Jesh Foundation

Women, who want to get an abortion done, must remember the following few points before they make their final decision. If they make a hasty decision, the physical and mental consequences of their decision will haunt them throughout their lives.

- Getting an abortion done and hiding it from your parents may not be a good idea. You may say that your parents will get wild and may go to any extent such as breaking the relationship with you for ever. But, you must understand that your parents have had their share of disappointments during their lives. Whatever disappointments they may have had in the past might not have been of this magnitude. Nevertheless, since they have survived many disappointments in life, you can expect that they will survive this also. It is better and fair to take them into confidence so that you will not have the additional stress of having hidden such a vital fact from your parents.

- Another reason you may come out with for getting an abortion done is that you are not able to support yourself independently and so, you will not be able to support a child also. It is true that financial problems are quite difficult to bear but you have several possibilities to surmount these problems. When you know that you are pregnant, you can try and change many things in your life within those nine months. Supposing you are not able to change anything on the financial front, you can even hand over a child to an adoptive home.

Is Neodymuim really that important – are we really to be held for ransom in international trade by China’s refusal to share their REEs or rare earth elements? Well, if you consider that most of the technology manufacturing of the world needs REEs, and yes, throw in lithium too for the ion-lithium batteries to run all the future electric cars, lawnmowers, golf carts, scooters, etc – then nations like Japan, Germany, the US, and others are beholden to China’s whims.

Why you ask? Simple 96-97% of all the REEs are mined in china, and they have about one-third the currently known reserves, especially heavy in the rare metal categories, and now China has restricted 76% of their exports of REEs. They say; “if you want to use our REEs you will have to manufacture here in China, and then export the completed products,” which would be everything from computers, cell phones, smart bombs, aerospace components, etc.

In other words, partner with a Chinese company, share the intellectual property and we can all be friends? Seriously, but China has a rotten track record with industrial spies in the US stealing technology, and failure to honor international patents, often mass-producing counterfeit products and then selling them all over the world. The cost to US businesses; one economist puts it at $1.5 trillion per year. Now do you see the problem?