Dravin

Thankfully no kids in the mix. I can imagine how that complicates things.

Yes. I became an atheist after we’d been married for several years. It made for a bit of a rough time until we settled into the new status quo.

Ternary plots (aka Triangle plots) have three axes rotated and layered on top of each other. So when you get a point like this:

You read it as 50% of the way up the clay direction:

30% of the way up the sand direction:

20% of the way up the silt direction:

So it is 50% clay, 30% sand, and 20% silt.

Meijer and Walmart store brands of cheap ass white bread are 22 slices, Kroger is 21, and for a name brand example Sunbeam is 22. Nicer bread like Pepperidge Farm or Brownberry/Oroweat tends to be in the range of 16 slices per loaf (baring the thin sliced stuff) though.

Indeed. I can grab a loaf of cheap white bread from my local grocery store for under $2 which is cut into 22 slices.

Why didn’t the mom research the law and see the rape exception?

Miss. Code § 41-41-45 requires a formal charge of rape by law enforcement for the exception to be applicable. If you read on to the Time article linked at the end of the Daily Beast article the mother claims to have been unaware of the rape to begin with. Even if charges could, as a matter of procedure, be filed against a John Doe to satisfy the requirement you still have to convince law enforcement to file those charges. Just informing a doctor that the pregnancy was the result of rape is insufficient to satisfy the exception.

Now you might be thinking, “Well, Mom didn’t know but the kid knew what happened to her.” I point to this from the Time article:

Regina hadn’t yet explained to her daughter how a baby is made, because she didn’t think Ashley was old enough to understand. “They need to be kids,” Regina says. She doesn’t think Ashley even realized that what happened to her could lead to a pregnancy.

It is unsurprising that she might lack the understanding and foresight required to be her own advocate on this issue.