#sb 95

[beyondxy]

“We’ve Never Seen This Language Before”

Kansas lawmakers this week become the first in the country to pass a ban a medical procedure used for second trimester abortions and the management of miscarriage. The radical legislation is part of a coordinated effort by anti-choice activists in states across the country. 

SB 95 would outlaw dilation and evacuation (D and E) procedures used during many second-trimester abortions and to treat miscarriages. The bill is model legislation drafted by the anti-choice National Right to Life Committee (NRLC). 

The bill redefines the D and E procedure as “dismemberment” abortion, language that is key to NRLC’s strategy, as anti-choice advocates push similar bills in other state legislatures, many controlled by Republicans. The NRLC strategy is to pack the bills with graphic, medically inaccurate language describing the D and E procedure. 

“We’ve never seen this language before,” Elizabeth Nash, senior state issues associate for the Guttmacher Institute, told the Kansas City Star. “It’s not medical language, so it’s a little bit difficult to figure out what the language would do.”

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Photo: Recovery area in the South Wind Women’s Center in Wichita, Kansas

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The 60 second bike test. 

After spending the last few months testing out new bikes to replace my 150mm travel mountain bike I've been testing lot's of new bikes to see what will eventually replace my existing bike. I've been quite methodical about the tests both with recording video images of how the bike behaves and also recording run times to see how well the bikes perform on the same section of trail.

Here is the first instalment and I have to say that speed aside I felt instantly at home on the Yeti Sb95. Here's a 60 second clip of the bike in action.