under
the Constitution. American citizens subjected to government surveillance
whereby their phone calls are being listened in on , their mail and text
messages read, their movements tracked and their transactions monitored
are being denied their rights under the Constitution. Homeowners who are
being fined and arrested for raising chickens in their backyard,
allowing the grass in their front yards to grow too long , and holding
Bible studies in their homes are being denied their rights under the
Constitution. Decorated military veterans who are being arrested for
criticizing the government on social media such as Facebook are being
denied their rights under the Constitution. Homeless individuals who are
being harassed, arrested and run out of towns by laws that criminalize
homelessness are being denied their rights under the Constitution.
Individuals whose DNA has been forcibly collected and entered into
federal and state law enforcement databases whether or not they have
been convicted of any crime are being denied their rights under the
Constitution. Drivers whose license plates are being scanned, uploaded
to a police database and used to map their movements , whether or not
they are suspected of any crime, are being denied their rights under the
Constitution. The same goes for drivers who are being ticketed for
running afoul of red light cameras without any real opportunity to
defend themselves against such a charge are being denied their rights
under the Constitution. Protesters and activists who are being labeled
domestic terrorists and extremists and accused of hate crimes for
speaking freely are being denied their rights under the Constitution.
Likewise, American citizens who being targeted for assassination by
drone strikes abroad without having been charged, tried and convicted of
treason are being denied their rights under the Constitution.
Hard-working Americans whose bank accounts, homes, cars electronics and
cash are seized by police (operating according to asset forfeiture
schemes that provide profit incentives for highway robbery) are being
denied their rights under the Constitution. So, what is the common
denominator here? These are all American citizens — endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights , rights that no person or
government can take away from them, among these the right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness—and they are all being oppressed in
one way or another by a government that has grown drunk on power, money
and its own authority. If the government—be it the President, Congress,
the courts or any federal, state or local agent or agency—can decide
that any person has no rights, then that person becomes less than a
citizen, less than human, less than deserving of respect, dignity,
civility and bodily integrity. He or she becomes an “it,” a faceless
number that can be tallied and tracked, a quantifiable mass of cells
that can be discarded without conscience, an expendable cost that can be
written off without a second thought, or an animal that can be bought,
sold, branded, chained, caged, bred, neutered and euthanized at will.
It’s a slippery slope that justifies all manner of violations in the
name of national security, the interest of the state and the so-called
greater good. Yet those who founded this country believed that what we
conceive of as our rights were given to us by God—we are created equal,
according to the nation’s founding document, the Declaration of
Independence—and that government cannot create, nor can it extinguish
our God-given rights. To do so would be to anoint the government with
god-like powers and elevate it above the citizenry. Unfortunately, we
have been dancing with this particular devil for quite some time now. If
we continue to wait for the government to restore our freedoms, respect
our rights, rein in its abuses and restrain its agents from riding
roughshod over our lives, our liberty and our happiness, then we will be
waiting forever. The highly politicized tug-of-war over abortion will
not resolve the problem of a culture that values life based on a sliding
scale. Nor will it help us navigate the moral, ethical and scientific
minefields that await us as technology and humanity move ever closer to
a point of singularity. Humanity is being propelled at warp speed into a
whole new frontier when it comes to privacy, bodily autonomy, and what
it means to be a human being. As such, we haven’t even begun to wrap our
heads around how present-day legal debates over bodily autonomy,
privacy, vaccine mandates, the death penalty, and abortion play into
future discussions about singularity, artificial intelligence, cloning,
and the privacy rights of the individual in the face of increasingly
invasive, intrusive and unavoidable government technologies. Yet here is
what I know. Life is an inalienable right. By allowing the government to
decide who or what is deserving of rights, it shifts the entire
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during a pre-election interview on billionaire Elon Musk’s social
platform X, President-elect Donald Trump is launching the new Department
of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in his second administration. Musk and
former Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will co-chair the effort,
which aims to reduce government spending and reform, or remove, entire
federal agencies. The pair is tasked with cutting the federal
government’s roughly $6.75 trillion spending in 2024 and hacking through
a labyrinth of executive branch regulations. “Together, these two
wonderful Americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle
government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful
expenditures, and restructure federal agencies,” Trump wrote in a
statement . “It will become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our
time. Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of ‘DOGE’
for a very long time.” But accomplishing that effort is not only
difficult , but the exact path forward remains unclear, experts told The
Epoch Times. Related Story Ramaswamy Pledges ‘Massive’ Federal
Downsizing in DOGE Role 11/13/2024 Trump said DOGE would serve in an
advisory capacity to the White House and the U.S. Office of Management
and Budget (OMB), may encounter roadblocks in its efforts to “drive
large-scale structural reform.” Despite it carrying the “department”
title in its name, DOGE is not a federal agency like the Department of
Education, or the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which audits
the federal government for Congress. “Trump has made clear that DOGE is
an advisory board operating outside the federal government. Thus, unlike
federal agencies, it does not need to be formally enacted through an act
of Congress,” Jordan Haring , the director of fiscal policy at the
American Action Forum, told The Epoch Times. With DOGE, Musk and
Ramaswamy want to cut roughly $2 trillion from the federal budget,
amounting to 30 percent of annual government spending. Musk plans to use
artificial intelligence and crowd-sourcing to find waste , abuse, and
fraud in the federal government’s expenditures. That could include
“deleting outright” certain federal agencies, as Ramaswamy said in a
recent interview. In 2023, federal agencies self-reported roughly $236
billion in improper payments that either shouldn’t have been issued,
were made in the incorrect amount, or did not have proper supporting
documentation, according to the GAO. RealClear Investigations found that
the federal government had mistakenly paid $1.3 billion to dead people
in fiscal year 2023 alone, citing data from the OMB. But DOGE may face
headwinds with some of its more ambitious spending-cut plans, as
reducing key portions of the federal budget could draw ire from both
sides of the political aisle. Social Security was a significant chunk—21
percent, or $1.4 trillion —of the annual federal budget in 2023,
according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Trump promised
this year that he would not consider any changes or reforms to
entitlement programs and even suggested no more taxes on benefits, which
could cost the government even more. Spending on health insurance
programs like Medicare and the Affordable Care Act accounted for 24
percent of the federal budget in 2023. DOGE can also target federal
regulations , as both Trump and Musk indicated on the campaign trail.
“By all measures, the government regulatory apparatus has been growing
for decades, regardless of the party in office, and the last four years
have been especially active,” wrote Susan E. Dudley, the founder and
senior scholar of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies
Center. President Joe Biden alone has presided over a vast regulatory
agenda that has cost roughly $1.8 trillion in the past four years,
according to the center-right advocacy group, American Action Forum.
Other economic experts are less enthusiastic about Musk’s role at the
forefront of the project, which would give the tech CEO and billionaire
considerable influence on the same federal government that issues
critical contracts and subsidies to his companies, SpaceX and Tesla.
“Handing the keys of government to those looking to profit from our
government is extremely dangerous and a massive conflict of interest,”
Zach Moller, the economic program director at Third Way, a center-left
think tank, wrote in a statement . Moller fears that DOGE would lead to
“more waste … and rampant abuse of political power.” Fraud in federal
spending is an important issue , and much can be accomplished by going
after those who bilk federal agencies, Moller said. “But let’s put
someone in charge who is qualified and doesn’t have a personal financial
stake in the outcome. We wouldn’t put a director of a government agency
at the head of Tesla. Let’s not make a similar mistake here,” he added.
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state’s Supreme Court to cease counting ballots with missing or
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4:50 PM EDT, Fri April 8, 2022 Link Copied! Sen. Shay Shelnutt, seated at
center, listening to debate on transgender bills in the senate chamber at
the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama, on Thursday April 7, 2022.
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Republican-controlled legislature passed two bills on the last day of the
session targeting transgender children, including one which makes it a
felony for a doctor to administer gender-affirming health care to minors.
Another bill, which requires K-12 students to use bathrooms designated for
their biological sex, included a last-hour amendment Thursday critics have
compared to similar legislation in Florida dubbed the “Don’t Say
Gay” law. It would ban classroom discussions about sexual orientation
and gender identity in elementary schools. The state’s House of
Representatives also approved SB 184, which would make it a class C felony
for medical professionals to provide gender-affirming care – such as
hormone therapy, puberty blockers and gender-reassignment surgery – to
people 18 and younger. Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed the bills into law
Friday. “There are very real challenges facing our young people,
especially with today’s societal pressures and modern culture. I believe
very strongly that if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if
he made you a girl, you are a girl. We should especially protect our
children from these radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries when they
are at such a vulnerable stage in life. Instead, let us all focus on
helping them to properly develop into the adults God intended them to
be,” she said, according to a statement from her press office. Senate
Bill 184 states medical professionals who provide gender-affirming care
could face up to 10 years in prison. “The decision to pursue a course of
hormonal and surgical interventions to address a discordance between the
individual’s sex and sense of identity should not be presented to or
determined for minors who are incapable of comprehending the negative
implications and life-course difficulties attending to these
interventions,” the bill reads. from Gov. Ron DeSantis/Twitter Related
article Book bans move to center stage in the red-state education wars The
legislation would also make it a violation for public or private school
officials, such as teachers, principals, nurses and counselors to
encourage a minor to withhold from their parent or guardian “the fact
that the minor’s perception of his or her gender or sex is inconsistent
with the minor’s sex.” The bill, dubbed the Alabama Vulnerable Child
Compassion and Protection Act, passed the Republican-controlled House
following a 66-28 vote, according to the state legislature’s website.
The GOP-led Senate passed the bill 24-6 in February, and it will become
law 30 days after the governor’s signature. Alabama would be the latest
state to enact such a measure. Last year, Republican lawmakers in Arkansas
overrode a veto from their governor to put their own health care ban on
the books, and Tennessee and Arizona have passed similar bans . The
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued Arkansas over its ban last
year, and in July, a federal judge temporarily blocked the state from
enforcing the law. The ACLU, the ACLU of Alabama and other legal advocacy
groups announced plans to file a legal challenge to the bill. “Our
representatives have been hearing from medical experts, parents,
transgender youth, and other advocates for the past three years in an
attempt to stop this harmful bill from passing. But despite this strong
opposition, the Legislature seems determined to move ahead with this
shameful effort to prevent parents and kids from deciding the best course
of treatment for themselves,” said Kaitlin Welborn, staff attorney for
the ACLU of Alabama. “If the state moves forward in passing this
unconstitutional bill, we’ll see them in court.” Transgender students
bathroom bill passed Later, the legislature passed a bill requiring K-12
students to use bathrooms designated for their biological sex. House Bill
322 also includes a late amendment banning classroom discussions or
instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary
schools. LOUISVILLE, KY - APRIL 09: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks at
the Center for African American Heritage during a bill signing event on
April 9, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. One of the bills signed into effect
was SB4, which places more restrictions on no-knock raids and limits
police departments power to use them. This bill comes as a response to the
killing of Breonna Taylor during the execution of a no-knock warrant on
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ban An original version of the bill sought “to require public K-12
schools to designate the use of rooms where students may be in various
stages of undress upon the basis of biological sex.” Just before the
final vote Thursday afternoon, Republican state Sen. Shay Shelnutt
introduced an amendment to “prohibit classroom instruction or discussion
on sexual orientation or gender identity for students in kindergarten
through the fifth grade.” Shelnutt’s amendment also declares schools
should not “engage in classroom discussion or provide classroom
instruction regarding sexual orientation or gender identity in a manner
that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in
accordance with state standards.” The bill, including Shelnutt’s
amendment, passed the state Senate in a 26-5 vote. After the bill was sent
back to the House for a concurrence vote, the amendment was adopted
Thursday night following a 70-26 vote. The bill now heads to Ivey for
final approval, according to Julie Saint, supervisor for enrolling and
engrossing for the Alabama House of Representatives. Opponents of the
measure condemned its passage, with the ACLU of Alabama saying, “It also
invokes legislation similar to Florida’s controversial ‘Don’t Say
Gay’ bill by banning classroom instruction or discussion of gender
identity in public elementary schools.” The legislation violates the US
Constitution and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, the ACLU said. The
Human Rights Campaign issued a statement Thursday night, “transgender
students will bear the cost of the discrimination – discrimination which
already causes transgender youth to feel unsafe in school, suffer
academically, and have a higher likelihood of dropping out of school.”
The governor said signing the bill was a “no-brainer.” “Let me be
clear to the media and opponents who like to incorrectly dub this the
“Don’t Say Gay” amendment: That is misleading, false and just plain
wrong,” Ivery said. “We don’t need to be teaching young children
about sex. We are talking about five-year-olds for crying out loud. We
need to focus on what matters: core instruction like reading and math.”
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X following President-elect Donald Trump’s dominant victory. On
Wednesday one of the largest outlets in the world abruptly stopped
posting, writing that the “toxic” platform necessitated its exit. The
BBC reported that the Guardian, the U.K. paper of record, announced it
would no longer participate in a “toxic media platform” owned by Elon
Musk, a Trump supporter who on Tuesday was tapped to co-lead a new U.S.
Department of Government Efficiency. In a statement, the mainstream news
outlet said Trump’s win “underlined” its concern that Musk unfairly used
X to “shape political discourse.” (VOTE: Should ’60 Minutes’ Be
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the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that
resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere,” the
paper wrote in a message to readers on Wednesday. “This is something we
have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content
promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy
theories and racism. The US presidential election campaign served only
to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic
media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its
influence to shape political discourse.” The navel-gazing editorial team
took a final shot at Musk and the prominent social media platform before
making a plea for donations. “Social media can be an important tool for
news organisations and help us to reach new audiences but, at this
point, X now plays a diminished role in promoting our work. Our
journalism is available and open to all on our website and we would
prefer people to come to theguardian.com and support our work there.”
“Thankfully, we can do this because our business model does not rely on
viral content tailored to the whims of the social media giants’
algorithms – instead we’re funded directly by our readers. You can
support the Guardian today from just £1/$1.” News of the Guardian’s exit
should come as no surprise given the animosity between Musk and
mainstream media outlets in recent years. In 2023 he slapped NPR and the
BBC with “state-sponsored media” disclaimers typically reserved for
outlets controlled by authoritarian regimes in places like Russia or
North Korea. In response, NPR rage-quit X. Allegations of conservative
biases on X come after conservatives have long complained of liberal
coverage by outlets like NPR. During the onset of Covid-19 in April
2020, NPR ran back-to-back pieces dismissing the theory that the virus
escaped a Wuhan epidemiology lab as being on “thin ice” with “virtually
no chance” such a scenario could occur. No correction was attached to
either story since earlier this year when U.S. officials designated a
lab leak as the most likely culprit. “Seems accurate,” Musk wrote at the
time and included a definition of state-sponsored media which he said
applies to NPR. This time around, he may be too busy to clap back at the
Guardian; his heavy investment in President-elect Trump paid off, and
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revelation that he reached out to Kanye West after the rapper’s
anti-Semitic tweets. “Talked to ye today & expressed my concerns about
his recent tweet, which I think he took to heart,” Musk wrote in a tweet
Monday night. The Tesla founder, who is negotiating final details of his
$44 billion purchase of Twitter, has already sent loud signals about his
concerns about how speech is controlled on the platform. It is widely
expected that former President Donald Trump and others who have been
banned by the social media platform will be welcomed back. The West
affair takes Musk’s position to a different level, given the backlash
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buy the platform in April. But he walked away in July, Twitter sued and
attention was then riveted by the legal drama, including a
whistleblower, as the two sides sparred over texts, Slack messages and
general discovery. Musk, who was staring down a deposition and possibly
facing tough odds in a trial set for Oct. 17, renewed his $44 billion
offer last week pending financing. A Delaware Chancery Court Judge
stayed the trial and gave him until Oct. 28 to close the deal,
refocusing attention on the real life impact of a Musk-owned Twitter
just as the West controversy emerged. Twitter locked the rapper’s
account for a violation of the social media platform’s policies after he
tweeted Saturday that he was going “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.” “I’m
a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH
PEOPLE,” said West, also known as Ye. “The funny thing is I actually
can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You
guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes
your agenda.” The Twitter ban followed restrictions on West’s Instagram
account by Mark Zuckerberg owned-Meta after West shared a screenshot of
a text exchange with Sean “Diddy” Combs. He accused Combs of being
controlled by Jewish people, saying he would use Combs as an “example to
show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten
or influence me.” West, who hadn’t used Twitter for years, turned to the
platform to complain. Musk responded, tweeting, “Welcome back to
Twitter, my friend!” Yesterday, he followed up with the tweet saying
that he’d expressed concerns to West. Talked to ye today & expressed my
concerns about his recent tweet, which I think he took to heart — Elon
Musk (@elonmusk) October 11, 2022 In a statement last week as the
Musk-Twitter merger came back into focus, women’s group UltraViolet
warned: “Get ready. Elon Musk is about to rip open Pandora’s box and
flood the internet once again with hate, misogyny, racism and conspiracy
theories.” “If this deal goes through, Twitter will become an even more
dangerous place for women, threats of violence online against Black
women and women of color will skyrocket, and anti-trans content will
take hold of user feeds. Donald Trump will be replatformed and he will
use his account to spread conspiracy theories and promote political
violence,” it said. Nonprofit Media Matters called Twitter’s sale to
Musk “the end of the company as we know it, and the beginning of a more
toxic platform with incredible potential for real-world harm.” The
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pipeline_tag: sentence-similarity
library_name: sentence-transformers
metrics:
- pearson_cosine
- spearman_cosine
model-index:
- name: SentenceTransformer based on sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2
results:
- task:
type: semantic-similarity
name: Semantic Similarity
dataset:
name: Unknown
type: unknown
metrics:
- type: pearson_cosine
value: 0.9799696092976358
name: Pearson Cosine
- type: spearman_cosine
value: 0.8249423833511556
name: Spearman Cosine
SentenceTransformer based on sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2
This is a sentence-transformers model finetuned from sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2. It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768-dimensional dense vector space and can be used for semantic textual similarity, semantic search, paraphrase mining, text classification, clustering, and more.
Model Details
Model Description
- Model Type: Sentence Transformer
- Base model: sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2
- Maximum Sequence Length: 384 tokens
- Output Dimensionality: 768 dimensions
- Similarity Function: Cosine Similarity
Model Sources
- Documentation: Sentence Transformers Documentation
- Repository: Sentence Transformers on GitHub
- Hugging Face: Sentence Transformers on Hugging Face
Full Model Architecture
SentenceTransformer(
(0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 384, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: MPNetModel
(1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 768, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_weightedmean_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_lasttoken': False, 'include_prompt': True})
(2): Normalize()
)
Usage
Direct Usage (Sentence Transformers)
First install the Sentence Transformers library:
pip install -U sentence-transformers
Then you can load this model and run inference.
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
# Download from the 🤗 Hub
model = SentenceTransformer("ashwinpatti/all-mpnet-base-v2_political_view_ft-legal-ft-v0")
# Run inference
sentences = [
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Sen. Shay Shelnutt, seated at center, listening to debate on transgender bills in the senate chamber at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama, on Thursday April 7, 2022. Mickey Welsh/USA TODAY NETWORK/Reuters CNN — Alabama‚Äôs Republican-controlled legislature passed two bills on the last day of the session targeting transgender children, including one which makes it a felony for a doctor to administer gender-affirming health care to minors. Another bill, which requires K-12 students to use bathrooms designated for their biological sex, included a last-hour amendment Thursday critics have compared to similar legislation in Florida dubbed the ‚ÄúDon‚Äôt Say Gay‚Äù law. It would ban classroom discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary schools. The state‚Äôs House of Representatives also approved SB 184, which would make it a class C felony for medical professionals to provide gender-affirming care ‚Äì such as hormone therapy, puberty blockers and gender-reassignment surgery ‚Äì to people 18 and younger. Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed the bills into law Friday. ‚ÄúThere are very real challenges facing our young people, especially with today‚Äôs societal pressures and modern culture. I believe very strongly that if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl. We should especially protect our children from these radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries when they are at such a vulnerable stage in life. Instead, let us all focus on helping them to properly develop into the adults God intended them to be,‚Äù she said, according to a statement from her press office. Senate Bill 184 states medical professionals who provide gender-affirming care could face up to 10 years in prison. ‚ÄúThe decision to pursue a course of hormonal and surgical interventions to address a discordance between the individual‚Äôs sex and sense of identity should not be presented to or determined for minors who are incapable of comprehending the negative implications and life-course difficulties attending to these interventions,‚Äù the bill reads. from Gov. Ron DeSantis/Twitter Related article Book bans move to center stage in the red-state education wars The legislation would also make it a violation for public or private school officials, such as teachers, principals, nurses and counselors to encourage a minor to withhold from their parent or guardian ‚Äúthe fact that the minor‚Äôs perception of his or her gender or sex is inconsistent with the minor‚Äôs sex.‚Äù The bill, dubbed the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, passed the Republican-controlled House following a 66-28 vote, according to the state legislature‚Äôs website. The GOP-led Senate passed the bill 24-6 in February, and it will become law 30 days after the governor‚Äôs signature. Alabama would be the latest state to enact such a measure. Last year, Republican lawmakers in Arkansas overrode a veto from their governor to put their own health care ban on the books, and Tennessee and Arizona have passed similar bans . The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued Arkansas over its ban last year, and in July, a federal judge temporarily blocked the state from enforcing the law. The ACLU, the ACLU of Alabama and other legal advocacy groups announced plans to file a legal challenge to the bill. ‚ÄúOur representatives have been hearing from medical experts, parents, transgender youth, and other advocates for the past three years in an attempt to stop this harmful bill from passing. But despite this strong opposition, the Legislature seems determined to move ahead with this shameful effort to prevent parents and kids from deciding the best course of treatment for themselves,‚Äù said Kaitlin Welborn, staff attorney for the ACLU of Alabama. ‚ÄúIf the state moves forward in passing this unconstitutional bill, we‚Äôll see them in court.‚Äù Transgender students bathroom bill passed Later, the legislature passed a bill requiring K-12 students to use bathrooms designated for their biological sex. House Bill 322 also includes a late amendment banning classroom discussions or instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary schools. LOUISVILLE, KY - APRIL 09: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks at the Center for African American Heritage during a bill signing event on April 9, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. One of the bills signed into effect was SB4, which places more restrictions on no-knock raids and limits police departments power to use them. This bill comes as a response to the killing of Breonna Taylor during the execution of a no-knock warrant on March 13, 2020. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images) Jon Cherry/Getty Images Related article Kentucky's Democratic governor vetoes anti-trans sports ban An original version of the bill sought ‚Äúto require public K-12 schools to designate the use of rooms where students may be in various stages of undress upon the basis of biological sex.‚Äù Just before the final vote Thursday afternoon, Republican state Sen. Shay Shelnutt introduced an amendment to ‚Äúprohibit classroom instruction or discussion on sexual orientation or gender identity for students in kindergarten through the fifth grade.‚Äù Shelnutt‚Äôs amendment also declares schools should not ‚Äúengage in classroom discussion or provide classroom instruction regarding sexual orientation or gender identity in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.‚Äù The bill, including Shelnutt‚Äôs amendment, passed the state Senate in a 26-5 vote. After the bill was sent back to the House for a concurrence vote, the amendment was adopted Thursday night following a 70-26 vote. The bill now heads to Ivey for final approval, according to Julie Saint, supervisor for enrolling and engrossing for the Alabama House of Representatives. Opponents of the measure condemned its passage, with the ACLU of Alabama saying, ‚ÄúIt also invokes legislation similar to Florida‚Äôs controversial ‚ÄòDon‚Äôt Say Gay‚Äô bill by banning classroom instruction or discussion of gender identity in public elementary schools.‚Äù The legislation violates the US Constitution and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, the ACLU said. The Human Rights Campaign issued a statement Thursday night, ‚Äútransgender students will bear the cost of the discrimination ‚Äì discrimination which already causes transgender youth to feel unsafe in school, suffer academically, and have a higher likelihood of dropping out of school.‚Äù The governor said signing the bill was a ‚Äúno-brainer.‚Äù ‚ÄúLet me be clear to the media and opponents who like to incorrectly dub this the ‚ÄúDon‚Äôt Say Gay‚Äù amendment: That is misleading, false and just plain wrong,‚Äù Ivery said. ‚ÄúWe don‚Äôt need to be teaching young children about sex. 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]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings.shape)
# [3, 768]
# Get the similarity scores for the embeddings
similarities = model.similarity(embeddings, embeddings)
print(similarities.shape)
# [3, 3]
Evaluation
Metrics
Semantic Similarity
- Evaluated with
EmbeddingSimilarityEvaluator
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| pearson_cosine | 0.98 |
| spearman_cosine | 0.8249 |
Training Details
Training Dataset
Unnamed Dataset
- Size: 4,278 training samples
- Columns:
sentence_0,sentence_1, andlabel - Approximate statistics based on the first 1000 samples:
sentence_0 sentence_1 label type string string float details - min: 64 tokens
- mean: 383.36 tokens
- max: 384 tokens
- min: 64 tokens
- mean: 378.24 tokens
- max: 384 tokens
- min: 0.0
- mean: 0.36
- max: 1.0
- Samples:
sentence_0 sentence_1 label Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024? 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ContrastiveLosswith these parameters:{ "distance_metric": "SiameseDistanceMetric.COSINE_DISTANCE", "margin": 0.5, "size_average": true }
Training Hyperparameters
Non-Default Hyperparameters
eval_strategy: stepsper_device_train_batch_size: 16per_device_eval_batch_size: 16num_train_epochs: 5multi_dataset_batch_sampler: round_robin
All Hyperparameters
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overwrite_output_dir: Falsedo_predict: Falseeval_strategy: stepsprediction_loss_only: Trueper_device_train_batch_size: 16per_device_eval_batch_size: 16per_gpu_train_batch_size: Noneper_gpu_eval_batch_size: Nonegradient_accumulation_steps: 1eval_accumulation_steps: Nonetorch_empty_cache_steps: Nonelearning_rate: 5e-05weight_decay: 0.0adam_beta1: 0.9adam_beta2: 0.999adam_epsilon: 1e-08max_grad_norm: 1num_train_epochs: 5max_steps: -1lr_scheduler_type: linearlr_scheduler_kwargs: {}warmup_ratio: 0.0warmup_steps: 0log_level: passivelog_level_replica: warninglog_on_each_node: Truelogging_nan_inf_filter: Truesave_safetensors: Truesave_on_each_node: Falsesave_only_model: Falserestore_callback_states_from_checkpoint: Falseno_cuda: Falseuse_cpu: Falseuse_mps_device: Falseseed: 42data_seed: Nonejit_mode_eval: Falseuse_ipex: Falsebf16: Falsefp16: Falsefp16_opt_level: O1half_precision_backend: autobf16_full_eval: Falsefp16_full_eval: Falsetf32: Nonelocal_rank: 0ddp_backend: Nonetpu_num_cores: Nonetpu_metrics_debug: Falsedebug: []dataloader_drop_last: Falsedataloader_num_workers: 0dataloader_prefetch_factor: Nonepast_index: -1disable_tqdm: Falseremove_unused_columns: Truelabel_names: Noneload_best_model_at_end: Falseignore_data_skip: Falsefsdp: []fsdp_min_num_params: 0fsdp_config: {'min_num_params': 0, 'xla': False, 'xla_fsdp_v2': False, 'xla_fsdp_grad_ckpt': False}fsdp_transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: Noneaccelerator_config: {'split_batches': False, 'dispatch_batches': None, 'even_batches': True, 'use_seedable_sampler': True, 'non_blocking': False, 'gradient_accumulation_kwargs': None}deepspeed: Nonelabel_smoothing_factor: 0.0optim: adamw_torchoptim_args: Noneadafactor: Falsegroup_by_length: Falselength_column_name: lengthddp_find_unused_parameters: Noneddp_bucket_cap_mb: Noneddp_broadcast_buffers: Falsedataloader_pin_memory: Truedataloader_persistent_workers: Falseskip_memory_metrics: Trueuse_legacy_prediction_loop: Falsepush_to_hub: Falseresume_from_checkpoint: Nonehub_model_id: Nonehub_strategy: every_savehub_private_repo: Nonehub_always_push: Falsegradient_checkpointing: Falsegradient_checkpointing_kwargs: Noneinclude_inputs_for_metrics: Falseinclude_for_metrics: []eval_do_concat_batches: Truefp16_backend: autopush_to_hub_model_id: Nonepush_to_hub_organization: Nonemp_parameters:auto_find_batch_size: Falsefull_determinism: Falsetorchdynamo: Noneray_scope: lastddp_timeout: 1800torch_compile: Falsetorch_compile_backend: Nonetorch_compile_mode: Nonedispatch_batches: Nonesplit_batches: Noneinclude_tokens_per_second: Falseinclude_num_input_tokens_seen: Falseneftune_noise_alpha: Noneoptim_target_modules: Nonebatch_eval_metrics: Falseeval_on_start: Falseuse_liger_kernel: Falseeval_use_gather_object: Falseaverage_tokens_across_devices: Falseprompts: Nonebatch_sampler: batch_samplermulti_dataset_batch_sampler: round_robin
Training Logs
| Epoch | Step | Training Loss | spearman_cosine |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1866 | 50 | - | 0.2289 |
| 0.3731 | 100 | - | 0.6570 |
| 0.5597 | 150 | - | 0.8249 |
| 0.7463 | 200 | - | 0.8249 |
| 0.9328 | 250 | - | 0.8249 |
| 1.0 | 268 | - | 0.8249 |
| 1.1194 | 300 | - | 0.8249 |
| 1.3060 | 350 | - | 0.8249 |
| 1.4925 | 400 | - | 0.8249 |
| 1.6791 | 450 | - | 0.8249 |
| 1.8657 | 500 | 0.0056 | 0.8249 |
| 2.0 | 536 | - | 0.8249 |
| 2.0522 | 550 | - | 0.8246 |
| 2.2388 | 600 | - | 0.8249 |
| 2.4254 | 650 | - | 0.8249 |
| 2.6119 | 700 | - | 0.8249 |
| 2.7985 | 750 | - | 0.8249 |
| 2.9851 | 800 | - | 0.8249 |
| 3.0 | 804 | - | 0.8249 |
| 3.1716 | 850 | - | 0.8249 |
| 3.3582 | 900 | - | 0.8249 |
| 3.5448 | 950 | - | 0.8249 |
| 3.7313 | 1000 | 0.0 | 0.8249 |
| 3.9179 | 1050 | - | 0.8249 |
| 4.0 | 1072 | - | 0.8249 |
| 4.1045 | 1100 | - | 0.8249 |
| 4.2910 | 1150 | - | 0.8249 |
| 4.4776 | 1200 | - | 0.8249 |
| 4.6642 | 1250 | - | 0.8249 |
| 4.8507 | 1300 | - | 0.8249 |
| 5.0 | 1340 | - | 0.8249 |
Framework Versions
- Python: 3.11.11
- Sentence Transformers: 3.4.1
- Transformers: 4.48.3
- PyTorch: 2.5.1+cu124
- Accelerate: 1.3.0
- Datasets: 2.14.5
- Tokenizers: 0.21.0
Citation
BibTeX
Sentence Transformers
@inproceedings{reimers-2019-sentence-bert,
title = "Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks",
author = "Reimers, Nils and Gurevych, Iryna",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = "11",
year = "2019",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10084",
}
ContrastiveLoss
@inproceedings{hadsell2006dimensionality,
author={Hadsell, R. and Chopra, S. and LeCun, Y.},
booktitle={2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'06)},
title={Dimensionality Reduction by Learning an Invariant Mapping},
year={2006},
volume={2},
number={},
pages={1735-1742},
doi={10.1109/CVPR.2006.100}
}