Recent PA News Roundup
Plus a PA lagniappe
Greetings, Dear Readers. I took the above photo through my windshield while I waited at a red light. The minivan had a PA license plate. I think this sticker summarizes the virulent misogyny driving the trans movement.
Recent PA News
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Warren General Hospital to stop providing labor and delivery services.
Over 500 U.S. Hospitals Have Stopped Delivering Babies Since 2010.
These articles (and more links within) describe how rural women are rapidly losing hospital maternity wards. These losses dramatically increase the number of roadside births, home births, and maternal and infant mortality while decreasing postpartum care. As usual, women and children suffer.
Your Author’s personal opinion: Why aren’t anti-abortion groups howling about the closure of labor & delivery units? Don’t they care about maternal and infant mortality? Oh wait — they don’t.
The inside story of how State College police underreported 100s of rapes. Here are their excuses: “Officials say they learned of the FBI’s updated rape definition 9 years late” and “Hundreds of rapes were classified as lesser offenses in public safety data.”
From 2013 to 2021, State College police reported 254 incidents as sex offenses that should have been classified as rapes, according to their own assessment. Crimes categorized as sex offenses come with lower penalties and are treated with less urgency by law enforcement.
Rape is a “part one” crime, while sex offenses are “part two” crimes.
In police speak, part one crimes are the most severe offenses: homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, human trafficking. They are high priorities for law enforcement, often bringing with them pressure to make arrests and clear cases. These are considered indicators of the level of crime occurring in the country, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook.
According to the article, “State law does not allow public access to police investigative files, and State College police refused Spotlight PA’s request to review them.”
80-year-old Pa. man charged with sexually assaulting girl. Not all men.
Harrisburg man wanted for raping girl, forcing her to watch porn: police. Not all men.
Pittsburgh-area Planned Parenthood clinics are closing this month due to staffing shortage. At least PP will continue abortion and contraception services. But no cancer screenings, no routine GYN care… and no sex-rejecting procedures.
Nearly half a dozen registered nurses and certified nurse practitioners left the organization for other jobs over the last several months, according to Michael J. Gibson, communications director for Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania (PPWP). Despite ongoing recruitment efforts, PPWP has been unable to fill those positions, he said.
‘Master manipulators’ make human trafficking hard to see as cases rise in central Pa. (paywalled)
New data from the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts show the scope of human trafficking in Pennsylvania over the past five years with 1,432 offenses filed. The vast majority of cases involved male traffickers. Experts say the crime is vastly under-reported.
And now for a spate of entitled male crybabies and the usual tropes against sex-realists
Lies feed pervasive attacks on transgender and nonbinary people. The usual tropes about sex-realists being dangerous far-right nutjobs and bigots:
The disinformation campaign launched by prominent Republicans against transgender and nonbinary people has become pervasive in public discourse. By repeatedly casting aspersions upon the tiny fraction of competitive athletes who are transgender, a moral panic about “fair play” and locker rooms has been amplified in the absence of scientific evidence to support the validity of the histrionic claims being made.
For more than four years, dozens of LGBTQ+ kids and their families have joined the Abington Township Public Library for Rainbow Connections, a monthly Zoom program, to read children’s books, craft, make new friends, and meet interesting people, such as “Jeopardy!” super champ Amy Schneider [a trans-identifying male].
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“Rainbow Connections is not a sexual education class. Sexual health, reproduction, puberty, and intimate relationships are not discussed,” the statement said in part.
“Clever as Serpents”: How a Legal Group’s Anti-LGBTQ Policies Took Root in School Districts Across a State. This long article is worth reading in its entirely.
But over the last year, it’s become clear ILC’s [Independent Law Center’s] influence stretches beyond such formal partnerships, as school districts from Bucks County (outside Philadelphia) to Beaver County (west of Pittsburgh) have proposed or adopted virtually identical anti-LGBTQ policies and book ban policies that originated with ILC — sometimes without acknowledging any connection to the group or where the policies came from.
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But ILC’s greatest influence is arguably much closer to its Harrisburg home, in neighboring Lancaster and York counties, where nine districts have contracted ILC and at least three more have adopted its model policies.
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“I think it’s very obvious,” reflected Moon, “but if something has to be taking place in secrecy, I’m not sure it can be good for our students.”
This last quote is from a trans agitator, the Education Law Center, whose ideology regularly engages in secrecy to further its agenda… Irony much?
Stronger protections for trans people needed at Allegheny County Jail, advocates say Why doesn’t anyone care about the women who are raped in prison? Oh wait — they’re women.
Here’s some fun news from our state. Pa. Farm Show butter sculpture revealed. See all the photos at the link.
