#alabama news

[renthony]

From the article:

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The dominoes are beginning to fall in Alabama where a recent state supreme court ruling grants fertilized eggs the same rights as children. The state of Alabama's largest hospital is now pausing a major procedure used in helping women get pregnant. The University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital, or UAB, has announced doctors there will not be doing any more IVF, or in vitro fertilization treatments. The recent state supreme court ruling leaves thousands of couples who need help getting pregnant left wondering where they will turn for help building a family. Not only those who use UAB, but for others who wait to see if their local clinic will do the same. Residents of Alabama and the rest of the country may be shocked by the state's Supreme Court ruling but for many, this was the natural progression for the conservative southern state that in 2022 banned all abortions regardless of cases of incest and rape. "I was not surprised," said Jill Lens, a professor of law at the University of Arkansas and an expert in reproductive rights. "Alabama Supreme court has for a long time, enthusiastically applied wrongful death law to pregnancy losses and [if] it's a person the second it's in the womb – if it's a person, it's a person. I'm not sure why the location in a freezer would matter." In other words, anyone who's been following Alabama's abortion debate should have seen it coming in a state where prosecutors have arrested pregnant women for engaging in behaviors like taking drugs that could be harmful to a fetus. Alabama outlaws all abortions, making no exceptions for cases of rape or incest. While many other states have passed similar legislation, no other state has defined life as beginning at conception, which is essentially what this court ruling does.

[iww-gnv]

Thirty percent of the workers at the sole Hyundai plant in the U.S., in Alabama, have joined the United Auto Workers (UAW). The announcement marks the third such public union drive at an automaker in the Southeast. And it marks another step in the UAW’s push to make inroads into the region, where big business and state governments have worked together for decades to keep unions out. In statements to the press, Hyundai workers argued the job was breaking down their bodies and quality of life for inadequate pay.

[carsonjonesfiance]

Am I supposed to feel sorry for that bitch? I don’t!

[petnews2day]

A walk in the dog park

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/POili

A walk in the dog park

My truck cab was filled with three barking dogs and one idiot. The dogs were in the backseat. The idiot was behind the wheel. “Sit down!” the idiot kept saying. But my dogs do not sit when I drive. They never sit. They dutifully explore their space when the vehicle is underway. To the untrained […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/POili #DogNews #AlabamaNews, #Dogs, #SEANOFTHESOUTH

[svalleynow]

Alabama Bill Rejected for Death Penalty Inmates

Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about 30 inmates who were given the death penalty despite a jury’s recommendation of life imprisonment. The House Judiciary Committee voted 9-4 against the bill that would give life without parole sentences to the death row inmates who were placed there under a now-abolished system that allowed judges to override…

[entertainmentreview24]

Why does Alabama say Alabama Crimson Tide Football?

The first Alabama-Auburn football game was held in 1893 and the two schools made contact with regularly through 1907. In 1907,Alabama and Auburn two teams tied 6-6 .Auburn looked for win but Alabama achieved win. After observing Alabama and rival Auburn play to a 6-6 tie in Birmingham in November 1907, Roberts reportedly described the game as a “crimson tide”.

[cyarsk52-20]

People have no idea and there is so much shame with it. I wish people would stop talking and listen

[renthony]

Excerpt from the article:

It is not clear how the proposal would impact people who are considered intersex, or born with a combination of male and female biological traits. The committee added language that sex can be designated as unknown on state records “when sex cannot be medically determined for developmental or other reasons.” The legislation is at odds with decades of medical research showing gender is a spectrum, not a binary structure, and that sexual anatomy doesn’t always agree with the chromosomes and genes that cause most people to develop and identify as male or female. The measure would create a vague exemption for people with intersex conditions — saying that individuals with congenital or medically verifiable differences in sex development “must be accommodated” in accordance with federal law — while declaring that such people “are not a third sex.” Research indicates that the U.S. population of intersex people, born with physical traits that don’t match typical definitions of male and female, is even bigger than that of transgender people.

[iww-gnv]

Last year, populist reformer Shawn Fain won the UAW presidency. He embraced slogans such as “EAT THE RICH” and used new strategies to secure record victories in contract talks for around 150,000 workers the union represents at Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., and Stellantis NV. After a six-week strike, the union secured terms that will raise many workers’ pay 33% by 2028. Fain is now trying to translate the momentum from those victories into unionization at companies that have long eluded the UAW. The Alabama plant is the biggest of Mercedes’s U.S. plants. In the U.S., European and Asian automakers compete both with Detroit’s three big unionized automakers and with non-union firms such as Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. Unionization can cause companies to pay their workers more, and restricts management’s ability to unilaterally dictate workplace conditions and policies. That would mean less flexibility for executives, and more say for workers. The Mercedes speech signals a contentious struggle ahead with the UAW, which is mounting an audacious campaign to organize the non-union U.S. plants of 13 automakers, including several European and Asian firms. The UAW’s executive board this week voted to commit $40 million to organizing campaigns among auto and battery workers. The Mercedes plant in Vance is one of three where the union has signed up more than 30% of the workforce. The others are a Hyundai Motor Co. site that’s also in Alabama and a Volkswagen AG facility in Tennessee. Once the percentage reaches 70%, the UAW will seek formal recognition and collective bargaining.

[stanthejokemanshow]

THIS IS IT FOLKS! Welcome to Kill Cafe, BUT IT'S NOT a restaurant! THAT'S RIGHT! You get what we serve and Alabama is missing out on the opportunity of a lifetime! Give me 3 minutes!

[svalleynow]

DeKalb County Alabama Man Guilty for Child Sex Abuse

DeKalb County Alabama District Attorney Summer Summerford has announced that Joseph Thomas Roden was found guilty on Friday, April 12, 2024, by a DeKalb County jury for one (1) count of Sodomy 1st Degree and two (2) counts of Sexual Abuse of a Child Less than 12 years of age. After deliberating for approximately 30 minutes, the jury returned guilty verdicts for all charges on Friday afternoon. A…