MsConcerned's Manifesto

Category: Healthcare

  • Rape Victim’s Baby May Hold the Keys to the Cure for Cancer

    #Abortion – 13 Years Old – #Ohio

    #JeanSchmidt – State Representative Jean Schmidt is currently serving her first term as State Representative for the 65th #Ohio house district, which includes northwestern Clermont County, specifically parts of #Loveland and Milford, all of #Newtonsville and #Owensville and #Goshen, Miami, #Stonelick, Union and Wayne townships.

    She said pregnancy from rape is actually a chance for a woman to raise a child, send them to live with a family member or put them up for adoption. That hypothetical child, she argued, could someday cure cancer. “Rape is a difficult issue and it emotionally scars the individual, all or in part, for the rest of their life ― just as child abuse does. But if a baby is created, it is a human life and whether that mother ends that pregnancy or not the scars will not go away period,” said Schmidt.

    Read more: Rape Victim’s Baby May Hold the Keys to the Cure for Cancer

    “It is a shame that it happens, but there’s an opportunity for that woman – no matter how young or old she is ― to make a determination about what she’s going to do to help that life be a productive human being. … That child can grow up and be something magnificent,

    I wonder what hallway of hell she came from let’s look at a few scenarios:

    1. An 13-year-old can’t vote, drive, serve in the armed forces, buy liquor or a gun they can’t understand the long-term risks and consequences of making adult-size decisions for another life – they freak out when the wifi isn’t working.

    2. She comes from a wealthy family whose income is NOT below the poverty guidelines she’s not eligible for Medicaid – so her parents are financially responsible for the medical/dental/ and mental health care of the infant;

    3. She is raped by her father – now the mother is impacted exponentially just like her baby girl who is forced to carry her father’s child from a rape;

    4. Jean actually thinks other family members are willing adopt the rapist’s baby – now the little girl has a walking breathing reminder of the physical and mental torture she endured perhaps endured OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER again because it was Uncle Charles who visited ever other week to babysit for mom dad on date night;

    5.In Maryland if the woman decides to give up the baby conceived by rape – she needs to get permission from the #rapist to put the baby up for adoption:

    6. The rapist goes to jail, serves his time, get’s out and now he wants either visitation or co-parenting rights!

    Men whose brothers or fathers have been convicted of a sex offense are “five times more likely to commit sex crimes than the average male” and that this increased risk of committing rape or molesting a child “may run in a family’s male genes.” A study, published online in the International Journal of Epidemiology, analyzed data from 21,566 male sex offenders convicted in Sweden between 1973 and 2009 and concluded that genetics may account for roughly 40% of the likelihood of committing a sex crime.

    Rape is the forcible violation of the sexual intimacy of another person. It does injury to justice and charity. Rape deeply wounds the respect, freedom, and physical and moral integrity to which every person has a right. It causes grave damage that can mark the victim for life. It is always an intrinsically evil act. Graver still is the rape of children committed by parents (incest) or those responsible for the education of the children entrusted to them.

    I can’t stop asking myself what personal experience has Jean Schmidt NOT healed from that would cause her to have such hellish beliefs about a little girl being raped.

  • Only 6 Feet for Covid But Not In Arizona

    Only 6 Feet for Covid But Not In Arizona

    Thinking of filming a police encounter in Arizona? Make sure it’s not within 8 feet.

    7-8 minutes

    People who say they have faced violence for filming police interactions are condemning a law in Arizona that will restrict recording police officers from within 8 feet of police activity. 

    Without cellphone footage, victims said, it will be harder for residents to hold police accountable and seek justice in cases of police misconduct. 

    Mariah Hereford, 30, said police officers in Hemet, California, allegedly knocked her phone and her mother’s phone out of their hands and attacked them as they filmed authorities searching her fiancé’s car last year.

    According to Hereford’s lawsuit against the city, an officer slammed her to the ground and hooked his fingers inside her jaw, “as if she were a fish, and yanked her upward from the ground,” choking her and making her lose consciousness. 

    “As I was being attacked, I felt like I was going to be a George Floyd,” Hereford, a Black mother of four kids in Riverside County, California, told NBC News. “I thought I was going to die that night just from recording.” 

    A spokesperson for the Hemet Police Department did not immediately respond to NBC News’ requests for comment. 

    According to the Arizona law, which was signed by Gov. Doug Ducey last week and goes into effect in September, a bystander could face a misdemeanor charge for recording a police officer within 8 feet of “where the person knows or reasonably should know that law enforcement activity is occurring,” the law states. According to the law, violators will face consequences if they continue to record officers after they are warned to back up.

    This applies to situations where police officers are issuing a summons, questioning a suspicious person, conducting an arrest, enforcing the law or handling an emotionally disturbed person. However, there are some exceptions for people on private property and individuals subjected to police activity if they are not being handcuffed, searched or subjected to a field sobriety test. 

    The law also says people in a vehicle that has been stopped by police can record “if the occupants are not interfering with lawful police actions.” 

    Hereford’s lawyer, Toni J. Jaramilla, said if that incident weren’t being recorded by the neighbors, there would be little to no evidence of it happening. 

    “Had they not been recording that, had it been an illegal conduct to be recording police officers performing their duties, they would not have captured the civil rights violations,” Jaramilla said. “The Arizona law in my view is unconstitutional.”  

    ‘You’re going to break my arms’ 

    Patricia Rodney, 61, of Brooklyn, New York, said she headed to a police station two years ago to file a police report for a lost glucometer, a device that measures blood sugar levels. Rodney, who has diabetes, said her insurance would not send a new one without the report. 

    Days earlier, Rodney had been instructed to return to the station for a report. However, officers later declined to provide one when she arrived. The police told Rodney that their body cameras were on. That’s when she began holding up her cellphone to act like she was recording. 

    “I felt that I needed to show what they were actually doing to me,” Rodney said. “There was a reason for me going to the precinct to begin with.” 

    An officer then pointed to a sign that prohibits recording in police stations while another officer said, “You can’t record. Ma’am, we are asking you to leave.” 

    Rodney protested, and within seconds, according to video footage reviewed by NBC News, officers pushed her to the ground and restrained her, shouting, “You’re going to jail,” and then grabbed her phone. That day, Rodney faced multiple charges, including resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration. The charges were later dismissed. 

    “I was horrified. … I just couldn’t believe it,” Rodney, a school cafeteria worker, said. “I told them, ‘Stop grabbing my arms. You’re going to break my arms.’” 

    As a result of the alleged attack, Rodney said she fractured her elbow, and she did not receive a note for the glucometer, according to a lawsuit she filed against the NYPD earlier this year citing her First Amendment right to record. 

    The NYPD declined to comment on Rodney’s lawsuit Tuesday, citing pending litigation.

    Earlier this year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former New York Police Department officer, said recording the police creates a dangerous environment.

    “If an officer is on the ground wrestling with someone that has a gun, they should not have to worry about someone standing over them with a camera while they’re wrestling with someone,” Adams said. “If an officer is trying to prevent a dispute from taking place and deescalate that dispute, they shouldn’t have someone standing over their shoulders with a camera in their face, yelling and screaming at them without even realizing what the encounter is all about.”’

    Kevin Detreville of Aurora, Colorado, said he began recording police interactions after the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black Aurora native who died after police violence. Some videos posted to Detreville’s YouTube channel show him berating, taunting and criticizing officers during traffic stops. Detreville said he wants to prevent further acts of police brutality. 

    “I’m not anti-police; I’m pro-accountability,” he said. “I don’t want another Elijah McClain in my neighborhood.” 

    Detreville said he is aware of the dangers of recording the police. He has been arrested twice for filming them. He is urging advocates to fight Arizona’s new law.  

    “It’s unconstitutional, plain and simple,” he said. “The First Amendment is demolished if we’re not allowed to do that.”

    Madusa Carter, a Philadelphia-based activist, artist and rapper known as Blak Rapp Madusa who uses the pronouns “they” and “them,” said they were assaulted by police in 2018 for filming a group of Black girls being aggressively harassed and berated by a white officer at a movie theater. 

    Carter, who also recorded their own arrest, was charged with resisting arrest, defiant trespass and disorderly conduct. The charges were dropped.

    The North Versailles Police Department in Pennsylvania did not immediately respond to requests for comment. 

    Carter filed a lawsuit in 2019 against the police and the theater, accusing them of violating their civil rights.

    Without their footage, Carter said they would not have had a case. “It would have been my word against the officers,” they added, “so I feel for the folks in Arizona.”

    Source: MSN

  • When Sexual Harassment Goes Awry in the Workplace

    She writes:

    When I was a young professional, I was raped by a co-worker and no one believed me.

    I share that brutal piece of information because, over a decade later, when the #metoo movement happened, I was completely in favor of it. I was horrified at the number of stories that were shared but simultaneously thrilled that those stories were seeing the light of day as victims took their power back. A year after the movement started, I mustered the courage to share my story publicly for the first time since it happened (though I clearly did not understand how a hashtag worked at the time). For me, it transformed my experience with what happened into something that was empowering rather than something debilitating.

    The Black Man

    From stop-and-frisk to driving while black to wrongful murder convictions, African American men have always endured the suspicion that President Trump now fears on behalf of all men. “When you are guilty until proven innocent, it’s just not supposed to be that way,” per Trump. “That’s a very dangerous standard for the country.”

    Along with Bill Cosby and many others, we hear continued reports of women sexually harassed, assaulted, and abused by males in a position of power, authority, and community respect.

    What happens when the man is accused to sexual assault and not only is it not true but he is neither in a position of power or a figure of authority in the workplace?

  • Speak Up For Disabilities

  • WOMENS MENTAL HEALTH

    PTSD,ABUSE, SHAME, HURT, HUMILITY, GUILT, FORGIVENESS

    It all hurts, we have different ways of dealing with it, we use relationships, drugs, alcohol, work, food, religion…

    Don’t shame us for our pain…

  • When Mental Health Goes Unattended

    I applaud her!!!!!!!

    Good for her (horrible yes indeed) but to have the courage to admit she acted on what her thoughts suggested I applaud her.

    Listen white women have been killing their babies since forever.

    Black women have rejected taking care of their mental health since forever.

    They don’t want to be thought of as crazy…

    They don’t know they have issues…

    They can’t afford a therapist…

    They self medicate with alcohol, cocaine, heroine, sex, food…

    They cover it up with the next man, the next job…

    Dysfunctional family behavior rarely addresses mental health…

    That misinformed uneducated Steve gets a fuckin garbage that’s some bullshyt instead of addressing it with a Wise mind he got all fucking emotional!

    Now we must rely on God that some will see this and offers her some help!

  • Breast cancer

    Shouting love, peace, joy, and good health to all of the women touched by breast cancer

  • Covid – Have We Learned Anything

    Covid – Have We Learned Anything

    How Did It Start

    Coronaviruses are a big family of different viruses. Some of them cause the common cold in people. Others infect animals, including bats, camels, and cattle. But how did SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, come into being?

    Here’s what we know about the virus that was first detected in Wuhan, China, in late 2019 and has set off a global pandemic.
    Where Did the Coronavirus Come From?

    Experts say SARS-CoV-2 originated in bats. That’s also how the coronaviruses behind Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) got started.

    SARS-CoV-2 made the jump to humans at one of Wuhan’s open-air “wet markets.” They’re where customers buy fresh meat and fish, including animals that are killed on the spot.

    Some wet markets sell wild or banned species like cobras, wild boars, and raccoon dogs. Crowded conditions can let viruses from different animals swap genes. Sometimes the virus changes so much it can start to infect and spread among people.

    Still, the Wuhan market didn’t sell bats at the time of the outbreak. That’s why early suspicion also fell on pangolins, also called scaly anteaters, which are sold illegally in some markets in China. Some coronaviruses that infect pangolins are similar to SARS-CoV-2.

    Time Line

    31 Dec 2019

    Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, China, reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei Province. A novel coronavirus was eventually identified.

    1 January 2020

    WHO had set up the IMST (Incident Management Support Team) across the three levels of the organization: headquarters, regional headquarters and country level, putting the organization on an emergency footing for dealing with the outbreak.

    4  January 2020

    WHO reported on social media that there was a cluster of pneumonia cases – with no deaths – in Wuhan, Hubei province.

    5 January 2020

    WHO published our first Disease Outbreak News on the new virus. This is a flagship technical publication to the scientific and public health community as well as global media. It contained a risk assessment and advice, and reported on what China had told the organization about the status of patients and the public health response on the cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan.

    Masks

    The story of mask requirements in the United States has had many twists and turns since the early days of the pandemic, when the U.S. surgeon general urged Americans to “STOP BUYING MASKS!”

    Since then, government and public health leaders have urged us to wear face masks even when walking around our neighborhoods alone, and told us to keep wearing them even after receiving the protection of highly effective vaccines.

    It wasn’t until May that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told fully vaccinated Americans that they could be exempt from nearly all mask requirements. The state of California followed suit with rules that went into effect when the economy reopened on June 15.

    Now, as the highly transmissible Delta variant causes coronavirus cases to spike across the nation, indoor mask mandates are back in L.A. County regardless of vaccination status, and the CDC has updated its guidance as well. On Tuesday, the agency advised that vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the virus is surging.

    The question is – Why are waiting for the Delta variant to get worse before EVERY state implements the SAME MANDATE simultaneously?

    What’s your response?

    Covid by Stats by State

  • Suicide – When It Hurts To Much

    National Suicide Hot Line 800-273-8255

    Veterans Crisis Line 800-273-8255

    Understanding the issues concerning suicide and mental health is an important way to take part in suicide prevention, help others in crisis, and change the conversation around suicide.

  • Depressed or Stressed Out?

    Depressed or Stressed Out?

    Stress and depression can look and feel very similar to each other. Some of the common symptoms for both include issues with sleeping, eating, concentration, and mood, as well as difficulties performing daily tasks. Physically, there’s a lot of overlap between stress and depression, as both affect the immune system, leading to an increase in certain inflammatory markers.

    For depressed patients, the changes in their brain are similar to what is observed in chronic stress. And chronic stress, when left untreated, can lead to depression. For example, adults who experienced a high level of adversity during their childhood, which results in toxic stress, have much higher rates of depression.

    The biology is not the same, but they share a lot of similarities.

    Here’s how to tell the difference between stress and depression.

    Stress is phasic 

    When it comes to stress versus depression, there are distinct differences, especially when it comes to effective treatment options. One of the primary ways stress and depression differ is that stress can come and go.

    Stress is something that is phasic for most people. You have a stressful period and you come out of it. Depression is not like that. Depression goes on for years in some people. It can spontaneously remit in some people, but not everybody.”

    For example, if a happy event happens, such as friends or loved ones coming for a visit, a stressed person will be able to feel happy in that moment, although the stress will probably return once they have left. For a depressed person, they will not be able to feel happiness in that moment, even when they know they should.

    If you can get home from work and still recharge, that’s not major, clinical depression, depression does not come and go.

    So, what is the treatment for stress? Reducing it, through measures like exercise, meditation, and mindfulness, as well as reducing the source of the stress.

    Depression is an illness 

    For a depressed person, although stress-reducing measures—such as exercise or going out into nature—can help, it will not cure them.

    At certain levels of depression, nothing but medication will help.

    Depression is, at its core, an illness of the brain. Just like we treat an infection with antibiotics, depression often requires medication. For someone with severe depression, no amount of “mind over matter” or “willing it away” will work. Instead, a person with depression needs medical treatment.

    Depression is no different than any other illness,  It is a medical illness.

    If you are experiencing either stress or depression, the most important thing to know is that help is available, and that it can get better. For stress, that involves reducing the source of stress and finding ways to cope. For depression, that involves treatment, such as therapy and medication.

    Whatever the right solution may be, know that there is one, and that taking the first step to getting the help you need may be the most important one of them all.

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