Philippines mandates pregnancy test before cosmetic surgery

Pregnancy, cosmetic surgery

 Cosmetic surgery can be beneficial to an individual but it also exposes people to various health risks. 

Philippines have passed a law that makes pregnancy testing mandatory for all women of childbearing age who plan to undergo plastic surgery. Exception will apply to women who have been medially found to be incapable to reproduce.

Iowa law to criminalize documentation of animal abuses

animal cruelty

Iowa legislation has passed a bill, House File (H.F.) 589, which would prevent private citizens from documenting (filming or photographing) a farm without the farmer’s consent. 

The bill supported by the big agricultural concerns is aimed at preventing undercover work that would expose animal abuses in the factory-farming industry. The idea is to keep consumers from knowing abuses taking place in the industry. In the past such exposure by animal rights activists has led to conviction for abuse or neglect of factory-farmed animals.