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So Much for Mankind.

It’s hard to stay positive when so much of the news at the moment is so very grim. This evening , I stumble d across a video of an interview Donald Trump gave in March last year in which he stated that women “should receive some form of punishment” if they were to have an abortion if th ey w ere banned in the US. I know th is subject is contentious in America, but I still found the clip chilling; how anyone can be so detached from reality to believe such a thing - even if they retracted the ir words soon afterwards - is beyond me. The fact he reinstated the Reagan-era policy banning foreign aid to any organization that offers counselling on abortion or discusses it as a n option on his first day in office sets the tone of his Presidency for me. That this took place days after millions marched worldwide in the name of women’s rights only reiterates how little he was listening ; s adly, this is probably the tip of the iceberg. He’s not the only white middle-a...