Saturday Link Love: Pain in Childbirth, Redefining the First Trimester, and Ending Child Abuse Preventions

Saturday Link Love is a new feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

Inclusion on this list does not imply full consent. 

It’s 2016, and Ken Ham Still Believes Labor Pain Is a Consequences of Sin, on Republic of Gilead—“Ham’s labor pain argument is yet another example of the absurdities that result when one takes a collection of ancient stories literally.”

If You Care about Abuse, You Should Care about Who Cruz Wants on the Supreme Court, on Overturning Tables—“Ted Cruz is displaying an increasingly disturbing record on child and survivor advocacy.”

How to Resist Trump: Lessons from the Indian Student Movement, on Feministing—“This is what it felt like to sit on JNU’s campus watching right-wing mobs attempt to storm our gates; this is what it felt like to witness a group of right-wing lawyers beat journalists and professors in full daylight in a courthouse in the middle of the Indian capital in front of police who looked on, doing nothing.”

Florida GOP Passes ‘Reckless’ Anti-Choice Omnibus Bill, on RH Reality Check—“HB 1411 . . . would create restrictions on abortion clinics, ban organizations that provide abortion care from receiving state Medicaid funds, and redefine the trimesters of pregnancy.”

Budget Shortfall Will End Oklahoma Child Abuse Prevention Service, on KGOU—“The Oklahoma State Department of Health has said it will cut services to handle the $1.3 billion budget shortfall.”

School Deregulation Bill Passes in Oklahoma Senate, on News 9—“The bill . . . removes 12 state standards that public schools have to follow. Those standards include having certified teachers, and paying teachers the state minimum salary. The bill also allows schools to loosen some restrictions on background checks.”

Children should learn mainly through play until age of eight, says Lego, on The Guardian—“But, Rasmussen points out, Lego isn’t producing pro-play research itself: the findings come from some of the most esteemed universities on the planet.”