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• Possible, sure. It's sometimes difficult to balance not wanting to be ableist, by trying to keep people with disabilities from doing things they actually are capable of, with the realities of what they aren't. The daughter, who had developmental delays,
  (posted to Pregnant 17 year-old with mild learning disabilities goes on run from social workers)
• Ah, but what counts as 'putting someone into danger' for legal purposes? Certainly, if I'm speeding and driving drunk and hit someone, that is on me. I was horrifically negligent. Most pregnancies, however, would not fit that analogy. After a
  (posted to Questions for the Anti-Choice (More Commonly Known As Pro-Life) Community)
• I can't answer directly for the poster you were replying to, but there is a school of thought that a linear view of history/storytelling is more 'masculine' in approach (which is also pretty Western) and dominates our culture, while the
  (posted to What defines a feminist movie? Ruminations from The Wire....)
• Honestly? This is one reason I'm not interested in having a romantic relationship, or at least in living with anyone again. I just don't have the time or mental energy to put into working out what's fair, and seeing it
  (posted to Equality in housework, how does that work?)
• The media has misrepresented the study's conclusions. It said that women without risk factors (family history, ethnic/racial background, late/no childbearing, etc.) can wait, not that ALL women should. There's no history of any sort of cancer in either my mother's
  (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)

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• Curious-- who's deciding which posts have comments screened and which don't? A lot of posts lately seem to have them screened but this one doesn't. It would be nice to know up front which is which before posting. (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
• I guess what I don't get with this thread of comments is why so many people are angry that there is a backlash against these guidelines. I can't speak for anyone else but I don't like the reflexive demonizing of (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
• Yes, that is the other main point. If black women are more at risk, then the guidelines SAY that they should get earlier screening. So if they get earlier screening, they are following the guidelines. It makes no sense to (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
• Why would they know when the coverage of these new standards doesn't say a word about different risk factors for black women? Actually, when I first heard this news on the radio they DID specifically mention that black women are (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
• Yeah. Perils of women interested in feminism winding up in women's studies classes that don't seem to do a very good job of explaining statistics, at a guess. In fact, from what I can tell feminism itself (or at least (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)

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