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"Before you head out of the office, check out some of the headlines you may have missed this week:\nPinterestFacebookGeorge Will\nMajor Newspaper Drops Columnist George Will__\nEarly this month, George Will, the Washington Post columnist pictured above, wrote that sexual assault victims who speak up are just seeking &amp;quot;coveted status that confers privileges.&amp;quot;  He was particularly irked by the Obama administration releasing guidelines for colleges and universities to combat sexual assaults on campus. Not surprisingly, his column was met with outrage and disgust, from editorials calling Will to task and Twitter feedback galore to letters from senators expressing their dismay and a petition that calls for his dismissal. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which has syndicated Will&amp;#39;s column for a number of years, seems to agree. It&amp;#39;s dropped his column and apologized, with editor Tony Messenger writing, &amp;quot;The change has been under consideration for several months, but a column published June 5, in which Mr. Will suggested that sexual assault victims on college campuses enjoy a privileged status, made the decision easier. The column was offensive and inaccurate; we apologize for publishing it.&amp;quot;\n__ Married Dads Denied Rights to Biological Child__\n*After marrying last year in D.C. (congrats guys!), Dallas-based couple Jason Hanna and Joe Riggs decided to start a family. They found an egg donor and a surrogate, and now each of the men is the biological father of twin boys (two embryos were transferred to the surrogate), who are half-brothers. *But the happy family has a scary problem. Neither Hanna nor Riggs are listed as fathers on either of their own biological sons&amp;#39; birth certificates. Only the surrogate&amp;#39;s name is listed, despite the fact that she has no biological ties to the child since the egg was donated by another woman. The couple petitioned a judge in Fort Worth to add each of their names to their sons&amp;#39; birth certificates and to cross-adopt the boys. The judge has denied both requests. Texas law on gay adoptions seems to be murky, but what&amp;#39;s most troubling to me here is that the men are being denied&amp;#8212;after bringing DNA evidence to court&amp;#8212;having their names on their own sons&amp;#39; birth certificates. In an interview with SiriusXM Progress published by the Huffington Post, Hanna explained the situation like this: &amp;quot;In order to grant a second-parent adoption [automatically under current law], it has to be between two married people. And so, considering we&amp;#39;re not legally married in the eyes of Texas, they don&amp;#39;t have to grant that second-parent adoption because they don&amp;#39;t recognize our marriage.... It&amp;#39;s up to the judge&amp;#39;s discretion on whether or not to grant it.&amp;quot; I&amp;#39;m hoping they can sort this out, but we could see a lot more cases like these, with only half the states recognizing same-sex marriages.\n__North Carolina Congressman Demands to Know Why the Affordable Care Act Covers Maternity Care\nIn an attempt to even out the gender disparity in health care coverage, especially at the private level, almost everyone using Obamacare will be paying into the fund to cover maternity (as well as birth control, mammograms, and Pap smears). Rep. Mark Meadows (R) badgered a doctor (who happened to be pregnant) about why he, a man over 50, should have to pay to cover maternity. Which misses the whole point of insurance&amp;#8212;I won&amp;#39;t ever get prostate cancer, but hey, you help cover my Pap smears, I&amp;#39;ll help cover your prostate exams. That&amp;#39;s how it works."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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