“Senior Defense Department officials said Thursday that they were planning to keep a large portion of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, there for many years, perhaps indefinitely.
The officials said they would soon set up a panel to review those long-term prisoners’ cases annually to determine whether the men remained a threat to the United States or could be released.” —New York Times
“Every now and again you read a book that shatters assumptions you have held for a long time. This is one of them. Academic Ellie Lee looks at discussions around post-abortion syndrome (PAS) and post-natal depression (PND). Her conclusions are like a stone dropped in the pool of complacency of most pro-choice feminist thinking. Abortion, Motherhood and Mental Health has the potential to make waves – if those outside the academic community can be persuaded to shrug off philistinism and grapple with a book that refuses to simplify complex ideas.” —Ann Furedi, sp!ked. The reviewer and perhaps the author, however, are reacting to a straw man. They interpret the controversial syndromes to represent an assumption that “once a pregnancy has begun a woman can’t end it without suffering a degree of mental illness – even if the mental illness is so suppressed that she doesn’t recognise it.” This rendition of big, bad medical science is easy to refute because it is simply not what researchers and clinicians into postpartum depression and psychosis, which is how these syndromes are known in the US, are saying.
The unspeakable is here to stay: “When the Sex Pistols let loose a few expletives on Bill Grundy’s show back in 1976, there was all sorts of huffing and puffing. The nation went into what is referred to as a ‘moral panic’. Almost 30 years on, old fashioned Anglo-Saxon expletives appear to have lost the capacity to shock. When, last week, former Pistol frontman John Lydon uttered the word ‘cunt’ on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, the reaction was decidedly pianissimo. Out of an audience of 12million for the show, Lydon’s c-word outburst solicited merely 88 complaints.” —Patrick West, sp!ked
“Senior Defense Department officials said Thursday that they were planning to keep a large portion of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, there for many years, perhaps indefinitely.
The officials said they would soon set up a panel to review those long-term prisoners’ cases annually to determine whether the men remained a threat to the United States or could be released.” —New York Times
