Word: unfitness
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...Last November, she went to Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula, Miss., where she lives, to give birth to a baby girl, Rubí. According to documents obtained by the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger, the hospital called the state Department of Human Services (DHS), which ruled that Baltazar Cruz was an unfit mother in part because her lack of English "placed her unborn child in danger and will place the baby in danger in the future." (Read "Should a Muslim Mother Be Caned for Drinking a Beer...
...titled A Young Man's Memoirs on His Escape from South Korea, the author writes, "I deserted the south, which is regarded as a burial ground for human beings, and went to the blissful land of the north." For good measure, he adds, "South Korea is a living hell unfit for human habitation." (See rare pictures from inside North Korea...
...with voluntary end-of-life-care counseling, optional home visits have morphed into "mandatory home inspections" in the words of health reform opponents, who charge that the provision is part of a "stealth agenda" to judge conservative parents unfit and remove their children into protective services. It's an unexpected evolution for a pioneering conservative idea...
...overwhelming 95 percent of the Swiss military is conscripted. Conscripts have the right to ask for civilian service in place of military service, but this choice has to be one of a conscientious objector, and is voted upon by committee. Those who are found physically or psychologically unfit for service are required to pay an extra 3 percent tax and perform some other civic service, such as fire department duty...
...disinvite the President. Professional protesters such as Alan Keyes and Randall Terry have descended on the South Bend campus, pushing blood-covered baby dolls in Spongebob strollers and getting themselves arrested. And Cardinal James Francis Stafford, one of the highest-ranking Americans at the Vatican, has declared Obama an unfit honoree because his statements on abortion reflect "an agenda and vision that are aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic...