Supreme Court abortion ruling puts women at risk!

High court favors abortion over women's health  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Friend, pro-abortion advocates are breaking their own rules. The rallying cry of abortionists has been that women’s lives, health and interests are more important than the life of the child growing inside of them. Double your gift to save babies from abortion! Double your gift » However, when it’s a choice between women’s health and expanding the powerful abortion industry, abortion wins every time. That was evident with Monday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down a pro-life Louisiana law intended to protect the lives of women who seek abortions.  In a 5-4 decision, the high court ruled against the state law requiring abortion doctors to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital. The law was created to combat abortion clinics from using unqualified abortionists. During its investigation of the abortion industry, the legislature found that women seeking abortions were at risk from under-qualified medical professionals operating in unsanitary settings. One clinic, for example, hired an ophthalmologist and a radiologist to perform abortions! If this were any other industry but abortion, the courts would not hesitate to approve a state’s attempt to protect its citizens from harm. Mothers and their babies are at risk! The ruling against life is just one example of a culture that is standing against life. This pro-abortion culture is the sad reality right now in our society. But you can stand up for mothers and their babies. Your gift today will help Focus on the Family reveal life to expectant mothers through our Option Ultrasound program that equips pregnancy medical clinics with state-of-the-art ultrasound machines, and nurses’ sonography training to help a mother meet her child. Every $60 you send will help save the life of one preborn baby through our Option Ultrasound program. And now through a generous $700,000 Matching Gift opportunity from friends like you who value life, your gift today will be DOUBLED, dollar for dollar!  And if you give monthly, your first monthly gift will be DOUBLED as well! No matter what our courts or our culture says, every life is valuable. Stand up for every life and love every heartbeat — mothers and their babies — with your gift today. Give now to see your support matched up to $700,000 to protect women and save babies from abortion! Here’s a link where you can make your gift: FocusOnTheFamily.com/SaveLife. Jim Daly President, Focus on the Family   Focus on the Family 8605 Explorer Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80920 1-800-A-FAMILY (232-6459) Update your preferences or unsubscribe if you do not want to receive this type of email or any future emails from Focus on the Family. © 2020 Focus on the Family. Source Code:  932201

On Tech: Burrito delivery makes no sense

The economics of delivery apps stinks, and it shows that many of digital habits are unsustainable.

View in browser|nytimes.com Continue reading the main story June 30, 2020 Burrito delivery makes no sense Miriam Persand By Shira Ovide It’s annoying that everything big companies do is shrouded in mystery and obfuscation. I’ll give you some straight talk. Why is Uber offering to buy the food delivery company Postmates? Why did a big European food delivery company decide to purchase the owner of Grubhub and Seamless? Because the economics of delivering restaurant meals in the United States stinks, and the companies involved are trying to make it stink less — for them. Even if you never order food from your sofa, the roots of this broken system should make us all worry that many of our digital habits are unsustainable mirages. For people who use it, food delivery can be handy, or even a lifeline. And it makes financial sense in certain cities or for certain restaurants. It might be a lucrative activity in the future, or if Venus were in the fifth house, or if robots delivered dinner, or if restaurants were replaced by grain bowl factories. But big picture, right now, in the real world of 2020 America, food delivery isn’t working out for just about everyone involved — including restaurants, delivery couriers and certainly not the app delivery companies. They are almost all losing money. Even now, yes, when many of us are ordering more takeout and delivery. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT For the food delivery companies, the fastest way to fix this rotten system is to stop spending money in pointless ways and to squeeze more dollars from customers like you and me, the restaurants, the delivery couriers and anyone else involved in this chain of operation. The way to less stinkage — for the delivery companies — is having fewer but bigger companies that have the muscle to charge more for what they do. I can confidently predict that if and when more food delivery companies combine, they will say they’re doing so to make our gastronomic lives glorious, to generate more business for restaurants and to construct an Eiffel Tower of hot wings you can see from space. (OK, probably not the last one.) There will be shreds of truth in those lofty ambitions. But mostly, the goal of food delivery companies is to get bigger so they have the power to charge higher prices. Or, the way to make the finances less stinky for food delivery companies is to make it stink more for the rest of us. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT This is where I sigh deeply at all the activities that defy the Darwinian idea of only the fittest surviving. With Uber rides, the global buffet of Netflix, WeWork cubicles and burritos delivered to your door, we have been lured by businesses that can exist in their current form only because they have been artificially propped up with cash. Or prices have been smushed down because the cost of labor has been artificially low. So maybe it makes sense for food delivery companies to get bigger and charge more. But once you understand that the economics are broken for lots of other kinds of habits that we’ve started to form, you have to ask where this all ends. If you don’t already get this newsletter in your inbox, please sign up here. The internet is not a politics-free zone We know by now that technology, like everything else, is never free from politics nor does it necessarily unite the world. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT I was reminded of that on Monday when India declared a ban on a bunch of apps originating from Chinese companies, including the popular TikTok short video app, as India and China engage in deadly clashes over a border dispute. Likewise, my colleague Javier C. Hernández has a bizarre tale of how an opera singer who resembles China’s leader, Xi Jinping, keeps getting censored online because the government scrubs the internet of anything that might provide an opportunity to mock top officials. And Reddit, YouTube, and Twitch all suspended or banned accounts on Monday that they said broke rules against online harassment or bigoted speech. The crackdown, which included the Twitch account belonging to President Trump, mostly affected figures with right-wing political views. That prompted some hand wringing about whether the companies were legitimately enforcing policy or playing politics. The trouble when real world divisions intrude on digital life is it grows harder for all of us to separate what’s real from what’s political hogwash. Should Indians or Americans worry about the Chinese government spying on us through TikTok — as some politicians claim — or is that a bogus explanation for a broader feud between governments? There is a legitimate debate about how to treat speech online, but it has become clouded by concerns that political motivations are behind everything. The more the internet morphs from a gee whiz novelty to a staple of our lives, the more we see that the digital sphere is subject to the same animosities as real life. Before we go … A different take on delivery apps: In New York’s Chinatown, fissures over restaurant delivery apps and e-commerce are encapsulating a broader debate about identity, my colleagues Nicole Hong and Elaine Chen report. The pandemic, they wrote, exposed a “long-simmering generational divide, between younger people who believe Chinatown must get with the times to survive, and older ones who worry about it becoming a theme park of Instagrammable desserts and $18 Asian-fusion cocktails.” A different take on TikTok: OK, not EVERYTHING has to be about politics. My colleague Lena Wilson has an endearing look at young lesbians congregating on TikTok to find “friends, solidarity and even love.” This might be fun! Amazon’s Prime Video started a feature to let people watch the same program with friends at the same time and gossip in a chat window about the show or movie. After one company made a web browser add-on to let people synchronize what they’re watching on Netflix, some of the U.S. streaming video companies have started to incorporate this feature, too. Hugs to this I want to get financial news only from this weird and weirdly informative TikTok account from NPR’s Planet Money. I apologize to all the talented business journalists here at The New York Times. We want to hear from you. Tell us what you think of this newsletter and what else you’d like us to explore. You can reach us at ontech@nytimes.com. If you don’t already get this newsletter in your inbox, please sign up here. Continue reading the main story Need help? 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Science Times: Elk Return to Kentucky

Plus: Dog Breeding in the Neolithic Age —

View in browser|nytimes.com Continue reading the main story June 30, 2020 Morgan Hornsby for The New York Times   Elk Return to Kentucky, Bringing Economic Life After a concerted reintroduction effort two decades ago, the state is now home to the largest population of elk east of the Mississippi. The animals’ home: reclaimed coal mines. By Oliver Whang and Morgan Hornsby Jonathan Nackstrand/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images   Dog Breeding in the Neolithic Age Fossils and modern DNA show the ancient roots of Arctic sled dogs. By James Gorman     The Great Wonders Beyond the Great Reef A recent expedition to the inky depths of the Coral Sea revealed an unknown world of creatures and geologic features. By William J. Broad CMEABG-UCBL-Chapon/Science Source   A ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys A novel gene-editing experiment seems to have permanently reduced LDL and triglyceride levels in monkeys. By Gina Kolata Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT Email us Let us know how we’re doing at sciencenewsletter@nytimes.com. THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times   Matter Most People With Coronavirus Won’t Spread It. Why Do a Few Infect Many? Growing evidence shows most infected people aren’t spreading the virus. But whether you become a superspreader probably depends more on circumstance than biology. By Carl Zimmer William DeShazer for The New York Times   ‘They Want to Kill Me’: Many Covid Patients Have Terrifying Delirium Paranoid hallucinations plague many coronavirus patients in I.C.U.s, an experience that can slow recovery and increase risk of depression and cognitive issues. By Pam Belluck David Ramos/Getty Images   Study Suggests Coronavirus Emerged Much Earlier Than Thought. Some Are Skeptical. Scientists not involved in the study seriously doubt the findings, which challenge the current consensus on where and when the virus originated. By Carl Zimmer and Raphael Minder Callaghan O'Hare for The New York Times   Does Your Local Doctor Have a Coronavirus Test for You? Primary care physicians, to whom many anxious patients turn first when their health declines, can’t always provide tests — or answers about where to get them. By Katherine J. Wu Kyrre Lien for The New York Times   In Norway, Gymgoers Avoid Infections as Virus Recedes In an unusual experiment, researchers found no coronavirus infections among thousands of people allowed to return to their gyms. By Gina Kolata Tony Luong for The New York Times   Going Up? Not So Fast: Strict New Rules to Govern Elevator Culture Small, crowded, enclosed spaces are petri dishes for the coronavirus. But in urban office buildings, elevators are a necessity, so companies are wrestling with how to make them safer. By Matt Richtel Niaid   How the Coronavirus Short-Circuits the Immune System In a disturbing parallel to H.I.V., the coronavirus can cause a depletion of important immune cells, recent studies found. By Gina Kolata Win Mcnamee/Getty Images   Actual Coronavirus Infections Vastly Undercounted, C.D.C. Data Shows The prevalence of infections is more than 10 times higher than the counted number of cases in six regions of the United States. By Apoorva Mandavilli Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT MORE SCIENCE NEWS R. Hurt/IPAC/Caltech   Out There Two Black Holes Colliding Not Enough? Make It Three Astronomers claim to have seen a flash from the merger of two black holes within the maelstrom of a third, far bigger one. By Dennis Overbye Alex Andrix/Virgo/EGO   Out There A Black Hole’s Lunch Provides a Treat for Astronomers Scientists have discovered the heaviest known neutron star, or maybe the lightest known black hole: “Either way it breaks a record.” By Dennis Overbye Jake Socha   Trilobites How Do Flying Snakes Glide Through the Air? ‘It’s Hard to Believe’ As they wiggle and undulate, the snakes are transforming their bodies for flight. By David Waldstein Rob Snow/Ocearch   They Wanted You to Bet on Sharks. The Odds Were Not in Their Favor. Gambling on shark migration patterns could raise awareness, some experts say. But it could also fuel the animals’ reputation as mere entertainment. By Katherine J. Wu New Data Reveals Hidden Flood Risk Across America Nearly twice as many properties may be susceptible to flood damage than previously thought, according to a new effort to map the danger. By Christopher Flavelle, Denise Lu, Veronica Penney, Nadja Popovich and John Schwartz trilobites A Worm’s Hidden Map for Growing New Eyes When a planarian loses its eyes, cellular guides connect new ones to its brain so it can see again. By Veronique Greenwood trilobites How Bees Avoid Bumping Into Nature’s Obstacle Course When the garden gets perilous, these pollinators hit the gas. By Cara Giaimo trilobites When 300-Pound Wombats Roamed Australia Compared in size with modern black bears, the extinct species offers a new window into the large vombatiforms that once lived in Australia. By Joshua Sokol trilobites Dolphins Have an Eating Trick. How They Learn It Is More Surprising. A behavior called shelling is learned from peers, unlike other feeding strategies that are passed from mother to calf. By Katherine J. Wu NASA Names Headquarters After Its First Black Female Engineer, Mary Jackson Ms. Jackson’s contributions received widespread attention after the release of the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” which chronicled black women’s work during the space race. By Allyson Waller Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT HEALTH Gracia Lam   Personal Health The Pandemic May Spare Us From Another Plague: Bedbugs Given the drastic pandemic-induced reductions in travel, the chances of bringing home these uninvited guests have been greatly curtailed. By Jane E. Brody Jacob Biba for The New York Times   Obamacare Faces Unprecedented Test as Economy Sinks The battles over the health law have played out during a decade of continuous economic growth. How it performs as a safety net now may help determine its future. By Abby Goodnough and Reed Abelson Getty Images   Phys Ed Sitting All Day May Increase Your Risk of Dying From Cancer Need another reason to move? Sedentary behavior was linked to an increased risk of fatal cancer. By Gretchen Reynolds Getty Images   The Checkup Caring for Children With Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Now, nearly two months after the first cases were reported, doctors can reassure parents that the syndrome remains rare, while continuing to urge vigilance. By Perri Klass, M.D. Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press   Scientists Say New Strain of Swine Flu Virus Is Spreading to Humans in China A new study warns that the strain of H1N1, common on China’s pig farms since 2016, should be “urgently” controlled to avoid another pandemic. By Mike Ives Make a friend’s day: Forward this email. Got this from a friend? Subscribe to the Science Times newsletter. Check out other New York Times newsletters (all free!) including: Climate Fwd: for climate coverage and expert analysis. The Upshot for a data-driven look at the news. Well for the latest on health, fitness and nutrition. Continue reading the main story Need help? 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