Anonymous ID: d89003 Feb. 8, 2019, 10:40 a.m. No.5081214   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1357 >>1558 >>1570 >>1579 >>1763 >>1867

The Latest: Border Officer Shoots Driver at Arizona Crossing

 

A federal officer stationed at an Arizona border crossing shot a driver who refused to stop and allegedly tried to run down the officer on the way into Mexico, according to local reports.

 

Around 7 p.m. local time Thursday, an unnamed U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer working at the DeConcini Crossing in Nogales, Ariz., told a vehicle headed southbound to pull over, according to a CBP statement.

 

CBP said the ongoing investigation into the matter prevented the agency from sharing more information.

 

Nogales Mayor Arturo Garino told the Arizona Daily Star that a pickup truck raced into Mexico after being told to stop and attempted to run over the federal officer.

 

The CBP officer shot at least once at the driver, but the truck continued through the port and into Mexico before crashing on the other side. Mexican federal police pulled the driver out of the truck. A passenger was arrested and unharmed in the shooting.

 

CBP said the driver had a gunshot wound and was taken to a hospital in Mexico's Sonora state. It wasn't clear whether the man survived the shooting.

 

The port was shut down for four hours and traffic was redirected at a nearby Nogales crossing. Nogales police were redirecting traffic to the Mariposa Port of Entry before reopening the DeConcini port at around 11 p.m.

 

The border agency's Office of Professional Responsibility and Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations are both investigating the officer's use of force.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cbp-shoots-driver-who-refused-to-stop-at-arizona-border-crossing

Anonymous ID: d89003 Feb. 8, 2019, 10:44 a.m. No.5081268   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1388

Oh my. lol.

 

Hawaii Hopes to Make 100 the Legal Minimum Age for Buying Cigarettes

 

Hawaii lawmakers are considering a bill that would essentially end smoking in the state by 2024 by raising legal age for purchasing tobacco from to 100.

 

The bipartisan bill, introduced at the end of January, would raise the legal minimum age to purchase cigarettes from 21 to 30 in 2020, to 40 in 2021, to 50 in 2022, to 60 in 2023 and to 100 in 2024.

 

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2019-02-07/hawaii-aims-to-end-smoking-by-raising-legal-age-for-buying-cigarettes-to-100

Anonymous ID: d89003 Feb. 8, 2019, 10:53 a.m. No.5081388   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>5081268

Killing babies is ok though.

State Facts About Abortion: Hawaii

 

National Background and Context

 

Each year, a broad cross section of U.S. women obtain abortions. As of 2014, some 60% of women having abortions were in their 20s; 59% had one or more children; 86% were unmarried; 75% were economically disadvantaged; and 62% reported a religious affiliation.[1] No racial or ethnic group made up a majority: Some 39% of women obtaining abortions were white, 28% were black, 25% were Hispanic and 9% were of other racial or ethnic backgrounds.[1]

 

Since recognizing a woman's constitutional right to abortion in 1973 in Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court has in subsequent decisions reaffirmed that right. The Court has held that a state cannot ban abortion before viability (the point at which a fetus can survive outside the uterus), and that any restriction on abortion after viability must contain exceptions to protect the life and health of the woman. Furthermore, any previability abortion restriction cannot create an “undue burden” on a woman seeking an abortion. This “undue burden” standard was established in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992 and clarified in the 2016 decision in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt. The latter held that scientific evidence must be considered when evaluating the constitutionality of abortion restrictions.[5] Some of the most common state-level abortion restrictions are parental notification or consent requirements for minors, limitations on public funding, mandated counseling designed to dissuade a woman from obtaining an abortion, a mandated waiting period before an abortion, and unnecessary and overly burdensome regulations on abortion facilities.

 

Since 2010, the U.S. abortion landscape has grown increasingly restrictive as more states become hostile to abortion rights. Between 2010 and 2016, states enacted 338 new abortion restrictions, which account for nearly 30% of the 1,142 abortion restrictions enacted by states since the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.

Pregnancies and Their Outcomes

 

•In 2011, the 63 million U.S. women of reproductive age (15–44) had six million pregnancies. Sixty-seven percent of these pregnancies resulted in live births and 18% in abortions; the remaining 15% ended in miscarriage.[6]

 

•Approximately 926,200 abortions occurred in the United States in 2014. The resulting abortion rate of 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age represents a 14% decrease from the 2011 rate of 16.9 per 1,000 women.[7]

 

• In 2014, some 3,760 abortions were provided in Hawaii, though not all abortions that occurred in Hawaii were provided to state residents, as some patients may have traveled from other states; likewise, some individuals from Hawaii may have traveled to another state for an abortion. There was a 33% decline in the abortion rate in Hawaii between 2011 and 2014, from 21.1 to 14.0 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age. Abortions in Hawaii represent 0.4% of all abortions in the United States.[7]

Where Women Obtain Abortions

 

•In 2014, there were 1,671 facilities providing abortion in the United States, representing a 3% decrease from the 1,720 facilities in 2011. Sixteen percent of facilities in 2014 were abortion clinics (i.e., clinics where more than half of all patient visits were for abortion), 31% were nonspecialized clinics, 38% were hospitals and 15% were private physicians' offices. Fifty-nine percent of all abortions were provided at abortion clinics, 36% at nonspecialized clinics, 4% at hospitals and 1% at physicians' offices.[7]

 

•There were 29 abortion-providing facilities in Hawaii in 2014, and 4 of those were clinics. These numbers represent a 12% decline since 2011 in overall providers, and a 33% decline in clinics from 2011, when there were 33 abortion providers overall, of which 6 were clinics.[7]

 

•In 2014, 90% of U.S. counties had no clinics providing abortions. Some 39% of women of reproductive age lived in those counties and would have had to travel elsewhere to obtain an abortion.[7] Of patients obtaining abortions in 2008, one-third had to travel more than 25 miles one way to reach a facility.[8]

 

•In 2014, some 40% of Hawaii counties had no clinics that provided abortions, and 5% of Hawaii women lived in those counties.[7]

Restrictions on Abortion

 

In Hawaii, the following restrictions on abortion were in effect as of May 1, 2018:

 

Hawaii does not have any of the major types of abortion restrictions—such as waiting periods, mandated parental involvement or limitations on publicly funded abortions—often found in other states.

 

https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/state-facts-about-abortion-hawaii

Anonymous ID: d89003 Feb. 8, 2019, 11:15 a.m. No.5081707   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1772

Sierra Leone's president declares rape a national emergency

 

The brutal rape of a young girl by her uncle has become a rallying point in Sierra Leone for a campaign that has pushed President Julius Maada Bio to declare the prevalence of sexual violence a national emergency.

 

The five-year-old girl, whose identity has been kept secret for her own safety, has been paralysed from the waist down since a 28-year-old male relative raped her a year ago, crushing her spine.

 

"She may never walk again, and I want vengeance for what has happened," her grandmother told the Reuters news agency, sitting next to the girl in her wheelchair in a Freetown medical clinic.

 

"The man who did this ruined her life and deserves to spend his life in prison."

 

Following months of campaigning by activists, the president said those convicted of sexual offences against minors would face life sentences.

 

"Some of our families practise a culture of silence and indifference towards sexual violence, leaving victims even more traumatised," Bio told a crowd at the State House on Thursday.

 

"We as a nation must stand up and address this scourge," he said.

 

"With this declaration, I have also directed the following: that all government hospitals must provide free medical treatment and certificate to every victim of rape and sexual abuse," he added.

 

Taboo topic

 

According to police statistics, reported cases of sexual and gender-based violence nearly doubled last year to over 8,500, a third of which involved a minor.

 

Activists, including First Lady Fatima Bio, say the actual figures are much higher as most cases are never reported.

 

Gender-based violence is traditionally seen as a taboo topic in Sierra Leone. Only 12 years ago, its parliament passed the first gender equality laws in 46 years of independence, following efforts by women's rights groups.

 

In December, the first lady led a demonstration in the capital to raise awareness on the issue, and has since launched her "Hands Off Our Girls" campaign on violence against girls across West Africa.

 

Dr Olabisi Claudius Cole, head of the Rainbo Initiative that provides free medical and psychosocial services for survivors of gender-based violence, called the president's declaration a landmark in tackling sexual violence in Sierra Leone.

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/sierra-leone-president-declares-rape-national-emergency-190208145036124.html

 

https://twitter.com/RainboCentres/status/1093473721921273857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1093473721921273857&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2F2019%2F02%2Fsierra-leone-president-declares-rape-national-emergency-190208145036124.html