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The EU has voted to extend maternity leaves to 20 weeks<\/a>. No small reason for this is to offset the demographic train wreck that has occurred as a result of Europe\u2019s insistence that sex is merely a recreational activity that shouldn\u2019t be burdened by the inconvenience of a human being that is no more than a festering malignant blight upon the earth anyway. Of course, once again progressives get it wrong and fail to grasp what your average caveman figured out. Not that progressives will admit that their glorious positions could be flawed. At best, they will simply move to right the wrongs, but never, ever admit they were wrong to begin with.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"