There's more money in hacking them off than helping them work?
[FoxNews] Despite the mainstream view, OB-GYN shortage not worsening due to restrictions in pro-life states.
Entrenched as I am with this generation of medical students and residents, I know many who are hesitant to become an obstetrician-gynecologist (OB-GYN). Pro-abortion news outlets, medical organizations and physicians are chalking up the shortage of OB-GYNs to the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, pretending this crisis is recent or claiming new doctors really just want to end life through abortion.
However, not only has this shortage been escalating, the political pressures on such doctors to embrace abortion or else is driving many to other specialties.
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), which facilitates the medical school admission process, has been discussing the deficit since long before states enacted post-Roe fetal protection laws. Reports from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) additionally show these concerns have been around for at least a decade as there has been a projected shortage since 2013.
A 2022 report by the March of Dimes reveals 36% of counties in the United States are considered maternity care deserts, meaning the demand for maternity care is greater than the supply of OB-GYNs. As this workforce shortage increases, HHS estimates that by 2030 there will only be a 90% supply of OB-GYNs.
Our nation’s women deserve better and to understand why this is happening.
Contrary to the mainstream narrative, the shortage is not worsening due to the restrictions in pro-life states. Students and residents who wish to pursue elective abortion have the opportunity to be educated or practice in states where fetal protection laws are not in place.
Additionally, all medically necessary techniques – including treating life-threatening conditions such as spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) and ectopic pregnancy – are taught in states where elective abortion access is limited. The American Association for Pro-Life Gynecologists and Obstetricians confirms that pro-life members of the medical field support such treatments. This aspect of education has not been affected.
Also, the study by AAMC claiming a decrease in medical school senior applicants in "abortion banned" states has no statistical analysis to demonstrate the conclusion. Their study does show, however, a substantial drop in MD senior OB-GYN applicants across all states, including those which enshrine abortion protections in their state constitutions.
Additionally, we haven’t seen any data show that school applicants have increased in more pro-abortion states with applicants decreasing in more pro-life states.
Still, why is there a decrease in the OB-GYN specialty as a whole?
I’ve found part of the lack of interest coming from concerns about the persecution of pro-life medical students and residents.
Being a current medical school applicant myself who also runs the medical student programming with Students for Life of America and Future Medical Professionals for Life, I hear stories from students regularly who would rather practice a less controversial specialty for fear of persecution or even students who have opted for another career path after completing medical school or residency.
Yet the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) states that only 14 percent of practicing OB-GYNs provide abortions in their practice. Discriminating against anyone with a moral reservation about providing abortions, when clearly most OB-GYNs do not provide them, is sure to drive away new parties interested in practicing Hippocratic medicine, to do no harm.
One thing the AAMC does get right in their analysis of the new Dobbs v. Jackson era of medical education is that legislatures do need to consider the impact of fetal protection laws on their physician workforce.
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With pro-abortion medical students and residents more likely to seek education in pro-abortion states and pro-life medical students being discouraged from entering the OB-GYN specialty altogether, pro-life states must do something to attract students back to their states. Pro-life students need to be welcomed into the medical profession.
Legislatures in pro-life states can protect their OB-GYN workforce by doubling-down on conscious protections. We need pro-life state legislatures to pass new and innovative pro-life medical education bills to provide adequate funding.
The bottom line is that pro-life medical students and residents would be more likely to stay in a desperately needed specialty if they had the assurance that they would be able to practice compassionate, life-affirming medicine from the moment they entered medical school until the moment they retire.
With the long-standing shortage of OB-GYNs well-documented over the past several years, the medical education system cannot afford to discriminate against students desiring an evidence-based, pro-life practice. Let’s not hinder those with a heart for the Hippocratic oath.
Gavin Oxley is Students for Life of America’s lead operations supervisor and medical/law coordinator, as well as the founder/CEO of Future Medical Professionals for Life.
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I believe that they are moving towards nurse practitioners for OBGYN and for abortion. California allows it.
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When the ambulance chasers started on the "defective birthing procedure" 40 years ago, OB-GYN became a specialty to avoid.
(You know, forceps and all...)
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Declining birth rates, ambulance chasing lawyers and endless red tape ...go figure.
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[RIA] If The Washington Post admits that this is a failure, then it is a failure. Its author could start the funeral of the global struggle for climate with the story of how in Sweden they encroached on the sacred: they tied Greta Thunberg and fined her so that she would not get out without asking for a demonstration to save the planet. They took a little, about 144 dollars in kroons, but who could have imagined this even a year ago? And the truth is, things are changing. However, the author of the newspaper looks more broadly, at Europe as a whole. And he says: if this whole multi-year campaign called the “green agenda” fails there, then the campaign needs to be changed.
[FoxNews] In the 1930s, the government's Heat Wave Index was four times higher
Every summer, heat waves inevitably hit the U.S. and other parts of the world, causing climate alarmists and left-leaning media outlets to demand dramatic, disastrous changes to the global energy system. Unfortunately, this summer is no different.
On Tuesday, U.S. media outlets published a wave of stories about supposedly "historic" heat waves in Europe and North America. For example, The Washington Post published an article titled "Heat waves in U.S., Europe ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, study finds."
Similarly, Axios published a story titled "Historic and enduring U.S. heat wave, by the numbers."
Although certain parts of the U.S. have undoubtedly experienced strong heat waves this summer, there’s no reason to believe these weather events are evidence that the world is hurtling toward a climate change catastrophe. In fact, the best available evidence suggests that heat waves recorded a century ago were more problematic than anything we’re seeing today.
Government researchers have been tracking heat waves for more than 100 years. According to data from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, which is made available by the Environmental Protection Agency, the annual heat wave index for the contiguous 48 states was substantially higher in the 1930s than at any point in recent years. In some years in the 1930s, it was four times greater or even more.
Additionally, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has a large database of daily temperatures that goes back to 1948. NOAA used 1,066 weather stations located across the U.S. to collect this data.
According to NOAA, huge swaths of the U.S. have experienced a significant decrease in abnormally hot days recorded since 1948, especially in the Midwest and northern and eastern Texas.
Although it’s true that some parts of the U.S. have seen the number of hotter-than-usual days increase over the past 70 years — including in California and the New York metropolitan area, both of which happen to be areas where a large number of media outlets are located — most weather stations have shown no meaningful changes or even declines.
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High Sunspot counts for the last few months over previous years. 2023 has broken a 21-year record for the highest number of sunspots, and this year is only half way through.
This almost always results in higher than normal temperatures here on Earth. Not only more heat received from the Sun, but increased magnetic flux which affects our weather patterns significantly.
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The movement of currents north and south of the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone accounts for the movement and strength of the El Nino and La Nina phases. Their movements have a direct impact on climate and have been recognized for more than a century. (In one important case it was cause for the elimination of the sardine fishing and canning industry in Peru.)
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One good thing about La Nina, if you like fresh sushi and live on the west coast, the cold waters bring the deep fish - the sushi fishes - closer to shore. La Nina = Good Sushi (west coast):
During La Niña, waters off the Pacific coast are colder and contain more nutrients than usual. This environment supports more marine life and attracts more cold-water species, like squid and salmon, to places like the California coast.
But most of life, and the best of life, happens when politicians butt out and let us make our own choices.
Did you eat a banana this morning? No central planner calculates how many bananas should be grown, who will pick them, when they'll be harvested, how they'll be shipped or how many to ship. We get bananas and most everything in life through billions of individuals, planning, cooperating and reacting on their own. Did the Soviets do bananas, I wonder?
"Think about spontaneous order on a road," says The Atlas Network's Tom Palmer.
Right. Millions of people, some of them morons, propel 4,000-pound vehicles at 60 miles per hour, right next to each other. We rarely smash into each other.
There are rules, like "pass on the left," but for the most part, people navigate highways on their own. Most morons eventually figure out how to yield in a traffic circle, without being frozen in fear. Amazingly, my town, New York City, has twice now allowed spontaneous order that makes my life much better.
City government once managed Central Park. When it did, trash was everywhere, and most of the grass was dead.
The city then agreed to let a private nonprofit, the Central Park Conservancy, manage most of the park. Without a government plan, people came together, giving money and time to turn the park around. (Disclosure: I was one of them, and now I'm a conservancy director.)
Now Central Park is beautiful. Forty million people spend time there every year. Despite the crowds, the park works well, without strict government rules.
But during Covid, something amazing happened. Politicians actually loosened the outdoor table rule. Restaurants quickly opened outdoor seating in sheds on the street.
It's great. The streets around my apartment feel safer now because at night, they are alive with people.
"We need flexibility to allow people to experiment," says Palmer.
Freedom to experiment brings the best in life.
More politicians should learn from Central Park and, amazingly, from politicians in New York City who actually let go a little.
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[Blaze] "The judge just raised the one charge that the White House most fears, which is the chance that Hunter was a foreign agent," he explained.
If Hunter Biden acted as a foreign agent under the definition set forth by FARA, that generates new and more problematic questions — potentially leading to answers that entangle President Joe Biden, Turley explained.
"The question is foreign agent for who and for what purpose? The president was that purpose. If you're influence peddling, it's influence over the president," he said.
"So if you go for FARA, it's going to bring all of this stuff in," he continued. "All of that can get boot-strapped into a FARA issue. The whole purpose of this deal is collapsing as we're watching it. And it's taken Washington by utter surprise. I was on the hill talking with members, and everyone was floored."
If we're paying for the likes of his 'intelligence', I have a nice crop of beans and peas that are probably more astute.
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How long before the good Judge receives an armed IRS investigative team at her residence at 3am to discuss a “potential problem” with, oh don't know, lets say her 2019 tax return…..
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The FARA angle doesn’t seem to match for me for the Burisma stuff. He was paid by a corporation to have his dad strong arm Ukraine. He was not working for the government of Ukraine, therefore. What he was doing with respect to taking bribes, money laundering and using Federal funds to leverage a quid pro quo are all illegal. The FARA angle on China is murkier to me as all companies there are part of the government. If working for Burisma, though, requires registration, what about Nestles etc.?
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[Federalist] A great explainer of all the outrage at Israel's judicial reform Calvinball is not a form of ’democracy.’
No constitution. No limiting principles of governance. Entrenched leftist judges who get to appoint their own successors in perpetuity. Courts that offer arbitrary, expedient, constantly evolving, sometimes contradictory rulings to block laws passed by duly-elected, center-right governments. An attorney general empowered to bar elected leaders from participating in national debates. Sounds like a progressive paradise.
This is the reality of the Israeli high court, which is likely imbued with more power than any other in the Western world. It is not always wrong. It is not always nakedly partisan. But it has power to act as a judicial dictatorship, and often does.
And after Benjamin Netanyahu’s government proposed reforming this insane system — procedural reforms that would be in place no matter who was in power — the left acted as the contemporary left always acts when it doesn’t get its way. It got hysterical. The mass protests that erupted were hardly "spontaneous," though, contrary to many reports in the establishment media. Most of the demonstrations were organized by Israel’s biggest unions and egged on by foreigners. Because a less powerful judiciary threatens the center-left’s power...
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[Business Insider] Palantir stock is set to pop in the next year as the tech firm erects an artificial intelligence "fortress" that will help it become one of the biggest players in the AI race in the coming decade, Wedbush Securities analysts wrote on Friday.
According to Wedbush's Dan Ives, Palantir is headed to $25 a share in the next 12 months. That represents a surge of 54% from Thursday's closing price of $16.15. Shares were up 5.7% at $17.07 early Friday.
The data software firm, which has been funded in part by the CIA's In-Q-Tel venture capital arm, is the "Messi" of AI, Ives said, referring to Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi.
"As we begin the 4th Industrial Revolution, Palantir is engaging in the widespread trend of various industries leveraging recent generative AI innovations to streamline operations and improve expense profiles," the Wedbush analysts wrote.
Given Palantir's wide roster of partners in both the public and private spheres, Wedbush sees the next six to 12 months as a period of significant expansion for the company as it serves the growing demand for enterprise-scale large language AI models.
"This is early innings on a sum-of-the-parts AI story just on the cusp on monetizing this massive green field AI opportunity," it predicted.
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It's kinda like the crash in numbers after the launch of 'Threads'. Who knew that Zuck had that many bots in his pocket.
But that's what has likely sustained Facebook for years.
It's the world of "let's pretend", only you don't get a tea party.
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If they impoverish some of the "real" influencers, I'm all for it.
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#1 not much different than the circulation numbers of newspapers. Dropping off stacks at hotels, dormitories, et al padding the numbers to keep ad revenue up.
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$300 bucks per month to talk with a virtual babe?
Might be for some. I sense that many, many people are getting fed up with automation, virtual reality, and and AI. There is a yearning for interactions with real sentient, human beings.
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Maybe they're also trying to con regular men, turning them (and women) into liberals.
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Some researchers used AI to "plant" memories in people. What they actually did was use AI to change some scenes in movies and people would later swear they remembered the AI movie as what they originally saw. One doesn't need AI to necessarily plant false memories in people. Back when Sarah Palin was running for VP she said, "You can see Russia from parts of Alaska". Tina Fey, portraying Sarah, said, "You can see Russia from my house". I still occasionaly get someone who believes Sarah Palin said it. Here is another example. A bit of purported dialog purportedly taken from a Tonight Show appearance by actor Lee Marvin with host Johnny Carson holds that Marvin and Bob Keeshan, the latter to become famous as long-time children's television host Captain Kangaroo, were World War II veterans who fought together at the battle for Iwo Jima in the Pacific theater. That account does have some elements of truth to it, but although actor Lee Marvin was a guest on that late-night talk show at least seven times during Carson's tenure as host, most of what is included in that account is outright fiction or a transcript based on someone's badly flawed memory:
Dialog from a Tonight Show ... Johnny Carson ... His guest was Lee Marvin.
Johnny said ... "Lee, I'll bet a lot of people are unaware that you were a Marine in the initial landing at Iwo Jima ... and that during the course of that action you earned the Navy Cross and were severely wounded."
And you know how Lee was ... "Yeah, yeah ... I got shot square in the ass and they gave me the Cross for securing a hot spot about halfway up Suribachi. Bad thing about getting shot up on a mountain is guys gettin' shot hauling you down. But Johnny at Iwo I served under the bravest man I ever knew ... We both got the Cross the same day but what he did for his Cross made mine look cheap in comparison. The dumb bastard actually stood up on Red Beach and directed his troops to move forward and get the hell off the beach. That Sgt. and I have been life long friends ... When they brought me off Suribachi we passed the Sgt. and he lit a smoke and passed it to me lying on my belly on the litter ... "Where'd they get you Lee?".... "Well Bob ... if you make it home before me, tell Mom to sell the outhouse."
"Johnny, I'm not lying ... Sgt. Keeshan was the bravest man I ever Knew — Bob Keeshan ... You and the world know him as Captain Kangaroo." Lee Marvin was wounded on Saipan and sent back to the U.S. Bob Keeshan, later famous as television's "Captain Kangaroo," also enlisted in the U.S. Marines, but he did so too late to see any action during World War II. Keeshan was born on 27 June 1927 and enlisted two weeks before his 18th birthday, several months after the fighting at Iwo Jima. In a 1997 interview, Keeshan explained that he "enlisted in the U.S. Marines but saw no combat" because he signed up "just before we dropped the atom bomb." I have since been told by several people they saw that episode of Johnny Carson. It's complete fiction that people believe because they saw Lee Marvin on Johnny Carson and superimposed the fake account on their memories. Some people are very easy to manipulate.
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I am not that desperate.
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Me either.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Amazingly, my town, New York City, has twice now allowed spontaneous order that makes my life much better.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
