The cabinet of horrors

[SageGenesis]

Stay classy Ireland.

Woman 'denied a termination' dies in hospital

Two investigations are under way into the death of a woman who was 17 weeks pregnant, at University Hospital Galway last month.

Savita Halappanavar (31), a dentist, presented with back pain at the hospital on October 21st, was found to be miscarrying, and died of septicaemia a week later.

Her husband, Praveen Halappanavar (34), an engineer at Boston Scientific in Galway, says she asked several times over a three-day period that the pregnancy be terminated. He says that, having been told she was miscarrying, and after one day in severe pain, Ms Halappanavar asked for a medical termination.

This was refused, he says, because the foetal heartbeat was still present and they were told, “this is a Catholic country”.

[wolfy]

Vervolg op het artikel van Arik.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov...CMP=twt_gu

Blijkbaar houdt het de gemoederen in Ierland en India bezig. En de overheid lijkt inderdaad bezig om de wetgeving te veranderen. Maar uiteraard zijn er groeperingen die vinden dat er juist gehandeld is.

[SageGenesis]

Happy fucking Valentine's, have some gang rape to top it all off!

A gang sex assault of a mentally challenged girl was “consensual” because the attackers also have low IQs, Long Island police say.

The Nassau County police abruptly dropped the case of three ninth-grade boys who allegedly attacked a mentally challenged Manhattan girl during science class because her attackers’ own mental deficiencies, along with the victim’s, made it “not something for us to get into,” the Daily News has learned.

[Oddman]

'I've got a surprise for you': Husband blindfolds his wife.... and then chops off her fingers to stop her studying for a degree

A jealous husband is facing life in prison after chopping off his wife's fingers because she began studying for a degree without his permission.
Rafiqul Islam, 30, blindfolded his wife Hawa Akhter, 21, and taped her mouth, telling her he was going to give her a surprise present.

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A demonstration of what force feeding in Guantanamo Bay looks like.

Rapper Mos Def demonstrates in a little video. Fair warning: not pleasant.

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Report on secret CIA prisons and the torture taking place there.

It's pretty bad, probably worse than you expect. Rectal feeding, chained into upright positions so you're forced to remain standing up for 17 days, sleep deprivation for 180 hours, it's all really ghastly.

[JLT*]

Last fall, Orange County, Florida's school board passed a measure that allowed for religious materials to be disseminated in their schools. While they said "religious materials," of course what they really meant was "free Bibles." Always the champions for free speech, the Satanic Temple responded by creating The Satanic Children's Big Book of Activities, which features all the usual games – spot the difference, word search, mazes and connect-the-dots – but with a Satanic theme.

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