Mortality is three times higher for black people in the state than white people. it feels like priorities are off. grace howard, assistant professor at san jose university, and the author of the pregnancy police, which feels aptly timed. it ll be published by the university of california press. lay out what this bill would do and why you said it would expand the state s surveillance apparatus. sure. so when i look at this bill, i just see so many red flags. you know, each pregnant person is going to call this hotline and be asked a series of invasive questions. they ll be assigned a number which needs to be in the patient s medical records. what is the enforcement mechanism here? the government says they need to be able to pair a name and a number. otherwise, clinics could write any random number, and there would be no way of ensuring compliance. the bill said they ll be screening patients were coercion
The achievements of George Washington Carver, the 19th century scientist credited with hundreds of inventions, including 300 uses for peanuts, have landed him in American history textbooks. Among the medicinal and food staples introduced by the African diaspora were sorghum, millet, African rice, yams, black-eyed peas, watermelon, eggplant, okra, sesame and kola nut, whose extract was a main ingredient in the original Coca-Cola recipe. Whether captives smuggled seeds and plants from aboard slave ships or captains purchased them in Africa for planting in America, key components of the West African diet also journeyed along the Middle Passage across the Atlantic.
The achievements of George Washington Carver, the 19th century scientist credited with hundreds of inventions, including 300 uses for peanuts, have landed him in American history textbooks. Among the medicinal and food staples introduced by the African diaspora were sorghum, millet, African rice, yams, black-eyed peas, watermelon, eggplant, okra, sesame and kola nut, whose extract was a main ingredient in the original Coca-Cola recipe. Whether captives smuggled seeds and plants from aboard slave ships or captains purchased them in Africa for planting in America, key components of the West African diet also journeyed along the Middle Passage across the Atlantic.